Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06
Board of Agriculture.
fH1nAY-NIoRN1NG SESSION.
on. Crosby Miller. Chairman.
CONCLUDED from An Pade.)

Hon. Crosby Miller, Chairman.
The first matter before the meeting was
the paper by G. Horace Hubbard, ESQ.,, OF
Springfield, upon Corn-raising in Yer
mont" before reported.
After Mr.. H.'spaper Miss Ella I. Pierce
Of St. Johnsbury, gave recitation-Whit-
tiers corn song-which was nicely render
ed
Mr.. Vail of Pomfret, next read short
paper Or Corn-raising," in which he
differed from those who had spoken
am an advocate of corn-raising, but so
much has been said of late by public speak
ers, in New England, on the absolute me-
cessity of every farmer raising all the corn
he wants to feed and the great Importance
of making the farming class self-support-
ing, the agricultural journals are pictur-
ing to us the danger of giving the west the
balance of trade in this matter, and all
the horrors of this state of things has been
so pictured and the community and state
so alarmed that have doubted whether it
was safe for any man to do otherwise than
to fall into the public current aud be swept
along with it, and plant his whole farm to
corn.
That corn can be raised in Vermont and
New Hampshire, and is raised at n good
profit, | have no doubt, but the question
seems to me to be, not whether it can be
raised at profit, but whether it can be
raised ut greater profit than other crops !;
or the proper question for the farmer Is to
what crop can he devote his land and en-
ergies and receive the greatest proitp If
this is decided rightly the balance of trade
will regulate itself.
If have u space of land that will raise
II hundred bushels of corn to II good profit,
it seems to me if l use this land for some
other crop and raise value enough to buy
one hundred and ten bushels OF corn ut
the same cost of production make clear
gain of ten bushels of corn by describing
the corn crop, 10 a man that IS alarming
himself about this balance OF trade ana
the depletion of eastern purses Tor western
corn this immense and growing. shipment
! of grain is something fearful; but IN 1t Is
/ there not a little consolation IN the IDEA
that we may trust while longer the
shrewd business faculty of the New Eng
land Yankee for turning an honest penny
or have the great mass OF the close, con
servatlve farmers OF these NILS Decolne Ill
sane and struck the road Tor the poor larmi
and need some great political economist tc
: stand as q guardian over their business
transactions? If this vital principle OIL
selfinterest of pecuniary gain Is belielng
itself to this magnitude, it is the 1lrst In
! stance in the human family from the time
of Adam down. believe it to be one oil
l the established principles of our civllza
ton that we must recognize that labor an(
the industries of the country are becom
ing divided and divided, and that WE
cannot 90 back to the good old days of oul
fathers, and make ourselves isolated ant
selfsupporting without turning back civ
ilization just 50 much.
| wish to be distinctly understood us All
vocating raising corn on every inch o
+ land in our state where it can be rase'
: cheaper and at a greater profit than an,
thing else, and no where else.
| In the little valley where l live there i
a small cluster of dairy and sheep farm
, ers, and they are IL living illustration o
4 this question. The land is good corn land
y. and yet these ill-advised people TAX
b twelve, fifteen or more car loads OF western
n corn every year, sending their hard earne'
dollars to those bloated western corn grow
f ers; working their wives and daughters
I and some Of them even working them
a selves, to send for corn and the most rs
9 tonishing feature of it is, that the amour
of corn bought increases every year
! And when the tax collector comes TO
taxes, they put their hands IN their pocK
> cts and pay up and as one evil leads t
another, their farms increase IN produc
tiveness, so they are Obliged TO oullt
!. anew to send on more OF t1ose collar
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J. western ii'e"l, Whch pays Ptoi'' III ioo'
le mi anu III lelt'll1'9s l'lo Soh' g A.
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d So,'ie'"en "ct' Hom l1n'ol ~ " ',
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IS it'l'l cGu': nv w plTuSnV up ny l"'7, .I
le tjc s'ani IL Gou7o'iio''' '''o i''0o WAS "oo''
W ~ oA'ino'lo"'
es Prof' w. U. Atwaler spoke oil speci
d. fertilizers. wan 1t pay to use them-wh'
it and where and how? and that Will DEEPER
n on circumstances No plant Will grow
ID there are not present in every case ,certa
ingredients. Take, Tor instance, n wisp
he hay put 1t IN the oven and 1t parts with
Sc portion OF its welS lt-that Is water; p
or IN the ire, and II loses most CT The 7
&c naming weight, leaving only an ash. A
m these parts which have been lost hav
TX with one exception, been taken from Il
It,; air; those remaining and the nitrogen ca
On rled OIL III the fire, came from the so
d. The ingredients necessary are potash S
da, lime, magnesla, sulphurlc and pho
phoric acids, chlorine, iron and nitroge
10 The absence of any of these will affect Il
oil crop unlavorably, and in some of the mo
s. important ones will cause it entirely
Sail C.,ilo 81, 1,