Year: 1877

community Of its advantages It would cost too much, even if not entirely Im- practicable, to move the house and sta, blcs to lhe central point; and 1t would involve such change of habits, of labor and of living. as must necessarily be the work of time"

 This is consolng Tho barn.yards, pig styes, stables, milking places. &c., of some fifty families are nol, in this gener- ation, to be huddled into q village to til the air with slepch and rolule the wells and springs. Loads of manure arc rot to regale us or our belters. The minis isler, doctor and lawyer are to escape this as well as the lowing of herds, and the nuisance of many cattle driven afield at early morn. and dewy eve. Our boysa and hired men win not have jolly evenings lounging at the village grocery. That ancient institution, the bar-room of the village tavern, is not to be restored "where," said Governor Horatio Sey- mour, in speech he delivered before the Pioneer Association of Central N. York,

 "matters and things were discussed by the people, and grave, knotty questions settled that concerned church and state, whereby much valuable information was spread abroad, to the great good of all corners" Growing animated, with the memories of the by-gone days of his youth, the Governor rose with his theme and capped the climax by exclaiming, ."Theso were the days of pure whiskey and genuine democracy !" But this is not to come again for generation. But is there not some mistake as to the cause of the sorrows of the eastern far mer If life has really become so hard there, is it not due to the poor soils with

 which he has to do, the great competi- tion he'is subjected to, and the resulting poor compensation he receives? Ger

 tainly the description given of farm life in New England is in nowise applicable to that of the farmers of the wheat grow. l ing counties of the state of New York

 Life is certainly more endurable here and for social and moral improvement, we require no villages, rather we avoid them as places to live, preferring cen tral point amidst our fields, and in case the farm is large one, we construct two, or even more, groups of barns, sta

 bles and sheds for storing the crops and caring for the farm stock, thereby saving much time and labor in transporting the crops from the fields in which they grow and returning to them the resulting ma nure We much prefer to have ouF prin- cipal meal at midday, to going to bed for the digestion of heavy supper. The profits of farming on our best lands are too small to justify our draw ing crops of grain and hay to village, and then drawing back the manure. The uncertainties of the weather are too great. We cannot risk our hay or grain. nor can we, at the busy season of the year, give the time required for such long hauling.

 A little hamlet, made up of the farm buildings necessary for the cultivation of a few thousand acres of land, would real ly be so small that it would only be equal to the annoyances, and would fall en- tirely short of giving the advantages for mental improvement sought for. We can much better spend all hour in drlv- ing into real village. and another in re- turning. than we can submit to the petty annoyances that must be endured in the little gathering of perhaps fifty families at one centre

 If the life of the eastern farmer is real ly as described, it is one to escape in some way, and we do not advise the boys to stay there, but rather to consider what the founder of the Tribune said Young man, go westn n-HoN. GEO. GEDDEs, in Go. Gent