The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-06
letters from DIR. Goldsmith.
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There is one Dutch thing noticeable the
moment you sit down to adinncr anywhere,
so far as | have been in Dutchland and
tl,at is that you never see Il potato as biz as
a hens cog. And this not because they
can't grow large potatoes, for they can
Hut they feed, these Germans do, the large
tibers to the pigs, ana the small ones are
those only fitted for the table.
In raising potatoes the hills are made to
appearance about foot apart. The
ground, through which the plants are now
lust beginning to show themselves, is left
perfectly smooth.
The country between this and Hanover
is mostly Il level sandy plain. intcrsperscd
with tracts Of wet or pcaty land. The til
laro seems 20 be divided into grain, rape,
etc. ard into forests The poorer parts of
the farm are planted with trees in rows,
like those in II nursery. AS they grow
they are thinned out. This process con-
tinues apparently until the trees get to
that number per acre which will no longer
die out by crowding, until the growth is
large enough for timber or fuel. When
cut they are dug up, the stumps split and
corded for fuel, as well as the limbs to the
very smallest twigs. The pines appear to
be cut where they will measure eight or ten
inches at the butt They are used mostly
for stulding-hard not sound Some few
pine orchards are left longer, or until they
will measure twelve to sixteen inches at
the butt, and then the logs are sound
through and through not stabbed. Where
the land is wet you will see bitches running
in straight parallel lines about four feet
apart. On the embellishments thus made
pines are planted about foot apart. On
unditchcd but wet land the white birch is
raised most, and on moist land the birch.
The Oldest forests have seen, so far. have
been in parks; but the trees all have evil
dcncc of having been planted.
There are but few fences. The sheep
arc tended by shepherds; the dogs belong
to no one breed, being mostly what is call
ed field dogs. The COWS are also tended
by men with dogs; so are the hogs. You
will sometimes see thirty or forty large
white sows in a drove, attended by one
man, armed with whip like one of our OK
whips, and dog to helps Then again you
will see two Or three hundred geese, gencr-
ally in nocks of from ten to twenty gos-
lings to one old goose, all attended by a
boy and two dogs. With the help of these
dogs these various flOcks feed along narrow
strips of pasture not over six rods wide,
with barley,on one side and rye on the other
| and no fence between. Indeed the whole
country is almost fcnceless and hedgelcss.
| There are no scattered farm houses as will
us, but the farmers houses cluster together
in little villages, generally from two Il
three miles apart.
The cattle so far are all Hosteins. -
Hogs and geese are like our own. The
sheep | cant tell 50 well about among
the wool sheep llocks l see good many
scattered black sheep. Some few flocki
are all of black sheep. The farming
country don't look to be rich, nor do thu
crops look good ,colored and rank. Thu
whole appearance is that of more hous'
than food, if the farmers live OF
what they raise they haven't a very ia
living of it.
Everybody here drinks wine or beer
they drink ut the table-in the cafes, a
gardens everywhere, indeed, but | hay
not yet seen but one man, who by his gai
or demeanor could tell had been drinking
have been asked by several scientific me
the only Germans | meet who speal
English lluently-what that queer temper
, ance praying in America means? Do Ameri
, cans really try to prevent wine drinking
How queer of course they are too pc
lite to make any further comment.
| must confess that am not as much in
pressed with the cities as expected to b'
The fine houses are all stucco. The yer
n palaces appear to be stucco and plaste
v All the great buildings seem in their col
/ ception to have been monumental, rath,
II than subseryient TO use. The common PEI
t pie and their wants don't seem to hay
y been thought of so much. Kingship seen
: to have felt in the past times that Il
g work folk might be satisfied with the gre
l. shows provided for them, where Il
d shows were monumental to klngship, III
|, otherwise. Museums were built, unive
g sites were built, ETC., not SO much
!. meet the demands of charity, but the kin