Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-03-10

in the harness and they made good citi-
zens, now when We hire we cant get will
ingly more than ten hours a day, and
they must be out scouting all night, drink
ing and smoking, this will not do, no de-
pendence to put upon them, / say let
them go, you may preach all day and
pray all night but of no avail; talk
about education, and l would not speak
against it, but have thought little edu-
cation makes mad. say let them go
from the farm if they will, for there is
an element coming from the old country
and let us cheerfully receive them erect
houses upon the many old cellar founda-
tions upon our hillsides, NOT ask them
three or four hundred dollars per acre,
but make it easy and they will write to
their friends, and they come, and our la
Dor is done on the farm cheerfully, will
ingly let them go West, government Of
fers such inducements they will go, many
of them in time too gladly return.
ID. c. WRIGHT--I think the gentle
man is wrong Elf we would have our
boys love the farm we must love it our
selves, have them work with us and they
will love it. Give them piece of land
to cultivate having the avails, sheep
or a colt for their own, if they do get
few ears of corn extra from the bin or
oats from the grainery, you will be no
loser the colt will be enough more gen.
tie and the sheep more docile.
o. L. FIsHER-This is an important
question. don't feel competent to dis
cuss it, but will say a word or two. |
think it we'll when boys are old enough,
to LET them have mechanical tools to use,
that they may early learn to usethem
which would occupy much of their leis
ure time and to their future advantage,
which might otherwise ruiaonsly be
spent, or if their minds incline in some
other innocent direction, indulge them.
l remember when living in Acton Ga
boy) when Father was coming to the
Falls, wouI d send for chisel or plane,
and spent time with them that might
babe spent worse, and | find now in af-
ter life by that indulgence | am benefit
ed. Often if the son remains upon the
farm after he is twenty-one, the father
has become very fixed and if the son de-
parts from the old rules, he will become
bankrupt he thinks, the son mutt follow
in the same old ruts. Thisoften is wrong,
let him think he is capable of manag-
ing, if not being thus somewhat allowed
he loses confidence in himself-becomes
discontendeI and seeks some other en-
ployment. Myself being allowed thus
to manage the building of our house |
became interested, associated with it, a
part of myself because | managed it
So in allowing them to purchase stock,
some new specimens, they may lose S.
or SO in the experiment, 1t may be the
means of their making hundreds. Now
these little incidents in early life may be
the means of their future contentment.
SHUBAL PECK-(called upon said -
| have heard you talk considerable about
the sons but not word about the daugh-
tiers. / think they fail more than the
sons many of them do not know how to
get meal of victuals, to make a pound
of butter or cheese. Now if you are 60
ing to have our young men stay on the
farm you must educate and instruct
our daughters in the household arts, i'm
bue them with a love for the kitchen and
its labors.
A LADY OF EXPERIENo E.-The ques-
ton, how shall we induce our young men
to stay on the farm, is problem which
requires as many rules to solve, as there
are yonng men yet there are some gen.
eral rules, which might Justly apply in
all cases. This is truly an age Of expert
ment upon inanimate nature; men tax
themselves mentally and physically, and
often make heavy drafts upon their purs-
es, to renovate the soil, hoping that with
the blessing of Providence, they may re-
aiize greater profit from their farms.
Now, | ask, why not invest and expert
ment some, to turn the current which is
sweeping our young men from the farm,
to the cities, and in very many instances
to destruction. o, you say that will not
pay, -" a bird in hand is worth two in the
BUSH" But do you know when you pay
your money for fertilizers, whether it will
pay or not !? In either case Paul plants
Appolos waters but God gives the in
crease. | donot ask you, fathers or moth
ers, to invest for the boys or young men
by giving them money to spend in reck
lessness, and dissipation, but let them
have money. time, and land, to expert
ment upon in company with yourself, to
some extent, and be confdino frank and