Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-14

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pay for his amusements, but if an indi-
vidual comes 10 the farmers house he
races over every part of the farm and
goes home, forgetting that the proprietor
has not only the human form but the
sensibilities of a man. If they would
acknowledge their obligations for favors
received, they might at least find us
more agreeable when they came again.
o. f. Peck. While it may be for the
interest of the farmer to have his fish,
game and small fruit protected, it is a
question whether the law proposed
would be of any practical advantage
to him. Every variety of game costs
six times as much as it is worth. Many
varieties live on the fruit-buds of our
forests A single partridge will pick fruit
buds from our apple trees by the thou
sand, and believe it no exaggeration to
say that | was minus more than sixty
bushels of apples last season that, if the
partridges had lett the buds alone, would
have been worth more than $40 to me.
Last winter they became so tame that |
could shoot them from my window, but
| didn't save the buds, neither would the
law proposed, and consequently l see no
practical benefit to be derived from il.
If we are going to the rights of the
question we must go to the constitution
of the Union. That grants to every
man the right to shoot everything flying
in the air. By the time neighbor Floyd
had his partridges ready for the table
they would be over my side of the fence
and ten to one if | didn't invite him to
partridge dinner before he was pre-
pared thus to honor me or any other
neighbor. The law already sufficiently
protects the fish. A man may re-stock
his brook and the fish therein become
domesticated animals, and are as much
his special property as the sheep that
come to said brook to drink.
CHASE, Mr. Peck says that the con-
stitution gives to every man the right to
fish and hunt, and then says that Yer
mont gives to every individual the right
to stock a brook and hold the fish as his
own. How does he make the one CO.
inside with the other?
, PEcK.-No man is by law denied the
. right to hunt wild game, yet when that
: game has been domesticated it becomes
individual property.
CHAsE-If the law provides that any
: man owning brook may build dan
and lay claim to all the fish in the pond
Q thus made, then so far the law is al
u right; but believe if we could do away
Is with a thousand and one laws and re
q place them by one desirable and well
IS understood law that would make every
e farmer the special owner of his own wilC
u game, we might be greatly benefited,
w. B. CLAY.-It appears to me tina
s. the new law has a tendency to max
o men selfish that it would have ten
II dency to tyranize over other classes
Is With the present laws every farmer ma.
IN furnish himself with an ample supply o
c fish by complying with few require
'e ments.
he J. A. FARwELL. u would like to in
IN quire at what time of the year the frui
D. buds spoken of starts?
10 PEcK.-The buds of all trees start
ne in August. They stand on what's cal
/" ed a fruit-spur, and are very easil
10 picked off.
Ut In the miscellaneous discussion whic
re followed the above, many expressed th
40 .opinion that the law proposed was
'e- good one, though selfish and not easil
ne enforced. The fact that the present e1
isting laws are not in the interest of I'll
~ farmer, as generally understood, do,
at not necessitate the introduction of la
wv no more likely to be enforced then thos
er on the statute book. Besides such a la
ed would never practically conform to tt
10 usages of the times. 1t is not in Il
hu spirit of the age Young Americ
wouldn't stand it. The Unborn prime
we pie in every American, is the right
IN, fish and hunt, somewhere, whenever Il
lst spirit moves in that direction. If Il
be farmer desires to raise fish, he can do
he under the present existing statutes
ms very little expense, by complying Their
yet with, he can also hold all cultivate
me fruits, whether transplanted or not, 8
Ter domesticated rabbits, squirrels, foxes, 81
be- to the end, which is all that the new Ia
are could guarantee with certainty, al
gh more then it could do consistently.
my Adjourned to meet with F. B. Sleep
are Jan 18th, at 81 P. NJ. Subject Caus
md and cures of the present depression
inc agricultural interests. The followil
ner are the questions proposed for the sc
I'M son. No 3, Mixed farming most pr
ply fitable No 4, Best method of impro
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