Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-04-15
q NarabIe tur Farmers.
JOHN wALTON,s FARM.
Ldn't Won better subscribe for h Y

"f1aQn you DSJIST SuDSCTIDo IOF IL
81 tell you, no. l haint got the money
to spare. And, if had, haint got the
time to waste over newspapers" said Eben
SAWYER, with much emphasis.
"But you will gain much information from
it in the course Of year, sill" i" pursued John
Walton.
81 tell you don't want it,"
"Well, what say you, Mr.. Grummet-
shan't have your nameP
"No, sir" This was spoken SO fatty
and bluntly that Walton said no more; but
folded up the prospectus of periodical
which he had with him, and then turned
away.
Eben Sawyer and Ben Grummet were
two old farmers, that is, old at the business,
though they had only reached the middle
age Of life, and after their young neighbor
had gone they expressed their opinions con
cerning him.
"He'll never make farmer" said Saw
yer, with shake of the head. "He spends
TOO much time over them papers and books
in my opinion"
athens my sentiments" responded
Grummet. 81 tell you, Eben, the man that
thinks to make hvn' on a farm in this
section has got to work for it."
At this juncture, Sam Bancroft came
along. He was another native of the dis
trict.
awe was just talkiu' about young Wal
ton," said Sawyer.
"Tvc ies' come from there" replied Sam
"IIes been BORN me to sign for u paper
but he couldn't come it."
ala, ha--so he bored us. He's gettin'
a leetle too high sot for a farmer"
"He's rippin' his barn-foor up" said Ban
croft.
"Rippin' the floor up" repeated Grum-
met. @Why-Mr. Amsden had the whole
floor put down new only three years ago.
"Ihe tie,up floor, mean," pursued Ban
croft. "He's got carpenter up from the
village; and his two hired men ere helpin'.'
"Whewl guess he'll make farmer!' Y
And so they all guessed-with reserva-
ton. In short, there was something high
ly ridiculous in the thought of mans
thinking to be farmer and student at the
Same time; and all sorts of jests were dis
charged over it.
John Wilton was young man--some
five-and-twenty, and though he had been
born in the neighborhood, yet much of his
Il life had been spent in other sections of the
country. His parents both died when he
was quite young, and his fathers farm pass
ed into the hands of Mr.. Amsden. But
now John had married, and he meant to be
farmer; and his thoughts naturally turned
to the old homestead. He found Amsder
willing to sell and he bought-paying two
thousand dollars down, and giving a note
J., and mortgage for five hundred, which hac
been cashed by Mr.. Piddon.
This farming district was upon broat
ridge Of land, which had been cleared for
, great many years; and though they wer'
the handsomest and smoothest looking
farms in towr, yet they were by no mean
the best. The summit Of the ridge wa
crowned by ledge of granite, and the soil
over the whole broad swell, was more or les
wet and cold. This was particularly tn
'f case with John Walton's farm, some portion
!. of it being totally unfit for cultivation
q There was one field of over twenty acres
- one Of the smoothest and prettiest locate
fields in town-which was never fit for pillow
ing The soil was so wet and heavy tina
it could not be worked TO any advantage
1t had been moved year after year, yieldin,
about three-quarters Of ton to the acre G
poor wild, weedy hay. Yet there wer
. other sections which were good, and Nj
Amsden had gained fair crops while he Ii,
ed there.
: Ben Grummet had a curiosity to SEQ wha
= was going on in Walton's barn so be droI
ped in there. He found that the whole I
the floor, whero the cattle stood, had bee
torn up, and that they we're digging wild,
deep trench the whole length Of the tie-ul
"What on airth is all this for r. aske
Ben.
"Why," returned Walton who was bus
in experimenting tho work, and also j
working himself 81 am having a place fixe
here for making manure. mean to e
this trench up with good muck, aud thu
save the liquids which have hitherto bee
lost | Think, by proper management, ca
gstfull double the quantity Of manure whic
others have got on this place"
'Do yer said Grumraet sarcastieally.
eyes" resumed the young man. at
fact that the liquid manures, could tho
be saved, would fully equal the solids bot
in bulk sed value; and when combined wit
well rotted muck, and some other article
which shall take up aud retain all the NOR
volatile parts. feel sure that they will q
ford more feftilizing powers and propertis
q than the solid mannFes can"
2 "YeOu don'tsay 50 Where dyo larn a
thatf r.
'Fartly from reading and partly from Oh