Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

goes out of il, without leaving it little
better for his having lived. No man can
keep up with the spirit of the times un-
less he engages in something that does
pay, in which he can pride himself that
he is advancing with the tide ofprogress.
All the arguments / have listened to
on this great question have left me where
they found me, they have not assisted
me one step up the ladder of knowledge,
have not led me along the pathway OF
science and literature, one single iota,
Why not ? because those who advanced
them made the fatal mistake of going
abroad instead of looking at home. They
are ever ready to condemn the business
of their neighbor. They walk through
the rank weeds of their own garden, into
the we'll kept one of their neighbor, to
criticise frost bitten leaf on beautiful
plant. If merchant or manufacturer
who has toiled on for years and amassed
large property, should have it swept
away by a turn of the tickle wheel of
fortune, the fact is paraded before the
understanding of the farmer boy with
all the pomp and glory of which the
father is capable, then he comes out of
his money getting lethargy long enough
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sequence" ga result to be expected by
all who engage in that unfortunate bust
ness" The son might truly reply It's
better to get and lose it than not to get
it at all.
If you would induce your sons to re-
main upon the farm you must be doing
as we'll as talking. The narrow, con-
tracing ideas and principles of the old
style, must give place to the new, they
must be lifted from the rut of egotism,
in which they have so long pursued the
even tenor of their way, the all absorb
ing principle of money getting must be
substituted by higher and nober ambi
tions the actuating motives that govern
your commercial and friendly intercourse
with your fellow men, must rest upon a
broader and more liberal platform
you must do away with your principle Of
measuring men by their acres and focks.
1t never has been and never can be
true standard of excellence. You may
find more worth in a man of limited
means than in the millionaire. Ac-
knowledge the worth of the pearl wher-
ever you find it.
Granted that farming does not pay
under the present system, can it not be
made to pay under different system
You say some have tried different ways,
tobacco raising for instance, and that
failed" but tobacco growing, say, was
not legitimate branch. of industry for
our Vermont farmers, and now it has
failed, you will believe it. Leave tobac-
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originated. Suppose you try potatoes ?
If potatoes sell for as much per busbel
as corn, and one acre planted to potatoes
will yield as much as two acres Of corn,
then does it not occur to you to raise
potatoes instead of corn No, not until
its the fashion And what matters il
if good sheep do sell for S. and $40 pei
head, when you can keep these little
fashionable, blooded runts, three or fou,
years Gf they don't die) that will shear
81 lbs. of wool which sells for 25c pei
pound.
There are few more customs among
them, the land monopoly, that / might
consider, did not time and space forbid
/ should like to see farming maintain
its rights with other callings, and expect
to when changes for the better instead O.
worse are introduced.
Westminster, Vt.