The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-29


equal action on all their contents before
the heat and moisture has passed off.
A good farmer can get profit out of
composing very often.
THIS is the kind of stuff we often see
in the newspapers: There is not
farm in New Hampshire or Vermont
that can pay more than the interest and
taxes. Let a young man without any
capital hire two or three thousand dol
lars, buy farm, stock it, and from the
products of the farm exclusively, with
out any off branch of business, such as
numbering, hauling wood, buying and
selling cattle from distant market, and
he will not live long enough to more
than pay the interest at four per cent
and taxes, and he will have to live as
close as the western farmers at that.
A man on a New England farm has got
to work all his life, and when he is
about sixty years old, he will be in
he had left the farm free from all in
cumbrance at the start" Our rural
readers know well that there is not
farming town in Vermont in which
there are not evidences of the falsehood
of such statements as these. We doubt
if there is a single such town in New
England where there are not men who
are well off, and have made everything
they have by plain legitimate farming.
Thousands of New England farmers
have money at interest, and are free
from debt.
THE Rural Ne,o Workers. views
upon the subject of agricultural fairs
square exactly with ours. Speaking of
one in New York Cat Hornellsvlle), it
says: "This has been a splendid fair.
In seeking for the cause, we find, first,
high moral standard. Any man can
bring his family to this exhibition
without exposing them to the tempta-
tons usually found at such places.
The managers were offered $4,000 for
the privilege of selling liquor on the
grounds, but not drop, even of beer,
could be found. There was no gam
bling in any shape. After attending
other fairs, where one had to guard
against 'drunks,' toughs, swindlers,
etc., and was annoyed by clamorous
fakirs, this fair seemed little less than
an elysium." There is no good reason
why all our fairs should not win like
endorsement by respectable people.
The claim that they must be wicked in
order to draw in the people is made by
the men who expect to profit by the
wickedness, and is gross and unwar-
ranted insult to the people who are eX-
pected to sustain them by their exhib-
its and their attendance. If the good
people on our farms would show little
more backbone in this matter, the
moral and material gain would be
greatly enhanced and a needed reform
promoted. -
BROTHER CHEEvER of the NeaC Eng
land Farmer pays the following truth
full tribute to the character of the farm
ers of our state. Mr.. Cheever's regard
for our state and people is, we hardly
need say, fully reciprocated: "Patriot-
ism, the love of home and of native
land is something real in state like
Vermont where the people are largely
farmers and own the land they cultivate.
1t was not in Vermont nor in the rural
portions of any of the states, but in
the cities, that the people rebelled
against the draft in the time of the ma
TONS peril. Country life and farm
ownership nurtures patriotism; and if
Vermont people have on the average
greater love of home and country than
the people of some other localities, it
is due largely to the influences and sur
roundings with which they have been
blessed. A great many Vermont boys
have left their homes to live elsewhere
or to do other than farm work, but /
never yet rode through the state in
company with native-bo Vermonter
who tired of descanting on the richness
of the river valleys, the beauties of the
green fields or the grandeur of the
mountain heights. Vermonters love
Vermont, and that is why l so highly
regard them. But not all are happy,
even there. Human nature, like ami
NAL nature, is very much the same the
world over. The best-bred herds and
focks have inferior as well as superior
individuals among them"
THE low price of butter during the
past summer has given dairymen the
blues all over the country. 1t has not
been limited TO the eastern farmers, by
any means, and by all we read in the