Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

, receipts if cared for by one who knows
/ how 10 make them the most profitable
| would raise grain enough for the
J poultry, corn and India wheat mostly
and enough with the help of the milk
} OF the two cows make just pork enough
for the family. There will be a great
temptation for the young couple to use
their surplus money for high bred ami
mails, nice carpets. a piano or incuba-
tor, horses, carriages and sleighs with
fixings, harnesses, moving machines,
horse rakes, for fifty different patents,
for outdoor and indoor use, that the
glib agents want to sell and tell you
that you cant get along without and all
such like expensive luxuries. But shun
these things as you would fire until,
say, at the age of 35 you have the farm
paid for and cash in hand to buy such
as you desire.
Suppose all the young farmers in our
J State should decide to resist these temp
tations and stamina enough to carry
out this decision. What a change
would come The jeremiads, the lam
entations, the bewailings and complain
ings of hard times would cease as if by
magic. The deep lines Of trouble in
the faces OF men and women would be
smoothed out, and they would come to
the conclusion that ''lite is worth liv-
ing Happy change | suppose most
/ people will put this supposition aside
with shrug Of the shoulders. But it
is worthy Of close consideration.
Debts will spur man TO make great
efforts sometimes. But debts, person.
al, municipal or national, are not cal
culated to make man in any capacity
happy. "Give us neither poverty nor
riches" is desirable condition, and
the man who lives without either is Ger
tainly in the great majority and IN an
enviable state. 1t is condition de-
voutly to be wished. Shun debt and
deny yourself for few years and you
will soon be in condition to crafty any
reasonable desire or wish. The farm
er who owns his homestead in fee sim
pie and owes no store debts, who has
health and wife who is helpmeet,
and children who follow the good ex-
ample of their parents, is the most in
dependent man on Gods footstool. Ver-
mont was once noted for its numbers
of this kind of men. But in this .'high
blooded, pure bred age, of Jersey, De-
Won, Holstein, Ayrshire, Durham and
Buffalo cattle, Meriro. Cotswold, Lei
cestershire, Southdown and half doz-
en- other down sheep; Essex, Berkshire,
Suffolk, Red Rock, Chester, etc. hogs |
patent bee hives, clothes lines, milking
machines, horse-clippers, sheep shear
ing machines, and a thousand other de-
vices, anti-fat and anti-lean medicines,
lotions to make the mustache crow
young and the skin of the young lady |
fair and ten thousand other patent med
icines for every other i'll flesh is heir to,
what change has rushed upon US
Our state decreasing in population
our people crying of hard times--our
newspapers, giving us column after
column of remedies for these hard times
no two, however, giving the same
remedies or holding to any one remedy |
long. Debts forcing farmers to give
up the old farms for which they have
toiled long and hard. The change is
not pleasant one to see or think of. |
Can change come for the better? II
believe II can and will-the people are
waking up and getting ready for it,
they alone can make the change, and
nobody else can do it for them, not ev-
en- the breeders of iegistered stock who
with money not earned by honest and
steady hard work on the farm set them
selves up as our guides and mentors.
But partial return to old fashioned
methods of farming at the time when
1000, 900 sheep grazed on our hillsides
viii do it. A cut down of the exrens-
es and Injuries TO near the old times
comfort and happiness will
do it. Sitting out from the numberless
new things that have ceme upon US
patents, inventions, breeds of animals,
ways OF farming and living, all that
tend to luxury and expense, leaving
few of the really valuable and paying
ones win help do it. Cutting down the
salaries and fees of state and county
and town officers viii help do it. There
is good enough in Vermont and her
farms to make as happy, as prosperous,
as Independent a set of farmers as in
any other place in the world. Pay for
your farms from the farms themselves,
and not be loading the mails with
checks to the amount of millions of dol
lars annually for things raised and man.
somewhere else, and VT. will
again take the first rank for thrift, and
health, happiness and independence.
For thrift Vermont viii lead the States, !
As once she did at earlier dates II