Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-07-05
4 Rambling Talk.

IN tue TOdu dSdlu' Ahu Us w PAS'
along various matters attract attention.
and first, the crops of the Genesee valley
are not much more forward than in YER
mont. Corn, potatoes and spring grain
are mnch the same, except some market
garden patches which are earlier. Near
Syracuse we saw potatoes in blossom, and
Probably the beetles were in blossom also,
Tor he owners were after them, some with
u broom and = pan, brushing them of;
another sprinkling some fluid with wisp
hr"um, and one man busting on some
whi.c powder. So the beetles seem to be
hattled with about the same weapons
along here rs in Vermont, and probably
with about the same success.
Winter wheat stands well with the
promise of Il lirst.class crop, is fully
healed, and will be fit TO cut in about
two weeks. Winter rye is also well up,
and we saw where man hns turned under
:, heavy growth of it, In a young orchard,
and was rolling down the burrows. The
car did not stop for me to ask him what
he was intending to put on.
Another thing we saw which we have
never seen in Vermont, thank fortune-a
WON an in q gang ofmen taking her regular
row with them hoeing corn. There were
six men in this gang and one woman. In
her gang in the same field were eleven
mcn. and the field as level as barn floor,
and depending mainly on hand culture,
we should think.
Al another place we saw women weed
ing large field of onions; down on their
knees poking along as natural as life
Wei, we suppose that is one phase Of
wuman's rights" but We don't like it,
ali the same, though if they like it perhaps
VIC have no business to complain.
y, hc way, we wonder how it happen
rl inst when man and woman first took
up tao job Of running the business OF the
wol', and have followed it down along,
that the woman took the house work-thc
cooking and making and mending and
washing dishes-instead Of blowing and
hocing and pulling beans.
Come to think Of it, that's an idea We
would like to have some Of the long haired
men or short haired women clucidate. Il
can't he natural adaptation alone, for VIZ
have seen young men who parted thcii
hair in the middle and their name on one
<ii whom we thought might be properly
u,ijjhd in wrestling with dish cloth, o.
daiiAly darninS stocking. But will
The present condition Of mundane progress
this has not much to do with the hay crop
witch promises fairly out this way IL
York State" though grass is rather thin
in odmowings. But We wish 10 be pu
OF record in Vermont as disbeliever il
what we have seen stated in some Of thu
papers of the state, that good hay crol
Is a'ready assured"
We wish we were half as well assure,
HAT we should ever get seven dollars ant
half thai man owes us as we are tia
lio hay crop of Vermont is to be a yer,
l.4ht one. In old mowings the grass
hin, and in new stock the clover has bee
kj.cd ont in many places; and you JUS
rcmember we tell you a light hay crop.
The Indications are of an abundant GRO
al fruit, and there will be apples TO ca
aud give to the COWS and pigs, and max
ciler--for vinegar.
Just now we see from the car windoN
IT, we write herd of cows and som
b rises in the same pasture, which has
l,w, marshy place in it. and the COWS ar
1T on the highland and the horses n
( adips contentedly in the marsh. Coz
c'usion: That when you have put in
pasture all of one kind of stock it wi
carry, you can still add some of anoth(
hind and have il do well. while the othe
viii do rs we'll as before.
The curse of foul seed is one which
very year becoming heavier and wid
.pread. We have seen some, fields of sprir
grain which were perfectly yellow wit
hale blossoms, though perhaps it was ka
they were raising for the eastern seed
men.
Last evening while waiting for a ira
to be made up we sat on a bench beside
swtchman's shanty. In the window sbo
us was man lately from Albany whc
The strikes were in progress, and lie v
relating the beauties Of the situation to |
listener. ooh, yes, you ought to
there it is such fun, The boys Just mar
about the streets four abreast. They cor
across men working they say what a
you gotting;' they answers fifteen cen
twenty cents an hour They says, DO
we're on stake. Just Join u.s. and til
drops hammers and everything, and &C
in. They goes home aud puts on tn
hest clos and joins in, and has nothing
do Lut walk about streets. And some
the fellows has families and nothin
thor days wages to depend on for a livi
but the boys says, all right, you Join
and we'll tend TO the family and Il
rolls in maybe half barrel o -four to
ould woman, and bushel o pratics z
some bacon and tay, and the ould man
nothin' to do but walk the streets with
BOYS lust, and dressed in his hest. Oh,
SIGH fun, and you ought to be there ;
sec. And they were only gettn' do
and half day" And barring the oa
and reducing the lingo TO United Stat
talk as nearly as consistent that was
talk We know nothing OF the merits
this strike. We do know strikers hay
surplus laid by amounting to about sc
dollars for each member of the union.
few weeks Idleuess will see that surplu
surplus no longer, but spent to
people in idlcuess, and the tradesmen
have the money and the strikers the
pericnce, and whether it will be wortl
them what ii costs, time will show
peneral yav yn NAV say We do not Fl