Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-05-26
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JOHN 'WALToN'S FARM.

'Hdont you Delter SUBSCRIBE Ior IL
.Itell you, no. haint got the moneI
to spare. And. i'll had, hsint got th'
time to waste over newspapers said Ebel
Sawyer, with some emphasis.
sBut you will gain much Information from
it in the course Of year, SIR pursued JohI
Walton.
Il tell you, don't want itr
well, what say you, Mr.. Grummet-
shan't | have your namel'
NO, sir.' This was spoken so fatty ant
bluntly that Walton said no more but
folded up the prospectus Of a periodical
which he had with bin, aud then turned
Eben Sawyer and Ben Grummet were two
old farmers. that ir, old at the business
though they had only reached the middle
age of lie, and after their young neighbor
had gone they expressed their opinions con-
eernine him.
He'll never make farmer said Sawyer
with shake of the head He spends too
much time over them papers and books OF
his'n. He's sIeetie mite above larn.in,' IN
my opinion
Them IS my sentiments. responded Grum-
met. i tell you. Eben, he man that thinks
to make liyin' on farm in this section.
has got to work for it,
AT this juncture, Sam Bancroft came
along. Hewss another native of the dis
trict. sHs
We was sjesttalkin' about young Walton.
said SAWYER % ~
I've jes' come from there,' replied Sam
He has been borin' me TO sign for paper;
bnt be couldn't come it-'
.Ha, ha-so he bored us. He's gittin' a
ieete too bieh SGT iur farmer
He's rippiu' his barnfoor up said Ban
croft y 5
sRippin' the floor up.' repeated Grummet.
sWhy-Mr. Amsden had the whole floor put
down new only three years ago.
The tie-up floor, ! mean,' pursued Ban
croft. Hes got a carpenter up from The
village and two hired men sre belpin.'
.Whrw! gusss he'll mske farmerr
And so they ali gues>ed-wiih reserve
tion. In short, there was some thing highly
ridiculous in the thought of raD's thinking
u Oc idIUcI a cluNGHt NJ talf edbS
and all sorts ofjests were Gisc aarged ever it :
John " alton was Il young man-some
6ve-snd- twenty, and though he had been
porn in the neighborhuod, yet much of his
life had been spent in other sections of the
country. His parents both died when he
was quite ycung, and his fathers farm pas
sed iuto the hasds OF a Mr.. Amsden. But
now John had MARI d. md he meant 70 be
a iarmer; and his thoughts natur lily turned
to the old homestead He ,uuni Amsden
willing to sell, ard he beught-paying two
thousand dollars down, and giving note
and mortgage for five hundred, which had
been cashed by Mr.. Piddon.
This farming district was upon a broad
ridge OF land, which had been cleared for a
great many years; and though they were the
handsomest and smoottesi looking ia. ms
in town, get they were by no means the
best.
The summit of the ridge was crowned by
= ledge of granite, and the soil. over the
whole broad swell, was more or less wet and
cold. This was particularly the case with
John Walton's farm, some portions of il
being wholly unfit for cultivation. There
was one field of over twenty acres-one OF
the smoothest and prettiest located fields in
iown-which was Dever fit for plowihg.-l
The soil was SO wet and heavy that l. could
not be worked al sny advantage. 1t had
been moved year after year, yielding about
three-quarters of ton to the acre of poor
wild. weedy hay. Yet there we're other
sections which were good, and Mr.. Amsden
had gained fair crops while he lived there.
Ben Grummet had a curiosity to see what
was going on in Walton's barn; so he drop
ped in there He found that the who'e oil
the floor, where the cattle stood, had been
torn up, and that they we're digging wide.
teep trench the whole length of the tie-up.
What on airth is all this for!' asked Ben
Why, returned Walton, who was busy
in experimenting the work. and also in
working himself. j am having place fixed
here for making manure. | mean To till this
rch up with good muck, and thus save
the liquid which have heretofore been LOST.
/ think. by proper management, | can get
full double the quantity of manure which
Others have got on this place
DO yet said Grummet sarcastically.
Yes resumed the young man. ut is
fact that 'he liquid manures, c"ud they be
saved, would fully equal the solids, bath
in yulk end value; and when combined with
we'll rotted muck, and sumo other articles
which shall take up and retain all the more
volatine parts, feel sure that they will af-
ford more fertilizing powers and proper
ties than the solid manure can.'
'Yeou don't say SO! Where dye larn a |
thatl ' aa
partly from reading and parity from OBJ
eervstiuns,' answ red John, smiling a, his
good neighbours open sarcasm.
4 don't s'pose it Gusts anything to do all
shisr
%, yes-a will cost me considerable be-
fore Iget through
sYaas-I should rayther co TX late 'wouid.
Ben Grummet spoke this very slowly, and
with great deal of meaning; aud When be
had looked on lew minutes longer he went
Il swami be cried, as he met Sawyer,
shortly afterwards. John Waron's reg
ular hifselutin. He's jes' abou, as nigh to
boin' crazy as man can be!'
'Eh!--crnzv, Benz
'O-t don't mean, rally upset, like then
folks what has had to be sent to the inssnt
srylum; but he's got his head full of al
sorts Of nonsense. He's got his tip VI
floor all tom away, and trench dug there
big enough to held mere'n twenty cart load
-f Dirt