1857. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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her products, and by so doing she would enhance the 

 price and quicken the demand for them. The show 

 of milch cows, and of butter and cheese, is probably 

 better in any of the County Exhibitions than at 

 this Fair, and by not presenting there products 

 here, strangers fail to see what Vermont is capable 

 of doing. 



The leading feature in the State Fair of Ver- 

 mont is its horses — in this department it can un- 

 doubtedly beat any other State in the Union, — I 

 mean in horses of its own rearing. There were on 

 the grounds this year few, if any of the favorite and 

 mature horses which I have seen at these Fairs be- 

 fore ; some of them have been sold, and many are 

 at the Fair at Albany. A large number of young 

 horses are presented, of great merit, and which give 

 promise of celebrity, but their form, beauty and ac- 

 tivity are not yet sufficiently developed, to lead me 

 to the conclusion that they will equal the old Black 

 Hawk or GifFord Morgan. One hundred and forty- 

 one breeding mares and geldings were entered, and 

 among the latter I was informed by one of the best 

 judges in Vermont, that eleven of them were worth 

 $500 each. His judgment was soon confirmed by 

 the sale of one of them for $600 ! Spirited trot- 

 tings have taken place, fairly testing the power of 

 some of the young nags, who have made good be- 

 ginnings, making their mile in 2.49, 2.46 and 2.44, 

 on a very dusty and unfavorable track. 



Friday, Sept. 12, 1857, 

 The Fair has closed — the trotting yesterday, was 

 very good, and the multitude seemed highly grati- 

 fied. I have found in this Seventh Exhibition much 

 to admire and approve, although little, compara- 

 tively, has been done that the State is capable of 

 doing. The people have not yet been educated in 

 what makes a grand and profitable display of their 

 products, as have the farmers of those States who 

 have enjoyed a longer practice. Mr. Holbrook, 

 the intelligent and popular President, has stood at 

 the lead of the society from the beginning, and few 

 men, any where, are better acquainted with the ob- 

 jects of such an association, or the various details 

 necessary to carry them out. But a few gentlemen, 

 however wise and efficient they may be, cannot 

 take such an enterprise into their care and take it 

 on to perfection alone ; it is a work in which the 

 masses must be interested and actively engaged, as 

 the different departments of the farm cannot be 

 fairly represented by one town or perhaps by one 

 county. No jealousies should exist, and no geo- 

 graphical lines should divide that common interest 

 which is indispensable to a high degree of success. 

 Whenever infancy and youth in this matter are 

 passed, and she has gained knowledge by a longer 

 experience, Vermont will spring into a vigorous 

 manhood, and we trust show her sister States that 

 in the products of the farm she can excel them all. 



I wish to express my acknowledgments to the Pres- 

 ident and other officers of the Society for their kind 

 attentions during the Fair ; and to my host, Mr. 

 CoTTRiLL, long the courteous and po})ular land- 

 lord of "The Pavilion ;" and to his intelligent and 

 interesting family, more than formal acknowledg- 

 ments are due, for their pleasant companionship and 

 polite attentions during my slay. Mr. C. was for 

 thirty years, the proprietor and landlord of the 

 Pavilion Hotel, of this place, and is well known by 

 travellers throughout our land, as a gentleman 

 thoroughly acquainted with his business, and his 

 home is eminently entitled to the appellation of 

 "TTie Traveller's Home." He has now retired to 

 private life, but still active and careful to the world. 

 It is in the midst of this delightful retirement that 

 I have found all the comforts of home in my brief 

 sojourn here. 



There are some departments of this exhibition 

 that I have not yet mentioned, and must leave for 

 a paragraph at another time. 



Truly yours, Simon Brown. 



Joel Nourse, Esq. 



Mr. French's Letters. — We have given in an- 

 other column, a letter from Mr. French, dated at 

 "Salisbury, England, July, 1857." This letter 

 should have reached us before the one giving an 

 account of the Royal Agricultural Society at Salis- 

 bury, but it strangely came to us by the way of 

 Washington, on the J,rst of September. 



BOYS' DEPARTMENT. 



"GOOD TO MAKE MEN OF." 



A gentleman once asked a company of little boys 

 what they were good for ? One little fellow prompt- 

 ly answened, "We are good to make men of." 



Think of that, my young friends ; you are all 

 good to make men and women of. We do not 

 mean, nor did that little boy, that you are merely 

 to grow up to the size of men and women. No, 

 we mean a great deal more than this. You are to 

 make persons that will be respected and useful — 

 that will help to do good in the world. No one 

 who is not useful, and who does not seek to make 

 the world better, deserves the name of man or wo- 

 man. 



You should not forget that if there are to be any 

 men and women, any that deserve such a name, 

 twenty or thirty years hence, they are to be made 

 of you who are now children. What a world this 

 will be, when you grow up, if all only make 

 men and ivomen ! Will you not ponder this subject, 

 and "show yourselves men ?" 



"Good to make men of." What kind of men 

 will our youthful readers be twenty years hence ? 

 Will they be classed with the Intelligent, the re- 

 spectable, the industrious, the prosperous, the be- 

 nevolent, the pious men of the time ? for doubtless 

 there will be such. It may require a little self-de- 

 nial, and hard study, and hard work ; but such a 

 character is cheaply purchased at that price — and 

 such a character we wish our readers to bear. — 

 Well Spring. 



