St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-04-21
The Hay Ono Largr Farm is
MUnGYTI


At the American Institute Farmers
Club, committee was appointed TO visit
"Beacon Farm" Northport, Lon. Is
land. The Committee made tie follow
ing report:
In 1868 there were on the place six
or eight cows, pair Of mules, horse
or two, and 800 head of Mcrino sheep
They made about - loads Of manure
The coo acres Of arabic land was cut in
to twenty or more small fields, divided
from each other by old hedge rows, full
of briars and small ccjlars. Several hun
drcd acres were in an old common, that
yielded scant pasture for two or three
months in summer. Much Of this COM
mon was ovcrgrown with oak bushes,
little cellars, and hickory stunts. Now
We ii"d the farm stocked with 50 horned
cattle, Of superior thoroughbred stock
- horses, 81 sheep, - hogs, 800 hens,
and 50 ducks, and lie buys no hay, 10
corn or oats, no roots. lie has fifty
acres in one clover field The sole out
lay for cattle food. is about 500 for
wheat shorts. Instead OF - loads of
manure, We estimate his compost piles
for use this spring and summer, to con-
tain 5000 loads.
farnnr i nat -. t,oorv-., ofr,rt onJ -
w;sl ,,oroIv-osit i :, with thausanI,
un moLos : TLor, or, ,ha 'r,,'5, ;"','nns,
honl.s of;t st,n,I;n', C,tLon, ,IoaT :,
,I'a r1a;r s,ooI. '.ar'5 onI Ina';, ui :"
,Lo Cnrra,ms or IN H. - eli, III ~
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'Iaas, -, ,,,I -, I y. I.iI 80 ~
aII ''',' i i''u"' S ~ 0 ,,'u'ea rI III .ii'
.'olO III - II '''ii my -i'ii''fe iii''h-
me Io''l l'o'ti!'S 80 o'i 'ii' 60. t"u''u
iio u!y vi "ih'c' ~ lioEen put IL secs
additions to the piles OF fertilizers no
summer morning without its round of
chores that swell the heap. "Eycrv
thing lie says, ''must have a mother,
and manure is the mother Of all things
lie keeps an OK team, and has them driv-
en- steadily at work the year round, haul,
ing absorbents and composing stuff.
His task is, five loads before dinner and
five after dinner of leaves from the wood
lands, muck, weeds and salt mud. His
is that the solid droppings of
a cow or OK amount to something like
ten loads in a year, and that ten loads of
muck and leaves should be composted
with it. For manure making he says
four sheep equal a cow, a horse equals
two COWS, and two hogs equal cow.
Pasture land he does not believe in.
Young animals and milch cows should
have small range, and run in it an
hour or two for exercise. But quarter
OF mile Il day is all the walk q mich
COW needs. This forcing COW to range
over Il "ide reach OF NIL anu swamp anu
Mil" of i "in"i ho ;ns; ,Hr me naterIai to make
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