. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. prox-imity, the period in which ourstate was maintaining herself asan independent republic, the em-bargo times, and the War of i812 — certainly enough for one gen-eration of men. Another habit than inquisitive-ness was then born of necessityamong the farmers of our state, — and practically every man wasthen a farmer, — and that was the habit of incessantlabor from dawn to dark. Alonsr with the habit wascultivated the capacity for it. Whe
. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. prox-imity, the period in which ourstate was maintaining herself asan independent republic, the em-bargo times, and the War of i812 — certainly enough for one gen-eration of men. Another habit than inquisitive-ness was then born of necessityamong the farmers of our state, — and practically every man wasthen a farmer, — and that was the habit of incessantlabor from dawn to dark. Alonsr with the habit wascultivated the capacity for it. When every man mustprovide for himself and his family everything fromthe building in which they dwelt to the food withwhich they fed their bodies and the clothes which theyput upon their backs, there was little room for idlenessand small place for a man whose hand knew no cunningor did not possess a diversified and manifold skill. Thehome of the early settler in Vermont was as nearly self-sufficing as the necessities of an isolated situation andhis own fertile inventiveness could make it. That is,it produced what it consumed to a remarkable Old Wooden Churn THE WIDENING RAIL S3 It is safe to say that in this respect it was nearerthe manor of mediaeval times than Hkc the farm hfeof to-day. Modern industrial organization has reached modernfarm life in all its phases and made it dependent in athousand different ways. Take away transportation, takeaway markets, take away every machine-made thing, andyou would throw us a long way back toward feudal clothing, in food, in shelter, in household goods, infarming tools, nothing was then bought that could bemade. Little money was seen, little was needed ; forclothing was made at home ; the forest and the pigpenfurnished meat; tolls were taken at the mills for grind-ing grain; taxes were worked out or paid in taxes were light anyway. If a farmer raisedmore grain than he needed for his own use, he couldexch
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