The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-21
lrum the Massachusetts, Ploughm0u.l
>cw Engiand Farmers club nj aver
Mass.

NDpEE>s ny HENRY CLARK.
The farmer heret fore, and until within
a few years, has not stopped to consider his
possibilities but the discussions ofthe Farm
crs Clubs have been leading the mind of
the New England farmer and Of the Ameri-
can farmer to consider what his possibilities
are. Having considered and come to know,
in part, what they may be the next question
is how can he attain them? He knows how
hc may attain them indiyiduaHy, but how
can they be obtained for the mass of the
farmers Of New England? In no other way
but by combined action; action Just such rs
is proposed to be taken to-day by the organ
izatOn of an association to carry out the OBJ
iects which have been presented by the pre-
siding officer. This morning, in your dis
cussiOns, it came very forCbly to my mind
that the farmer OF New England had failed
heretofore to understand, or ithe did under
stand, to exert bis independence as COM
poncnt part of the community Now, this
is the question to which the current of pub
lie thought, TO which the attention of the
public press is being directed at the present
moment. Ii does not come out ofany mere
organization for any particular purpose. II
is not presented by II few men, but it is a
topic of general discussion among the bust
the press, and there is no class OF men who
have SO failed to assert their independence
as men, in New England or the west, or
any where else, us have the farmers, and if
| they now begin to understand their rights,
it is time that they should dare to assert
them. (Applausc.)
After referring to the valuable reports of
| the Board of Agriculture, he argued that
til farmers ought to 80 in to every locality
and present the subjects for discussion, and
not call upon the learned man, the minis
ter. the lawyer, or the doctor, to discuss
the subjects, but the farmers upon the farm
should discuss them, That is where farm
crs have failed to assert their independence,
where they have failed to give
the information which is within their own
minds. There is not a man who owns n
farm who could not get up here and give
valuable information, in his own way, and
some men would catch at the seed which is
sown, and every farmer could in this way
be useful to his fellow. The speaker de-
scribed the way in which the Vermont Board
OF Agriculture arranged the meetings and
argued the Importance of collecting statisti-
"al information In conclusion he said he
did not care how it came about if they could
only educate the New England ard Ameri-
can farmor TO know his rights, to lin intel
ligence, and assert his independence. (Ap-
plause.)
DISCUSSION.
Captain Palmer of Groton moved that the
remarks be limited to ten minutes as he
wanted to hear from those farmers with
small brains, Agreed to.
Mr. Kilburn said the discussion seemed to
he principally in reference to the almighty
dollar" and thought the farmer should con-
slider the many advantages which he pos
sessed, such as the company of birds and
domestic animals, and the study of nature,
which those in other walks of life did not
possess
Mr. Bowker of Boston spoke in defence OF
the Agricultural College, and held that
farming was not the business for poor young
men.
Capt Palmer believed that any young man
in Massachusetts,, with the energy and en-
tcrprisc of man, if he had money enough
to stock it, could buy a $4,000 farm and
pay for it in ten years, ana support his fam
lily in good shape He said there was Just
as much money in farming as in any other
business which was perfectly safe. Farm
ing was perfectly safe, and although the
profits were small there was no man with
ordinary ability who could not make money
by it to-day.
Mr. Jewett of popperell said he owned Il
farm on which he could keep twenty cows
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