NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



Feb. 



tills argument, if we can ascertain how labor- 

 ers in general do actually spend the leisure time 

 they now have. Do they sjjeud it in reading 

 and study or other means of mental improve- 

 ment? In some instances where there is a 

 strong desire for knowledge, they undoubtedly 

 do. But I refer to the great mass of laborers. 

 Do they make use of those means, in their 

 leisure hours, that are calculated to improve 

 their intellects and raise them to a higher level 

 in society ? If they do not, would they improve 

 (o any advantage the hours saved from the 

 morning and evening of each day ? Would not 

 the morning hour be spent in bed, and the 

 evening hour in idle gossip, neither of which 

 would contribute to their health or intellectual 

 improvement ? Some who are industriouss, 

 disposed or who cultivate land for themselvely 

 would work for themselves three or four hours 

 before engaging in the service of their employ- 

 ers, and thus go to their daily labor with their 

 strength greatly exhausted, and unable to do a 

 full day's woik. 



Some suppose that if the hours of labor are 

 reduced, wages will be reduced in the same 

 proportion. But this will not be so. This would 

 frustrate the whole object which those who ad- 

 vocate the measure have in view. They com- 

 plain that capital now receives too large a share 

 of the profits of labor, and demand that what- 

 ever sacrifice is made, shall be wholly on the 

 part of capital. They expect the same wages 

 for eight hours labor that they now i-eceive for 

 ten. The laboring man now has barely sufii- 

 cient to .support his family and himself in com- 

 foi't. He cannot live on one-fifth less. If he 

 is paid by the hour, he must charge one-fifth 

 per hour more than he now receives. In the 

 case of mechanics who work by the piece, the 

 result will be the same. As they are depend- 

 ent on the running of the machinery, if the 

 machinery runs one-fifth less time, they must 

 charge one-fifth more by the piece to obtain the 

 same wages they now do. So that the reduc- 

 tion of the hours of labor one-fifth will be to 

 the employers equivalent to raising wages one- 

 fifth, while in addition they lose one-fifth of the 

 laboi- which the mai'hinery or the animals might 

 do without exhaustion. R. 



Concord, Mass., Jan., 1867. 



poor stock. By far the greater numfjer of his 

 colts were very valuable, some of them bring- 

 ing figures well up among the thousands. 

 Standing at the head of all his stock, is the 

 noted stallion, "Young Morrill," owned by S. 

 R. Perkins, of Hartford, Conn. Another one 

 of equal merit was burned at Montiielier, in 

 this state, whenfive years old. "Major Morrill," 

 owned by Messrs. Higgins & Richardson, of 

 West Concord, Vt., isoneof the best. Anoth- 

 er, called the "^Vheeler Horse," owned in 

 Calais, Vt., and two owned by D. A. Benedict, 

 of Williamstown, Vt., are also among the best. 

 There are several sons of Young Morrill, of 

 great value. Among them are "Draco," Dan- 

 ville Boy," "Fearnought" and "Woodstock." 

 Mr. French Moi-rill gave the pedigree of his 

 horse as follows: Sire, Jennison Horse; g. s., 

 Young Morgan Bulrush ; g. g. s. INIorgan 

 Bulrush; g. g. g. s., Justin Morgan. Dam by 

 Farringion Horse, he by Vance horse, he by 

 imported Messenger. Alpha. 



South Royalton, Vt., Dec. 20, 1866. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 FBEWCH MORRILL HORSE. 



Messrs. Editors: — In a late number of 

 your valuable paper I notice an inquiiy in re- 

 lation to the origin of the "Morrill Horses.'' 



Aljout twenty years since, French Morrill, 

 Esq., of Danville, Vt., purchased a large, 

 strong, black two-years-old stud colt, thinking 

 to make a farm horse of him, which he did. 

 I think he found him in an adjoining town. 

 This colt became the noted sire and trotter, 

 known as "The French Morrill Horse." He 

 died, 1 think, four years ago the present winter. 

 It can be truly said of hira that he sired no 



Remarks. — This is a model communication. 

 Though occupying but little space, it Is a valuable 

 paper. And It gives us much satisfaction to 

 be able to say that after accomplishing Its ob- 

 ject as an answer to the Inquiry of "PI. F." in 

 our weekly issue of December 8, It will then 

 find a place in the book form of the Monthly 

 New' England Fahmer. where the facts which 

 it communicates in relation to the history of the 

 "French Morrill Horses" will be accessible to 

 future Inquirers. 



"WHY YOUNG MEN" GO TO CITIES. 



A \vi-iter In the N. Y. Times presents some 

 curious speculations on the probabilities of a 

 time coming, when we cannot, In this country, 

 raise enough to eat. He says that consumers 

 increase Aery much faster than producers ; that 

 the civic population increases much faster than 

 the rural ; that young men in the country seek 

 the cities for occupations, or become mechanics, 

 or follow professions. Instead of tilling the 

 earth ; that farmers do not })ay enough for 

 their hired labor In proportion to the price their 

 productions bring ; that if It had not been for 

 the great use made of agricultural machinery, 

 our crops could not have been gathered the 

 past year; that if this state of things Increases 

 in times to come, as it has in times past, we 

 shall be without food. His speculations are 

 new, curious, and well worth the reading. 



There is no doubt but that the cities, the 

 trades and the professions, do pay our young 

 men more thaii the farmer can ; and there is no 

 doubt but what they can ajf'ord to, for they 

 make more; money than the farmer does. Who 

 believes that the fiirmer would lie so blind to 

 his own interests as not (o be Avilling to pay his 

 help as much as they could get in the machine 



