Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-30
As Others See Us.

The state Of Vermont has q state board
Of agriculture, manufactures and mining
which publishes report biennualy. That
for 1895, volume of over six hundred
pages, is an admirable exhibition Of the re-
sources Of the state, and Of the intel.
lgenco Of its citizens. Public meetings at
which papers were read, addresses made and
discussions held, to the number of thirty
within tho year, prove the interest Of the
people in the topics illustrated, and the ca
pacity Of the speakers, for these meetings
would not be held as they arc, and attended
as they are, unless the hearers derived pleas.
ure and profit thercfrom. There is hardly
a page in this report which is not attractive,
nor one from which the farmer may not,
wherever he resides, acquire some useful in
formation, or general principle. In YER
mont as 10 Massachusetts,, there has been a
loss in tho population Of the purely agricul-
tural DISTRICTS but in 1870 the value Of real
aud personal estate averaged to each individ-
ual in round numbers, in Vermont, S7l60 !;
Indiana, 81 90; Michigan, $500. The
value oil all the products Of the farm ave-
ragged to each inhabitant, in Vermont, Sl04 !;
Illinois, SS3; Michigan, S6S. .....
The value of all the products of agricul-
ture to cash person in Vermont was more
than the average to each person in any other
state. The argument, Of course, is, that en-
igration from Vermont would not be so great
1t all its citizens fully understood the merits
Of their native state. There is much more
OF the same sort Of favorable evidence, but
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is the fact that here in Rhode Island much
Of the exhortation of the Vermont patriots
is applicable. We have no little amount of
land which might be pro6tably reclaimed
if we cannot hope to rival Vermont in her
production each year of lS,000,000 pounds
Of butter, we can find reader and higher
market for other farm products. II is to be
hoped that not only will the legislative agri-
cultural meetings which are to be resumed
next week, be fully attended, but that our
farmers will make it point to supplement
the scientific addresses by those relating their
own experience. Gentlemen are very free
to communicate of their knowledge 10 private,
and they thereby stimulate some to good
works but they would do greatly more good
by giving their information to public meet.
ing, the members of which would individ.
ually be missionaries in the different parts
Of the state.
And this reminds us that in one of the
Vermont meetings, woman gave an exceed
ingly practical and valuable address upon
window gardening. Now we have, in vari-
Gus sections of Rhode Island, women who
have devoted time and careful consideration
in a very intelligent way, to the cultivation
Of plants in and out of doors. Each has
some method or collection differing from that
Of others. A concise paper would bestow
benefit upon many who are not reached by
personal intercourse. For instance, a lady,
who in her more youthful day, used to gain
the Horticultural Society's premiums for
wild flowers, has this winter greenery, the
main feature Of which is diminutive white
pine. The surroundings arc in keeping, and
description from her pen would prove in
teresting. Another has unique collection
of dried ferns from Vermont beautiful ex-
ceedingly. Sull another has already large
variety Of plants in state Of forwardncss
Tor transplanting that would ensure the eari.
est summer flowers. To communicate the
mode and the success, would be doing good
to the public. The cultivation of flowers is
as pleasant as it is pure the expense need
not be burdensome. Next to the bright sun.
light, nothing inanmate renders a home so
cheerful as the charming forms and varied
odors of plants and fOwers.--PrOcidence
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