Connecticut western news., 1872-01-12

TWe clip from the COLUMBIA REPUBLICAN, of Oct 31st 1871, the following letter from MT. Wm. A. Wolcott, who was formerly resident Of this town.l
 I came to Vincland five years ago, from Litchfield county. Conn.,, where farmed. 1 own in Vineand a farm of forty six acres. Since have lived in Vineland, the health of myself and family has been excellent better than we ever enjoyed at the North. The land have found highly productive.
 l can give an instance of the productive ness of this sod, by giving history of my corn crop.
 Three years ago planted corn upon broken grass sod, without manure, and it produced seventy five bushels of shelled corn to the acre. never could have ob- tained such crops in Connecticut. To have produced the same results where l came from, l would have had to use from forty to fifty loads of good barn yard manure to tue acre. The system of cultivation that l pursued was that of regular farming; that is, kept the land mellow by going through the corn with a cultivator twice week, one each way until it got up high as horse S back.
 Any regular farmer conid do as well and probably better, as l am not full hand, being lame in one leg. Cultivation is of  the land requires no more cultivation in this place than in other places. i am wri- ting this for regular farmers, who will un- derstand me, not for a class of people who sometimes come here or go West to play farming, and cannot do three hours of regu- lar farm work upon their places in any one day.
 have found this land good for crops. generally, and my grass crop has cut from two tons to two and d half tons to tue acre.
 had one season half acre of tobacco. 1 used upon this tobacco ten loads of barn yard manure, and the crop was nine hun drcd weight. had raised tobacco in Con- necticut, and l considered this an excellent crop.
 I have upon my place both vineyard and peach orchard.
 From only one hundred vines, three years old, I. had fourteen hundred weight of marketable grapes, and got for them one hundred and forty dollars. The vines did not cover d quarter of acre of land. From two vines got P lbs. each, and from one vine 24 lb.
 My peach orchard turned out satisfac- torily. From eight hundred trees, four years old, had seven hundred crates of marketable peaches, containing a bushel each crate, and which netted me one dollar and twenty-five cents per crate. This was the average, though some sold as high as two and three dollars per crate.
 1 have sold this year from my place eleven hundred and forty dollars worth of stuff; ten hundred and fifty dollars worth of grapes and peaches, forty dollars worth of sweet potatoes, and fifty dollars worth other stuff, asparagus and the like, and have considerable ou hand
 have worked the place almost entirely myself though lame man. All the cost that paid for hired labor was thirty one dollars for last year.
 My corn crop, hay, and much other pro- duce have on hand. My corn was upon four acres and half.
 The land is easily worked, and by simply working it large crops can easily be raised. To raise extra large crops it is only neces- sary to farm upon clover sod, the same as they do in Michigan, a system of fertiliz-