Connecticut western news., 1880-06-30
Prove ThySelf.


 ED. NEws:-The newspapers of to-day con- yey to the farmers of this section the un- pleasant news that just over the hne, West Chester County, N. r., has experienced the visit of the army worm, SO called, and certain papers are trying to elucidate the theory of their visit, and end without any information of benefit to the farmers who have just cause to expect daily their appearance in our State It is reasonable to say the liability oftheir ap- pearance is as great as the fact of their pres- ence in an adjoining state. Then 'tis fair l question to ask what is being done for the protection of the farmers of the State, and the answer evidently is, nothing, by any friends of agriculture, so far as can be learned from my limited means of information: It is not disputed that entire Instructions of every living (green) farm growth is what it's pfes-- ence means to every farm where it comes, and so far as the present years growth is con sidered the labor of the farmers is destroyed certainly 1t is fair question what the farm | CTS should expect to see done. answer they should expect that the $60O0 of the States money used for agriculture be used for the benefit of the farmers. A leading magazine of the day some time since pictured the well furnished room where the report oi the state board of agriculture was written, and in charming way, highly colored the aid of the board to the farmers of the State This value of the experiment station has beer duly heralded by the rival advertisers of fer, tilizers and local secretaries of country agri cultural societies or horse trots, have received 8 circular stating the amount of water, dir and gas, in the various parcels received bJ some rival agent of similar fertilizing fraud Now comes the report printing the wind, discussion of conventions composed of fossils that had not the pluck to grip with their fel low man in their first tried occupation, ant consequently settle on land, for which lthe, owe some toiling ancestor a debt, and live b, the kindness of the mother soil and othe material of as cheap value to Q. poor hard la boring farmer that is paying interest to tn, savings banks of the State. Now to put palmer question: Have not the farmers thu right to demand that this great machine (tha D cost in the aggregate $l0,OOO to the State go at work to find relief from the ravage, of this pest, and if there is no relief, then lik, honest men report it at once to the farmers
 and at once resign their trust, and let tn, legislature next winter use the formerly vast ed money by giving relief to the despoiled lant toilers, and protect the honest industry of tn, state instead of letting it become subsidies t, class of men that give no value In return We say this in no spirit of hostility, but sa, now is the time to prove the value of thi gaeat and expensive branch of State appro priations. Let the men that deal in rAetoTca farming give proper attention te the charg they have assumed. Let us see if they pro l mote the true interests of the farmer, or art they the millstone to hard and overburdenet husbandmen. Let us see whether their love of agriculture or love of office is what directs them, and then let some magazine that is req, by industry, and not luxury, picture the re suits to an overtaxed farming State. ToIL