Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-05

as some others, for Vermont is practically 4
unit farming is essentially tho same il
Windham and Franklin and Essex counties
her people are homogeneous, their lives ant
tastes are rural, simple, pure and healthiul
The Country Gentleman and Rural New
Yorker are adapted to the general wants oil
all kinds Of agricultural and rural pursuits
oil over the land they are national. and
only small per cent Of their contents arc
directly applicable to the needs of Vermont
farmers. To a more limited extent the same
is true Of the Boston papers, excellent as
they are; they cover New England Any
one can see that the conditions of agriculture
in Essex, Norfolk and Barnstable counties Of
Massachusetts,, arc very unlike those of Yer
mont. Now it is our purpose, not only to
make the FARMER suited to the wants of the
people Of this state, in its editorial notes
aud discussions and correspondence, but to
use everything, so far as our space will allow,
which wo tind in these other agricultural pa
pers which will be of such service to our
readers. Consequently, for the average
farmer, the FARMER is the best paper But
there are many in our state who wish to 90
deeper into the very science Of the matter,
and we are glad of it; let us exalt the brain
element OF farming more than has been done.
For such as these we commend the Scientific,
OF Boston; it explains things, makes sug-
gestlons, gives results Of experiments in sci
entidc agriculture, which will interest If not
profit hundreds. Aud if farmer has
family OF boys with any energy or spirit, let
him take it for them. To those who wish
to keep posted as to the agricultural progress
and spirit OF the whole country, we COM
mend most heartily the Country Gentleman /;
II any want one more for general and for
family use, the Rural New Yorker The
New England Farmer is very choice agri-
cultural and news paper for those who want
to go over all New England, and we highly
prize it. The American Oultivator-the old
Boston Cultivator--promises well, but it
used to be general family paper as well as
agricultural, but it is greatly improved.
There are state papers in Maine, a grand
one too in New Hampshire, wide-awake
aud largely made up OF political paper
several in New York-the Elmira Husband
man Is by far the best-and a legion of them
all over the west. The Canadians have
magazine of great freshness and worth.
Magazines.
For magazines, that depends on what YOU
want. 1t for the family 10 general, Harpers
or Scribner's; our idea is that most farmers
families would prefer Harpers, while village
families would select Scribners. Both are
superb, though not exactly alike, and they
make us proud of the products of our Amer
lean civilization. II you have fondness
Tor Boston isms, ways, culture, and mourn
that you were not born there, of course YOU
will take the Atlantic Monthly. We re.
member how with "chum" we got the first
issue of the Atlantic from the mail in Sc.
eluded town in northern Vermont, and with
bolted door read it with care /: Holmes
autocrat, Emerson's poem, the light and
heavy literary notices, yes all it was an era
IN our young lives. Every succeeding mum.
Der was read with equal ardor, those poems
OF Emersons which charity oompels us to
think he did not understand himself, we read
with awe profound! To the good old At.
lantc we owe some of the freshest, strongest
and best impulses Of our lives toward man
ly independent culture; it kindled enthusi-
asm and as little else could, aud we shall
always cherish the memory of its early his.
tory with almost sacred delight. OF late we
have read it less, but its old-time standard
is maintained, and its old friends guard well |
its interests.
or the Galaxy we know but little it has
seldom come in our way, though it is an able
fresh, lively monthly as is Lippincott's, of |
Philadelphia, which has had finely illus |
trated series Of papers appropriate to the
centennial year. If you want something
wholly different, but fresh, scholarly and |
popular, the very cream of all the foreign
take Littell's Living Age, of
Boston, monthly every week, making three
arge volumes every year, and we remember
now we struggled against great odds to keep
it in the old academy roading-room, so many
wanted more sensational stuff; but we car
ried the day aud I.ttel's was kept till it was
retained without any struggle of ours.
Now gentle reader, in this running, gos.
'ipping chat with you of what we know and
.hlnk OF papers, magazines, etc., we have let
you glide into our confidence and told you
he truth, at least as we see it, and now as
you regard our word do not 90 without good
reading during tho year. And if a shrewd
md wise publisher shall now aud then lay
book on our table, we will read it and with
'qual irankness tell you what we think of it.
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