Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-01-11
AGklCULTl RAJ.
Whero TO Locate,
from the New England Farmer.l

Knowing that your opportunities for
travel and observation in different parts
of New England and the Middle States
have been much better than mine, l take
the liberty to ask what locality (outside
of eastern Massachusetts, presents in
your judgment, the best attractions to q
young farmer wishing to establish per-
manent home A location high and
healthy, sufficiently removed from the sea
coast to escape the east winds, with plen-
ty of pure spring water, good soil,
plenty of wood and timber, and q COM
munity of live, intelligent people, is what
is desired. In short, if entirely free to
choose, and with no ties to bind ard par
ticular spot, what part of the country
seems to you, on the whole, most desira-
BILE, for farmer with large family of
boys ann girls, and who must depend
upon the farm for his income?
An answer through the columns of the
New England Farmer, may, perhaps,
interest others beside
You've FARMER.
Norfolk County, Mass, Dee /, 1888.
To the above inquiry, we should have
no hesitation in naming Vermont as O
State that would afford all the desirable
conditions named, not that we would as
sumo to advise another where to locate,
or what to do, for the choice of either To-
cation or business, is something to be de-
clded very largely by the tastes of the in
dividual. We have travelled over large
portions OF New England, and somewhat
through the Middle and Southern States,
and we have yet to find single town or
school district where an intelligent, in
dustrious, thrifty and frugal family could
not procure good living, provided n bus
mess is pursued that is adapted to the
locality, and further, that the parties are
masters Of the business undertaken
Every one, however, has some choice as
TO what business or branch of business
he would follow, and supposing one is to
follow his tastes, there might be consider
able choice between different sections OF
the country. Traders in large cities, who
deal in few articles as leather, wool, OF
iron, usually prefer to locate near each
other, as they find advantages in associa.
ting. In many towns, there Is some one
leading business in which nearly all the
inhabitants are more or less interested,
as boots, shoes, bonnets, hats, jewelry,
wooden ware or furniture, and young
man or newcomer in town, will often
find better opening in the business o.
the place than he would in any other kline
of manufacturing that he might take up
There is sort of unity of feeling in sucl
places that is due to the fact that all are
engaged In the same business.
This also holds true, in measure, as
regards agriculture, and as Vermont is
more purely agricultural than either o
the other New England States, we fec
justified in naming Vermont as meeting
all tine requirements named by young
Farmer" Vermont is particularly free
from the east winds, which are so hare
upon certain constitutions, and there ar,
fewer sudden changes in the weather
while the extremes are not so far apart
the summers beng cooler, and the win
ters not so much colder as longer. Farm
ing, as we have found it, is more popula
there than in any other Eastern State
and there is much less caste than in thos
States which are largely devoted to manu-
featuring.