The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-02-16
NUMBER 4
LET. GOVERNOR FULLER,s AID
DRESS.

e LET. GOVERNOR FULLER,s AD
| DRESS.
Horace Greeley said, many years ago
e Go vest. young mar, and grow up with
the country But the forests of Michi-
!. gan, the prairies of Illinois and the
plains of Kansas have become peopled
Even to the Pacific slope Eastern energy
e and skill has asserted itself, and the
a openings Greeley pointed out have be
come so well filled that the lids of the
thoughtful are turning to the older
States to find in them most desirable
t openings. Instead of Vermonters being
engaged III 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 mechani-
cal 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 excitement and
longing for adventure in the minds of
the younger people, the fabulous stories
OF speculation and sudden wealth, find
a sequel in few years, of suffering and
privation, of sickness and destitution.
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
Pacific slope, become parched and dead
from the intense heat early in the sea-
son; but far different sight greets one s
vision in this State. Our hill farms send
forth the sweet grasses. and our mead
ows 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 is none SO
good as ours. New England ranks all
the states of the Union in the percentage
OF high grade cattle, save four. There
is no state IN the Union where the loss
of cattle by disease, stress of weather,
and other causes, is less than in Yer
mont.
The yield of corn in Vermont in 1880
was 36.5 bushels per acre, while it was
only 3G.1 in Illinois and 34.1 in Ohio
The value of farm products of the i'm.
proved lands of Vermont is greater per
acre than IN New York or Iowa and out.
side of New England is only excelled by
Kansas. The wages of farm hands is
eXcelled 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 twenty
years had lived in China, it was said
that with such springs of water and
such brooks wonderful crops ought to
be raised. have no sort of sympathy
with the few croakers who are trying to
build up some other section because they
see few abandoned farms, or because
our schools are not as good as they
were, or because some one somewhere
outside of Vermont has made a good
bargain and because some one some
where inside of Vermont has made a |
poor bargain. Let me urge you to de-
yelop Vermont specialties, and let Fori.
da orange groves, South Carolina rice
fields, Georgia cotton crops, Kentucky
coal mines, Texas sheep ranches, VIr.
ginia tobacco crops. Montana cattle
ranges, New England Dakota colonies
alone, and keep out of Wall street spec
ulations. l do not believe in the attempt
TO raise every breed of stock, from the
mongrel Kanuck colt to the Jumbo
horse that is a cross between camel and
mule. 1t was great calamity to the
farmers of Vermont when they
allowed themselves to be bedeviled
into abandoning the old Morgan breed
of horses for a mongrel breed that de-
veloped speed only in the growth of
ring7bone and spawn, and of size only
in the amount of loss incurred, and of
strength only in ability to haul mort
gage. Vermont is better an Kentucky
to raise horses.
After referring to the magnitude of
the dairying industry of the country
and the importance of the relation
which Vermont sustains to it,the speak.
er urged the establishment of a bureau of
farming statistics and of a department
for the prevention of the adulteration of
food products. On this latter subject he
said
One Of the main causes of the depres.
sion in dairy products is the great adul-
teration in butter and cheese, in the
former mainly ny the use of oleomar-
garine, which has lowered the price of
cows at least $40 per head is running the
health of the people and has reduced the
income of farmers millions of dollars
While our State has law to protect the
public it should go farther and compel
license to be taken out. hold in my
hand circular giving the names Of diff /,
ferent poisens named IN the United |
States patents for the manufacture of
this vile stuff: Sugar of lead, saltpetre.
nitrate Of potassa, sulphuric acid, car
bonIc acid. castor oil, chalk, oil of sun
flower seeds, chlorate of potash, perox-
ide of magnese, nutrIc acid and forty
others besides. The Boston market in the |
main controls Vermont products, and do
you know that the inspector Of milk and
milk products ani butter in that city
has sworn before the United States Sen.
ate committee that he was in the pay OF
the oleomargarine manufacturers and
dealers; that he had sent out three or
four hundred notices to dealers in he
city of Boston and did not know wheth |
er they were complying with the law or
not? Let me give you statement taken
from the specification Of patent No. .3O6,- |
324, Oct.T, 1884. which form seventy
five per cent of the manufactured pro.
duct
Il first fuse together in an iron pot or
pan the following ingredients in about
the proportion named-ten pounds of