Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25


is his equal as to property. The former
is more active and prudent. If he is too
poor to possess improved farm machin-
cry, he hires them, and all his tools, even
to the smallest, are of the best pattern
and material. In small household de-
tail, that of coffee-mills, Herr Senior
notices the fact that in Germany the
coffee-mill is still held between the
knees, while in America it is screwed to
the wall, thus saving half the labor. In
Germany it generally takes three men to
shoe horse while in America one is suf-
ficient. The apron used by German
workmen impedes them in climbing and
even walking; the American apron is slit
up the middle to the hight of the legs, and
the two halves are bound round the
ankle, which is both more comfortable
and better protects the clothes. In some
parts of Germany the laborer eats five
times day, and during the harvest
time takes even six meals, and
this habit alone will enable the
American who eats only three times
daily, but better, to compete sue
cessfully with the German. The Amer
lean drinks no brandy while at work; he
is not lazy as soon as his masters back
is turned, and being more respected,
respects himself more than the German
workman The best workman in America
has often been very Indifferent one in
Germany, which is owing to the improved
social position in which he finds himself.
In activity and excellence the Ameri-
can farmers wife is much better than
her fame in many a travelling authors
mouth. she does not work SO hard as
her German sister in the same rank of
life; she does not trouble herself about
the cattle, neither does she herself fetch
the wood, coal, and water. But, never
theless, she is pattern of a housekeeper.
The good arrangements of kitchen, and
stove, and all sorts of time and labor
saving machines afford an ease and
facility of work unknown in German
households. The American is not only
clever in his housekeeping in the treat
ment of his work people, and in his bust
ness, but also in the choice of the pro-
ducts which he cultivates. The same
kind of moors that on the North Sea
coasts of Germany are considered value
less and unredeemable are planted, on
the coasts of Massachusetts and New
Jersey, with cranberries, which yield ten
times as much profit as corn grown on
the richest soil. There are limestone
mountains in Germany that miserably
support a poverty stricken population.
The same species of country in Vermont
and Maine grows forests of the sugar
bearing maple, which yearly yield 49,
100000 pounds of sugar and 1000, 900
gallons of treacle, both of excellent
quality.
The cooperation of American farmers
and merchants has been of brilliant re-
sult-two classes which in Germany are
utterly careless of each others advan-
tage. The American merchant informs
the farmers what agricultural products
are most in demand in the markets of the
world, and how they must be cultivated
and packed in order to be rendered
capable of expectation. The merchants
know that they can import only when
successful export puts their fellow citi-
zens in a position to buy. The Ameri-
can chambers of commerce regard the
opening and securing of the worlds
market to agriculturists as their first
task. There exists in America numer-
Gus companies and societies in which
scientific men, merchants and farmers,
each adhering strictly to his own depart
ment, cooperate unanimously and sue
cessfully. German agricultural socie-
ties certainly reverence science, but they
speak too much of learned things, of
salts and acids, and the peasants cannot
understand them. They should seek,
says Herr Senior, to facilitate the sale
and purchase of agricultural products,
which are now effected in q slow and
clumsy manner, and cost much time and
money. North Americans can teach the
Germans much of the unprecedented,
bold and untiring sef-help which renders
a people independent of all state assist
ance.
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