Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-06-21

'dihih'o ~ 'hiitVgf N"Ns'' 1hvus Ni'h Ht
spent several weeks during the last summer.
Speaking Of the Shaker farming, he says
The most profitable crop that they can now
raise is timber which they harvest once in thirty
wears and which it costs nothing to cultivate
whereas it costs more to plant and reap the ordi-
nary farm crops at the present price Of farm labor
than the crops will sell for. This is the mean-
choly experience Of shrewd managers and econom-
iCs,l agriculturists The farmer who can till bis
own fields and take care Of his own stockcan live
by farming but no other can. one might not re-
gro this for it tends to encourage the subdivision
of land, but the farm which one mans labor can
till is too small to support family and the
farmer cannot count upon the help Of his chill
drou, for these, as as they grow mp leave the
homestead-the girls to be teachers. factory opera
tyes, table girls, shop girls the boys for the
cities and the West
m fares the land. To- fastening Ills prey,
when wealth accumulatcs and men decay,
and perhaps We ought to take heart from the fact
that these rural districts are ~ poor as ever,
though they have not half the population they
had fifty years ago Yet it is not easy to be cheer
full when in our drives about the country we come,
from time to time, npon a grass-grown cellar
where farm house had once stood, or counted,
"'nlh ''e circuit oi n''e "uo"' 'ie '"ineis
where we sojourned score Of these monuments
Of adversely 1t is not that the soil is poor but
that II JACKS the u'tl oil an owner hahdS' no"
, sa ~ 49, n Eo.c ~, sn ",s"o
our sorrow that provisions are dcarer than any
where in the country-uot to specify the whole
planet-and where, consequently, the best market
Isl yet 'he iand grows up 20 woods VINO sh",'
,nnel' WI, 80 ", we u's'"' W." Nv '".',
- r,i,,i'', 4, a,'oars. horo o,d ,Horo tho
Irish have found footiold. a good part of the pop
ulation is Canadian the farm laborers are all
either Irish or French ~
On another page, referring to the same
subject, Mr.. Ilowells says
"Men no longer remain on lovely farms or in
the little towns where they were born, brooding
upon 'ie ways VI you ~ "''"' /" ueS '''inN VI
"ou " 10 'oo often 10 uesp"ii VI Aho"ius iii'n ;
WINE ''e ase CANS upon 'ne'.i ie"'h 'N's' .'"'
anu ene o'nei' =" se' gam anu "Ne ~ Vase 70 guy
lhanos anu p'0'uies, anu ''Ao pooN9 o"' VI WV '"-
Vui'''ns .ui"is' ,no "'" oo"u'"ou - always
Nus"i WINE ''ie o'u ti'ne' "n"ve'ei II was was
u.ho "hen men minus 'u,neu ,er''u'S rom
Tue ''"i. "o,N u"Ss VI u's worm 70 a'e o"o'''''S
VI announcer from the WINTER 'ne "''uernesS' ue
P'lV"'ion VI Ne" hhE'"nu :" .iie e'e'"''' summer
"hu sioiy anu iruiuo" VI '.' '>'" '''"s"'''i
no" " SV' '''e'e was '''e" 'h''
Inc secretary VI V"e we" nam pS'iIe
board Oh Agriculture mas oy Tue autnority
ol inc ieg's'a'ure' ooheo'eu s'a'iS"os Vi 'ne
Vaiue anu re'urns % 'he farming l'"uS Vi
ule state, anu tlie ste'.l'ns result Is All eA'
n'o'' III oe'"'i ol '"e op'''on VI 'ne Town Oh
hcers oi nearly every Town III ''' s'"'e' 'n"'
money invested III farming pays no per
cent? out inere'y ahorus 'ne owner " cnance
10 earn ordinary wages oy MS iaDor
lhat aole' lhteH'genl' ana "el-to-do
lariner' Tue Iresiuent OIL 'ne erinoh' DAIRY
men AsSociation' says Ia MS Iast o'leial
address 10 the farmers assembled at Rutland
Darymen Of Vermont, what Of the night?
VIM you desert 'ne iarm ana 'ne dairy because
Sou 81. :" u'o.' "'''. n.''y =, soa p''''"' VI
,hirl, ,her oro sIro,do .i,,, lions nd ,ror,,ro.
and that ruin stares them in the face. ,
would say to you, retrench, reform, economize
make all you eat Before You buy anything
study Tor Gays 'osee Il you cannot 90 w'hon. IL
pD Wv rS"". na, S,an ','', ~
vonr farms and doiriss as Grant did tohis Guns in
the Wilderness, amid gloom, dismay and deathr'
Mr.. IIowells. though n man of cnlture. liv
ing by literature, is vet by birth and breed
inc man of the people. n printer by trade
not colece.bred but self.trained scholar
and consequently his svmnatbies are moi
dead TO the decay of prosperity among our
working classes. and their rapid replacement
in New ENGLAND by the children of old DIES.
notisms who find Mace vet 10 draw n LITTLE
free breath when the sons and daughters of
liberty begin 10 sutfooate
New ENGLAND is indeed beginninp To he a
land q whore wealth aoeumnlates and men
decay" President Bnckbam. in his eloouent
address upon " Vermont. mother of men " /.
rigbt in saving that the breeding Mace Of
manhood il unon the farm Bnt not upou
farms shrouded," a, Mr.. Mason SAYS, with
liens and MORTGAGES. when ruin stores them
in the face"
We have been bitterly reproached for ON,
srrnort of the Patrons of JIrsbardrv w,
are stigmatized as a demaporue. and in som,
occult way. self-seeker. because we bav,
sought TO have our agricultural collepe mad,
A school of practical agriculture. But i,
trutb we are onlv voicing feehlv tbe inart;c
Mate crv from thousand perisbing bome
steads whereof tbe gras..grovn cellar wall.
will furnish themes for the sentmentalit,
and morali,ino If another Generation nnloo,
the aao,,,rt ,yropgs of tbe t;me nre.s;,e
unon tbo agricultural interest arc sol iobt
The orqanization Of fine farmers i n,
work of a clioue or a coter;e Tho fs,v mo,
who ministerial at ia birth were almost mn
consciously IN themselves answering 10
MIGHTY want In tho hearts of the nao,Is
"Thev bnilded wiser than thew Lpey - an,
in giving n body TO the mighty shirt of tb,
time. thew were but humble instruments /,
the hands of that God who is the Father an,
Protector of the people.
The pressure of the greed of this money
getting are. aggregated and organized /,