St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-06-27
Gbe Californian.
Iohnrburr. Thur.da,. aune %. 1850
A TALK TO VERMONTERS.
Good Words for Vermont and Good AG
vice TO Her Sons and Daughters.

A TALK TO VERNONTERS.
Good Words for Vermont and Good Ad-
vice TO Her Sons and Daughters.
Atan agricultural meeting at Pom
fret lately Col George W. Hooker of
Brattleboro madean address of more
than usual merit and good sense.
We copy from it =
The great failure of Vermont farm
life is owing to failure to care for
health. Breathe pure air by means
of good ventilation. Keep open Win
dows and do away with screens; the
flies are for purpose as they are
scavengers In the fall do not fill the
cellar half full of vegetables and then
bank the house air tight so that the
only ventilation from the cellar IS
through the rooms where we live.
As soon as vegetables are placed IN
the cellar their decomposition COM
menceS There should be ventilating
pipes running from the cellar out of
doors Beware of the well as it is
the great breeding ground of fevers.
Be regular In eating and use the same
regularity i'll feeding stock Do not
compel stock to drink swamp or i'm
pure water any more than you would
drink it yourself
If every barrel of flour could be
kept out of Vermont for ten years at
the end of that time there would not
be a doctor within the state. Do
away with pastry and live on meat,
potatoes and corn meal bread 365
days in the year. Do not eat during
the night or feed animals Expert
ments have proven that rs per cent
of hay fed during the daytime is
worth 100 per cent fed at night.
Keep a sound, well bred brood
mare and raise colt before you have
any idea it will trOt. No hill farm in
New England should be without
sheep, if they do not pay iii cash they
will in fertilizing the land. Nothing
is more profitable to the farmer than
hogs, if they are properly kept and
fed They should be kept clean and
fed on wholesome food and not al
lowed to wa1lOw in mud and filth to
contract disease to be transmitted
to the human system in the meats.
Let every farmer keep a few sheep
for early lambs, Il few hogs, one good
brood mare and then make a little
butter and Vermont will become one
of the richest states i'll the Union.
Our little state does not make as
great a showing upon the map as
many others of the sisterhOOd but
she is not to be despised. She holds
possibilities of happiness for her chill
dren as great as any state in the
Union Within her limits lies
stretch of country which for diversi-
fed beauty asks odds of no other.
In all our broad land there is no fair
er state, but she cOmpels us to go in
to partnership with her and work
for all we get. Where there is energy
and care the snowhakes of winter be
come grasses, grains and fruits, and
each year our barns ache with their
fullncss. Winning Il living is like q
campaign, it calls out qualities of
greatness. VermOnt'S best crop is
her men and women. They are not
content with enough to eat and wear
and place to sleep. Educat ton is
as necessary for our boys and girls
as are pantaloons and frocks. The
school teachers place is a place of
honor, for Vermont believes in SOW
ing carefully and literally for her |
crop of brains But her brains are |
well tinctured with morality and re-
ligiOn While we have laws and |
courts and the machinery of justice | |
know of no place where for so many
people, they are SupertiuOus. There
are SoT1c places where some laws are
dead letters, but we make laws dead
letters by superiority to them. Our
children learn the moral law with
their arithmetic and are taught to
worship as they are taught to read.
We have Il soil that pays in liberal
fruitfulness for all toll spent upon it.
We have people strong in vIrtuOus
instincts, pr1Z1ng education and re-
ligion as essentials, full of energy in
every matter that touches the gener-
al welfare. Why should not the flu
ture prosperity of Vermont be sure?
| claim that in the s1SterhOOd of
states, there is none that offers OPP
portunities of happiness and general
prosperity and cOntentment, greater
than does Vermont There NAV be
places where there are greater indi
vidual fortunes, but few great for
tunes are not the wealth of the peO-
pie. There is no place in which
wealth Is more evenly and equitably
distributed. We are rich because we
have no poor. Every man has, or
can have, enough for his needs, and
enough and contentment are more
than opulence. The great end of life
isnot money, but assuming gOOdly
share of physical comfort, true man
hood, noble character, that state is
best which produces the most manly
men, for these, in the last resort, are
the power and pride of every nation.
There are some places which are eX-
cellent to emigrate from, but Yer
mont IS not one of them. She holds
for her sons possibilities and happi-
ness and usefulness greater than
those of large cities or even the great
West. Her resources, far from being
exhausted. have scarcely yet begun
to be intelligently and Systematically
developed. Capital and brains work
ing together here will yield a return
as large and much Surer than in any
Ell Dorado of which we vainly dream
Go West? No. Stick to your own
soil. Root yourselves in it as our
native trees are rooted. With fideli-
tv to Vermont among her sons, fdel-
ity equal to her wit and energy, there
can be before her only a great and
glorious prosperity
PRESERVE THE FORESTS.
The first cause of the COnemaugh
river flood is reckless forest destruc-
ton For many years we have beeu