Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-19
ments, poorer, sadder and wiser than now.

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PROFESSOR BREWERS ADDRESS
Professor Brewer of Yale, S.S.S., read
paper of much interest and value on 'aThe
Past and Future of Connecticut Agricul-
ture." The speaker said: Hard times are
not local, bat cover the whole country.
The disturbances in New England have
been enormously enhanced by the attitude
of the national government towards immi-
grafton, which excludes skilled labor that
comes under contract, on the ground that
it would compete with labor already here.
Agriculture is most distinctively an Amer
lean vocation in New England, yet the
government invites immigration in this
line and offers immigrants farm as a free
gift, If they will only come and start in
competition with our farmers. Fortu-
nately for our institutions as we'll as for
our citizens the good lands are now about
all given away and bonanzas in free farms
are few, and reaction is now being felt.
Western competitors to New England
farmers now feel the effects of over pro-
| duction. The speaker cited the case of
Oklahoma and the rush there last year to
pre-empt lands. He graphically described
| tbs torrent of invading hordes of land
spectators and others that poured into
Oklahoma, and their fierce struggles among
| one another when they got there.
Some of the very newspapers that were
| eloquent over that .srush for homes had
also touchingly pathetic homilies on the
abandoned farms Of New England" It
| is interesting to see how the very men who
have been helped so bountifully by Uncle
Sam, who have been fed with more than
the mere crumbs that have fallen from
his table, are now turning to the same
sources for more help. They ask to be
made prosperous by legislation. One set
wants the government to buy and coin un-
| wants more greenbacks; another asks the
government to build elevators and buy
and handle the grain; another wants the
| government to lend money on land mort
cages; another asks to establish a special
branch of the sub-treasury to advance
| money on growing crops, a sort of grand
farm pawnbroke etc., etc Almost
anything rather than come back to a
| square competition with eastern farmers.
| New England was not settled as the
| West. She offers no speculative attrac-
| tions, but to the young farmer who now
haste buy land the chances are as good, if
| not better, here than at the west. Free
pasturage for range cattle is about used
up. and hereafter we shall be able to COM
| pete on more equal conditions We surely
| could have made money raising cattle here
in the past if the government had fur
| nished the feed. The distressed cattle men
from the free pastures of the west are
now clamoring at Washington for help.
They are suggesting all sorts of congress
sional remedies. All are agreed that the
era of speculative cattle raising is gone
forever, and cannot but feal that this
| means slow but sure return to profitable
cattle growing again to our Connecticut
pastures.
| CLOSING PAPERs-AN EXCITING DEBATE AT
| THE WIND UP.
| ROCKVILLE, Dec. 18.-This, the closing
day of the convention of the State Agr:-
cultural society, was fully as interesting as
the others. This morning lecture was
given by William R. Sessions, secretary of
the Massachusetts board of agriculture, on
"Ontlook of the Situation" and s'The Far
mer as Citizen" This afternoon DR.. W..
| II. Conn 1ectured, his subject being "The
Fermentations of Milk and How to Pre-
vent Them" Tonight the convention
will come to an end The convention has
been the most successful and interesting
ever held by the board.
A motion was made to ask congress to
give the money which is annually appro-
| priated by that body and witch is divided
between the Yale Scientific school and the
Storrs school to be given to the Storr's
school and not divided. The motion was
Daasad after a hot debate