The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-08-14
Agricultural.
THIS DEPARTMENT Is coNDu0ihD -
oRvILLE S. BLISS.
milton.

CO ,.ear. ago for a short time we re-
sided in Milton, and we Yesterday TOOK
tonr through portion Of the town to
- note of the improvements and
nanou our acquaintance with individu-
l.apd scenes once familiar
with The rapid but healthfnl growth
of the village known as Milton Fails,
oil traveller. by rail or otherwise are
f,miliar. andof this it isnot our purpose
,-rite but passing down Leather Lane
and nm Ciimlet Hill on to the plain south
fron, the Falls the first thing that meets
tho wondering view Of the returned
wanderer i a eorn-field Of eighty-three
acres. where fifteen years ago was an UNI
broken forest. Joseph Clark, Esq, the
then owner, has removed the fotest and
soId the land, consisting Of several hun
dred acres, to Ell Barnum, Esq, who
has converted il into "smiling fields of
waving grain" Unfortunately Mr..
Barnum was away and we were unable
toobtain such items Of statistical infOr-
nation as we desired Knowing some
thing of the zeal and persistent energy
with which he conducts all his affairs
we were not disappointed in seeing
everything thoroughly well done, not
only with reference TO the present gain
from his farm, but with equal Difference
to its permanent fertility. II Is our opin-
ion. however, thatif he had used south
ern on western feed for his five or six
acres of fodder corn he would have re-
aliseda greater profit from itand perhaps
have entertained a more favorable Opin-
ion of the project, although we do not
hear that he is dissatisfied with the re-
suit of his experiment with the northern
seed.
Mr.. Barnum has quite dairy, if we
recollect Alright - cows, and has recently
in company with three Others of the
progressive farmers of Milton introduced
a very valuable herd Of Ayrshires. We
have a very considerable acquaintance
with the best herds Of Ayrshires in this
country, and we do not recollect having
seen better anywhere. Ofthe three years
old bull Hero we probably cannot say
more i'm commentator than that he has
been kept for three years as the only
stock getter of that very popular firm
Messrs. J. p. and T. A. Dawes, of La
chine, p. O., and they consented 20 part
with him only because of his relation
ship TO several of the best members of
their herd, and their having imported
directly from Scotland a successor. OF
the other individuals of the herd Mr.. b.
hasa cow and three calves, Mr.. Alison A.
Herrick a COW and one calf, Mr.. Charles
Osgood a COW and two years old bull,
and NJ. Joseph b. Robinson a COW.
Though thus distributed we understand
the ownership is still joint. For the
COW Whitley" kept at Mr.. Herricks
they were recently offered a certain bank
divided amounting to five hundred and
twenty-eight dollars, which was not
deemed a sufficient consideration to in
duce them to part with her
OF these animals il should he remark
ed that although possessed OF ali the pc
culiar characteristics of the breed they
are not in poins Of size or in any other
particular one whit behind the best of
other breeds kept in this section of the
country. That they are as large as the |
beef breeds of the West is not claimed |
of them. They have been bred with re-
ference to their milking qualities, but 1
how the prevailing fallacy in regard to
their size has obtained is a mystery.
There are three cheese factories in |
town, one half mile southeast from |
the depot, one three miles south in the |
Mars neighborhOod, and one at ''the /
River or West Milton. They are all |
lifted up in the best manner with the |
best apparatus, and have thus far met |
the expectations of their projectors, |
though as this is the first season the ex- |
pertinent cannot be said to be sufficient /
ly perfected to give absolute results. |
They have the milk of about two hun |
dred cows each. The best arrangement |
Tor feeding hogs that we have ever seen
is in use there, but saw no really
fine hogs, though there are some heavy |
ones.
We believe that there is as much i'm
Improvement to be made in the swine
as in the cattle or Milton.
We could not but deprecate the waste.
particularly around the cheese factory
hog pens of matter that might. at q
slight expense, be made available for
fertilizing the sandy lands of which
there Is a very large proportion all
through the town. If instead of endur-
ing the stencil or attempting to stifie it
by use of costly deodorizers they would
use Tor obsorbents the marsh mud and
muck of which there are inexhaustible
supplies near by, both results would be
secured at profit instead of an unre-
Enumerated expense.
The crops are generally good. though
grass and wheat on the sandy lands /
nave been injured slightly by the
drought.
Corn looks well, and these is a large
area devoted to it. Mr.. Barnum has i'm
'lie aggregate over 120 acres. Very lit
iie corn Is planted without manure in
ihe NH, and plaster and ashes both in
'he null and on the top after it comes
up Inc farmers of Milton have live
~ recollection of the time when thew
bought pure Nova Scotia plaster ground
at the River" and they appreciate the
establishment at Malletts Bay, which is
turning out pure article again. Fuit
is almost failure. Mr.. J. b. Robinson
has fine pear orchard with fair ouan-
tity of fruit, but nearly every pear Is i'm
perfect and quite worthless.
o. s. b.
SHORT HORN CATTLE-Mr T.