1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



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made happy by chaining the lightning — making 

 it subservient to their will — why should not 

 every toiling woman be equally happy when 

 she wakes up to the fact, that she can, by 

 simplest means, take into her service the nat- 

 ural elements and compel them to grow for 

 her own use, lucious fruit, delicious vegetables 

 and golden grain ? 



Sloxyly we cry "Eureka ! Eureka !" we have 

 found it. We can earn bread and books, 

 clothing and comforts, and many more luxu- 

 ries than any working woman, or a dweller of 

 cities. We can stay at home, play with the 

 baby, do our own sewing, keep house, write 

 letters, read papers, and entertain company, 

 go out as often as I wish. In a word, feel in- 

 dependent, healthy and happy, no annoyance 

 of seeking work, no temptation to under price 

 a poor woman to obtain it, no time spent in 

 collecting bills from hou?e to house. 



The fruit from our garden has been sold at 

 remunerative prices. The larger number of 

 purchasers came to the house with their own 

 carriages after it. Ladies come from towns 

 twenty miles distant to buy slips of roses and 

 verbenas, and later in the season for straw- 

 berry plants. And after filling all their orders 

 we have left for our garden lo07 plants, trees, 

 vines and roses. Such busy days ; even our 

 little "birdy-pet" could toddle about and help 

 a little. 



This seemingly barren hillside, has in two 

 seasons, given us a larger salary than has been 

 paid to any woman teacher in the Union 

 schools of the country. 



TfETV YORK "WOOL GKOWEBS. 



The annual meeting of the Sheep Breeders' 

 and Wool Growers' Association was held at 

 Syracuse, Jan. 27. The Utica Herald fur- 

 nishes a report of the meeting. The atten- 

 dance was large, more than thirty counties 

 were represented. Dr. Randall, president of 

 the association, gave an opening address. 



Hon. Geo. Geddes, of Onondaga county of- 

 fered a series of resolutions on the subject of 

 a reciprocity treaty, which were unanimously 

 adopted ; II. T. Brooks of Wycoming county, 

 who declared himself a radical free-trader, 

 made some remarks in favor of their adoption. 

 Although believing in free trade generally, he 

 entertained the opinion that if there were any 

 articles of importation eminently fitted to be 

 made subject to duties, wool was one of them. 

 The facts stated in regard to its cheap pro- 

 duction in foreign countries, and the compar- 

 atively small expense of importations, sus- 

 tained this position. He believed that the tar- 

 iff had been a benefit to the American wool 

 growers. He would support the resolutions, 



because he did not think it just that Canada 

 should be allowed to send her products, un- 

 taxed, into the United States, and pour the 

 entire proceeds of their sale into the coffers of 

 England. 



As these resolutions are somewhat lengthy 

 we copy a portion only, as follows : — 



Resolved, That the experience of one Reciprocity 

 Treaty, should be sufficient to protect not only the 

 farmers, but all other classes of our citizens, 

 apainst the repetition of such a folly. In the j'car 

 1854, before the treaty was made, our government 

 collected, in duties on articles from the Provinces 

 now included in the "Dominion," the sum of 

 $1,-524,457. After the treaty was in operation, our 

 duties so collected, did not average more than 

 $75,000 a year, for the whole ten years it was in 

 operation. In the fiscal year that ended in 1867, 

 the treaty being no longer in force, our govern- 

 ment collected $5,400,000 in gold on Canadian pro- 

 di^tions, and in the two years that have passed 

 siifte the termination of the treaty we have col- 

 lected about $15,000,000, in our currency, on the 

 productions of the provinces, that have been im- 

 ported into the United States. This immense sum 

 has gone into the national treasury, and our tax- 

 payers have been relieved by so much. 



Resolved, that "under the present condition of 

 our revenue laws, competition between the people 

 of Canada and the United States can only be on 

 equal terras, when duties equal to those directly 

 aud indirectly exacted by cur government from 

 her citizens are levied on importations, the pro- 

 duct of Canada." 



Resolved, That we respectfully protest against 

 the making of any treaty, or other arrangement, 

 by which the trade and commerce between our 

 country and the British Provinces shall be placed 

 on any other different basis than they are with all 

 other nations aud provinces. 



Resolved, That we, as farmers, are entirely un- 

 willing to be traded off in any treaty that has for 

 its objects the promotion of commercial or other 

 iaterests at our expense. 



Resolved, That this association is opposed to any 

 reduction of the tariff on wool by treaty or other- 

 wise. 



The following officers, together with the 

 usual number of Vice Presidents and an Exec- 

 utive Committee were elected for 1869. 



President— Kon. Henry S. Randall, Cortland Village. 

 Correspondinfj Secretary — E. B. Pottle, Nap es. 

 Recording Secretary—^. D. L. Sweet, Syracuse. 

 Treasurer— X. F. Wilc&x, Fayetteville. 



The subjects of tjie annual Spring Fair, of 

 rules to determine the best sheep, the scour- 

 ing test, &c., were discussed. 



— In the rich heavy lands of the West and on 

 some of the clayey farms in New England, cow 

 yards are often sad places for male or female to set 

 down in and milk from one to a dozen cows. The 

 Ohio Farmer recommends that such yards be 

 paved with blocks of wood. Logs of any size may 

 be drawn up during winter, cut into blocks of 

 equal length, say six inches, aud squared at leis- 

 ure. After smoothing off the surface of the yard, 

 lay the bloeks as closely together as possible aud 

 fill the interstices with gravel. 



