Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06


will soon learn the secret of making your
lands SO productive that no farmer Will
need TO increase his acres in order to the
increase of his income.
" emigrated fl ON Vermont more than
thirty years ago. lived in Illinois when
unoccupied prairies lay for
hundreds of miles around me offering the
most flattering inducements to eastern
They came and occupied those
lands. Some were successful many were
The proportion of unsuc-
cessful farmers was quite us great In ILL
nois us in Vermont. Want of success
drove them farther west, 10 newer frontier
settlements, from which again to recede
rs civilization overtakes them.
Men who are successful farmers in
Vermont will succeed anywhere. Men
here, by reason of shortcom-
ing in Judgment in business capacity and
good management, WILL for the same
reason, fail in the west. | know men ON
the Pacific coast who have been emigrat-
ing all their lives-living first in New
England or New York, then in Michigan,
then in Wisconsin or Illinois, then in
Iowa. or Kansas, then in California OF
Oregon, then in Washington Territory.
men always, and always
living IL hard, uphill life. Successful men
are not doing well where they are. and it
is n safe rule to let well enough alone.
Unsuccessful men are not apt to attain
success by emigration. They kept them
selves impoverished by continual moving,
and make good the proverb that the roll
inc stone gathers no moss 1t is better
TO be content-aud if they cannot grow
rich, they can at least give to their fami-
lies the benefits of civilization, OF which
they deprive them by emigration.
- have lived long in the west. l have
seen enacted the history of II multitude OF
families. broken up. unsettled, unsuceess-
ful, unhappy. Glad would be many dis
couragcd wife and heart-broken mother,
in land of strangers, without home
and without sympathizing friends, if she
could be returned to the land of her nativi-
ty. and enjoy the sympathes and kind
Offices of the friends of her childhood
even though her lot was in poverty, and
she obliged to toll for daily food. Emigra
ton won't cure the nisfortunes of the I'M
fortunate. Economy, thrift, enterprise,
are as essential to success in the west as
in the east. Extravaganza, Incidence
and inatlention are followed by the same
results there us here.
Wes'ern EN- grafton SIC C les, railroad
corporations ana individual citizens, who
are cxcrting all possible Influence to in
duve emigration, would, of course, pro-
nounce me rccreant to my duty MS u ciLi-
zen of Washington Territory in saying a
word to dissuade the people of New Eng
land from DESERVING their native country
and going west in pursuit of better
home.
- tell you seriously that Vermont
farmer, with good living;a good, well
appointed home; with stock, tools, build
ings, timber, good water and good social
surroundings, runs IL great risk when he
undertakes to better his condition by
pulling up stakes and beginning again In
Il new country. And | have made it the
rule of my life, especially since | went to
the Pacific coast, to respond to all appeals
from eastern people who have asked my
advice in the same spirit My uniform
answer has been: Let well enough alone.
If YOU have an even chance where you
are, you run risk by exchanging GER
tainty for an uncertainty.
4" Vermont, US a state has great in
tercst in the matter of emigration. Ihls
depicting process has been going on in
this state for the last forty years, and while
she has shown a most wonderful tenacity
of lifc-maintaining nobly her social insti-
buttons. and indicating the prestige OF her
civilization-yct who can say what Yer
mont would have been in population,
wealth and power, if all her people had
stayed at home, and had put the money
and energies which they have expended in
other states into the business and institu-
tons OF their native stateP
The saying was ascribed to Stephen
A. Douglass that Vermont is good state
to be born in and II good state to 60 away
FROM 1t is also an old adage that The
proof OF pudding is in the tasting.
| Having been born here myself, l am {
competent witness to the first part of tho
statement; having gone away, and like
the prodigal returned to sojourn for ;
time among the friends of my youth ant
the scenes of my childhood, | will modify
the last part of the statement by saying
that Vermont is good state TO come bacl
to-"
Prof Collier was called out in some yer,
complimentary remarks by the president
Prof Collier said he had been charged
otherwise, but the remarks of the presi
dent had acquitted him, and should til,
present board fail of its duty, if one powe
and another should array against it and 81
cripple its usefulness. no power coul
stop it: it is demanded by the people an
must continue. This material industry
subserved by the labors of the board, ur
.]erlcs the interests of education, the inter
est of religion.
With the mortgage on the farm, thel
; was no use to talk of aesthetics, the tim
, would come where such things would b
. They were now longed for, and woul
come when the time for them was full
!, come.
The commissioner could not come, bl
! had instructed him to say there were I
! secrets in the department, he wished &
could know its working He was in fu
accord with the labors of this board, al
would cooperate with them as far as
WAS able.
$ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES SESSION.
h The meeting was called to order
q Hon. N. L. Sprague, the chairman of Il
i session, after which prayer was offered
Rev. L. b. IIibbard of Cavendish, win
the chairman announced MIR. AlbertCha
r. man ms the gentleman who had probab
II the fullest knowledge of Vermont Meri
q sheep of any man in the state, and W
, had made his researches not only in Il
Il but in other states, who would now re
=. his paper on Early Vermont Merinos
q of which we gave an abstract in report
a the Middlebury meeting. After Mr.. Cha
II man Miss Anna L. Stowell rected the
Il dian legend of the " Bridal of Pennacook
= in very pleasant manner.
L r. Skinner of Tunbrdge was ne
# introduced who read his paper on " L
ID Butter Dairy" which was read at I
If Tunbridge meeting and which we sh
nj print in full. Mr.. Skinner is the III
~ who reports II yield of Alb pounds |
nt COW for the year for his dairy OF five Gov
&c Mr.. Skinner had a sample of his butter
n the presidents table, which was OF Il
rs appearance and nicely put up.
IL 1.-THE duty has been assigned me by I
- powers that be to take up the subject