Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-11-22
From the New England Farm
ABOUT MUCK.

even here in enlightened Massschusett
asa branch of book farming that won
pay. Very many men tell me this
ask them how they know. Because if
was really good for anything it would b
more generally used--in their immediat
vicinity, of course. tell them there ar
sections where come find it profitable, An,
use all they can get, and cite some on
near. Oh well no doubt Squire Jone
does make it pay, he gets his money easy
and can afford such expense as gettin,
muck. Granted that the Squire does g.
his money easy, he does not get any ea
sier than that he gets from muck.
know that large majority of farmer
who live within half an hours ride o
Worcester city (by farm-borse convey
ancr) feel like this.
While travelling in that vicinity til.
other day, ! Jaw tall robust lookin
man whiting away with q draw.sha,,
on long pine log; there were two o.
three bright, active boys, his sons, in a.
adjoining field digging potatoes, and tire
or -four yoke of steers in another field
his oxen. The land about the building
used TO be good land. He said his grand
father bad raised forty bushels Of winle,
wheat per acre On il, but it was new LAM
then, and the seasons were better; iheI,
was no 'midge,' or other insect to destro,
it, BE; that twenty bushels was larg
yield now. He showed me another piec,
where he had helped NOW two TINS OF
hay per acre, that cut one tun now, and
his corn and potatoes were about the
,ame
asked him Why he did not manure
his land
Il" keep more cattle than father did
own meadow, buy hay, &c, but manure
don't do as il used to. Ii it wa. not for
my trade, | could hardly live and keep
out Of debt. My father made pump>, |
and SO do | II good thing, and no mis-
take"
How much prof; do you make on
such pump
Il earn about 81 day and hoard
myself, usually now, get good dea
less"
pitied that great mass of muscular
strength before me, but from every days
experience knew there was no hopA
for him. He would always do as his
father bad done. saw his eldest son
approaching, so ! cast my eyes around to
see if could fiud anything near as proof,
for was determined to sow few pro-
gressive seeds ia his active brain, and 10 p!
the proof was within a stones throw OF
us.
While tins man had been hacking away
on his old fashioned wooden pumps, vast
ing time and timber, the soil that was
his fathers had been washing off into the
valley below, and lay there, thousands of
loads of his and his neighbor's, No.
soil, "as rich as mud" There were acres ,
Of land nearly dry then, the bottom OF
reservoir, and hundreds OF loa of de-
cayed leaves were mixed with the soil
much better than his meadow hay man
ure that lie boosted about.
| asked the pump maker why he did
not haul up some of that rich stuff down
there, and show his neighbors some OF
the crops of '76-keepin: my eye on the
bog.
:" / can't afford to A.ul muck" was
the short answer.
Yes, but saw one man hauling out
down below here from a very bad pace
don't he make it pay? His land looks
in the best condition of any farm about
here, though naturally poorer than yours ,
Well yes, he is fixing up some but
he got his money easier than did mine.
He lectured for his money, sold books,
&C."
Father" said the son .hyly. "you :,
said that muck and stuff Mr.. F. put on {,
his hill made the grass grow wonderfully
ast summer, and you would try itif ,
,ot tim"." >;
But you must 60 back to your pota- p
oes, for we want to carry this pump off r,
-,
Darn the old pump" growled the II
oy, " faint worth nothing compared with AZ
ay no how" But he expected some. III
bjng, and booked to me for help, so ST.
led along up 20 the father, whose ire be-
an to rise, and praised his work and ca
'ls (Which. by the way. we're the ones ws
is father used-good fifty years ago. A,
nd he forgot "bub,' muck, and all but re,
jumps and their relation 10 hard coin mi,
lark me, "bub' will never forget that -,
and when he gets into som.
lch town as Maryland. Mass, where are the
linking, progressive men of his own
ass. who have provided themselves with the
good library and library building &c,
en- be will learn to get his money easier va
an By working at disadvantage. 'a ~;