Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-01-10

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CITIZENS RETURNING FROM THE COUNTRY
RURAL ESSAYS
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IzENS RETURNING FROM THE COUNTRY.
FROM RURAL ESSAYS.

perhaps the of of the best
the country The buys everyhng the country
everything To live your estate be it
thousand your milk butter and eggs raise
chickens and gather strawberries with nature to keep
the instead and that is some
thing like rational life: and than RATIONAL it must be cheap
So argues the citizen about retiring only to enjoy his on
dgnitah but make thousand dollars of his income
duce him of the comforts of life than thousand did before
Well he goes into the He buys farm run down with
poor and bad lage) He builds house with his
own ignorance master-buder,
cheated oundy by those who take advantage of this mastery
ignorance bricks he repairs old
house the full of a and has unsatisfactory dwell
forever afterwards He undertakes light farming and knowing
nothing practical economy husbany every buse of
that he costs him the price of buhel and halt in the
market Used to neat and orderly condition of his prem
disguised with old lettering fences half drained fields and
pastures and employs all the borng force of the neigh
borhood put his grounds in good order
Now there objection to all this for its sake On the
contrary good buildings good and rich pasture fields
especially delight in the country What the that
the country smiling aspect its citizen
begins look serious and unhappy? Why that country life
does satisfy and him? Is the country which all the
poets and philosophers have celebrated the Arcadia of this
worlds the country treacheros Is cheat and do seed
time and harvest against the mind of the retired
citizen?
Alas! Of money. Everything be a
of money nowadays The country life of the old world
poets and cheap The country life of repub
lie dear for the good of the many that labor should be
high and high labor that makes country life heavy and opps
i've men-ony a balance increasing year
after year. the wrong side of the ledger Here the of
trouble and dissatisfaction in what may be called the
country life of gentlemen citizens this country
don't pay Land is cheap, is beautiful the country
healthy and all these conspre to draw weodo citizen into
the country But labor is dear experience dearer and
experiments improbable crops the dearest of all and
citizen friend, have said in the situation of who
has delightful voyage, smooth and with
cheerful ships but who discovers Also that the ship has
sprung eano large enough make necessary call all
but his but large enough make quite certain that
be swampedand quite large enough make
his voyage a serious piece of business
Everything which citizen does in this country him
incredible Europe (heaven the masses you may
have the best of aborng for twenty thirty cents day
Here you pay them dollar least though
the contrive get their labor for fifteen dollars
month and board The citizens home built he looks all
expenditures but how many hundreds perhaps
thousands has he paid for outbudngs for fences for roads,
Cutting yonder HILL which made ugly botch the
vet looked like triAng task yet there five hundred dol
swept his bank account and there almost
nothing show You would believe that hill
stood had arranged all you
feel she ought have done it. Your avote cat
died. and the flock of sheep have been sadly
by dogs all be replacedand careful
the mems labor and the grain fields show that for
you understand the crop which fair
actually you trAe isworth good
To long story short the larger part of citizens who
retire upon farm make country residence, not OF
the fact that capital cannot be prohab employed land the
Atlantic States aOO thorough practical knOod Of farming
close and systematic upon good SOIL enable and
gentlemen farmers that could make good
their andbut citizens who launch boldly into farm
ing hiring farm aborers high prices and trusting operations of
should be managed under the masters
likely sinking fund that will drive them back
into business again.
happy any business occupation (and country life
of busness have kind of
cess in it without profit profit
practical knowledge of farming.
he
should buy large farm for country resi-
hee Of