Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

India, and vine-clad Italy. England, Sco-
tia and the Emerald Isle as well as our
own land we're visited in fancy and their
homes portrayed; the condition of their
women-maiden, wife and mOther-de-
scribed in beautiful language and an en-
gaging manner.
At the close of Mrs. Green's paper Gen.
Thomas was called on, and said he
thought he could not talk Of anything
which would interest the people more
than to tell them how they GOULD make
beef pork, butter. cheese, mutton and
wool more cheaply than now, which ne
thought might be done by ensilage. lie
described his silo, which we shall note IN
an article on ensilage which we shall give
as soon rs we have collected material we
consider ample. Gen. Thomas said his
stock all ate it at the first trial. Like
Capt Morton. Gen. Thomas is a firm be-
lever in ensilage.
Hon. Alexis T. Smith followed Gen.
Thomas. He spoke in a iocose manner oil
silos and ensilage. and thought the more
meal added to it the better. de spoke IN
hopeful wav If the future. believing th't
| these meetings were diffusing information,
that the course of agriculture was onward
in thu path OF progress. As usual, Mr.
Smith inturspersed his agriculture with
temperance. good morals and sharp hits AT
the follies of the age.
FRIDAY MORNING SESSION.
The association met in Weldon Hall, and
the first exercise was n talk from A. W.
Cheever of the N. E. Farmer, on "Abor-
ton in cows" The causes gwen rs the
probable ones, were accidents in slipping,
flows, strains, being hooked. mad food, AS
ergotized grasses, food PARTIALLY decayed
over eating, the drinking ice cold water
when very thirsty. Another cause which
has been suggested are fungi or bacteria.
the lowest form of animal or vegetable HE
lie read an extract showing the dangerous
character of these organisms, their infinite
power of reproduction. The injection into
the vaginal canal of the excreta of anabort
;. ing COW will often cause the trouble In the
animal so treated The aborting COW
should be isolated, and great care taken to
remove all traces of the fetus and dis
charge buried or otherwise disposed OF
beyond any possibility of contamination.
Sometimes the symptoms of the trouble
may be discovered beforehand; sometimes
it gives no sign of its coming.
At this point, His Excelency Governor
Farnham and ex Governor Smith came in,
and the latter, on being introduced by the
president, made some remarks.
He regretted the imperative call of other
duties which had prevented his attend tnce
Of this meeting, and spoke of the wide field
of usefulness before the society, and the
good he believed it was doing. The fu
ture of New England was, no doubt, Il
subject of deep interest to us all How is
New England, the seat Of culture, of civil
ization and progress, to maintain heI posi-
ton in the sisterhood OF statesp The last
census gives important facts Her repre-
sentation in congress is diminishing, while
he great west is advancing in population
New England pays sixty millions of dollars
to feed her people. Vermont sends away
two million dollars year Tor bread alone.
This very condition only widens the breach,
and we with our money are building up
the power and strength of our rival, and
fastening the time when New England
and Vermont will be less than they are To-
day. Within the memory Of men now
living, Vermont was not only self sustain
ing; she not only raised the food for her
own population, then nearly equal to what
it is to day, but exported food. To-day
Vermont raises only 81 lbs per capita OF
the flour consumed by her people. Some
here would remember of his speaking at /;
former meeting of his visit to Europe, anC
of his seeming to hear beneath the surfa
the mutterings of discomfort and the APP
preaching recklessness ofdesp,ir. To-day
Ireland stands almost on the verge of {
deluge Of blood. The oppressive and un
lust land laws have borne their leo
itimate fruit, and now Ireland stands il
open rebellion to law. while the pcasantrl
OF England are in a condition nearly as bad
En- Gland with her iron grip MY sublut
the trouble for time, but the time mus
come when the right to own land in fee
and when it comes II wide step will b
taken for the destruction of monarchia
! government. and the founding of FREE
republic, as the suffering population looI
out for-the relief to which they turn
John Bright said there was IL step bevon,
. which they must not 60" The JEWS
} jpulatiOn in whatever portion of the ylob
they may be, in their drvo'ions wors hi
I with then J - toward Jerusalem; tn
Mahomme,tan pr0strat9a mself towar
Mecca, and the Eng ish peasant turns HI
face to the west Tor The relief now vanl
u sought AT home. AS the west is populate
and developed by the thousands of easter
IL emgrants her wealth AMI power increase
n and il Vermont is not more true to herse
II the condition will be " Or>e a decade hcpt
than now. There is not now INN Issachuset
IL one-third of the acreage under cultivate
u there was forty years ago. and in Vermo
le there is not rs much AS then. In agricu
tural industries lie the power and veal
of the country. Every clement of veal
III finds its substratum there. The curse
" Eden was not 10 devote tho land to barre
us ness and sterility, but that they must lab
Ut and till it. Every man should study cul
u1 vattion in agriculture, should dign
III labor and make it honorable; stay here
10 stead of going west. Many hold pronour
ed notions of the cultivation of the soil, n
ou old ruts are hard to get out of, and nj
hu throres are received with shrug of
us creduity by a certain class who hl
e IS hardly enough interest TO try if they
III true. A source of the difficulty is that
ne farmers will not rise to what they my
NJ There is no difficulty with the soil In
Of rariop of tho s.tt,no .,,,
region Vi IHe SeltlnS sun are mines
est wealth, bonanzas. millions of gold TIN
is II story of a poor miner with nothi
'ol but his pick and hammer, wander
vi among the mountains hoping to find q
u" of those streams of wealth; too poor
ou, avail himself Of claims already ,ieyelop
,lo with hardly enough to maintain life,
AZ asleep on the bare ground under hi
, rock. When he awoke the sun was sh
-n ne, ing and he saw over his head glitter
u'u mass, and he set TO work with pick a
io- hammer to get out the precious O
Others had seen it and passed it bv, Il
others still passed by anu giboed him at
hv work, as too poor to pay. But he toied
i;I and taking the ore in "a bag on his ba
oi. carried it away to richer men to cru
~ After while he got able to purchas,
ar. secondhand stamp mill, and kept stead
ri on at his work, till now his net income
If fifty thousand dollars year There
nd farms which are like that rock, and c.
Inc tain the possibilities of like success, a
md we must work them out
Igh The ex-governor S address was warn
i9n applauded and at its close, in few gra
'ng full words, he introduced Gov. Farnhu
who said he should make no attempt