Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-05-12

capital straw cutter, then more nasty ash
es" then a seed. drill-and "there was no
eend" (said Ben senior) "to the infarnal
masheens that Ben junior cluttered up the
place with y
Ben had been no idIer, meantime. He
had drawn into the cow-yard, two hundred
loads of peat and pond.muck, in the previ-
GUS fall He got plaster and crushed bones
and mixed them with it, and when February
came, it was heaped on, generously upon
the four acres again. Everything went on
swimmingly, and at haying time the "cap-
sheaf' of machinery arrived
'"What on earth is THAR" asked the old
gentleman, as Ben put his team before his
new horse.rake. Ben laughed outright, and
asked his respected dad why he didn't read
the papers But his father said he chad
no occasion-he knew enough"
Again the old barns creaked under their
generous hay, and grain, and vegetables,
and again the old man looked on and sigh
ed, and declared that ''the season had been
remarkable, very!"
Ben hadn't room to stow away two-thlrds
of his years produce But his hay was
excellent, his potatoes noble ones, his car
ros aud beets, and onions were splendid
and he had surplus rula bagas by the cord,
and turnips, and squashes, and cabbages BY
the ton, for which he readily found good
market, seven miles distant. Nobody be-
lieved it, Fat first, but all these fine prod
ucts really came from the old Smith farm.
when the snow and sleet ratified around
the ancient mansion that winter, Ben owed
no man a dollar, his barns aud bins and cell
lars were we'll filed, and he had three hun
dred dollars, in clean cash, on hand Here
was fortune.
'"Verily, Ben," said his parent, "you
have been lucky, and the seasons favorable,
gerry"
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The elder Smith has been gathered to
his fathers Benjamin Smith, Junior, Esq
is now man OF solid substance, Justice
of the Peace, and farmer of forty years
in good standing. lie knows the difference
between partial and thorough cultivation {;
he can tell you about the benefits of sub
soil blowing and shallow furrow; he can
tell you whether piece Of Suffolk pork or
of Devon beef is preferable to that Of the
greyhound hog or shiny le-backed OK he
knows how to use the horse-rake and the
potato.dropper he will now inform you alb
out the advantages TO be derived from irrl-
CATION, from draining, from use OF phos-
r. h. ,,U ,h,u
you on his farm big hay-stacks, generous
squashes, huge potatoes, twelve rowed corn,
fat hogs, improved poultry, sleek, velvcty
cattle, and all the ''jincracks' Of modern
agricultural progress-aud you will find in a
snug rner OF Ben's ample "keeping-room"
at the old Smith homestead, the choicest
agricultural library in the State; while he
Is constant reader and paying subscriber to
all the leading "book-farm publications" in
the country
No one that knew the old Smith farm.
i've and twenty years ago, would recognize
1t now. Squire Ben is worth a pretty for
tune, has "A buxom wife and half dozen
children, and though little corpulent. (for
he will "ive weI,'') he is lively, and jolly,
and Us thrifty booktmmcr as you or |
would wish to meet with
L hey your PARDON concluded my travel
er friend, at this point, but here we are -
and the train halted in 4ha R.,ston Depot
NeW ENGLAND CultiUator.