Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-21
Vermont Farms.

Among the notable farms in the state may
properly be mentioned that of William NJ.
Evarts, of Windsor Not notable especially
on account of any special evidence of a ten
dency to farming in methodical manner
on the part of the eminent lawyer of New
York. but because, with business that gives
him good income, as report indicates.
having front rank among the lawyers OF
the land, he chooses to live part of the yeai
in Vermont and has lately invested twenty
thousand dollars in real estate, in addition
to that which he previously owned
At the session of the state grange at
Windsor there was a little delay in preparing
the hall, so that crowd of grangers went
out on the nam street northerly, about hall
mile to the farm buildings on the Evarts
farm. The barn is large and has base
ment on level with the yard, while the
horse stable and main floor are upon the
first floor
In the horse stable one matched span of
driving horses were twenty-five and twenty
condition, and stylish drivers Anotherwork-
horse is of large size and of such strength
that he drew at one time one and one-quartei
cords Of green wood on piece of bare
ground. There are sixteen horses and colts.
In the COW stables were twenty cows, some
Jerseys some grades and some Shorthorns.
There was not such uniformity as would in
dictate any system in breeding In this
stable were also six oxen, and was told
that each one would weigh ton, or over
four thousand pounds per pair. They were
red in color, in excellent condition. and are
kept for working team.
Among the two hundred sheep in the
basement, around the rocks, there seemed
the same indifference shown in regard to
pure blood-the wrinked Merino, brown
faced Southdown, and long-legged Canada
sheep, nibbling hay side by side. (Once the
Connecticut River so overlooked that two
hundred sheep were drowned in this yard.)
We next turn into yard where the crowd
are looking at the Shorthorn bull, Max,
IL
cost eight hundred dollars, bought of A. w.
Griswold, of Malvern farms. Max has made
good growth, aud tips the scale at eighteen
hundred pounds. He is two-year-old
There are fifteen calves about in this yard
and adjacent pens, showing similar want OF
uniformity as the sheep and cows.
We next visit the piggery, which is very
complete, new, warm and well lighted. We
first enter the cook-room, where large kettle
is set in an arch for cooking food. 1t has
a tin cover, and from its conical center
small tin pipe leads into the chimney, so
that steam and odors are conducted off
This cover is lifted by pulley, and as the
cord hangs so temptingly near we swing
up the cover and see the cooked corn meal
We pass into the walk with four or five
pens each side, and passing along count
thirty as fine pigs as one would wish to see.
The man who acted as our guide said that
he believed these pigs were imported Berk-
shires, but we found them all ,chde, and con-
cluded that if they were imported they must
" Medium Yorkshires" Heretofore the large
Yorkshires have been kept and seen at L. $,
Drew's, in South Burlington, and the small
Yorkshires, or "Prince Albert Suffolks,"
at Rector Cages, in Addison. These, in
size, are between the two. If they are suf-
folks, or small Yorkshires, they are remark
ably fine specimens of the breed, and "a very
desirable species of pigs. The best looking
lot of pigs in the state as far as have seen.
| think however that the yellow graduated
substance in the corners of their troughs,
(steamed corn meaD contributed to their
good looks. But corn meal can't make the
short nose aud symmetrical body. The breed
is good one.
The crops on the farm were mostly in two
hundred tons of hay and in nineteen acres
Of corn which yielded about two thousand
two hundred bushels of ears. As il was
husked by the bushel the amount is doubt
less nearly correct. The farm reaches a
mile along the river in its meadow land
but there are five hundred acres in the home
farm, two hundred in Cornish, and one hun
dred and fifty in Reading. Much of the
outlying land is used Tor pasture and wood
The whole seems as well managed as the
average farms of Vermont. z.E.J.