St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-05-01

ness OF the river winch runs through the
town nearly in the middle. and is a
largc as the Pawtucket, in Smthtield.
Early in May | begun to chop down
the trees-my camp was built the It'll
and on the >ixte | let the fire run
through about seven acres, which by the
end of the first week in June was cleared
off and planted with corn, (in the Indian
manncr,) potatoes variety of other
things for family use, as squashes, cucum-
bers, beans, turuips of both kinds, &c.
In July | had got about ten and an
half acres more chopped, and let the fire
run through it: this cleared up, and
in August sowed an acre and half with
oats to supply feed for my horse and
i'll September, put i'll the rest. (nime acres)
with wheat, which came up well; the
whole ten acres and an half Is Sown with
red and white clover seed. The work
did all by hand,-not having a single
minute OF OK work about the whole
except half day to draw stuff for my
camp and half day TO draw timber for
a ~aw-mili-0f one yoke of oxen.
On the 10th Of June | was joined by
three new hands. who helped me in the
above work, and in August | had two
carpentes, who built 4 saw-mill.
have chopped. besides the above, on
my homestead lot, about twcnty-~iN
acres. and girdlcd thirty acres more, so
that ! have an opcniu" of toriy-three
acres besides the girdled land TO begin
upon the next spring.
But my labor> were not confined to a
single lot. / chopped down on other and
different lots, 10 the amount of titv-tour
acres more. with the same hands-but a
part OF this my workmcn did on their
own lots.
labored under great disadvantages in
making this hcginnlny: the nearest mill
of nv provisions brought from twenty
six to thirty miles distance, through a
considerable part of which WAS no pas
sable way for a loaded horse. - that
WAS under necessity of making log ca
noe thirty feet long TO freight i'll my
stores 10y the river. which WIS rapid and
had several carrying places to pass.
The season proving wet. prevented my
burning any more than before IN, uli u...d.
and when | bad chynpci - nrch ;~ |
JUDGED I.ul.nt, ! "m lowed my haud- ia
'm9>in1 roads. bridges. *. Nr.-:u,d III
surveying different townships lonhrd
out and marked through about thirty
miles lur roads I'm different directions,
and cut ont -iNicru ml,- and dug and
brii@cd where u"cr->,iry. to make II pas
sable One brid.c | built twelve feet
high. covered eighty feet long and twenty
feet wide. besides several lesser ones. 81
that we shall soon have an excellent
good road.
NV hands surveyed the outlines OF
four other townships besides 81. Johns
Y bury, at an average distance thirty mile,
= in the wilderness above my camp, anl
+ | had to supply them with provisions an'
necesSari,- for that business. This was
= work OF great latiguc and took up iiy,
: of nv men 4 considerable time, beside
A those who carried out their provisions,
n was myself at one time ten ni@hi~ sue
,cc-~ivrly IN the woods, without shelter
. ON the bu-inc,, Of looking roads, hu
blessed with a very healihful climate, no
{ one man was sick through the who'll,
season: and believe there i not in any
: paIt Of the world more healthy coun
=, try: this renders it doublv valuable Il
me.
My corn, which | mentioned before tC
= be planted in June, grew well il yield
1 ed twenty-five bushels to the acre, and
t had tor my first crop about seventy
. bushels. My potatoes yielded five hun
Ircd siNty-tour and onc-half bushel
measured out, and | have secured againS
: next campaign about thirty bushels O
Il common. and twelve bushels French tur
II nips, and some cabbages, dc.
expect to sow about four acres o
. spring wheat and two ACRES Of flax, a
! carly as the season permits ON the lane
II where my corn and potatoes grew las
o season, which VIII make thirteen acre
Il OF wheat in all and mean 10 plant from
=, twenty to twenty-five acres OF corn, In
dian plant for my next crop, and get II
= besides considerable Of fall wheat.
c In my last | mentioned it would Civ
u me pleasure to accommodate some O
your smart Smithlicld young men wit
i rood land for farms the present price
one dollar per acrc,-twcnty dollars OF
III an hundred acres in hard money down
/, fifty dollars iii neat cattle i'll 81.
e months, and thirty dollars in neat slocI
n or grain in eighteen months, or rs gran
may be grown on the land. If improved
Immediately the next season with inter
II est on each payment until paid. ShouI
/ any wish to come and see before the
ST purchase, it will suit me best, as the Ian
1 will bear examining, and | have n
=. doubt could they csfne up next June an
:? see my heginnin@ growth, ei2ht o.. Z
i ten would purchase n.meiltc!y.
Ny brother viii inform you OF ever
: other of our maigcrS,-and with wi,hl
. tor your health and happiness, in whic
, Mrs. Arnold joins, an respectfully.
i, Your dutiiui son,
III JpNA. ARNOLD.
,e u. 5. Since writing the foregoing
: great have been our distress and our los,
~ My brother will inform the particular:
", and to whom | must refer.
III GIDEON CoMsroCK, Esq.
How To CURE \ CoLp.-The mC
ment a man is satisfied he has taken col
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