Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-03-09
AGRICULTURAL.
THE FARM OF WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs.


Among the notable farms in the State may
properly be mentioned that of William III
Evarts, of Windsor. Not notable especially
on account of any special evidence OF ten
dency to farming in methodieal manner
on the part of the eminent lawyer Of New
York, but because, with business that give:
him good income, as report indicates, hav
ing q front rank among the lawyers Of the
land, he chooses to live part of the year ir
Vermont, and has lately invested twenty
thousand dollars in real estate. in addition tc
that which he previously owned.
AT the session of the State grange nj
Windsor there was a little delay in preparing
the hall, so that a crowd of grangers went
out on the main street northerly, labout hall
mile, to the farm buildings on the Evarts
farm. The barn is large and has basement
on a level with the yard, while the horse
stable and main floor are upon the first
floor
In the horse stable one matched span si
driving horses were twenty-five and twenty
six years old, respectively, yet were in good
condition, and stylish drivers. Another
workhorse is of large size and OF such
strength that he drew at one time one and
one-quarter 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
dicate any system in breeding. In this
stable were also six oxen, and | was told
that each one would weigh a ton, or over
four thousand pounds per pair. They were
red in color, in excellent condition, and are
kept for a working team.
Among the two hundred sheep in the base
ment, around the rocks, there seemed the
same indifference shown in regard to pure
blood-the wrinkled Merino, brown-faced
Southdown, and long-legged Canada sheep,
nibbling hay side by side. (Once the Con-
necticut River SO overfowed that two hum
dred sheep wereYdrowned in this yard.) We
next turn into a yard where the crowd are
10 oking at the Shorthorn bull, Max, sired by
CT imax out of COW whose dam cost eight
hun dred dollars, bought of A. W. Griswold.
of Malvern farms Max has made a good
growth, and tips the scale at eighteen hun
dred pounds He is a two-year-old. There
are fifteen calves about in this yard and ada
cent pens, showing similar want Of unifor-
NIFTY as the sheep and COWS.
We next visit the piggery, which is very
complete, new, warm and well-ighted. We
first enter the cook-room, where large ket-
tie is set in an arch for cooking food. 1t has
a tin cover, and from its conical center a
small tin pipe leads into the chimney, SO
that steam and odors are conducted of. This
cover is lifted by a pulley, and as the cord
hangs SO temptingly near, we swing up the
cover and see the cooked corn neal. 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 Berkshres but we
found them all white, and concluded that if
they were imported they must be Yorkshires,
we should now say the Medium Yorkshires 4"
Heretofore the Yorkshires have been kept
and seen at L. S. Drew's, in South Burling-
ton, and the small Yorkshires, or prince
Albert Sufiolks, at Rector Cages, in Addi-
son. These in size, are between the two.
If they are Sufolks, or small Yorkshires,
they are remarkably fine specimens Of the
breed. The best looking lot of pigs in the
State as far as | have sesn. | think, how
ever. that the yellow granulated substance
in the corners Of their troughs, steamed
corn meal) contributed to their good looks
But corn meal can't make the short nose and
symm etrical 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 it was
husk ed by the bushel the amount is doubt
less nearly correct. The farm reaches 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 out
lying land is used tor pasture and wood. The
Whole seems as well managed as the average
farms Of Vermont. z, z. J.-tChronicle.