Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-06
Lieut.-Gov. Fuller's A ddreSs Before
Vermont Dairymen.

| Montpelier, Jan. 10:
| Mr. President Permit me to con-
gratulate the Dairymen's Association
upon their very fattering exhibit of
| dairy products. Your exhibition has
brought together the results of the
efforts of many in many communities,
emphasizing in marked degree the
prominence and extent of this, the
| largest branch of the leading industry
of the state and nation. 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 assert
ed itself, and the openings Greeley
pointed out have become SO we'll filled
that the minds of the thoughtful are
turning to the older states to find in
them most desirable openings. In
stead of Vemonters being engaged in
| the formation of New England colo
| nies in the wilderness of the West,
the same energy and effort put forth
to build farming and mechanical in
dustries here at home will ,in the long
| run, peoduce far greater, more last
| ing and satisfactory results. The
holding of public meetings, the crea-
ton of feverish state of excitement
and longing for adventure in the
minds of younger people, the fabu-
lous stories of speculation and sudden
wealth, find a sequel in few years,
of suffering and privation, of sickness
and desttution, revealing the long
ings of the heart for the days of COM
parative comfort and luxury enjoyed
among the green hills and valleys of
Vermont.
vERMoNT's SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES.
The most luxurious fields of the
Old World in early spring become
scared and burned in summer. The
vast prairies of the West, the won
derful lands of the Pacific slope be-
come parched and dead from intense
heat early in the season, but far
different sight greets ones vision in
this state. Our bill 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 herdsmen.
Until the coming of the snow there
are none so good as ours. New Eng
land ranks all of the states of the
Union, in the percentage of high
grade cattle save four. There is no
state in the Union where the losses
of cattle by disease, stress of wealth
er and other causes is less than in
Vermont. 1t is fifty per cent greater
in New York, Pennsylvania, Michi-
gan, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota
and Wisconsin; it is one hundred
per cent greater in Virginia, Iowa and
Nebraska; and it is one hundred and
fifty per cent greater in Arkansas,
Tennessee and New Mexico; it is
three hundred per cent greater in
South Carolina it is three hundred |
and fifty per cent greater in Georgia,
Alabama and California it is four
hundred per cent greater in Florida
and Mississippi; it is four hundred
and fifty per cent greater in Louis
lana. Five-sixth of all damaged |
corn is found north of the Ohio river
and west of Pennsylvania. The
yield of corn in Vermont in 1880 was
36.5 bushels per acre, while it was
only 36.1 in Illinois, and 34.1 in
Ohio. The value of farm products
of the improved lands in Vermont is
greater per acre than in New York
or Iowa, and outside of New Eng
land is only excelled by Kansas.
There is no enterprise in the land
more thoroughly advertised and per-
sistently doomed than the orange in
dustry of the South. Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stoves orchard has been adj
vertised and written about, pushed
and talked of, doomed with louder
guns than many of the industries
in this association do
not think it would be a very rash
statement If | should say exceeding
the value of many of the best farms
in Vermont-and yet we read in the
report of the commissioner of agri-
culture for 1884 that it is doubtful if
one in four make orange-raising prof
liable. Col. Sellers builded better
than he knew, when, in the ''Gilded
Age he told the story of his mar
velous eye-water scheme. The wages
of farm hands is excelled only by
California, the New England states
leading the rest of the nation. Rid
ing over the hills of Windham county
with one who for 20 years had lived
in China,it was said with such springs
of water and such brooks wonderful
crops ought to be raised. While |
admit we stand in need of but little
there is a wealth of pppor-
tunity and material running to waste
at our very doors to which we give
too little heed. | have no sort of
sympathy with the few croakers that
are trying to build up some other sec
tion because they see few abandon
ed farms, or because our schools are
not as poor as they were, or because
some one somewhere outside of Yer=