Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-12-06

is 40x60 feet, and four stories high. The
wall Is made of concrete, -water-li lime, sand
and stone of all sizes, mixed and shovelled
into box, which Is raised and retilled as
the work advances. The wall for the first,
or basement story IL twenty inches thick,
the Second sixteen, and tho others twelve
inches. The building is held from spread
ing by iron rods running across. The base
ment IL used for manure cellar the Sec
ond floor for stock, and the others for hay
and grain. There is a chimney in one end
with an apparatus for stcamng food.
small one-horse threshing machine and
power. stood on one of the floors, with
moving machine and other implements,
half buried in loose oats, over which the
hens were running at random. We saw
no fine stock in the stalls, as had been rep
resented, and everything looked loose and
sbiftless about the premises.
One of Mr.. Greeiey's hobbies, about
which he has written much, is irrigation.
lie thinks there are half million home
steads in the United States which have nat
ural facilities for irrigation at least equal TO
his, and many of them far greater; that
nearly every farm on either slope of the
Alleghanies throughout district at least
thousand miles long, by three hundred
wide, might be at least partially irrigated
by means of dam costing from twenty
FIVE to hundred dollars; so might half
the farms in New England and New York.
He thinks there are those now living who
will sec the prairies watcred by means of
artesian wells.
He said when he first bought land In 1858,
he fully purposed to provide for watering
his nearly level acres at will.
He accordingly constructed two dams
across his upland stream with that view,
but they were so badly planned that the
floods of the next spring carried them Off.
| One of them was rebuilt OF massive gran
lite and good job, although be submitted
TO a miscaculaton which provided for taxi
ing the water out Of the pond by means of
syphon over bank which rose fifteen or
twenty feet above the waters surface.
Air of course worked into the pipe after
a day or two, and prevented the working
of the syphon. Had taken it from the
bottom OF the pond, through my DAM" he
said. at would have run always Tor so long
as there was water covering its inlet in the
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law "o' N'' '''o "e"'' WI 'ne .'IeaiS) u
revise and correct its errors" His next
attempt was on 4 smaller scale, and works,
we should judge, quite successfully. To-
ward the north end of the farm the hillside
is broken by terrace which gives three or
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lhis running ior presiuent ana running
iarm al Inc me time IS not Just tho thing"
we vehtnred to suggest that he could
not make much Roadway with moving
machine under the trees, and there was
hardly room TO drive between them; that
hoes were not just the tools to fl K his ditch
with that if he would furnish a couple OF
shovels we would try our hand with him
at ditching, amer dinner that although he
might beat us at chopping we thought we
could hold our own with him in a ditch.
81 don't brag much on chopping," said
he. 81 do 1t more for exercise and recrea-