Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-01-10


tion is, how farmers who have bought
farms are going to pay for them.
w. p. GAGE Il am not aware that ]
have much to say about farming. 1t is
the great joke of the times, "that farm
ing does not pay" When l look around
and see all these men, all these republi
cans, all these good conservative repttb.
HeaaS," come forward and complain
about the unjust dealing with their occu-
patton, | want to ask them to stop be-
fore a looking-glass once and take a
good view of themselves, and answer
the question if they look as though they
had been misused. 1t is the farm that
has been misused. Under the two great
heads, miscatcatLation and mis-application
may be found the reasons why farming
does not pay, if it does not, you are
too apt to cultivate too much land and
thus make misapplication of labor.
He exchanges his produce for fine ffow-
er, at great sacrifice in cost, buys tea,
saleratus and spicies of all kinds, good
in their places, but injurious to the stom.
ach. He makes the tobacco and pipe
his one great hobby, takes Ayers pills
for food and tonic, bitters for drink, and
then complains OK the extravaganza of
the times. If he would have all those
useless things in the market and con.
sumo his own products, his farm would
pay. Extravaganza neuer paid; farm
ing at'oays paid.
GEO. SABIN.-That farming does not
pay like other occupations. / fully be-
lieve. We understand that we can er-
tSt by farming, but, is that enough +?
We do not collect dollars and cents as
men in other occupations. With the same
amount of labor and skill we ought to
save about the same amount of money.
The trouble is, we don't get the prices
consumers pay. We ought to combine.
The secret of success is III a1eion of in
terest. If certain product pays better
than any other we ought to know it, and
this club ought to inform us correctly.
We want to do better than simply to get
a ttutng. The same intelligence and en-
ergy carefully applied, ought to pay as
well as in other occupations, but that
cannot be under the present condition of
affairs.
Rev. o. S. MoRRIs.-For time, this
evening | thought you were agoing to
give up farming for some paying occu-
patton, but from what has been said
gather two reasons why farming does not
pay better. 1st, The farmer is not en-
ergetic enough, does not attend closely
to his business. Farming pays when a
man gets good health out of it. I'd,
Farmers too often sell themselves into
the hands of spectators. There ought
to be more union of interest; boys ought
to be made to love the farm, and to la.
Dor for its interests; they are too apt to
become wild" over stories of wild spec
ulation, and thus lose all their interest
in the farm.
w. ?. GAGE.-It appears from what
has been said that good farmers can get
a good living and grow "fat." The
trouble with them seems to be they want
to lay by too many dollars When |
get dollar, | go to my creditor and pay
it. I like to see money "fy."
ERIDAY EvE.-Sane subject contin-
ued at the house of Phinheas Keyes who
opened the discussion for the evening by
saying that farming does not pay be-
cause we think it doesn't pay. Inferior
animals return small profits. Good ones
are the pride of the farmer, because
most profitable. We should raise a va,
riety crops, some of them will bring a
good price. Farming must pay, else men
of other occupations cannot prosper.
PREsIDENT.-(by inyitation) Monday
eve several gentlemen took the ground
that farming does pay. With such |
differ. The returns show that few farms
pay B per ct. on the money invested and
all the labor of the managers, freely Civ
en-. One of our best farmers in town, a
hard worker and close calculator, in
formed me short time since, that he
was not able to clear it, and has not
been during the present range of high
prices. One great reason is found in the
work of the locomotive, bringing pro-
duce from the West, furnishing it to our
much cheaper than it can be
by New England farmers. This
fact has brought about new era in the
business of agriculture. All our crops
would bring fair price, if not for west
ern markets. We must enter into a
g new departure" induce our people to
to furnish home markets by introducing
steam power or something of the kind to
interest young men, and furnish profitable
business, that shall induce them to stay
With US. Farming does not pay from the
fact that We are living in an ertrauaqant
age. We must keep up appearances,
1ut 0ur farms cannot he m 10 da te. a,,,,,....f