The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-02-20

stock, il was too rich to raise oats
successfully. He favored top dress
ing and had known beneficial results
to follow the narrowing Of bound-out
soils and sowing sparingly with grass
seed. Never let horses run on the
meadows. in dry times they pull up
grass roots. DO not NOW too close.
Do not cut your grain too close. To
keep a good catch when you get it,
cut early as it is the ripening of the
seed that exhausts the soil. Learn
when to cut by experience. He cut
in first blossom. We have some acres
in Vermont that produce two ton to
the acre. The number of these acres
ought and can be multiplied. lie
considered hay caps as very essential.
They would soon pay for themselves.
Don't dry hay too much. Tinkham
then favored us with another song
which he preiaced with calculations"
In response to an encore he gave Ian
agan's ball.
The next paper was presented by
Mr.. l.. B. Sherwin of Hyde Park on
the Education of Farmers Boys. His
paper was very full of thought and
suggested questions of the grayest
import, and which should receive more
attention than they usually secure.
He was followed by few pointed re-
marks by Prof. Crippen of the Nor
NAL School, who is in no sympathy
with rose-colored pictures Of farm life,
because they are imaginary. He was
CAD, however, to see the new spirit
abroad which bepokened better things.
He was reared on farm and his re-
membrance of the farm life was four
teen hours day of hard work, which
left little time to study and dwell on
the much talked of beauties Of nature.
He left the farm when 81 and had not
yet telegraphed to have the fatted calf
killed. Evidently Mr.. Crippen has
not been "called" to the vocation of a
farmer. Mr.. Tinkham followed in the
same strain, and said that when city
folks talk to him about the great
pleasure there must be in his farm life
he usually replied that half day SHOW
cling manure picking up stone would
take all their poetic notions out of
them. The closing address of the
meeting was an inimitable and unre-
portable eXhortation by A. T. Smith
of Vergennes. He succeeded in keep
ing the audience in storm of laugh
ter from first to last, besides making
some very strong points. He declared
it to be one of the leading questions of
the times, whether labor would stand
the burdens which were being imposed
upon it. The real wealth and resource
of nation was its labor, and should |
the government continue to impose
burdens upon it, and not reach forth
helping hand, the greatest of evil
might eNentuate. He illustrated by
saying, young man ten years ago
bought farm at fifty dollars per acre,
paying one-half down and mortgaging
for the balance. To-day that proper
ty has declined on the market ome-half,
and he is virtually penniIess. Have
monied interests suffered in the same
proportion? Not at all. Something
must be done to equalize this burden.
The last half Of the discourse was
mostly Of humorous character. He
said he farmed on his muscle. He
DID not want any slow pokes around
him or his cows. His COWS could
stand alone without having some one
to lean up against. He was not
like Il. ID. Mason, of Richmond, |
who sent the LATEST man he had after
his COWS and,if the man was not lazy
enough he went himself. He did not
believe much in the cry of too much
land. lie had seen two acre farm
look rs sloyculy as a 200 acre farm.
1t depended on the man whether he
could successfully farm on large ter
ritory. On one point we thought the
speaker made bad slip, and that was
in expressing his pride in man be-
cause he was able to go to England
and steal two millions and bring some
of it into this state. We do not be-
lieve stealing can be made honorable
either by consideration of the amount
stolen or the parties robbed. We re-
serve many comments that occurred
to us, during the two days, until some
future issue.
Thanks to the people of johnson
were expressed by j, w. Bryant of
Elmore and on motion of ii. A. Wa
terman rising vote of thanks given
to the Board of Agriculture and the
reporters. Mr.. Chaplin happily re-
sponded and Mr.. Tinkham closed the
meeting with a Good night song"