Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-05-08
THE BUSY SPRING.

The dying struggles OF winter are pro-
longed and severe, but it must give up |
the ghost ere long The sun runs too
high and shines too long to be subdued
by Arctic breezes and snow banks. The
death and burial of winter is not an event
Of tears with us who have spent the last
six months with the icy and ugly old
fellow Others, in sunny chimes, may
read Of and delight in merry sleigh-rides,
beautiful snow and shining frost work
but we have surfeit of such things and
look forward to winter with feeling of
gloom, and back upon it with feelings
of joy.
With the advent of warm weather
come labOrs and very busy days. The
farmer who has been carrying his last
years crop on the tines of pitchfork,
for the last six months, finds his barns
empty and his stock of food nearly ex-
hausted. Within the next six weeks he
must SOW and plant everything for q
years crop. There can be no delay here
as to the time of planting The season
is sandwiched in between snow banks
and frosty autumn mornings If an un-
fortunate bean sticks his head above the
ground few days too soon. snow
storm or frosty morning cuts it clean
off if field of corn or grain is the
least mite shiftless in coming to MATURE
ty, the frost pounces down upon and de-
stroys 1t. Dry or wet, hot or cold, the
seed must 90 into the ground at once, OF
it is useless to put it in at all. So, far
mers. wake up; make long. busy days
The times are hard you cannot afford
to buy grain and hay for your stock, OF
-four and other articles of food that you
can produce on your farm. You mus
, produce something this year to reduc,
, debts, or to purchase needed articles tina
the hard times now forbid buying.
q The mechanic has passed long anC
Z impoverishing season of idleness, ant
o this is his harvest season FIVE or 81,
4 months now open to him and he is read,
for work. Whoever intends to do re
$ pairing or building, this season, will fin,
$ the spring and early summer the bes
time to do such work. The days ar
long and not too warm there are les
dust and flies to bedaub paint; and in
) prOvements made in the spring are use
n full for the whole year.
q Every labOrer is looking for job nov
o and there will be great improvement
in the times when all are employed
70 Those who have means to employ hel
will do the community good and benef
themselves, by setting laborers /;
work There is money in labor, bot
for the employer and employed, and e.
1t cry dollar that can be earned, this yea
at should be earned.
e. The summer season is our season
he pleasure as we'll as business, and v
he must exc out an amount of happine
n sufficient to bear us over another loI
an winter that will soon be upon US. Fro
ne the cities and distant places, strange
o. seek our hills. our mountain air al
re. mountain scenery during the SUNNI
is months, and we ought to be able to e
sss tract some little pleasure from seen
to that to them are so charming as to ma
Igs season spent among US valuable.
nd Then, crowded all together are plO
ID ing and sowing, building and paintin
scrubbing and cleansing, toiling al
be, sweating, and the seeking Of pleasul
sp- that only few months of the year pl
nd vide. We must be busy