The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-27

found now process bywhch he can make
flour at $50 per barrel. We don't want cx-
pcnsvc experiments entered into by farm
ers, but when thing has been practically
proved TO be a success we want the farm
ers to adopt It and put away the old no.
tons.
And now ! wish to say word regarding
home lfc-a more pleasant picture. And
in drawing the picture, | do not forget the
back-aching work and unrOmantic life of
the farmers wives, when say that more
luxury can be got out of that life than in
| any other. ! don't say it is a fact for too
much slavery and discomfort are to be
seen. but here is the opportunity. First,
the relief afforded from following fashion
able life, for nine-tenths Of our cares and
anNielics are thrust upon us Ivy society. 1t
is notifying to think how much we do for
fashion; how VIC study and contrive to
keep up appearances; how we fret and
pinch and worry, and rob life of its best
contentment, Of its pleasure and fragrance
to please the goddess of fashion. This is
all absurd. II Is perfectly respectable to
live according to nature. for there is moth
ing more ont of place than cockncycd
aristocracy displayed about n farm and in
farm house. How far ont of taste TO i'm
port Paris fashions into farm house! OF
course the more tasteful the house is pre-
pared the better, hut it is very vulgar to
think nothing but city styles will do.
Nothing is more satisfactory or equal
in comfort 10 the old New England
kitchen. with its clean maple floor. its
old fashioned fireplace. the high-bacled
chairs. the dried apples suspended on the
poles overhead, and the smell of home
made bread rising from .hc brick oven.
| applause. The sturdy matron and her
daughters preparing the work with never
Bridget to mar the scene. applause
/ That has gone, and with it its hardships,
but to-day the Stewart stove takes the
place Of the open fireplace little more
elegance is added and yet it IS better
/ representation ol the true farmers life
/ than amy imitation Of the city can be.
Then. rs regards the matter of dress {;
what an cnviahlc opportunity farm-lifc
affords. If the occupants of the farm
/ house choose to follow the fashion it is
/ their own fault. But you will find Il true
that city ladies envy you the sweet coun-
/ Try life you have. i.ot.mc ask, is this an
unrcali2cd life in Vermont 1t certainly
looks rs if the people were slipping away
/ from the old pleasures and growing more
! citiiicd. Twenty years from now. as the
world goes. the city will hold sway over
our farmers wives and daughters They
| now fix up in such "A way that their
| grandmothcrs would think it moral sin,
and no, he far ont Of the way either
Then, what opportunities are given for
/ mental Improvement Take the time
gained from keeping up appearances and
i'll the long winter evenings, farmers have
better opportunities for scli-improvcmcnt
than almost amy other class. Bulwcr, the
| most vouminoll- writer of the AGE i'll
which he lived says he achieved all his
work by working less than two hours y
/ day. We don't say ii is easy to become
proficient in literature by. this means, for
all find haIdships in acquiring improve
meni Persistent effort must be had in
accomplishing any work But becoming
absorbed in some otlIer thing, like reading,
| tbe fay,nor - .rosini er2n, his toll far more
than by sleeping, and Is in 4 Hcclicir co5nndii-
ton to labor
wish, in closing, TO impress the farmer
with the fact that his mode of life has more
/ possibilities Of good in it than in that of
any other calling. Farming, we are clad
to say, is progressing in Vermont Some
OF or young men are staying at home to
cultivate the farms of their fathers. This
Is all that Vermont needs to he the first
agricultural state in the world. This State
IS good enough to live in and no place is
nearer heaven in which 10 die ZAP
plause.)
The address was listened to with marked
attention and was n very tritc and telling
exposition Of the agricultural question.
This ended the exercises of the afternoon
at the hall
EVENING EXRRCIsEs
At half past seven in the evening the
spacious Town Hall was again filed TO
hear the reading of the premiums awarded
and the closing remarks by the President
Of the club and others.
DRt'MIIT NC
BREAD AND PASTRY.
Committee Mrs n TSprague. Jr. Mrs +
Tuxbury. Mrs II Dcming. list prem SO,
q So, 3D. 81. Committee report q entries.
Miss Fannie Nearing, Isl prem: Miss Ma
bel Lane, ID: Miss d Smith, Sd
GRAPES AND PLrMs.
Committee r Taylor. \ 4 Wood-
ward, j f Estabrook.
NJ 7 June, LIST premium; " \ Williams.
I'd: J + Estabrook. 3D..
APPLES AND PEARS.
tommittee-tico Briggs, II G Copeland.
ID Bascom
NJ p June, LIST prem: T. J Marsh ID; e
7 Spragne, 3D.
BUTTER AND CnFEsE
Committee 4 Hamilton, r u poue-
las.
Il t,rillln, Isl prem Ross, Pitts y Co,
I'd II y Churchill, 81.
SWINE.
Commlioc--R Dcmine. Jesse Kinds
Carroll Grswod,
G NJ Winslow. LIST premium
BULLS.
committee VIVA Williams, n |. Grov-
cr, a S Cool.
Spraguc u Thomas. 1 B yr old AYRSHIRE
bull, lst premium; thorough bred AYR
shire, LIST; Thomas Nayler, yearling Dur
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