394 Statk Board of Agriculture, &c. 



PISCICLLTUKE WITH RKFEllENCE TO FARMING. 



BY GEORGE B. FRENCH, OF WOODSTOCK. 



Whatever of new discoveries there are in art or science 

 which can increase and cheapen tlie food supply of a Nation 

 are interesting, not only to its political economists, but to 

 its thinking practical farmers. To say that everybody must 

 eat, and therefore everybody is interested in what they eat 

 and how it is produced, and what it costs to produce it, 

 would be an absurd species of reasoning. True enough it 

 is that everybody eats, but what portion of them care any- 

 thing about where it comes from, or know or think 

 anything about the labor, the cost, and the successive stages 

 through which the material mnst pass before it becomes 

 food ? There is a large class of people who, producing^ 

 nothing themselves, contributing absolutely, nothing in any 

 shape to the general welfare, think not and care not about 

 these matters. They are living examples of the injunction 

 to " take no thought for the morrow '' in all its literalness, 

 and believe that "sufficient unto the day is the evil tliercof." 

 Vermont farmers do not belong to this class. Producers 

 themselves of a large share of what they consume, they are 

 directly and pecuniarily interested in everything which relates 

 to the production of brcadstuffs, meat or fish. They make a note 



