New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-10
CHESTER COUNTY AGRI-
CULTURE.
<~o Day. Among she Farmers Of West
chester and Putnam Ccun'ics-A
Long Hide and Examinauoa CT
Farrs-What \ saw, Heard, and
Learned.

20. I.
"COme m some pleasant evening 10 NJ
place said my friend Edward J. Carpenter "apd /
win take my team and friend or two for company
and we v II have long drive through the country ana
sec something of Wcstcheser County farming more
than can be seen from d railroad car"
1 accepted the Offer and started the -elh OF june
linking three coats from gauze 70 thick Wooen 10 pro-
vide against the sudden changes Of this year which
physicans say Will probably produce good deal OF Ill
health in Autumn.
/ found my friend, by appointment, at PleasantYine
Station, on the Harlem Road aud went with nm mai
evening two miles eastward all the way up Ill., 10 MS
home which commands one of those beautiful views so
common in this country looking over parts oil tnfee
States. and across Long Island SQUAD, and over the
Hudson among the Catskin Mountains. But shis is
nothing it is only one of thousand similar sites every
one Of which ought be crowned with the easehatea
rural residences of Now.Yorkers, TO be occupied at
least for their Summer homes.
Ilearned something here beside the beautiful picture
that was spread out as it were, at my feet Learned
that Westcheser County need not be tributary to Mon
rue County for nursery trees whether fruit OF orna'
mental l never saw more thrifty, healthy, we'll
grown collection Of apple trees than found upon this
Afarrn which possesses advantages over hundred
others vet those others send TO Rochester Tor trees In
short Rochester furnishes ninetenths Of the fruit trees
annually planted in the vicinity OF the Harlem Road
though en- happy 10 be able 10 state that the last
Springs orders greater than Mr.. Carpenter could
on from his nursery he has determined not to allow
any trees 10 20 from it until they acquire growth that
makes them tit 10 plant out in orchard; and am
sure that ally soil that gave better satisac
ton 70 the grower Then why should not the bust
ness 10 extended at least 10 satisfy all the nome
demandi LET thsfarmers who plant corn SOW oats rye
and wheat in sort Of hopeless competition with the
Great West. answer if they can. cannot; but can
answer chat treepanting is far more proitaDe-ihat Il
will pay for the labor and interest upon tie value Of
land while the Old style Of grainfarming does not
wish some Of those who are dec''y interested would
visit Mr. Carpenters nursery an a lesson Of
great value to landowners in Wesichester County
Beside his Thrifty nursery l found another thing
that pleased me greatly and which may be lesson TO
others. foand that most Of the stone walls which
former owners of this farm had bn "to ct rid ofthe
stone" have disappeared. II is longer divided into
four and ten.acre lots The soil being naturally moist
required understanding. Those old walls furnished
The material and gave TO cultivation a strip OF land
nearly a rod wide along where they formerly stood
In the way Of the plow.
One Of his neghbors has not yet learned this mo
fence system for he is getting nd Of the stones"
ppon a farm recently purchased by building them into
walls 50 close together that / should consider them
greater nuisance than the scattered s'ones ana ven
fure 10 say that the cost Of these worse than useless
walls has been more than the present saabe value OF
the soil exclusive Of buildings. Noticed several lots
of four to ten acres the walls of which must have cost
s5arod Such walls are not, as some suppose
Gan everlasting fence" They are an everlasting
nuisance, aud in ten years win need repairs
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said the owner Of this newly soneieneed farm, as he
rode up with Mr.. Carpenter
keep them in the stable, inst as regular in Sum
uer as Winter have learned better than TO pasture
work horses it is not economical"
The wall builder has not yet learned this item OF
economy. His strongest argument, in behalf Of bis
system was that lie could pasture al Of his well
walled Enclosures.
We LETT Mr.. Carpenters early enough to see how
beautifully the morning sun tips the Western hills
The atmosphere warm enough to be Pleasant-no
more-and the day. though not sunny was good one
for the mowers who busy upon almost every farm
Some farmers are more than half done haying and the
crop is enormous. Thanks to moving machines and
horse rakes the scarcity Of manual labor not seriously
felt in this county. Day laborers wages in the hay
field are 81 IS OF e., with board.
A little east of Chapaqua, took in Mr.. Z. Cocks,
a retired New.York dry goods merchant, who is Tying
his hand at farming for the improvement Of falling
health In ny opinion he would find it quite success
full it, with his country fare and country air be should
abstain from smoking-one Of the most prolific causes
ofiIl.health that ever cursed America From CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Cocks, am satisfied that he finds
plenty Of the dscOuragements that bese all eity-Dred
gentlemen who undertake farming-tnat is great
deal of work troublesome superintendent Of work
oil mol re
10 respectfully suggest TO all who may have an idea
Of purchasing farms a money making investIn' Mt
that as a rule they will be disappointed The country
L. delightful place TO live in, to be healthy and happy
comfortable and contented but not for the accumula
fion Of wealth. the owner of hnndred-acre farm
in Westchester County dies eighty, worth eighty
hundred dollars than he started WITH he has, will
warrant, ALWAYS been accounted very prosperous
farner-has worked hard, lived frugaly and never
spent money unnecessarily. he has accumulated
money fast enough TO suit the ideas Of NeF'YMk
merchant, lawyer, doctor broker or banker.
A little beyond Mr. Cocks's, We visited Doctor Hex
amer en- intelligent German who is establishing a
fruit farm upon system Of order and regularity, and
completeness OF purpose that ought TO be crowned
with success. Time wiz Prove whether such devotion
Of intellect and cash such purpose will be rewarded
or not hope, but would not like 70 insure that il
will.
Doctor Hexamer has 60 acres lying along and upon
each side Of ridge running in paralleogram north
and south. Upon the apex Of the ridge ne has laid out
road which is intersected with other roads at right
angles so as to divide AZ acres Uhe other being orest
into hreeacre plots The roads are 10 be. dug
out eighteen inches deep and the soil used to I'll ho
lows or spread the surface and the road bed filed
with stones No interior walls except the barn yard