The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-05-23

The farm is worth over $4,000, winters
rs head of cattle, and is well fenced with
the stone cleared from the grounds The
first year, the man made enough to pay
the whole expenses for three years, max
ing the labor Of the two last years clear
profit. From starting with nothing, by
merely hiring or working farms on shares,
he has come now to possess farm worth
$4,000, and bids fair to become rich
man. In another instance an English
man, a sailor, married widow with
children, hired farm OF 1870 acres at the
rate of $500 year; raised one and a
half acres of tobacco, four of corn, one
and half of potatoes a good garden
kept six cows and laid up $500 year.
His help was boy of the family fifteen
years old.
A common Irishman took an old farm
on shares, which had been run at loss
by hired help, and was what would be
called poor farm. He hires an emigrant
from Ireland at $40 a month for six
months raises three acres of tobacco, sew
eral acres of corn and potatoes, keeps six
cows and eight or ten other head, raises
tobacco plants for the market at SO
thousand, and then has a good garden on
the ground. He also raises the common
grain crops. He is furnished with all the
tobacco stems he can use by the owner,
which he composts with muck and barn
yard manure. After supporting his fami.
ly, he has saved S2500 year, and that
farm will be enhanced in value every
year.
can cite numerous instances similar
to this last, where common Irishmen in
this town have commenced with nothing,
and from working farms on shares, have
come to own farms themselves, and where
poor men have bought farms and worked
them till they have become the owners.
On the bleak hills of Hartland, an ignor-
ant Irishman bought farm for $4,000.
After getting it mortgaged to the State
School Fund at 6 per cent, he bought q
moving machine, a sowing machine, and
other implements for the household, and
paid for them on time The annual pay
ments on the farm are met, while the
family is growing:
What these men are doing can be done
by any man Of common sense and ordin-
airy application Thousands of families
are rich through theprofts of dairying in
Connecticut. Others make large profits
from butter-making. Some are satisfied
ed to sell their milk to cheese factories,
or to the city market. Enterprising fam
lilies keep one or two hundred fowls. which
are managed by the female members with
a profit which exceeds that realized from
sheep. Some raise small fruits and truck
for the markets, and feel encouraged to
extend the business. One of my neigh
bors, besides taking care of a number Of
men, picked 800 worth of wortleberries,
and twice that sum in chestnuts and wal
nuts. | have known two women and a
boy to raise an acre of onions, which at
present prices would be very profitable.
We have raised sometimes SO bushels on
one-eighth Of an acre realizing over 500
for the same, besides carrying on large
farm.
Farmers in New England, under all
the adverse influences Of an austere eli.
mate, an old soil, with costly labor and
with injudicious and oppressive taxation,
are generally thrifty. Many ofthem bring
to their labor a wealth of information
CLEANED from the schools and the common
fields of experience, which gives just rea.
son to be proud of their fellowship. II
is through the reflection of such minds
from the public press. that the masses are
to be advanced, and their calling elevated
in popular regard.
That there are failures here, selling
out and emigrating of many to the west,
is very true that others continue on
very poor is also true. But is not this
the rule throughout all occupations
Such things generally argue a want Of
adaptation to the business, if not want
Of tact for any business.
The growing of tobacco, saying moth.
ing of the moral or physical bearings Of
the question, is business attended with
profits sufficient to enrich any people,
The cultivation is becoming very general
wherever there is adaptation. The small.
est farmers raise it, and hang it in the
same house where they live and sleep
So justly celebrated has become the
connecticut Seed Leaf among manu-.
facturers and consumers, that designing
men are mixing it with the coarse growth
Of the west, in order to secure the large
prices which the "Seed Leaf" commands
Some small farmers here made sales last
year to the amount of $4,000. The ca
pacity of their farms increases every veal
with the culture; some of them have
more than doubled in value.
The apple crop in this vicinity is
paying one. Most farmers are wei
stocked with trees, which are Seeding O.
grated. One farmer sold in a singh
year to the still, apples to the amount o
$1,000, which cost him only the gather
ing and carting
The mechanic or merchant may handl
more money in year than farmer, blu
scarcely retain so much after balancing
accounts. The farmer raises almost ev
erything necessary for home consumption
and whatever may be wanting he can ex
change for at the marts Of trade. But
ter and honey, corn and wheat, milk an,
cream, pork, beef aud mutton, all tn
vegetables and fruits of the field an
garden, with wine and cider pure iron
the press to relish with pop corn and nut
these are the daily provisions of tn
farmer through the year. These neces
, saries to all and Injuries to many, ar
common blessings to the farmer, and ar
reckoned Of little account; and yet the
, are OF the greatest value to health an
happiness. Whoever is endowed with
lively appreciation of the good things {
life, is in love with the beauties of natur,
: and has faith to light up all the change
f of human experience with its rays, wi