Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

Every observing man secs, in the East at
least, that the future Of farming depends up
on live stock. Rapidly as the towns and
cities are growing, they are utterly made
quate to supply farmers with the manure
necessary to keep their farms in high state
of cultivation. What they do supply is all
eagerly seized and appropriated by nearby
gardeners and truckers, and at rates with
which farmers cannot compete. With an ef-
fcient system of street cleaning this supply
might be largely increased, but that period
is yet some distance of. Commercial fertil-
izers have moro or less value, but are uncer-
tain as to good results, and always certain TO
cost heavily.
The common farmer, then, is obliged to
look at home fo'his fertilizers. He must have
them or sink. Stock is the best recourse,
and dairy animals in particular. There is an
unfailing demand for them and their products
at paying rates, dead or alive, young or old.
The drudgery of dairying is also greatly re-
lieved Of its worst features by the creameries
now so widely established in favorable local.
tiles. The farmer and his family need only
milk the COWS and deliver il promptly at the
factory the wife and daughters at home are
not obliged to spend their energies and
strength at churning, butteT-making, or
cheese making; the factories do it, and at a
profit to the farmer over the old system. The
taste for blooded or graded stock is spreading
among those who lately sneered at Il, and
farming is in consequence invested with a
new interest The boy or the man who adj
mires the fine stock on the farm, and likes TO
pet the animals and show them to visitors
and callers, and is delighted when he hears
them praised, and repeats to his friends what
is said after they are gone, is not in danger
of dying because of the ennUi of farm life
He turns with pleasant interest from the
cattle to something for them. He wants to
plant and cultivate so that be can keep them
we'll secure more praise, or prizes at fairs, or
the prize of good income from milk or but
ter, or cheese, or in selling them at good
prices to others who want to embark in breed
ing, or even to selling them to the butcher
when that shall become necessary. Interest
boy or a man in his work and it ceases to
be drudgery. Even the making of compost,
repulsive rs that may seem TO some, loses
most of its disagreeable features when we
think of the transforming power there is in
it, the beauty it will evolve from the soil
The "drudgery of farming" is a myth to
him who loves it and who can fail to love it
when the work is done inteligently, with
some comprehension of natures laws and
mysteries, and such appreciation as is shown
in the mute gratitude that sparkles from the
eyes of intelligent animals? The companion
far more TO be priced than that of some men
or women either, l grieve to say. Scrub
stock yet dominates on tens of thousands of
farms, but the owners can be gradually reach
ed through those patient and gradual process
es which breeders understand-good nature,
patience, and truthfulness
Fossilized old farmers may long resist what
they consider crude innovations, but grad
ual undermining all the while is going for
ward. Cattle shows, fat stock shows, fairs,
stock and agricultural publications, the talk
of the neighbors when they meet Of what
they have seen or read the wish of growing
sons to adopt improvements already in use by
others, the introduction of improved imple-
ments and machinery all are at work to sap
and mine the Gibraltar of agricultural rou-
tine, stupidity, and mulishness, and gradual
ly the outworks are falling. 1t will be a
bright day for the world, too, when agricul.
ture is shorn of its present nonsense and
takes its proper place among human avoca-
tons. That place is the first place, because
it is the most important and the noblest for
developing true men and women.-Cor.
Breeders Gazette.