The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-13

down hill in burrows. lie is fully aware
that dead burrows and ridges are a nuisance
and hopes that ere long means may be de-
vised to avoid them altogether. His ideal
of ploughing would be to have perfect
swivel or reversible plough, and commence
on one side Of the field and plough back
and forth, throwing the burrows right and
left until the field was finished. lie hopes
such plough will yet he perfected. Such
an implement, mounted on wheels, would
meet his ideas Of a perfect plough.
FRUIT GROWING.
Otis Chamberlain of POmfret, Vt. says:
"Suppose you plant hill of corn in MAY
and give it no care and attention until the
1st Of October, would you expect TO pick
from II eight or ten good sized ears OF corn,
well filled and well rpencd? Suppose you
set out an apple tree in some old pasture or
on some old grass ground and let it live if
it can give it no care and attention, let
the grass grow around it, the cattle browse
IL for eight or ten years, the worms strip it
Of its foliage every year, the small and ten
der twigs and small limbs become covered
with the bla, k louise, and the branches so
thick that nothing larger than a squirrel can
get into tree. would you expect to grow
fine, nice apples. highly favored, from such
tree? ! should not. We have many
/ acres tl lNnU III our lOWI not worth more
| than ten, twelve or fifteen dollars per acre,
| that would grow good apple trees. Take,
| for example, one acre of land worth S15,
and set it with apple trees. If you set
them twenty-five feet apart you can set sey-
enty trees. and if thirty feet apart about
| fifty trees. These trees. if they are well
cared for in fifteen or eighteen years will
be large enough to grow, in good fruit
| growing seasons, on an average two bar
rels of good. marketable apples, worth 81
per barrel thus, from seventy trees. You
would get $40 barrels, which at 81 per
barrel, would amount to $3.50. In an or
| binary. or poor fruit year you might ex-
| peCt fifty barrels, worth 81 per barrel
amounting to 5000, saying nothing for the
windfals and refuse fruit, and what apples
had been grown from the time of setting
tor eighteen years, which would twice pay
for the trees and all time spent in taking
care Of them. | think barrel of good
market apples can be grown as cheap as a
barrel of good potatoes. and they will sell
for two and three times the price of po-
tatOes.
A barrel of good apples can be grown as
cheap or cheaper than two bushels of corn
and will bring on an average twice as much
as two bushels of corn | might go on and
name many other products of the farm and
I
you say that an acre of land with an orch
ard of apple trees yielding two hundred
dollars In order to get an orchard of APP
Pile trees producing the most money get the
best varieties of apples and do not attempt
to raise but four kinds. and then take the
best care of your ground and trees.
1t is stated that by a careful analysis it
has been found that apples contain larger
amount of phosphorus or brain food, than
any other fruit or vegetable, and on this
account they are very important to sedcnt-
airy men, who work their brain rather than
their muscles. They also contain the acids
which are needed every day especially for
sedentary men, the action of whose liver is
sluggish, to eliminate elfete matter, which,
if retained in the system, produces iuaction
of the brain, and, indeed OF the whole sys-
TEN, causing iaundlce, sleepiness, scurvy
and troublesome diseases of the skin.
A CLERKS SUCCESS OF A FARM.
An enterprlsng farmer in Vermont,
once a clerk, relates his success in the fol-
lowing communication to the Ne,o Eng
hnd Fdrmer. "Seven years ago | bought
a farm of $50 acres for Sl2 900: the stock
and tools cost me $4,000 more. had &C.
900 to pay down, which left me in debt
5000. The first year | kept cash ac-
count, and found my receipts 5000 per
month and my expenses about 500, in
Guiding interest and help. The first year
paid two notes, both before they were due,
and in each succeeding year paid my
discount by doing SO. | should have said in
the first place that | had dairy of forty
cows, and sugar bush of 1,600 trees.
From these two sources | received most of
nv money, though ] sold Il few tons of
hay, a few bushels of oats, corn, beans, po-
tatOcs and apples. | also raised some pork
to sell each year, and occasionally fat
COW or a yoke of oxen, when they were no
longer useful for the dairy or the yoke.
FIom seven colonies Of bees | received Il
steady income and increase my stock each
year. But without going into details will
say that at the end of six years | sold my
farm back to the man of whom | bought
it. He had been West. and came back
/ thoroughly homesick, and wanted his old
home. In no one of the six years did
clear less than $500.
Now, take my 50 900 and my age, thirty
years, and suppose that | should live to the
allotted age of man (three score years and
, ten. and each year add $500 and interest
, at six per cent, and think it will compare
: favorably with the profits of any of the
professions. do not say that | have not
made more than $500 any year, but | dc
say that this is the least made in any one
, of the six years At the same time | have
had an experience which is worth more t.
A., me than all the rest. | have helped build
/ one railroad by taking one share of its
, stock and paying for it, and | have en-
, deavorcl to do my share toward the sup.
port of society, and toward encouraging
every enterprise which is for the publ,
good. | take and read at least five papers
, and fad money to pay for the same in adj
r vance. Some of the glitter and show OF
, our city and village cousins, which has SC
long daZcd the country youth, has beer
sadly dimmed by recent events in our com
, mercial cities and manufacturing towns,
and some journcymcn, clerks, etc, who
, have for years had large salaries or wage
: are now looking forward to hard winter
without employment or work, with feal
and trembling. The prices of the farmer
produce may he somewhat lessened by
, these business crashes, but he knows moth
!, ing of the dread of being "out of work
:, for weeks and months, with empty cellars
y storcrooms and woodsheds. have not al
y luded to my success as a farmer with an,
!, desire to boast.
y | have done only what thousands %
" farmers are doing throughout New Eng
land and while it is said on every hant
that farming don't pay, | claim that it doe
d pay, and shall purchase another large farm
i the first chance | find which suits. If
e have said anything which will help tn
g young farmer, or inspire in him hope an
i confidence am satisfied. Engage il
q some straightforward work and follow
to success, though you fail the first time
/ Some will tell you to breed horses other
ID will say there is fortune in the poutr
lie business others will recommend beans o
rs hops and one man told me / could pay 70
lie my farm by buying crab-apple trees o
IN him! My advice to the young farmer Is
I'd " Go not after them, nor follow their &C
ID vice, but take counsel from some success
I'd full man, and none other. have made til
st bee business pay very proftably, payin