Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-08-05
For the Waterman.
Our Vermont Farms and Farmers.
NFw YoRK. July 30. 1874.


summer, (thc Beechcr Tilton scandal having
properly become a national mattor,) beg 10 |
offer few comments on what ! saw, heard |
and thought Of your State in its agricultural
aspect. Everywhere | went heard the same
story Of the difficulty Of getting living by |
farming in such climate and with such soil.
presume the story Of the hardships Of a Yer
mont farmers life is too familiar to the cars
Of your readers to need recapitulation. With
such things continually forced upon my atlen-
ton by those most interested, viz, the farmers
themselves, took careful note Of all | saw and
heard to see il could discover where the diff
Guilty Of the situation lay, whether it was a
natural defect, or whether 1t was in any way
due to the inhabitants themselves
Now was born in the State Of Vermont my
self, although educated and brought up in the
metropolis and subjected to all the pulyorzing
influences Of a great city so whatever say
cannot be laid to the prejudice Of foreign
born person.
The first thing that struck me was the fact
that nearly all the farmers and their families
looked upon their present residences and occu
pati0ns as merely temporary. GLOW old Isl
this house ?" | asked an old farmer who bad
spent his active life on the place. Seventy
years, he replied "built when was very
young" "Why did they not build it Of
rough stonc2 There is plenty about, and the
difference in expense would have been but
slight "Oh this was a house which was
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