Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-09-18
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chico timber instead of the Inferior or inll;-
ferent
| hold that system tic Tree.Pian5ns Is
already in order IN Vermont-that thousands
OF her farms should have acres OF their
crests AMI sleeper hiilsdcs planted wI5h
Hickory, Locust W 6ite Oak, White Pine,
&c, &c, Immediately. Give your seeds or
young trees a fair start, fence out your eat
tie, and they will need little care or labor.
And you will not have to wait thirty Or forty
years for some return flr yOar Investment,
as Is commonly supposed Within SIX years,
you may begin to cut out hoop-p1les, and,
by cutting these at the right time, You may
have at least two new ones start from almost
every stump, and grow far more rapidly and
vigorously than from the seed. Believe me,
there are few so safe and productive methods
OF investing money for yOar children as by
buying forests Of young timber 50 situated
as to be exempt from danger by fire, and BY
planting and caring for trees.
1t is ray conviction that far more labor
than has ever vet been bestowed on the saiI
OF this Site might be thus applied with
proht-that the reclaim ton of wet lands BY
unIerdra.n the subsoilin5 oil fields where
clay or loan would thus be mingled wiCh
sand or gravel, the application of .crttlizers,
especially of Gypsum, to hills. and 70 heavy
cluys ot freshly burned, unslacked Lsmc
Especially of that portion usually rejected
by builders) would be generously rcquJed
by more bounteOus harYesls hold thar
Vermont may wisely Profe To many OF
her Industrious sons Inducements To stay at
home which should outweigh their iuc.te-
meuts 10 seek homes elsewhere. But these
propositions barely suggest. leaving TIA ir
consideration 10 the intelligent and fore
handed yc0m1ury ul this STATE Should they
respectively deeIje that they ctu at jri q
dram b1Gs. and plant trees, and sub=on, ana
tertIlIze as vigorously as / have done ol my
own little farm. sac Nill have at least halt a
million people at the taking I'd the next
Federal ceLsus ia l~SU. For though she
may never grow grain as Iuxurltntiy or make
meat 50 chcaplv as some Ot hcr SISTERS ln tue
Great " est, size has still a-yantag. anI att
fractions which those who, after once cnI ~
ing them, have pitched their tents else" here.
are perhaps better trained to appreciate taau
the sons vino have never abandoned eJil- .
NJ hills are Lrccncr, no skies are brighter
no waters pnrer, uJ AIR more hracIuS than
hers AMI dl not know rlat amy other
State accJris "A better school education q the
-rest body 1T her sons and daughters than
sue does and / gratefully proclaim my lu-
dc5tedue~- tJ her >cao1 Tor the better part
OF whatever training in letters naI the rui'-
ments ot science received.
believe one ot thc most cu4heut ui hef
SONS, Jhc late Stephen A D.I-.t-. 5srr,w-
Iu- am expression Ed Dame. Ae.-,ar- TO-
marked that crmant va~ '.a noble stat a
emIGIats from and tai-. b, riE.t.y e9n>l.l-
cred. Is uo -l,.ler praise lMa- 'Ihar
re.koncI It Among the chict blessings waIc.
attend Our earthly pilgrimage t' ne well
born and hC Dr., lu au important sense. W...-
born, who bias reason b be- proud at thc l'"t
in whcl hi- eyes ar-t opened ta the l-at-