Litchfield enquirer., 1880-09-09

size, grows on smaller tree, and IS more bit.
ter, fuller of prussic acid. than with u.s. You
see the true crab apple, very small, round and
red, easily, and indeed constantly, mistaken
by the stranger for the cherry. There is a
| tendency in trees of like kind to cluster to-
gether--groyes of pines, of hemlocks, of birch,
| (the white birch more particularly and
groups Of naples and elms growing naturally
together. Late in the season as it is, the
blackberry is not yet fully ripe, nor is buckle
berry time at It's height. l think it has be en-
stated in former letter that the blackberry is
distinguished from the dewberry or the :shigh-
| bush" blackberry, and has the flavor of the
raspberry. ''Cat-tails' Ysu see in most spots,
as with u.s. but the pond lily is infrequent just
here Along the palings of one of the old
gardens there are currants. by the Ebushel..
Gardens having favorable exposure are cows
cred with vegetables Of all kinds known and
used by u.s. One in the george yonder is 50
covered with vegetables that the ground is no.
where visible. Squashes differ in shape from
are made into pies. l have not tried said
pies Old Burton, the anatomist of u.elan-
choly, speaking OF beans and peas, says, "all
pulse is nough s." but of pies, for which l
have tender regard, would say that allpies
are good, except vinegar pies, which you find
in sauerkraut districts. will asperse no peo-
pies pies, for they are sacred things
We have passed very few people; consider
ing how thickly settled the country is, sur
prisingly few. IA by-road on the hill top
syonder: showed on Sunday last no sign of q
wheel for a'week, perhaps two weeks. previ-
GUS. On the margin of the marsh we encoun-
tered half dozen blackberry pickers, three of
them, grown women, the rest girls down to
the age of five years. They are poor and un-
derfed, but by 30 means in a starving con-
dition. Taking all the roads together, we
have travelled 10 or 90 miles. and what is the
upshot Oft all" 1t is this Even upon the
best farms we have nowhere seen what we in
the South would call a field of anything what
soever. In the ck-fenced plats of few
acres, Give or six, let US say make it eight or
ten, If you will, although this size is rare the
enclosure is rarely planted over with any one
thing. In it you will find patch of corn, a
patch of oats or rye. patch of potatoes
what you will; and then vacant space,
sometimes large, not planted at all, but given
up, and occasionally wholly given up, to
weeds and brush, or at best light fallow.-EIt
seems a land of patches, much like an odd
negro mans breeches; or, if that be deemed
| unfriendly, like quilt, great, solemn, rock
bordered quilt. Nothing appears to be raised
| for sale-nOthing but hay, which reappears in
| the form Of milk, butter or cheese. One
would say that little or no corn, except in the
| shape of fodder is fed to the cattle too liftk
| Of it is grown for that, and warm mashes oi
many kinds take its place. Is it q wonder
| that population is thinning out, that the lane
''is actually not capable of supporting as many
| people or as many animals by at least thirty
per cent. as it was twenty-five or thirty year,
ago ?" quote the words of Gov Andrews a
the last meeting of the Connecsicut board o.
agriculture. Hereby hangs sad tale,. il
which enc might dwell at great length, but
content myself with a single thought tina
comes naturally to Southern man as,he look
over these fields and remembers the ceaseles
tread of the young men of New, England t.
cities or to the prairies of the great West.
| These people can and do live here some O
them make money; few of them, I am told
| are in debt. If they live. aud thrive here
what might they not doom better land, unde
a more genial SKYE From Maryland to Geor
| gia stretches the magnificent Piedmont country
as blest as any the sun shines upon, but pinin)
and lapsing into bush for the want oil. the yer,
men who, born in these rugged hills, tralnel
to habits of labor and economy, congenitall,
thrifty and industrious, are the men Of allme
who lnhabit our land, to redeem it, and max
it blossom as the rose. Why do they no
come South instead of West? I put thi
question to the most intelligent gentlema,
with whom, as yet, I have not had any length
sened talk. "Why do they not come to us p
'Incompatibility of thought and feeling,
was his comprehensive reply.
+ did not so tell him, but my rejoinde
would be, that if the men are like himself ant
o few others that I know with some degree O
intimacy, if the faces Of the farmers neet il
the stores, doynot belle their character, thel
there Is no incotnpatibility worth serious con
will be q say it with deliberate confidence
the least trouble between fair-minded men O
any section or cline on earth (be their religion
and political convictions what they may) ant
| che better class of the Southern people. Blu
were to tell him and his fellow Yankees this
would they believe me2 Could they quit,
take it in? A little more experience may
enable me to answer these questions. B.