Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-03-08
VERMONT STATE BOAHD or AGRI
CULTURE.



The last, and in many respects most suc-
cesstul. of the late series Of Winter meet
ings tf the State Board Of Agriculture
opened at Montpelier, on Wednesday evening
last. and continued through Thursday and
Friday. There was a noticeable attendance
Of prominent men, comprising President
Buck ham, and Messrs. Fassett, Chapman,
Mead, Paul and Chase of the present Board
of Agriculture Hon. J. w. Stewart. Hon.
A. b. Halbert, Hon. C. H. Heath, Hon.
Alexis I. Smith, C. Horace Hubbard, Esq.
and Dr. 4. II Hoskins. ex-membrrs # the
Board; Hon Moses Humphrey. Of Concord :,
president OF the New Hampshire Board of
Agriculture; j. O. Adams, E-q, OF Manches-
ter, secretary the New Hampshire Board;
DR.. j. 3. Walker, Concord, n. H.; Hon,
+. ID. Mason. president and o. Bliss,
secretary, OF the Vermont Dsirymens' AssO-
citation Pres. Hubert, of Middlebury Col
lege; Hon. N. I. sprague, Of Brandon !;
Col. W. ". Grout, of Barton; Col. A. B.
Franklin, Hon. Crosby Miller, of POmiret :
Prof Smyth, Professor of Chemistry in the
University and State Agricultural College :
Professor W 0. Atwater, Professor cf
Chemistry in Wesleyan University, Middle
town, Connecticut. and others. There was
a good attendance of the farmers and their
wives from several counties. the audience
filling the hall for most of the time. Prof.
Ii. NJ. Seely Secretary of the Board, was, of
course, present, and took the direction o t
the meeting.
Wednesday Evening.
The meeting WAS opened by Professor
Seely. who introduced Hon. John W
Stewart, who was Governor in 1871, when
the bill incorporating the original Board
was passed. Rev. DR. Hull. of Montpelier,
reld some appropriate selections from Scrip
ture.
GOVERNOR sTEwART's REMARKS.
Governor Stewart said that be had always
been an earnest friend of the Board, and
supposed that he had been invited to preside
not because he could toll the farmers OF
Vermont much about agriculture, but be-
cause 1t had always been a duty, and pleas
ure to him, to contribute his mite toward
forwarding the most pOminent interest in
the State. We do no. farm as IN old times
New inventions and sharp competition
render the business, to those who do not
understand it, precarIOus one. Emlgra-
tion has taken large share of the lie-blOOd
Of New England. The great West, peoped
by our sons, is our competitor in the mar-
kets Of the world. Farming in Vermont has
got to be serious business and It must be
conducted with judgment. economy and in
teligence, in order to make it pay. In oar
day brain power succeeds and nothing else
Those who sneer at scientific farming snecr
at wise and judiciOus farming. Scientific
farming is systomatized farming, and will
prevail in the end. Farming gives Oppor-
tunity for scientific culture-such as hardly
any other occupation can; and there are
always new fields for investigation and
study. We are far behind the Scotch, or
lIish, or the Chinaman, in our economies
and thrift in farming We are in our
swaddling- CLOTHES, in comparison with
them. Association and interchange OF ex-
perienco and useful know ledge, is our
remedy.
Governor Stewart then introduced
non. CmAs. II. HEATH,
VI VIM ShNu ihlVit0iihS fuPtl
on tho development of Home Industries
Rev. e. II. Huntington, of Olympia
Washington TerriDry, a brother of our
townsman, Samuel Huntington, was then
introduced, and read an exceedingly inter
esting paper on emigration.
REV. c IL. HusTIEGToN's S PAPER
Oar American lis ls distinguished from
that of most other countries by the unset
tied character of tho people. In the old
countries OF Europe the homes OF families
like the thrones Of governments. area fixture.
From generation TO generation they are the
dwelling place OF the same lineage, and
around them clusters the memory OF the
ancestors of former age In America per
manence. which gives to home ITS ohiel
value, is not the rule, but the exception
We are truly migratory people, and tho
tendency seems to yet more and more in that
direction. New States open out upon the
vast domain. OF unOcoupIed territory, and
send abroad their invitiOn to the people of
the older States to become their denizens,
and share the bOunties OF virgin soil and
the hopes and inspirations OF new social and
political life. amid new surrounding in q