The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-24
GLOBE, MORNING. JANUARY "a

make as good common salt, and better fine
salt than is manufactured anywhere else
in the world, and costs less. 1t and their
fine salt contains one-half per cent. less
impurities, and yields 09l per cent. of pure
chloride of sodium, or common salt.
ANIMAL FOOD AND MURDER.
did think of taking up and discussing
some other topics, when ! began, but |
have already exceeded the limits allotted
to my paper, and will conclude with the
presentation of a single thought for your
future reflection-a thought which has been
emphasized by the discussions of this con-
vention on the diseases of animals and their |
importance to mankind.
Has it ever occurred to you that the |
numbering of young animals, that we may
possess the food provided for them by |
nature, and numbering the older ones, that |
we may have their flesh to eat, is horrible |
business, and the next door to capnibal- |
ism? Has it ever occurred to you that we |
are made consummate slaves and drudges |
to our domestic animals, and that it
Is terrible waste of soil and labor
to convert our vegetable products
into animal food Did it ever &C.
cur to you that the lower the plane
of life the more toilsome and burdensome,
and that there Is possibly higher, easier
aud better way. That Notwithstanding
present seeminn necessities, we could get
along without live stock for food.
The soil that is required to produce
years supply of beef for man, can be
made to produce years supply of vegeta-
bic food for large family. Animal food
is the most expensive food we eat. WHAT
says some one, would you deprive us of
animal food and make us weak, Gull and
l.
the question? Are vegetarians interior to
| other men That remains to be proved.
But it is added, the vegetsble-eating
animals are slow, docile and stupid, while
the flesh eating animals are active, unsub-
missive and intelligent. Is this trne
| What is more stupid and obstinate than the
hog, which will eat anything? What is
more docile and friendly than the dog,
which is carnivorous? What is nobler,
more intelligent, more docile and friendly,
more powerful, more fleet and more en-
| during than the grass and grain eating
horse In what animal do you find finer
tissue and better muscle, q stronger knit
frame and nobler spirit? His vital pow
ers, strength, his organism, prepared from
the vegetable realm all that is required to
make him the noblest domestic animal that
we have, and to clothe his neck with thun-
der when the companion of man on the
| field of carnage.
1t is not, then, a mistake, growing out
| Of orr Low animal bob,,o tbat o,vos r,or
the idea that he must nrev mon and do
vour bis Iowar follow craat;,ros in ordor 70
r,oirta;n bis sunremocv a, tho hood Of tho
an;n,oi crao,ion S;nco all ensh 10 " race .no
ond ,bera ia notbing i, Tho on;ral Id,
tha, hos mo-, come 5;roc,lv or ;nd;roo,iyy,
from ,he soil and the s,ner;r numhent ";
r,osnhoro 10 not noss;bla ,ho, ,rn 49, ,'o,
ho ohlo 10 so nrenaro ond cool, tho nro.,,o,s
If tho sail as tp d;snose az ,ho 5 prou
nacass;tv of fro, ,,asaino ,hor, ,hra,'i' w
;ncornoyo,;no the,n ,y;tS The nn;n,o, tor, w
hefora thew arc snitoh,a for b,,,na,, tool !,
a., ooas;nn ~ ,.ar ,,,o and H.. w.
iy,,or tells orootnros ,,,o,'i5 ,,,a NV. ,ooa
tbe disnnSi,ion to or MON ond n Jer ,ous
oao,, othor IN n,r brs;nass rpia,;nns MI.
we NOT Tins drive war nonrder o,1 1ra aSnv
selfsbness from tho woridS And ,,,;oh,
we not tbns cet rid of tho ,bousanS. of iiIs
that f1esb ia heir IN boconse of onr oorc;n1
onrselvcs with animal FOOD which e nf,aS
d;seoeod or Co;n1 70 dooov2 L. tharo no,
haro food fer rot}oct;on '0>
n,os f,'rn;h,,, str,,oI, NTH tho ooro,,,d-
;,, e,'ori,s - uoroon Co.. wv, 'ne Ta.,o
,mS .,f onricrItmra i; oI hs ,o,tor
on the onricultuye Of Janar Which Wac woe
umb,sbed 'n tho denar,r,oni r,ror, of 1873
Alter describinc their system Of IRRIGATION
Which ia $50 o-ronocd oa 70 o., as ar
eonalizer IF mos,,,ra5N sunnlvirn e ,yotor in in
drv sessons and draining + o ,"s w vet ~
and their admirable system of sav;na fe,,
til;zers which is 90 perfect that ..;n tho
whole ennirc nor one nar,ic,n of n,a,e,iaI
that can he used to fertilize the soil coes
to yoe,e " Mr. Cannon oxcIa;ms e
American farmer nav he gathered from a
careful considera,ion Of the agricnltnrn of
these neople The whole area of the net.
fled nortions of the Japanesc islands s no,
much larger than the New ENGLAND states
ITnon this ia concentrated q nonnla,ion
nearly as great as that of the ITnited states
The tbrift economv and sI,iIl in oor;cni
tire ,oitbout Hre st0cl. m convert tbp lnvn.
RANT vegetation of the unoccyued land int
manure for their titled fields ar anv svs,eu,
of rotation of crons sunnlemented as with
ia bv the renovaiing cinvers and nnoided
by mechanical appliances of anv sort the
Japanese farmer produces annually from
one acre of land the crons which reonircd
four seasons. under their system in tba
United states. Taus the food of This vasi
population ia supplled pit6o,tt The ;mnorf1
ton of a singk article. and still not one-hol,
| of the land is under tiil11e There ia moth
ing in the agriculture of our country" add,
Mr.. Capron, sthat can bear comparison
with this. The qrand secret is drainage
irrigation, economy and application of fer
tilizers, and thorough tillage."
Thus we see what can be done with the
soil, aoithout ipe stock by that semi-barba
rous but now wonderfully progressive peo
pie, to sustain human life with little or nc
animal food and even so practical mar
as MIR. Capron does not hint at the use OF
| mountainous lands and this mainly for th,
,,,r,aoSr ~ f,rn;s,;n', 80 ,,'a,',, e. ~,
PURPOSE VI lurhisuinS Hioic iiahuie loi th'
occupied.
| I hone Won will par(lon me for this di
oress;nn NV nina ;s 60 constituted thai
Siosnion. wy hiihu 10 eo ouhe.i'u'cu III"
wi, p,i ,".o osa i oona;,;a NV 'J w.
s s1l, 'nu ,o',rs ond tho oana 10y do