Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-19
Westminster Farmers Climb.

III tuelT uesiSus, Tue present. Is oho VI
them. If there are times and places pn-
usually rich in their inducements to the
pleasure seeking minds of ac-
tive communities, the members of the
Westminster Farmers Club know how to
find them.
Between fifty and sixty of its members
met with ID. C. Wright last Friday eve,
to discuss the desirableness and fessabili |
ty of Farmers Oranges, and the benefits
of mutual good feeling in society. Mr..
Sabin opened the discussion, presenting
many interesting facts in relation to the
origin and success of the different Oranges
and their purpose in the future, at the
same time assuring the club that he was
no special champion of the Patrons of
Husbandry, but was confident that the
Order designed to improve the social, in
tellectual, and businass condition of
farmers wherever put into practical OPP
Grafton. In further continuation of the
subject he said: am not one of those
who think we are too independent to
join hands with our neighbors and ask
their assistance in regulating the agri-
cultural affairs of New England. Nei-
Their do | believe we ought to be regard
ed as the mud-sills of society because we
have quietly listened to lawyers, doctors
and politicians who have presumed to
tell us something new about farming.
We are human beings, with human feel
ings, human hopes and human reason,
and can take a higher intellectual rank
if we will. The Order has been pros
pered from the first. It now numbers
1862 oranges, with 619, $50 members, all
zealously at work for the improvement
of our agricultural interests. There is
great need of such kind of work The
farmers interests have been run too long
by neglect. The object of tae Patrons
of Husbandry is to discuss subjects that
shall not only inform them in regard to
the prices Of products, and the cheapest
places to purchase them, but shall i'm
prove them in a social and intellectual
point of view.
The object is good one, and can, /
think, be made to prove practical ben
eft to the farmer.
The truth is, we work too much and
think too little. Unless we exercise the
brain more freely, we cannot expect to
compete with men in other occupations
Farming is losing business SO long as
the old system is continued. The intel
ligent have always ruled the ignorant
and the only way for any class of people
to take their proper standing, is to unite
and inform themselves in relation to the
true working of their business.
I'll. A. WILLARD.-I am in favor of all
American citizens taking the best meth
DDS presented to improve their prospect.
of success in business.
As an individual, l have always beer
opposed to secret societies. 1t has always
seemed to me, that whatever was intend
ed for the public good, could be accom-
plished openly.
Mr.. Sabin dwells upon the disadvan
tages under which farmers have labored
Some of those can be removed, others
think cannot.
, 1t is true tina. in former days farming
has been managed by brute force, Blu
those days have passed, and they hav,
come to believe that they have the righ
to take their position among men, a
men, and are educating themselves to
standard commendable to any bushes
pursuit of life.
When men unite in secret societie
we universally find that few rule th
/ many, and the many are too often pu
under obligations to others instead o
being allowed to act according to the
3 own better judgment. l do not under
, stand that professional men foster secre
societies for the purpose of improving
, the prospects of their own particula
business, and see no reason WHY farm
ers need to withhold from the public an,
proceedings necessary for the successful
prosecution of their business.
w. P. GAGE.-I confess that am no
posted on this subject, and if it relate
to secret societies, L have no grea
desire to be. There are so many score
societies in the world, and so little goo,
3 apparently accomplished, that we ar
slow to form favorable opinion of an,
of them. One idea has been advanced
that l don't believe. Mr.. Sabin saw
eve are ruled by superior intelligence :
but am of the opinion that we are to,
often ruled by superior iulpudence. Ian
also of the opinion that all these secre
societies are social evils. Whether tn
one in question is to dissolve all Others
! is question of doubt, and probably o
no inconsiderable anxiety on the part o
many of its supporters. There is soci
ety called Goat-Riders II ia said the,