The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-19

winch we have yet to decide. Every man
must speak for himself If man has not
a fair share of intellect, if he does not ac-
quire fair share of intelligence, if he me-
elects the newspapers and the agricultural
papers, and scientific knowledge, If he ne
elects building himself up in his avocation
if he neglects all the means which nature
and art have contributed towards develop
ing his mind and enabling him to grasp his
business, what can you expect? Why, what
does any loafer expect? Don't he expect
povcrtyr Don't he expect hard life? Ifhe
don't expect it, he has it, and nature pro-
vided that it should be so, and that is the
reason why nature has given man the spirit
OF enterprise that he may get himself out
OF this miserable, shiftless, low position in
which nothing but idlencss and negligence
can keep him. Give us intelligence and l
care not what the business is. Give us in
dustry, intelligence and perseverance, and
be il farming or anything else, the man who
possesses them all will stand the peer of
his fellowmen, and will be a marked man
IN any community (applausc) For myself
L believe there never was n time when IN
telligent agriculture would pay better in
New England than it pays to-day, and when
you compare the agricultural industry of
New England with the agricultural indus
y
make the figures as close as he pleases,
and compare the productive land here, I'M
der the same circumstances, the same in
dustry and the same labor in marketing the
products and it will show vast balance
in favor of New England agriculture.
own a prairie farm in Prairie du Sac, Wis
consin, and | have farmed there several
years, and when | speak of western farm
ing, | speak by the book, because know
what am talking about. | raised wheat
corn and oats, and last year at this time
my corn i'll the crib ON my farm, after it
had been harvested and husked and prepar-
ell for the market was worth 25c per bushcl
delivered on the wharf at the point of
steamboat landing on the Wisconsin River
Now, you know if my land would raise 100
bushels to the acre, l could not afford to
plough that land, harvest, husk and pre-
pare the corn for the market, and deliver it
at the steamboat landing for any such price
The more L raised the worse it would be
for me: you know that. did not sell all
my corn last fall for 20 cents a bushel, but
great many farmers felt compelled to do
it, because they had heavy taxes to pay,
and other bills which must be met and they
sold their corn for 25c bushel and we
read in the papers of their burning corn for
fuel. Corn, at that price, was considered
the cheapest fuel they could get
SHALL FARMERS 600 VEST"
don't think should be in favor of set
Ting in such locality. I sold my corn in
the spring for 80 cents, and corn in that
same locality is worth to-day only % cents
a bushel whether it will be worth more
next spring do not know. Now, gentle
men, think of what an acre of corn is worth
at that point in the prarcs ofthc west, and
what it would be worth here An acre of
corn in Groton, or on some of your fine
lands, well cultivated, would yield sixty
bushels, and sixty bushels of corn would
represent $50. An acre ofcorn as well cul-
tivatcd in the west would not yield over
sixty bushels (sixty bushels is a very large
average for the western farmers,) and their
acre OF corn represents SO, which is 20 per
cent OF what the same acre of corn repre-
scnts here; and that acre of corn, represent
ing SD, must be drawn from two to ten
miles to market, in order to get the SIS.
whereas the acre of corn here can be sold
either at the crib on the farm, or drawing
mile or two will bring it within the reach of
the most distant market.
Now, could you, as farmers, advise your
young men, your sons, or your neighbor's
sons, to leave this good old New England,
where they can realize so much for their
production, and 90 there where they realize
so little?
There is another thing which is an impor-
tant consideration in the samerconnection.
When the young man starts for the west
and leaves his New England home, what
does he leave, and to what does he go?
Does he not leave a well organized and thor
oughly established society? Does he not
Loo t1,.I ,. g IL II.
ences and all the combined influences of
thoroughly organized, civilized and Chris
tan society, and does he not go into
sparsely populated country, where, instead
of schoolhouses being established, they are
to be established, and he has to establish
them: where churches must be built, and
lie must build them; where society must be
organized and he must be at the labor of
organizing it. Does he not leave every
thing that is the accumulation of Christian
aud civilized labor, and 90 where there is
much missionary labor to be done before
and long before, he can realize as comfort
able home for himself and family as he
leaves behind? Now, do you say, as Mr.
Greeley said, $50 west, young man." Be-
fore l would say, GO west, young mani"
l would sit down with the young man, and
would 90 over the figures at home and in
the WEST anu would put one column up
on this side and the other on that, and then
strike n balance and see how the balance
sheet stood, and if the balance sheet was rs
per cent. in money in favor of New Eng
land, together with its organized society
and churches and schools and well organ
lied and disciplined forces, l would advise
him to stay here.
Now, the New England Agricultural Club
is organized for the purpose of developing
this thing, for bringing it before the people
for their consideration and discus sion; for
the purpose of enlarging the field of labor
of the State Board of Agriculture by giving
it one or two more agents who may go round
and present the facts to the people of New
England, and the people of Massachusetts,,
that they may see the thing precisely as it
is, that they may bring the west here, and
not necesstate our people to incur the vast
expense of going out there, experiencing a
failure and then paying their way back.
Bring the west here, bring it before the peo-
pie, and let them all consider and discuss it.
This, say, is one of the objects the New
England Club.
1t is, in my judgment, noble object, it
is vast work it has to do. How lully it
may be able to accomplish this labor it is
not for me to saw You gentlemen can