The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-17
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Holland for greens. PriOr to the sixteenth
century, Indian corn, potatoes, carrots tur-
nips, cabbages and squashes were unknown
in England. Englishmen were forbidden
by law, to possess, or use plough except
they made it. From the decline of popu-
lar industry in Rome, which commenced in
the midst Of luxury extravaganza and con
quest, onward Tor fifteen hundred years,
husbandry was dishonorablc. The lowest
and poorest classes cultivated the soil and
they did it as men conscrpts by the ne
Cessties of life and to meet the exOrbitant
taxation of tributary rulers.
Singularly enough from the time of its
| refOrmation-I do not say that this was its
direct agriculture with all indus
tries, has made rapid advances. Then be-
gan new, or was renewed its old systems OF
soil cultivation, browning him with honorable
distinction who put his hand to the plough
Then we made some invention and improve
nients in agriculture implements The best
minds began to make Il study 0fagriculurc
and many books were produced on the sub
iect. All industries revived. Commerce
spread wide her wings.
In periods back of history, the Ok vas
harnesscd to the plough and harrow and
made to tread out the corn, while more than
eighteen hundred years ago, he pushed reap
crs not so good as our modern ones, through
the wheatiiclds of enterprising farmers who
titled the sail before the christian or,
dawncd upon mankind.
All this will give you an intmation #
what agriculture was in its early history.
The occupation of the farmer is OF the most
honorable extraction and Of the greatest an
tquity.
1t has commanded the finest skill in the
world, it has been subject Of the most
costly experiment, it has taxed the nobest
minds and employed the best talent Of man
! kind. 1t has resulted in profits of estima-
bic value and secured ithem whc, are
priceless in exemptions from extravaganza,
vice and crime. Man listening t. natures
sweet st voices has availed much of the
purity and many of the hardships incident
| to other callings.
But within one century all the horse power
agricultural machines, except the plough,
the harrow, the horseshoe, the machine for
drilling and the rcapcrs have been invented.
Within the last fifty years many new ones
have been added and the plough and reap
crs vastly improved.
Millions of capital is invested in the man
ufacturc of those implements. Skilled
mechanics are employed by thousands in
this work, and it is a source Of direct in
union to the country everywhere.
The Batchcller fork, unparalleled any
where in the world, has given Wallingford
wealth and q name as wide as two hcmi-
spheres.
Science, especially chemistry and geoio-
Nv have made smart contributions TO the
knowledge and profits of agriculture within
the country.
Books, furnishing the results of valuable
experiments, and extended observations,
in vegetable and fruit culture, and in stock
breeding from the last foreign importat onS.
has been published within the same period
The first Agricultural Society organized in
the United States, will not he century old
until two years hence. They are now
quite in the fashion, bringing otproducts farm
and workshops as well, into healthy com
petit n. The Government itself has an Ag-
ricultural Department, and Agricultural
Colleges, in their unpromising infancy As
yet, it must be admitted, are endeavoring
to bring more thoroughly disciplined minds
to many of the details of husbandry.
And although it is hard to believe that
almost every new machine introduced 10
tighten the labors Of working men and in
crease their profits, has met with opposi-
ton, yet that they have overcome OPPOSE
ton and been accepted, proves their value
venture to say that supreme knowledge
and facilities, will find in agriculture sub
ject more WORTHY of their best uses, in the
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the last
You do better even here and now, than
was done BY the first settlers of this town
who possibly strayed down from the east
or west, a hundred years ago, over these
hills clothed to-day in the magnificent and
varigated untorms-sc0tch plaid they are
which Vermont hills ever wears in Autumn.
These hills How grandly when the SUM
mer plumes have all faded do they lift their
plumed heads to the royal skies, sustaining
: more than natures floral beauty bidding
defiance to wind and storms as with Gle.
mental wrath, they attemptto unite desola-
ton upon the valies. Those forests two
where the sweet maple with its scarlet and
golden pcnnons, and the black oak waves its
fiery banners, from meadow-land to the shad.
dows of the mountains through all the
trcacherous Indian summer. When the
: frost curls the leaf of the beech, biackens
: the pncs--whcn " inter filings its white robes
,, over all the landscape, the spruce, and
hcmlock shake the snow to their feet, as the
hunted deer dashcs the foam fromh, lip,and
lay chaplcts of everlasting green upon the
. rocky leaves of their giant scntincls Of the
land
, Possibly then earliest sottlefs came up
or down the banks of this winding stream,
X which has discharged from its full bosom,
wealths of your firms, until they found in
them rocks yonder, which partially abstract
) its passage, a site for a mill TO grind their
u corn.
But however all this may have been,
e very certain it is that. science and inycn-
! ton, lcaping from one thoughtful brain Ia
another have introduced the improvements
which helps the farmer of to-day, to vast
,, advantages over the earliest tillcrs of the
soil in this valley
Yet with all this prestige, coming from
almost every source from which trades and
n professions derive their popularity. Farm
ing in New England at least, is not popular.
Why not? Few young men are willing to
F, follow steadily in the footsteps OF honorcd
Z and successful fathers in the cultivation oi
. the soil. Why not!
! The distinguished orator at your Stat
Fair last Sept, propounding thc same qucs-
tons said, that one reason Was farming
j did not pay because farming meant
poverty" Another reason fer this descr-
ton of the soil he said agriculture
a AS conducted in the past did not supply
i young men with either the intellectual OPP
l portunity or stimulus which they craved. y
4, l think these statements are calculated to
convey a false impression, and are not til"
: true reasons for so general II sienpcde from
: the farms.
!, ID Us farming mean poverty; obtained
= the facts which am about TO place before
u you, from one of the most Intelligent farm
ers and the leading merchants in Rutland
y county.
u Take an average farm of one hundred and
). fifty acres. The land is worth $40 an acre,
c or $4,000. You sell from it in one year,
u scventy-tive bushels of corn AT 81 cents II
bushel, or S46.50. Seventy-fve bushels ol
: oats, at az cents hushel or S42.75, Tween
;, ty bushels of wheat at SLAP per bushol OF
y S2S 40. One hundred and tiny bushels o,
potatoes at 40 cents per bushel or 500. 90