Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-02-25

years, new OK cart, new iuL0 DER WhHou,
two new sleds, a moving machine and i
know not how many other things, and not
one of them, unless except the moving
machine, has been under cover. The cart
had to be made over last season. and the
sleds had to be made over this winter. Is
it any wonder that the mortgage on his
farm was foreclosed at this term of court?
Now with proper care some Of those
things would last life time.
The Vermont farmers homes should be
the pleasantest and happiest in the land.
They should be surrounded with fruit and
flowers, and the houses should be filled
with plants, music, books and pictures,
and we should find time to cultivate all of
these, and VIC may, if we will give our
business more thought, have moro system
in our work and care for details.
intended to say something of manures
and their application, and will here re-
mark, that l would not apply them as one
man in this town does. He built his hog
pen over little rayine, and at every rain
there is quite brook that runs directly
under this building. There is no doubt
about applying liquid manures, but it isn't
good husbandry to let our manures wash
away in the streams, as my father used 10
do with his ashes. When | was boy he
used to make salts from ashes. lie would
work up about thirty bushels day. He
set his salts house on brook, so that in
cleaning the teaches the ashes were
thrown directly into this brook, and as the
brook froze over the ashes would pile up
so that by spring there would be pile of
four or five hundred bushels, and the high
water would wash them down this brook
into the creek half mile below; and as
the creek overlooked, the ashes were ap-
piled to those meadows, and it was great
wonder to all beholders what a rich depos-
it that stream had; but somehow, since
the pile of ashes was gone, they have de-
terioriated wonderfully, and the deposit OF
this stream isn't nearly as rich in fertility
us formerly.
notice in the report of the state board
of agriculture of Massachusetts the eXpe-
rience of Mr.. Paul of Dighton, and can
not forbear quoting him. In 1S47 he
bought Il farm of twenty-eight acres-four-
teen tillage and fourteen woodland. Sub
sequently he broke up two acres of his
woodland, giving him sixteen acres OF
tillage. His farm cost him two thousand
dollars, for which he had to run in debt,
and also for stock and tools. To enable
him to procure manure, he bought pigs
and fatted them; also special fertilizers,
and had applied five hundred to nine hun
dred bushels of leached and uneached
ashes. He applies the larges: part Of his
manure in the fall and plows it under
two and one-half or three inches.
lie had never run in debt ut the store
and had never spent any money for tobac-
co or liquor.
He had made great saving by cutting
aud housing his wood while green, season.
ing it under cover, and never trying to
burn it green.
The crops he had raised were hay, cab
ha.cs, potatoes, strawberries, raspberries
and currants. In 1867 ltwenty ycars) he
paid off the mortgage, had paid for his
farm implements and his stock, and had
three thousand dollars in cash besides.
In making up his account Mr.. Paul puts
his labor and services against the support
of his family; and since 1867, the date
when he had paid for his farm, he had
laid away fifteen hundred dollars Il year.
Let me call your attention to some of
these Statements In the first place he
bad II small farm and he put it immediate.
ly under high state Of cultivation. He
plowed his manure in, so there was no
loss by evaporation; never run in debt ut
he store. and hadn't spent any money for
liquor or tobacco. Now there are but few
IF Us that spend much money for liquor,
n h.,xu fay hat al nj Il
20. What II filthy, disgusting habit this is
md how expensive. Why, heard one OF
our citizens say that his tobacco cost him
more than his flour! and one of our mer-
;hants says he sells more tobacco than
iour!
There are persons in town so thoroughly
with the scent of poor to
,acco that they are nuisance in society,
md believe they lose the use of the oil.
actory nerve, and their sef-respect, for
very one ought to have self-respecl
enough to keep clean, for " cleanliness is
,ext to godliness."
lnder cover. Now let me speak of two
men right here in our community, who
commenced TO farm at the same time. One
lad good set.out, one of the incest farms
n northern Vermont, well stocked and all
necessary farming implements. To day,
. little over thirty years. that property
aus all disappeared and he is in debt, and
not dollar to pay with; he is man OF
great Observation-Disclosures just going to
10 some great thing, and never has time
20 look into details.
The other man commenced by running
in debt for rundown farm, which he
in very few years brought under a high
state of cultivation; paid for his farm, has
built his buildings all over new and
bought on two hundred acres more land.
He is quiet, systematic, diligent man,
attending to all the little things, and never
found in bar rooms or stores gossiping;
neither is he found drinking liquor, using
tobacco or attending to anybody's business
but his own.
One thing more and am done. Now
as farmers we need to cooperate and help
one another. / believe every farmer
should belong to some organization which
has for its object the elevation of himself
and family, both socially and Intellectual
ly. 1t has been said that the farmers are
the most Independent of any class of our
citizens. This is not true in theory and
ought not to be in practice, but am sorry
to say it is, to large extent, many farm
ers standing selfshly acne in their sue.
cess, and opposing anything and every
thing that is for the farmers advancement.
Now rs agriculture is the source of all
wealth, and all business is dependent upon
it, why shouldn't it be encouraged by all
and certainly every man who
has chosen this as his business should
unite with his brother farmers for their
We need cullivating So
ciallg and intellectually, and what better
way than to meet together to discuss top
les pertaining to our business and the
welfare of TIE state? A man living by
himself is likely TO become narrow, bgot-
ed and selfish; in fact, n heather; but BY
our views are broader, our
keener. and thought bcgets
thought, and we soon learn to have intel
ligent views upon all the general questions
that interest mankind, and we learn to ex.
press our thoughts in II more pleasing and
manner. Thus VIC grow until we
attain the full stature of manhood. and
finally, my friends, let us be economical,
diligent and persevering; avoid intemper.
ance in eating and language, also in work
and recreation. Whatever we attempt to
do, let us strive to do well, doing our
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