Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-03-10
LET WE'LL ENOUGH ALONE.

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There is too much truth in the charge
of foreign visitors that We clear farm
from the wilderness, run it to death.
skin it and then abandon the carcass
/" We must change all that The pro-
cess is no longer profitable The choice
spots of our territory are occupied. Pop
ulation is already in advance Of profta-
BILE production. The freight of produce
from the Far West to its ultimate mark
ct now surpasses its value. Ultima
Thule is reached, and there is nothing
beyond What we now possess must be
/ improved Much that is false and fool
ish has been said about the impossible
ty of proitably eultivating Eastern
farms People have heard so often that
farming in the East no longer pays, that
| they have in many cases come to believeit.
| Iteration and reiteration have been ac-
cepted as proof The facts, however, are
otherwise. Money may be made on
Eastern as we'll as Western farms now as
heretofore. Persons say, and we appre-
bend with entire truthfulness, that farms
in Connecticut were never in better order
than now The same thing is equal
ly true elsewhere. The point Of exhaus-
tion has been passed and recovery is 60
ing on. The nearer to the point of con-
sumption produce is raised the greater
the profit. But scores of men whose
ideas are centered on commissions, con-
tinually throw out bats for the unwary,
and try to entangle them in their nets
Sellers of land, and spectators in real
estate, spare no pains to vaunt the
charms of their localities, or to cover uE
their disadvantages The bright side Of
the picture is exhibited, and the reverse
is carefully concealed. 1t was ever thus
it is human nature but when "they
shall say See here or See there 90 no
after them, nor follow them" Thi
rash desire is ruinous. Money is vast
ed in searching for the promised lanl
which is never reached, and the worr,
of mind abstracts attention from needles
labors, which, expended in improving
the present home, would render tn
change still more undesirable. Let thos
rove who have no homes those VIII
have homes do better to stay in then
as a rule. The present desire to wande
should be combated and discouraged
more especially that senseless dispos
ton to change without the slightest Idle
of what is involved in the change {
what is to result therefrom. This res
lessness impels many persons to write
agricultural editors for advice abol
changing their location, and for inform;
tion concerning places to which their a
tention has been accidentally draw
They do not realize that an editor Cal
not possibly be we'll enough acquaintt
# with the peculiaritles of all the counti
in the country to make his advice
valueI; and even if he were a perambul
rs, ting gazetteer he might not feel justif'
re in accepting the responsibility of cou
Oh selling perfect strangers in regard to t
Sc rather serious business of breaking
81 comfortable homes and seeking othe
ny under obvious disadvantages.
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oW A PRAIsEwoRTHY CoNCLUsIoN.-Jo
Cain of the Rutland Courier. has be
of a pretty free drinker at times in
YER past, bringing discredit on hims
nat and those acting with him. Realizi
or what the habit had brought him to,
a has now come to the praiseworthy conc
uld sion to "taste not" and in the last
has sue Of his paper makes the following
SO nouncement:
'er- We here now, publicly and of {
the own free will, resolve never to take q
car kind of alcoholic or intoxicating dril
:, into the stomach, and as our sOtu
''' stronger than our APPETITE zoe knoao
the shall keep our resolution to the lett
is Stick to it, Bro. Cain, and you '