Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-03-27
Why Go WeAIf

W. W. Holden, in an article in the Watch.
man under this title, gives such testimony in
favor of Vermont as hundreds of others might
give, who, like him, have tried both the
West and Vermont:
What earthly reason can anyone give for
leaving Vermont and going West? am one
among many who have tried the western
country, and am back In Vermont, satisfied
to live and die here, believing that it offers
inducements as great, if not greater, than
does the great West know that if the west
ern farmers INDUCED themselves in as many
Injuries, sported az much style, and wasted
as much money and time in knicknacks as do
the farmers in Vermont, they could not get
living. Compare the buildings upon the
farms of Vermont with those in the West 1t
is no uncommon thing for an ordinary Yer
mont farmer to build $4,000 or $4,000 barn,
and many Of their houses and outbuildnes
are places fit for king TO live in. Many
Vermont farmers dress es well, and so do Their
wives and children, as the presidents of the
United States and their families, and many
farmers drive as good team as princes and
mobiles of foreign lands ever sat behind. If
you doubt it, attend church some Sunday in
country village in Vermont and mark the
contrast between the NICE sleek horses silver.
plated harnesses, and the covered bupRies
with the coal teams that the same class of far
mers go to church with in a country village in
the West. l would not be understood that
every farmer in Vermont lives in palace, or
that every one sports fancy turnout but l
would be understood there is no state in the
Union, and no place under heaven where the
farming people deny themselves less of the
comforts and Injuries of life than in Vermont;
of the houses and barns built upon the farms
within the last ten years, those clapboarded
and painted are the rule and not the excep.
ton. But the man with limited means will
say, That may be all true, but must 90
where the land is cheap" That is lust what
every young man ought to do who wishes TO
start In life for himself with little money.
and there is no place in the world where a
man can get 80 good a start with SO little
money as in Vermont
There have been farms recently sold here
in Northheld, with 100 acres of good land, for
$500, with good, comfortable buildings,
which did not cost when new less than $1,000
and while they are run down somewhat.
they are comfortable and handy, with water
running at house and barn plenty of timber
land for the wants of the farm as pretty a
location as anyone could ask railroad (Cen-
trail Vermont) running within so rods OF the
house two aud one-half miles to depot the
same distance from churches, high school.
stores by the score, a good market for every.
thing raised on the farm, saw mills, Rrist
mills, repair shops of every description good
district school not more than 100 rods from
the house, and everything that could aid a
man in being comfortable and happy. There
are just such chances to buy hone in most
OF the towns in Vermont-comforlablyf fenced
and everything in shape, SO that any man
WIN health and enterprise can start 10 life
with the best of prospects