The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-10-26
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The Rer. Hcary Ward Boceberi
i4sto habits are Use suhicct a.
uk TvA5ns lafcst contribution 70
Buffalo Express Tie whole 49,
e e eRireu e1r fgHuy. but that
rtiesa = h.cA relates Is Mr ltetcli-
farming experience Is 10 the boz
ariks u,asi eatgAragaut sein. ard
site equal O. he bee, etiofts X is
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Mr.. Heechefs farm consists q
fhirtysir acres and il carried 90
siric, scientific principles. lie new
er puta IN any part u crop with
oal consulting bis book. lie plowt
and resps aud Dig and sowt Arcort
iag 70 The bost authorities and the
authorities coai more than fhe other
farming implement, a. A. soon a.
the iihiaFy i complete, the farm VIII
begin to 10 b. = profitable inyest-
nlent ila. book farming has Ia
diawhActA Upon one occasion,
when e seemed morally certain.
that che hay ought 70 he cut tie
book coeld not De fosnd aud before
il Vas found x was too late aal the
bay was al spoiled.
Mr. Beecber raises some al the
finest cf3ps II wheat IN the country.
Bot the unfaToFable difference be-
tween tie cost q producing i and its
market value after i is produced has
intericred considerably with lis suc-
cess ~ commercial enterprise.
Ills special weakness Is hogs, howey-
er. He considers hogs the best
game a farm produces. He buys the
original PIX for dollar and halt.
and feeds Tim forty dollars worth Of
corn, aud then. sells him FOR about
nine dollars Thu i the only crop
be ever makes any onoy on. lie
loscs on tie corn, but be makes sew
en- dollars and half on the hog =
lie does not mind this, because he
never expects to make anything on
corn, anyway. Aud any way it
turns out, he has tile excitement Of
raising the hog any how, whether he
gets the worth Of him or not. His
strawberries would be comfortable
success II the robbins would cat tur-
nips, but they wont hence the diff
Guilty.
One Of Mr.. Beecher's most haras-
sing difficulties in his farming opera
tions comes Of the close resemblance
Of different sorts Of seeds snd plants
TO each other. Two years ogo, his
far-sightedness warned him that there
was going 10 be great scarcity Of
water melons, aud therefore he put
in crop Of twenty-seven acres of
that fruit. But when they came up
they turned out to be pumpkins, and
dead loss was the consequen &C. -
Sometimes a portion Of his crop goes
into the ground the most promising
sweet potatoes, and comes up the in
fernalist carrots-tt ough j have
never heard him express it in just
that way. When he bought his farm,
he found one egg in every hens nest
on the place. He aid that here was
just the reason why so many farmers
failed-they scattered their forces
too much concentration was the
idea. SO he gathered those eggs to
geiher and put them under one ex-
perienced old hen. That ben roost-
cd over that contract night and day
for eleven weeks, under the anxious
personal supervision Of Mr.. Beechcr
himself, but she could not ''phase"
those eggs. Whyf Because they
were those infamous porcelain things
which are used by ingenious and
fraudulent farmers IN "uest eggs
But perhaps Mr.. Beecher's most dis
astrous experience WAS the time he
tried 70 raise an immense crop Of
dried apples, lie planted fifteen
hundred dollars worth, but never a
one sprouled. lilo has never been
able TO understand to this day, what
was the matter With these apples. !"
Mark Twain concludes his sketch
with glowing eulogy in which hui
NOR gives place to genuine adnira-
ton. "He has BET his mark upon
his epoch says Mr.. Clemens,
land years hence, when the people
turu over the bales and bundles Of
this generations ideas. they will
find III. w. B. stencilled on d
good many Of them.