Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-06-30
Agricultural Pursuits in California.

ArTlcultuTai 1uI>ul III N"iii"i '"'
The Atlantic Monthly for June has n,
lt.re-tino article upon California, II
bich the agIi ulturil interests Of tn
ate receive their fair share of cons dera
On. and especial attention is called
,nlv to the great and und.veloprd rc
ource- of the soil. but TO the oppression
, which The stru ,gling farmers are sub
.ctd at the hands of concentrated capita
nj organized monopoly. Says the wri
II:
:. Agriculture hal to make a hard an
litter tinht To secure even he poor mod
IN of recognition which it has. Tn.
,queros (ctttle ranchmen) and the m
inc system have been the scrprntS t,
hrot'le Young Hercules. hut are hemSelve-
r,spinr instead The former still holds th'
legislature 10 the nrf,rious f-nce-law il
{ home counties. against the turner's be
l""f tn" latter still cracks the whip il
sacramento which it has Swnn9 ever sine
- " Legislature of II Thousand drinks.
nrcng on the agricultural coun les certain
rrongS in regard to taxes and representa-
ION though the seat of wealth and popu
ton lnng ago migrated to the plains
wing the pr-mrturelv old. btnkrup
iinnv mining counties in the mountains
Ike :, h 30 ,rd Young dcbtuc' ee Farm
- ~ y class. arr. sill hirhlv contemnc,
nd Iii pirtTt.d hv min re, both in the LeT
-lturr and ofIt~ide of it \ farmer OF
'Ie >0uud'>t basis c'nnot borrow of the
IN Fr,nci go money ju-%lerS rs easily Il
9 stock g-,mhlrr can Farmers are seat
rred and powerlrS~: the men of the cite
rr united and strong: hence the form,i
re our 9""uSlv tleccrd bv them. whoa
often sold II on" hundred per cent ov"I
what the farmers received; wine ut on
lrltr and u half bot L., while it WI
sold at LIS Angel 5 for forty cents u gu
On or ght cents Il bottle; grapes ~
.i1ht l. ten ce l. Il pound. when the grow
I WAS glad to get 5 v,ntv-iivc cents
,1nArrh and tons of fruit are cast int"
IAN Francisco Bay every summer because
hc p.ttv huckstrrs cannot work it off Il,
~" ems Il pound; though the farmers are
,hligcd to accept twenty dollars ton
llnu~nndS of tons rot under tn" trees year
'. while the poor of the ci les 90 without
re ms" the infamous executions of the
uiddlrmcn place it above their reach
1t seems evident from these All many
,inil ~ statements. that the oppression ~
tbor bv ctpittl in the Golden state is even
more tla"r:'nt than in other part>of The
.onnrrv That Icing the case, it of Is bu
I popr field for eastern rmi.rrttinn. and
his tru i, confirmed by the frequent
prnnil,~~ return of those who have ven
urrd their all in m attempt to wi for
unr from the fertile soil of The California
valleys. All experience seems to conjrm
ne view that. after all. there is no better
,.r" for :; good farmer to secure com on
nj independence than the older states o;
hc Etst.
ABOUT BITTER. If the following. called
Prof. Arnold daIr| HAN ms will be of Is
Int al service To butter makers shout
*" To ~er them in jh. han s OF every one
i n IN Perhaps not all are in pres-in.
n.-'.J 81 ',Ivir" on this point. but those VIII
e sick surely II ed 4 physician, and they
An in . # his we presume. White. loose
.cr 'irr'i, gr,-,>y bitter, with lar-.r drops O.
. ttrrlnilk cNIiiny and specks Of cad
herr and there all these are grave >vml-
tom and m @ht we'll excite alarm
MIX will sn''r q,aI. tr if the COWS are
~" FIR butter ntking. but it il ohirctiona
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