Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-15

and was attended by over four hundred persons,
and was satisfactorily disposed of, after which
the president called upon Rev. A, p. Marvin to
crave blessing. Then followed poem of well
come composed in six days. by Mr. J. G.
Chandler and read by W. II. Mcneil; then the
band gave forth its cheerful strains, and was
followed by the leading feature of the day,
DIR. GEO. Il. LORING's ADDRESS.
DIR. Lorng commenced with the expression of
gratitude to an overruing Providence for the pros
periy of our state and nation during the past year
While great cities Of the old world have been torn
to pieces by the devastations of war or pestience
and famine, the American people have rested under
kind and propitious skies, and met with misfortune
or suffering only by their own weakness. He wished
in speaking that he might stimulate our farmers to
a greater love of that calling which underies and
determines the prosperity, the morality aud virtue
of the land. lie drew a hattering picture of the
New England men and women of a half century or
more ago, giving glowing eulogium OF their deeds
and virtues. Our farmers then worked well on the
farm and in the battle field, and not only that but
they paid their debts like honest men, Let us follow
their example. Our grandmothers made all the
cloth our grandiathcrs wore; and passing on and
eulogzing this point the orator proceeded to give
a brief and humorous account of the commence
ment of the growth of the manufacturing interest
In those days of old, agriculture was
the only important interest of the
country-then as now it was the foundation
OF real wealth. ana growth ana nnalcMl prosperity.
Those 'embattled farmers" as the poet called
them, found in the soil of New England
productiveness that it seems not to have
retained for their descendants. They raised
great crops of hay and grain, great cattle
and some of them boosted of crops of fifty bushels
OF barley TO the acre, or from the same they got
70 to 50 bushels of corn, S96 bushels Swedish tur
tips, or 1895 bushels mangle mortzels, and-thnk Of
it-75O bushels of potatoes. Then the cucuiOs and
other evil worms did not trouble the farmer, and
peaches and pums and apples grew almost sponta-
neously. To be sure, their famous CATTLE of which
the well known "Oakes Cow was specimen
could not be called handsome. They would not
have called out the Homeric expression as applied
by the old Greek poet, of the "OX-eyed Juno"
The model cow of that time had eye to tell about
the head, as seen in pictures of the Cakes COW,
seemed to be upside down, the shoulders like Mount
Washington, the hind quarters uphill and down
hill, like the road from here to Aver In this line
at least we could show some improvement on the
ancestral stock. Very different were the farmers of
those DAYS from the men we hire nowadays. They
worked from sunrise to sunset, and moving was to
them pastime
Our fathers did not pass down 10 us their plans of
agriculture nor their plain style of living but bet
ter than ALL they secured to us the American sys-
tenn OF land holding, the only one that lies, or can
lie at the foundation of free, prosperous and Wig
orous people. No such possession of land by small
owners is known or understood elsewhere than
in America. The chief obstacles in England
to republican government and Advancement
of the lower classes the right of prmogenituTe
and the law of entail. The English minister had
lately propounded to him (Dr. Lorngl some ques-
tenant in this country and was surprised and could
not understand 1t when he hold him that they have
with us no relations; that every man who owns
farm, holds ii as entirely his own, to hold or sell
or give away, or trade away at his own will and
pleasure. But 1t is question Englishmen cannot
understand, nor can they see why we hold the tif
teenth boy in family to be just as good and to
have equal rights with the first one He spoke of
fifteenth boy, he said, because in the early days
that used to be about the number of children in a
family.
1t was only since tine war had secured freedom all
over our country that this land question had been
understood in the southern half of our country
where the problem is now being learned and the
result attained successfully. We cannot be too
thankful for the American landhOldiug system, for
American family ties. He urged his auditors TO
love their occupation to respect their ancestors,
to rely on their own practical wisdom in applying
the knowledge OfOthers to their work. He wished
to hear no more of the tendency of Massachusetts
men to leave the land, and hoped city laborers and
mechanics would learn that it for their best in
terest to secure houses in the country with little
tract of land, going if need be in the morning to
their city abOrs to ret urn by night TO pure air and
healthy freedom. He hoped to see the old red
school houses on our country hill sides increased
greatly in numbers and full once more with their
forty scholars, and he would not care if as of DID,
there sometimes were among the forty scholars but
four names representing four families, all sturdy
liberty loving lads and girls.
Dr. Loring's address was intersperSed with nu-
merous capitally told stories. Some from his own
experience, humOrOusly and fOrcibly illustrating
the points he wished to fix on the minds of his
ing attention, and to which brief report does no
proper justice.
Remarks were made by Mr.. Fay of Lancaster,
Rev. Mr.. Horton of LeomiSter, Mr.. Howe of
Boston, and Rev. A. p. Marvin of Lancaster
with music by TIE band Mr.. Fay in his
speech expressed pride in belonging to a
family two brothers of which, of generation
previous, had each one of them twenty chill
dren, though each brother had married sec
Ond wife. He believed in large families. So
also did Rev. Mr.. Marvin, who urged the young
men to establish families in the land, He also
painted in lively colors the beauties of the town
in which he lived, saying that there was room
for n population of fifty thousand without in
the least spelling its picturesque scenery. He
was tired of hearing that farming did not pay,
and commended that it did pay in more senses
than one. Rev. Mr.. Horton, in his remarks,
said that while he did not love farmers life
and work for himself, yet he was so attracted by
the products exhibited from the industrial
school that he would almost wish to be an in
mate there to learn how it was done. He
wanted the farmers to pay some attention TO
politics in the furtherance of agricultural in
tercsts.
The proceedings were closed by the reports of
and premium list, which was read
by the secretary us follows:
LIST OF PREMIUMS
Dairy COws-First to n Hawkins; second, N
Thayer
Steers, three years old and under-Noah wor-
cester
Fat Catte-Reed & Townsend of Bolton, for fat
oxen; Greenleaf for fat OK; II Humphrey,
for fat COW.
for three year old, first premium; ID N Howard, for
four year old colt, second premium; Charles Shu-
maker, for one year old, first premium; WOrces-
ter, for two year old, second premium.
Draft Horses-NOah Worcester and Curtis &
Davis shared the first premium.
Swine-FOr best breeding sow, Charles Blood;
best fat hog, Mrs NJ Greene; second best, Charles
Blood; for litter of pigs n Thayer; for best fat
pig, Michael Eagan; for second best, j w Barnes.
P0ultry-State industrial school had the first
premium for best fancy; FL Sweet E II Lincoln
spring chickeus C Holder and E H Lincoln; best
turkeys, o W Carter
Fish-Geo Parker, for spring trout
Flowing, with land side pows-G Thayer,
Worcester and B Fay; with swivel plows, S X
Damon, L T Cunningham and Merrick.
Butter and Cheese.,Mrs Goodae, Mrs Mary E
Farwell, Mrs Schumacher, and Mrs G E Blood.
Bulls, two years old and Over-G A Parker and N
9 Hawkins; under two years-N Thayer and G E
Blood; bull calves-C Townsend.
Pickles and Preserves-Mrs Gray, Mrs Charles
Blood, Miss Ida Hlwkins, Mrs Brockway Mrs
Damon and Mrs w Howard.
Needle work, Fancy Goods, etc-Worsted work
Mrs King, Mrs Holder Miss Putney; needle
Fay, Miss Sarah Fairbanks, Miss E X
Spaulding, Miss Mary Farnsworth; Tidies-Misses
Phelps, Wyman, Carrie Chandler, Emily Earwell
and Miss Gates. Gratuities also to Misses Goodae,
Davidson, Farrar, Perry and Jennie Earwell, Mrs
BrOckway and Mrs Jacob Fisher.
FlOwers-G Chandler, j G Chandler, Miss H
Chandler, Miss Buttrick, Mrs Putney for oleander,
Mrs HOsmer.
Apples-For collection, w Locke, n C Haw-
kins, Il ii White; best dish Of II, Geo w Howard.
Carriage hOrses-Spans, Thayer, Geo A Parker;
single horses, john James, Merrick; roadsters,
Geo A Parker, Geo w Wellington.
Sheep-Charles j Wilder, + ID Taylor
Bread-Wheat, Miss 5 Damon Mrs Sweeney
Mrs Mary Henry; brown bread, Miss Ida Hawkins
Miss Sweeney, Martha Il Arnold
Pears-EOr collection of 10 varieties G L Wilder
G Chandler; best dish of r. G f Chandler; best
display of usual varieties of each, WIS Locke, L
Wilder Mrs Gordon.
Grapes-W p Holder, c X Goodale, II Lincoln.
Peaches-W Locke, II Bailey, II Kendrick.
A potato race" closed the exercises of the
day, there being two races contested, both con-
considerably to the amusement of
spectators. In the first one the successful run.
ners were John Rourke, Geo. Bruce second, and
John Powers. The farmer boys who won the
second one were Geo. Blake, c. Schumacher and
Geo. Brockway.