Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-01-05
Grafton Farmers Club.

sotUed, That the farmer ought to take
more interest in making his stock pay
than in making his children pay.
S. ID. CoNANT. If the resolution
means that the children should be made
to pay in money there is but one side to
the question. In raising stock we expect
to make it pay in money; we expect a
cash value return from all we raise, but
in raising children we are aiming at
something higher, we are fitting them for
the duties of life, but in doing this we do
not and should not expect to make mon
ey from them.
S. b. PETTENGILL, Believed in the
farmers making money from his stock,
not from his wife and children. The
farmers life is not the best for making
money, that can be made faster from
bonds OF railroad stock, but there is that
about the farmers vocation which calls
out the better things of life, it is the best
kind of life, it is the ideal life, but it
should be ttUed ideally. He who has
been brought up on the farm should be
sure that he has strong and decided
call for some other occupation before
leaving the farm. The farmer whose
purpose is to make money from his wife
and children thereby making drudges of
them, who is so close listed as to pinch
an old fashioned silver quarter until the
bird squawks, does not fill the high posi-
ton which the nature and opportunities
of the farmers life calls for.
Mr.. DANIELS said that farmers took
g eat pleasure in learning how to make
their stock grow and be healthy, that the
small farmer who ouly kept one cow in
winter, knew how to turn her out of the
barn every sunny day, while he had no
such thought of his children, though he
loved them ever so much more than his
stock; that many farmers lived in and
had their children sleep in rooms in which
the sun never came, that farmers should
not only look after the health and growth
of their children, but especially after
their moral and mental culture.
There were four pigs from the same
litter raised and fatted this year in Graf
ton by four different men. One by T.
w. d., who kept three COWS and fed his
pig all his waste milk, which weighed,
dressed, 365 pounds another by L. S.
W., who fed the waste milk of two COWS.
This pig weighed $50; another by F. d.
which had the waste milk of one COW.
and weighed 40pounds. The other by
}. d., who sold more or less milk, this
weighed 275 pounds. These pigs all
had what meal they could eat and were
equally fat when killed. The larger had
larger bones and size in proportion TO the
milk fed. This shows that milk is the
best food for the growth of the young.
Farmers often in recommending a colt.
say he has never eat any oats and usual
ly such colts have been kept on June
grass in summer and June grass hay in
winter. Such colts make horses weigh
ing 800 and 900 pounds, and are 10 to
IA hands. Take nothing from nothing
and nothing remains. / have known
many horses raised of the same sire and
lam where those fed one quart of oats
per day the first winter, and two quarts
he second, grew to weigh 100 and 1900 |
pounds, were 10 to 16 hands high and |
would sell for double of the former. |
Milk and oats make bone, if fed early to
I'll kinds of stock. If this be SO why
otfor thehuman family. Ihave known
amily of four sons raised where nice.
lew milk was upon the table three times
Der day, and some of them if not all, eat
t with other food three times per day,
Until sent away from home to school.
All of these sons are taller than their
ather and two of them taller than anv
# their ancestors on the father or moth
RS side. The farmer has the advantage
n the food as we'll as in the morals of
lis children. The son raised in the at
nosphere of billiard, rum and loafer sa
oons, are very apt to fall into line. Such
re the sons of mechanics, merchants.
Ioctors and lawyers, all of the first fam
lies. If farmer seuds his daughters to
boarding school where the best society
made up in part from the young drunk
rds of the upper ten," the wealth of
he place, he must expect them to "fall
nto line and marry drunkards.
agrees with Mr.. Daniels in re-
ard to the healthfulness of milk as an ar
cle of diet, but fails to see the consis
ency of advocating the necessity of
ealthy food for children and in the same
reath Dragging about his pigs weighing
40, leaving the presumption that said
ig is to become food for the children.
wine flesh is an article of diet upon
hich to attempt to build up healthy
hysical organization is simply abomin-