The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04

money, with two or three hundred
dollars per year To pay for rent aud fuel,
and all the necessnries of life TO buy.
On the other hand the farmer has his
crops, and can live on them, rent he
never thinks of, and his fuel costs him
only the labor of cutting and hauling
short distance. lizard tines come TO
the villager and the farmer with very
different aspects. The former must
have money not only to meet his bills
falling due but to purchase the necessi-
ties of life, or starve the latter has his
necessaries under his own control, and
the panic affects only his surplus as to
sales, or luxuries which can be dispens-
ed with rs regards expenses. We do
not speak of the man whose business
has been some kind of speculation, and
who considered his farm a sort of side
show-he will have debts to pay, and
must needs make sacrifices to meet
them or turn bankrupt-but the man
who owns his farm and stock, and who
makes their improvement his business.
And we would advise every young man
to wait and work until he can buy his
farm and pay for it. 1t will require a
few years of patience, and he will have
visions of others who have bought
farms OH credit and paid for them in a
short time, and it is Yankee nature to
believe ones self capable of doing any
thing that some one else has done. But
the proportion of those who fail is
large when compared with the success
full ones. There will be ways enough
in which money will be needed for the
| first few years, if the farm is all paid
for. And year or two of poor crops
or low prices will not necessitate the
giving up of the farm and the loss of
what has already been paid.
One of the principal advantages
which the farm holds out to man with
small capital is the opportunity to be
independent. The money which would
buy him home in the village or city,
where he must work for some one else
his ten hours every day to secure the
means of subsistence, will buy small
farm whereon he can go and come
when he chooses. He has his team il
he or his family wish to go to ride, and
needs not to go to the livery stable and
pay two or three dollars day.
No other business is so sure to pay a
moderate profit, as this; no other bust
ness will admit of so much neglect with
so little loss. The lawyer. merchant Oh
doctor must be at his post when called
for, or he will lose customers the
farmer can go and come when he
pleases, and can occasionally leave his
work for day or a week with no loss
His crops or his stock are rowing, day
or night, whether he wakes or sleeps
70 be sure, he must be industrious and
attentive to business to succeed, but he
is not tied to the same dull routine day
after day.
The fortunes of a Vanderbilt or {
Stewart are not to be found on the farm
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true happiness, no other spot on eartl
Is It's equal. The merchant or manu-
facturer in the hustle of the great city
sometimes looks back in his memory
to the dear old home among the greer
hills, and feels that he would willingly
exchange his present lot for the
pleasures of those days when he was 1
farmers boy and left for the city believ
ing that farming don't pay"
A comfortable fortune is sure to re
ward the Intelligent application of braii
and hands to the improvement of tn,
farm and the production of crops ant
stock, but that which alone makes
money desirable, the means of true
enjoyment,-is also here available.
Hearty, robust health, without which
no real enjoyment can be found, exists
out in the broad, free country, as il
does not in the crowded metropolis
Every breeze coming across the hills
and the genial sunshine, carry it. TIL,
birds in their gladstone warbling testify
of its presence, and all things tend t.
lead the thoughts up to the Oliver of al
in thankfulness that the world is 81
large, so free, so happy. In all thes,
ways, and in many others, the tillinl
of the soil pays pays in the pocket, il
the heart, and in the soul; pays as M
other occupation ever did or ever will
because it il the foundation upon whcl
all others rest.