Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13


high society would live on a western
farm five years If you would give him
the whole West. Men that own land in
the West talk about young men going
there to live, not because they like to
live there themselves but desire to in
crease the value of their farms. We
hear many fattering things about the
West but it is taking things too much
for granted to think of going there to
invest much money.
PRoF. l.. F. WARp.-Since no figures
have been presented on either side of
this question it may be well to compare
few shown by the National Bureau of
Agriculture and leave them to tell their
own story. The average yield per acre
in Vermont is as follows: Corn, bushels,
49,, oats, 80, wheat, lS2, potatoes 164,
tobacco, pounds, 1860. In Illinois. corn,
bushels, 354, oats, SO, wheat, l /, potatoes,
III, tobacco, pounds, CSC. The average
cash value of not only these products
but of many others, is still more striking
in favor of Vermont. The question of
fuel and lumber needs no figures. A
State that burns corn for fuel and hauls
lumber hundred mills and often fur
Their, for building and fencing material,
need not be reported to Vermonter
The labor of subduing the soil, and the
liability of rapid decrease in productive
ness are two objections to Western farm
ing and many others might be mentioned,
but | will conclude my remarks by
reading from a letter of resident of
Nebraska dated Feb. 3d.: Friend -
Did you ever stand on some beautiful
eminence and inhale the balmy breezes
as they blow over Nebraska's wide ex-
tended plain Did you ever experience
that peculiar sensation caused by the
gentle winds waiting alkali dust,
and the ashes of burnt prairies into your
eyes, ears, and nostrils until those organs
became useless? Oh, there is reality
in life in Nebraska, and one would be.
lieve it when he sees his hay and grain
stacks take wings and fly away over the
fields to become feed for his neighbours
stock. 1t is an old saying that 1t is an
i'll wind that blows no good to anybody
Parents and teachers are especially as
sisted in the management Of naughty
children, by the Nebraska winds, as they
Just set them out in the wind which
blows the filling out of their clothes and
whips them numerically with the warp.
Farmers have no trouble in harvesting
their corn fodder, as it is scattered to the
| four winds of heaven before it can be
got into shape and fastened to the earth.
We read that several buildings have
been blown down, and much damage
done by winds in several localities. Why
don't people come to Nebraska and learn
the Hisperian style of architecture We
dig hole in the side hill lay up the
| front and cover the roof with dirt; who
ever heard of a Nebraska dug. out
blowing away? There is no danger OF
a contiagration, oh no, the only thing
we fear is flood, in our troglodyte bur.
rowing as our roofing is exceedingly por
GUS. Some settlers build Oriental houses
with one load of lumber. These some
times go kiting across the praries at the
rate of two forty but people will live
and learn. 1t is strange how soon PEG,
pie get addicted to canibalism and settling
in the West. If you think you can eat
bread with little Indian in it and in a
short time eat it quite all Indian, come
to Nebraska"
Adjourned two weeks to meet with
W. R. Kimball. Subject, Farming and
its wastes.
SEC'Y.