Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-31

-igners, and which is rs fellows:
10 the Honorable the Senate mt House orRcprcson.
tltirS he Cn5teu otdtesW i 0,erisa,jh congress
assembled:
do st ear rsrl, and p"r>istenty insist that tn
ale, ate tGe op rt-si,us imposed u",n us bv til.
.rsusrorlt on mononoiies that now control the inter-
ways a they are severally st,,d "xirt furtuatiny
"H N,eSS'yg rats II fSP rtSn TN i"r tpc mt
are Il law unto Themselves b iuE eyord the reach o.
con?r+ssoua eni,t1,enfs
Wine Een ra rrosreri y 7ervadas the land agricn
tire, IT, rrner stone OF I'M national lrogress is de
pressed The surplus N our farms is wrenrhei frnn
az TO- tnrra these klt 2mo3,i"s, oeV,ant marx
IIol, rrb6lug the producer OF wrll-earped profits
pressed market maintains tie previously enhance
jrrl4ht rates, and III neither case do these common
Tne patience Of an i4dlstriousi law-a64ing peonlr
your honorable bodies ron whom alone rellei ca
come That it WI come IN the near future we nay
lully urge upon your bodies the enactment ui sucl
laws as VIII pjeyent flu tuntions in treghts, and uu-
.ust dis limitations i'll Transportation charges.
Aud your petitioners would ever pray.
There was no action had on the memo
rial, which, we believe, is the resolution
or memorial adopted by the state grange
at its late meeting in Montpelier.
Col Mead followed Mr.. Averill, saving
he should speak of that part of the paper
which treated of the desirability of Yer
mont as a home. He did not know but
that was Il hobby of his, his friends had
charged him with it. and he was not dis
posed to deny it; if it was true. it shoald
be published; if it was false, it should be
ventilated. He gave the fact of Vermont's
having for the last fifteen years maintained
very nearly its product per acre, while thc
west had fallen uff very materially, and
the Time was not far distant when the
yield would be equal and the west would
be obliged to give equal attention to say
ing manures. He spoke of education Of
the youth; that they be educated to work
and not have wealth thrust on them, no
to have thetu expect they may step on
into life at once on Il life Of ease and lux
ury. He deprecated the decreased anC
decreasing population, and thought W.
should not throw away our best bone anC
muscle, we should raise men and women
and it would be happy for Vermont if she
conld hold her own'in The coming census
and not show il decrease in population
He believed Vermont was in the path O.
progress, that we raised better crops thar
we did but a few years ago, that we RAISED
more hay and more corn and wheat PEE
acre than we used to, that we had incrcas
cd the Yield Of our diaries and the numbe
of COWS to the acre, and we should in
crease our population.
Mr.. Vail of Pomfret WAS called on t.
give some report of dairy matters in hi
vicinity, who said that his neighhorhoot
was mainly given to dairying. and tina
there had been II marked increase in tn
yield of butter per COW and OF cows to til,
acre, and the result hal been dccidrt
price. he fnrmer average he believed
the average fifteen years ago would faI
short of one hundred prunis per COW
and now here were half II dozen dairir
which would averag" two hundred AM
fifty pounds per COW which was the re
suit of better COWS, better care and bette
feeding.
Mr. Vail was asked whether the ma
who had done this had cApit,l TO Star
with. He thought many Of them wer
in debt wien they hid gained thcs
results Q.-What amount of hay an
grain had they purchasedP Ans.-Littl
of hay. hut considerable Of bran and wrsr
ern corn. He believed the results of higl
feeding had been a better quality of prod
uct and an increased profit The be-.
feeders had reached three hundred pound
per cow. Here q man arose in the bacl
part of the hall and said that this weel
there was farm to be sold containing one
hundred and fifty acres on which mar