Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-12-02

The other day Glanced to be in at farmer
Gray's Upwards Of two score years and
ten has he followed farming yet successful
in the pursuit he decrys it as poor yoca-
ton. Commenting upon his success. he
gave vent to the following
d" No, sir farming don't pay. Yesterday
hired hand for the season; pay him q
dollar a day and found wife Ina, got to
have a girl-thcre is three dollars week
more. It takes all can get to pay hired
help-shan't clear my teeth; buildings are
all running down; fences are going to ruin
used to build wall bnt now nobody knows
how. Can't trust hired help out Of sight;
don't know how to do anything unless you
are right with them. Have to be up first in
the morning. build all the fires. and half the
time then they don't start til you call them.
In my day used to be up before sunrise,
and work till dark. Now it isn't the fash
ion to get up till you are called. and quit
work with the sun an hour high
81 Do plant much O, bout an acre
and half, all told. Thought my field
ipohAN iii fA NANAhh'A AiA'l' was a
pretty good growth of corn, but it all went
to fodder-too rich, | suppose.
Where's my boy Gone to Barre.
Thinks he wants to go to school. Twill
cost me fifty dollars a term to school him,
the least can fix it. In my day three
months in year was thought enough, and
am sure | have got along we'll can
reckon interest, and ! guess | amt cheated
very often. To be sure, the boy finds some
fault with my spelling; but tell linn Gen
eral Washington didn't always spell cor
rectly, and that generally shuts him up.
VIII he be a farmer? Well, | can't tell.
lie has got some high notions-too high, |
think, for farmer Want, ! should get a
blooded bull to improve the stock, but
shan't, / make something from our stock,
if it is run out Let well enough alone, i,
my motto. He keeps fussmg about the
barn; talks about modern Improvements.
Modern fddlesticks What was good
enough for my father, is good enough iol
me. I've laid up little money, and
doubt if any one, with all the improve
ments, will do better. No, sir, don't max,
three per cent off from my farm running
behind all the time. 1t is different than i
used to be. Find me customer and II
sell cheap"
There IS truth in some of his sayings
But what a mistake he is making with hi
child O that he could see that what he ST
censures in his boys conduct and wishes i
only encouraged and properly guided, woul,
make that boy in years to come a successful
and intelligent farmer What a curse sue
obstinate and uneducated persons are to tn
rising generation. They have just enoug
education to make them conceitad; selfis
enough to deny their families all the con
forts that go towards making life enduabl
which in the end often rebounds to thei
everlasting misery, unless reflected to other
sometimes even unto the third and fourt
generations. Verify my cup of wrath
full Often | am tempted to vent my fee
ngs upon such, by giving them goo
sound shaking--such as used to expenenc
in younger days. venture to say it woul
counteract some of their bile. Only fei
that jury of my fellow citizens would ne
take into consideration the good impulse
that actuated my conduct restraints me.