Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-12-18

the mechanic and merchant must wait until
no is supplied; then they may be served.
We should not only try to do this, but we
around us pleasant
Mrs. Wright: Mr.. Dow said there was u
great deal Of pleasure in farming and trying
to raise good crops. saw mt the West more
than hundred farmers who have not raised
one dollars worth this year. or course that
cannot be pleasant. think that the farm.
ors ARE generally u happy class of people,
and with n plenty of money, person
can make money about rs fast on farm rs
anywhere.
Mrs. Croft: When were young took u
great deal Of pleasure in helping my father
make sugar; then 1t was harder work than
now, us sap had to be gathered with II yoke.
Now the farmer uses his team. I have al
ways lived on II farm and mean that all my
sons shall be farmers.
A Graft: can not say that like to make
sugar, IL is anything but pleasant to go into
the woods In deep snow and tap two or three
hundred trees, get all wet and If it should
happen to be good sap weather, the next
morning start and gather two or three hun.
drcd pals of sap. | have received more
hard knocks in sugaring than anywhere else.
l presume it might be fun for my mother to
go into the woods and boil sap; probably
her father shovclcd good path all the way
to the woods for her, and then laid down
planks for her to stand on while she was in
the woods, that would be pleasant for me.
G.. S. Fassett: Spoke again upon this sub
jet and SAID that no one ought to try to take
all his comfort in hard work. but they should
have leisure to inform themselves and bet
ter themselves us men and women. OF
course we cannot all he farmers, but if we
like II it is pleasant. Now l like to plow
and like to see the land turn ever just as
well us like to eat In sugar making we
ought to have everything ready, so that
when it comes we may not be crowded with
work
Mr.. Newton: We ought not to do work
that our teams can do. In saving wood and
churning it is bettor to have machine to
do it than to do 1t by hand.
IL. S. Leach: One can make hard work of
easy work of it. Mr.. Newton told me that
with the help of his son last spring he made
1000 pounds of sugar from $50 trees, but his
wood was all cut ready, so that all they had
to do was to gather in the sap and boil it in.
He has three pans in n row, set so that the
sap runs from the first into the second, from
the second into the third so there is no lift
ing about it. 1t is enough for one man to
gather the sap from $50 trees, and enough
for another to boil it in. But this subject of
farming, of course there are things about it
that are not pleasant. Show me any kind OF
business but has something about it that is
not pleasant. If we love our business and
attend to it it may be pleasant, but no one
who does not have liking for farming
should ever try to farm. Many n person
has been ruined from following business
they did not like; but let young man who
likes farming so upon farm and by indust-
ny, economy, and perseverance, in n short
time he may be Independent and have his
stock, II pleasant home. and IN his declining
years live independent and happy.
Next was paper from Willie Abel. on
"What Qualifications arc Needed in Youn g
Man to make good Husband?" This pa
per was u very good one, and was followed
by quite discussion.
The next meeting will be on the second
Wednt sday of January Mt the same place.