The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-22

cued from the sea by costly cmbank-
ments, and is maintained against the
force of the ocean only by a costly and
continuous system ofpumping by wind
and steam power. Some ofthese farms
are sixteen and eighteen feet below the
sea-level. The average natural fertility
of Holland Is not superior to That OF
Vermont. The climate is fully rs rig
orous, the winter as long and nearly as
| cold, and the summers less propitious
to every crop, except perhaps to grass.
With our innumerable mountain
streams, at n 1.-THE of the expense that
the Hollander is put to for drainage, we
could make u meadows more produc-
tive than theirs. The most productive
meadows in the world are those OF
Lombardy, where under the warm
italian sun, with irrigation, five, six
and seven ions of hay to the acre are
obtained each year.
Proper care and selection, with prop
er feeding, would soon bring the pro-
duct of our dairy herds to u level with
those of Holland. The same market
exactly is open to us, and at the same
prices, if we make as good an articlc,as
is open to them. They supply theil
home market and send the surplus to
England. So do we, but our huttel
and cheese bring the lowest prices in
England, while the Dutch bring The
highest. at is not i'm our fates but il
ourselves that VIC are u~ndcrlings." No
one fifth of the dairy products of Yer
mont is first class. Our cows do no
average more than one half as large
no 1uct as those of the Dutch herds
Bring up the product and the quality
and Wealth would flow in upon us as i
does upon the Dutch farmer. But w
cannot do that without more intelli
gence. See the difference. The littl,
province of Groningen, about equal il
, size to one of our counties eight hun
dred and eighty-six square miles,, sup
: ports an agricultural school of fifty stu
: dents, Vermont, after having $780, 90
: given to her to found an agriculture
: college, don't care enough about agri
=. the fund. We have had it eight years
q and half the farmers in the state kno,
nothing about it,and few care anythin
about it. Our agricultural College
L.. 1880, lAal 4. rtlt M, lnx.
plenty of farms carrying more thaI
sixty cows, from the yield of which tn
Groningen farmer eats off of silver plat
. and sends his sons to college, that &C
, not over one hundred pounds of TWEEN
ty-five cent butter from n COW, Will
there arc a few other farmers on n
better farms, that get two hundred an
fifty pounds of forty-five cent butte
! per COW. What m can do, all can dc
, proportionally to the opportunity bu
: the trouble is, the opportunity is ne
r improved. We go along in the oil
starveling way, and 10! the 'eflet
, monarchies of Europe" are going wa
4 ahead of us in every form of industry
but above everything in agriculture.
We would like to say somcthin
about the social and political impol
g lance of the Dutch, as compared wit
Q the Vermont farmer. We would Xix
e to enlarge upon the fact that ''almo'
9 all the land produces remains in til
: hands of those who cultivate it," il
s stead of going, as in this country, to cI
e rich corporations, monopolies and mic
dlemen. But space does not permi
v There is food enough for thought in TIL
above extract, 10 keep a bright Var
kce thinking quite a while without an
e further suggestion from us. TO thos
: who are not "bright' it is no use talk
d ing.-[ Watchmun and State Innrnal