Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-03
Iieu,.-Coy. FuII.r,, Addre.,.

Horace Greeley said many years ago,
$50 west, young man, and grow up with
the country But the forests of Michigan,
the prairies of Illinois and the plains of
Kansas have become peopled. Even to the
Pacific slope Eastern energy and skill has
asserted itself, and the openings Greeley
pointed out have become so well filled that
the minds of the thoughtful are turning to
the older states to find in them most desir
able openings. Instead of Nermonters be-
ing engaged in the formation of New Eng
land colonies in the wilderness of the west,
the same energy and effort put forth to
build up farming and mechanical industries
here at home will, in the long run, produce
far greater, more lasting and satisfactory
results. The holding of public meetings,
the creation of feverish state of excite
ment and longing for adventure in the
minds of the younger people, the fabulous
stories of speculation and sudden wealth
find sequel in u few years, of suffering
and priyation, of sickness and restitution,
revealing the longings of the heart for the
days of comparative comfort and luxury
enjoyed among the green hills and valleys
of Vermont.
The most luxurious fields of the Old
World in early spring become scared and
burned in summer. The vast prairies of
the West, the wonderful lands of the Paci-
tic slope, become parched and dead from
intense heat early in the season but a far
different sight greets ones vision in this
state. Our hill farms send forth the sweet
grasses, and our meadows are fragrant
with growing crops all the season through.
such as are so much sought after by the
herdsman Until the coming of the snow
there are none so good as ours New Eng
land ranks all the states of the Union in
the percentage of highgrade cattle, save
four. There is no state in the Union where
the loss of cattle by disease, stress of wealth
err, and other causes, is less than in Yer.
mont.
The yield Of corn in Vermont in 1885,
was 365 bushels per acre, while it was only
30 in Illinois and "a. | in Ohio The value
OF farm products of the improved lands OF
Vermont is greater per acre than in New
York or Iowa, and outside of New England
Is only eNcelled by Kansas The wages of
farm hands is eNcelled only by California,
the New England states leading the rest of
the nation, Riding over the hills of Wind
ham county with one who for 20 years hat
lived in China, it was said that with sucl
springs of water and such brooks wonder
full crops ought to he raised | have n,
sort of sympathy with the few croaker,
who are trying to build up some other sec
ton because they see a few abandoned
farms, or because our schools are not a.
good AS they were, or because some on,
somewhere outside of Vermont has made /
good bargain and because some one some
where inside of Vermont has made a pool
bargain Let me urge you 10 develop Yer
mont specialties, and let Florida orang,
groves, South Carolina rice fields, Georgi,
cotton crops, Kentucky coal mines. Texa
sheep ranches, Virginia tobacco crops, Mon
tana cattle ranges, New England Dakotl
colonies alone, and keep out of Wall-stree
stock speculations. | do not believe in tn,
attempt to raise every breed of stock, iron
the mongrel Kanuck colt to the Jumb,
horse that is "A cross between a camel and
mule. IL was great calamity to the far
mers of Vermont when they allowed them
selves to be bedeviled into abandoning tn,
old Morgan breed of horses for mongre
breed that developed speed only in tn,
growth of ring bone and SPAWN, and o
size only in the amount of loss incurred
and of strength only in ability to haul q
mortgage. Vermont is better than Ken
lucky 10 raise horses.
After referring 10 the magnitude of TIA
dairyug industry of the country aud tn
Importance of the relation which Vernon
sustains to it, the speaker urged the estah