The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-03-08

evening spent III popping corn, cultlvat
ing flowers to make home pleasant, etc
With these duties, where one woman
progresses in literature like Mrs. Stowe
nine hundred and ninety-nine are retro
grading. No man should ever marry {
woman below him in intellect, but mar
ry up. Thus while he is steadily pro
crossing and she retrograding, the two
will come together in time. Address
ing the gentlemen, she said, "Wives
my dear sirs, work two hours to youl
one"
Mans work is from sun to sun,
| Woman's work Is never done.
The only way woman's work can be
completed is by its neglect. Labor say.
ing machines have done more for fien
than for women. She also spoke of the
education of girls, women's expenses,
how they have to beg the little money
they get, etc. The 'good time COM
ing" we have so long waited for never
comes. She referred to the 31st chap
ter of Proverbs to show what q woman
should be.
O. g. Start, of Bakersfield, read hui
morous paper on Progressive Farm
ing" in which he advised farmers to do
pretty much all the things they should
leave undone, and concluded by SAYING.
eff you fail to making farming pay In
this way, conclude that my theory does
not work well in practice" The paper
contained many excellent hits.
Mr.. Tinkham then sang ga thousand
year." with good effect.
The concluding exercise was a very
able and instructive lecture on "The
laws of the Vegetable Kingdom" by
Professor Geo. ii. Perkins, of Vermont
University. An abstract would not do
it justice. He spoke ola squash, which
was so arranged while growing as TO in
dictate the weight it would lift, raising
5000 pounds on the 3lst of October af-
ter planting. He thought plants and
flowers were healthy. They let light
into the house, and also into the heart.
The good people of Johnson and vi
cinity, evidently enjoyed the meetings.
Wednesday forenoon was windy and
clustering, with occasional flurries of
snow, but this did not prevent the hail
from being well filled, many coming
from distance. The members of the
Board, with others from abroad, were
Hospitality quartered at private resi-
dences in the village, almost everybody
hanging out their latch-strings.
After the choir had sung u hymn.
"Praise our Lord" Rev. c. A. Hun
ting, of Olympic, W. r., read an accept
able paper on "Emigration." He i,
now supplying the pulpit of the Comgre-
gational church in johnson, in place OF
Rev. G.. ii. French, recently resigned.
and has been missionary in Washing
m Il n. II,
cans differ from other nations in their
unsettled life. With them permanence,
which gives home its chief value. il not
the rule, but the exception. They are
migratory. Few question the eXpedi-
ency of going from place to place to bet
ter their fortunes, but only The POSSIBLE
ity of doing so. Could men cnt loose
from their business when they feel like
emigrating elsewhere, there i, 10 tell
ing where this desire To einigrate would
end. The East and West are rival suit
ors in the strife for popuation-ihe
former to retain what they have, and
the latter to increase theirs. Washing
ton Territory is full of natural resources
with genial climate, but wants popu-
lation to develope these and form socie-
ty. Its want to-day, rs in Vermont. is
hardy, thriving, industrious people.
The speaker said he had half mind to
join the Vermont side in trying To keen
its population from emigratiny. Ion
cannot afford to spare these migratory
people, while the West cannot do with
out them. Here is Vermont farmer
who has been toiling for twenty wears.
Perhaps he may have acquired Il home
with its common comforts, bnt has not
laid up much money. lie wants to sell
out and 60 West, TO better himself lie
will find that the income ola farm there
as here, comes from work. lie will not
easily find the same comforts there as
here. If he does, they will cost more
than he can pay. 1t is not all of life TO
acquire land and enlarge your farming
operations. The West still wants what
1t has cost Vermont century of toll to
acquire. you sacrifice these comforts
You cannot expect to get them there
without long and patient toll. To dou-
BILE here the producing power of the
land you have, will cost far less than to
emigrate. Vermont, old as she is, is
still i'll the A b G of her soil improve
meni. The work necessary to bring M
q new farm in new country would
double your own here at home. DR..
Wakefield, in the paper he read, said
that water was good fertilizer. NV
experience is that it is the best of all
fertilizers. | don't want any other, i'll !
can have it Just when | want it. Irri-
CATION is needed at the West as much as
here. Iou cannot irrigate much here.
but You can under-drain. To prevent
the effects of drought, this is more valu-
"a hi on al Int L..
proved true in Illinois. Water is COW
cred under the surface all the time, to
nourish the roots by understanding.
Fruit could be raised in 10 other way.
where the summers are hot, although |
the winter are cold. Terracing is an
other way. The Scotch Highlanders
understand this. The rocks here, if
rightly used, are most valuable. These
are made into walls on hill-sides, two
feet high. The ground is ploughed to-
ward the wall, which prevents washing,
and saves the manure put on against
drought. Ten acres is largo farm in
England, but every inch is made pro-
ductive. All here complain that work |
here is scarce and dear, but it is getting
cheaper. The Crispins arc not to have
their own way always. People are
starving because they won't work at
fair price. Returning to emigration,
Mr.. Huntington said the proportion of
unsuccessful farmers in Illinois was
quite as great as in Vermont. They
leave Illinois TO go farther West, TO ac-
quire success; labor does it. Men who
fail here will fail there from the same
causes. Thousands change from place
10 place, leading hard, uphill lives.
'Let we'll enough alone" You can do
better for your families here than in the
West. Emigration will not cure the
misfortunes Of the unfortunate. For
saying this the emigration societies will
of course pronounce me as recreant to
duty, but the Vermont farmer, in nv
opinion, runs great risk in pulling up
stakes and migrating to a new country.
The change should not be made il YOU
have an even chance for success here.
Who can say what Vermont would have