Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-10-10
AGRICULTURAL.


outsiders interfering in family difficulties.
AGRICULTURAL.
THE INTELLIGENT FARMER.
An Agricultural Society should teach far
mers to pat more brains into work; farming
Is not to dig and plOw and hoe alone, but to
watch nature and rise with knowledge other
ways. Neat buildings and good stock, the
support Of schools and the use of labOr-saving
machinery supplanting drudgery; these in
| dicate the intelligent farmer and if intelli-
gent the happy man. The farmer whose
| buildings toppc, whose kline are lean, and
who has to be chlorof0rmed before n school
tax can be extracted from him, belongs to
the lowest order of industry. The one gets
rich and has time for rational enjoyments ;
| the other Is always poor and always crowded
with work Luck does not make the differ
ence; the first loved his work and put mind
into it; the second de-pised his work and
longcl to 20 West;-cnjoyment pays the one
and continual discomfort the other.
The intelligent farmer can grow to a
rounded manhood. Not only Stewart, now
the merchant prince, has become great
I
| ply in shoeing horses, and Hugh Miller
found it in a stone quarry. They were not
slaves in their work, going about it without
| thought
The glory of this country is that it e lets
/ ont its workers they may grow, govern rs
well as obey. and become thinkers A. well a.
workers. They are better paid here than
| the European workers and have better means
of culture. Those who come to our shores
from abroad find opening before them larger
/ opportunities and become worthy citizens by
improving them. Citizenship and . n
chance III man with ambition and hope
/ The foreigner does not find here the pyrl-
mid, rs Russian society has been called,
/ with the laboring classes NJ the bottom and
the Car ut the top, not the concentric cir
| clcs Of orders of people rs found in England
/ with the monarch ut the centre, and the po-
| sition OF each unchangcabc He finds rath-
| er n way. open 10 all who work intelligent
| ly. from the bottom to tie top. 10 travel
| this way is the hirthright of labor
Iland-workers are 10 demonstrate their
/ grown by results. AMI this S1cie,y meets to
nurl those results. They should be profit
able results ~hoWin. the discovery Of new
/ trgth- during tine wear. There are features
that do not seem to be- of great utility How
/ is it that so many premiums can bc afforded
/ for horse-raciuc2 Ihe best horses are not
/ necessarily he hest trotter-. While one
man IN the market calls for racer thou
| sand call forothcr qualities. Nordoes horse
racing certainly have tendency To promote
/ speed In our Vermont ho's,~-the winners
| OF your premiums are quite as likely tp be
/ some lau,eru-nwc1, ~lamh.c-glitcd, broken
/ down Bo~iuaute. from some foreign race
course. as to he from your own stables and
{ of your own growth. Bc-.lc- saeh cxhi1i-
ti0uS encourage ~pccic- of gambling ihat is
clrruptin- and induce wan, Of respect for
law and order. converting an exhibition of
mechanical and agricultural skill into a de-
moraiizing sport. One county in the State
! offers 5000 in premium. Of which 5000 is
for trotting. What growth do the workers
realize from such q state of affairs IN H.
Porers' Idaress ltor ttr Washington Co.
igr1'rr0' Naoiry.
SNAIL TElus.
Up1n this subject the New York World
has these sensible remarks, which although
Well known to every thinking farmer viii
3 bear reitera;iu-.
Il a-t1ui-he- great many men g. notice
how many more other men persist IN fencing
small feli--in keeping up fences wher'
they are not needed and Flowing short fur
rows where long ones would save vast dea
of time and labor. besides avoiding th,
trampling Of the ground In turning. which
few men knew how to avoid. The economy
Of time and labor in farming Is as important
as the saving Of crops. Two long rows o
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