The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-08

the swamp holes and the stone, and making
some of the most fertile land on the farm.
The buildings were repaired and made
more convenient and comfortable, and u
good cellar put under the barn. The old
orchard was pruned, grated with better
varieties, dug around and MANFRED, and
young trees set out and properly taken care
of. Stable manure bought in the neigh
boring cities and literally applied to the
land, much of it first being composted with
peat dug at first from the bog holes / spoke
of, and afterward from the neighboring
pond. New land, never before cultivated
perhaps, has been brought into good con-
dition, and the old lands made more fertile,
and the process of improvement is still 60
ing on, for this was not the work of the
first year or two years, but has been done
throughout the whole period of his owner
ship. Not even money, more powerful
than the genii that Aladdin coniured up, is
entitled to the credit of this improvement.
l. has not been done by the tree expendi-
ture of capital, though money has been
spent when it was well assured that il
would bring money back again. Nothing
has been done merely for the sake of out
side show. There are now kept three
horses and eight or ten head of cattle, and
there is hay to sell, The orchard of both
pear and apple trees is well filled with
handsome fruit of such kinds.as find the
most ready market at paying prices. On
side hill, which | was told few years
ago resembled strip near by, covered with
locust, white birch and other scrubby look
ing trees and bushes, wherever they could
grow among the rocks, is now one of the
best looking peach orchards ever saw in
New England. The trees bear this year
for the first time, and although more than
half the fruit has been thnned off for the
benefit of the remainder, yet there was
more than enough lett on most of trees
and it would evidently be necessary togive
most of the branches some support to pre-
vent the weight of the fruit from breaking
them down. If the fruit had been ripe
enough | should have volunteered my SER
vices to trim few limbs Although locust
trees near by we C dying from the effects
of the borers that had worked through
them until the ground around them looked
as If wood sawyer had been plying his
trade at their butts, not a borer was TO be
found among the peach trees. The owner
attributed this to the effects of ashes put
around the trunk of each peach tree. 1t
had also paid as II fertilizer for the trees.
The currant and raspberry bushes and
! strawberry bed had yielded large and prof
| ltublN NlOIS1 NllIt lIlt SuiNth
showed what land could do that had been
well MANFRED and had not wasted its
strength IN growing crops of weeds. There
was an acre of onions that thought would
| yield six hundred bushels. | made some
remark about the manure used on it, and
| was informed that the land was so rich
now as not to need very heavy manuring
He only put on eighteen cords this year,
beside the surface dressing of ashes and re-
fuse lime from the tanhery. l told one of
my neighbors of that and he wanted to
know ''how much would he have to put on If
il had been only ordinary land?" He thought
that quantity of manure ,o, chit to raise on
ions without any land at all. There was a
field of potatoes that had not hand hoe
in them this year, and they were as clear of
weeds as any | ever saw. new tool ILL.,
vented by workman on the farm, and not
yet put on the market, had been used to
make the furrOw. cover the potatoes and
do all the hoeing, by horse power
l have been thus particular in describing
this farm because 1t is III no sonso show
farm. The improvements have been OF o
practical character, well calculated to pay
profit, and do not doubt that they have
every one of them. And it has been man
aged by a man who was well known " OF
change" in Boston fifteen years ago, ant
who would not have been suspected by
many of his acquaintance then of knowing
cabbage fIom potato unless they were
cooked. The capital invested has not beei
more than majority of farmers have il
their business, and many of them do no
get living out of ii, as good as they
would get if their money was in the banl
and they worked only half as hard as the,
do now. / saw no signs of any specially il
| tln Lttei, n meth n1
The whole thing was simply energy, atten
ton to business, and doing well whateye
was undertaken
Under this management the farm ha
yielded profit large enough to support
large family, at least, and has increased
/ twofold in value for farming purposes, inde
/ pendent of any increase in value OF Liant
: for other purposes. / left there with bel
ter hopes of farming as business for thos
+ who manage properly, and greater DISCUS
at the slip-shod, any fashion way of farl
management of which | see so much, an
! which | am far from being free from my
O self, than had when went there.
r There are plenty of farms in tins regio
7 where much more capital is invested an
a more labor employed than on TIE far
n spoken of in the above paragraph, and the
q serve simply as hobbies upon which Il
i. owners can spend their money. This
,r not from any lack of skill on the part I
,r the farm managers, but because they a
# not conducted with any view to prof
~ Plenty of produce Is raised, but little OF
. is sold. If any of it is sold it will be so
=, for what it will bring, without regard
~ market price, or it is fed out to the hogs
N cattle, whether it is, or is not, worth ha
" the price tor that purpose that it would 81
~ for. Half dozen horses are kept to
a the work of two; two or three yoke OF OK
NJ to do the work of one yoke. When tn
n are bought, the best are bought that can
p. found and fancy prices are paid TIT
m when it becomes necessary to sell, they
q. often sold for less than the first cost, thou
at their feed has been enough to have fatt
nv two slim yoke for the butcher, and thu
10 labor has not half paid for it. Everythi
-, is managed for the sake of outside sho
i regardless of expense. / have but lit
or more patience with such management tn
va | have with the more common fault OF !
he giecting the farm. In talking with g
a tleman in Boston, who is interested in
70 riculture, although not a farmer, me
toned this class of farms to him, and
told me of brother-in-law of his who h
d, farm so managed, although under
NJ charge of flrst-rate foreman. lie thong
It, seriously Of selling the farm as being
ny expensive a luxury, and my informer 81
"a, us gested to him that he should offer the f
ne ne mer a percentage on the profit, as an
III ducement to him to make the farm prof
on able, IN addition to his wages. The pl
osl was tried, and resulted to mutual adv
III tagc. The farmer began to look out to l.
ISL at the right time and sell at the right tin
er- to produce such as would sell at remune
'us tives, and to stop various leaks which W
os- likely to reduce his profits.
90 The plan has worked well. The farm
on has Increased his wages in proportion to
Oh, labor. care and GOOD Judgment. while
of o,.oor has received some return for his
I'VE vestment, instead of having to put but M
me each year for the privilege of owning
~ farm. am convinced that it might W,