The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-04-18
WHAT WITH YOUR FARM.

InefG are not lew entertaining
people of the cities, who imagine that
q farm Of one or two hundred acres
has a way of managing itself; and
that it works out crops and cattle from
time to time, very much as small beer
works into foamy ripeness, by law
Of its own necessity.
Iwish with all my heart that it were
true; but it is not. For successful
farming, there must be well digested
plan Of operations, and the faithful
execution Of that plan.
am satisfied that a great deal Of
hindrance is done to agricultural pro-
gress by those who, while they have
only the best intentions in the matter,
have, nevertheless, famed it i'll prodi-
Gal and careless manner, to be INDUCED
in only by those having large means,
and having written glowingly Of their
efforts have led other men Of less means
to try the same line Of farming to their
ruin. My friend, Mr.. Tallweed, for
instance, after accommodating fortune
in the city, is disposed to put on the
dignity Of country pursuits, and adj
vance the interests Of agriculture. He
purchases a valuable place, builds his
villa, plants, refts, eXhausts architec-
tural resources in his outbuildings, all
under the advice of shrewd Scotch
man recommended by Thorburn, and
can presently make such show of dam
ty cattle, and of mammothvegetables,
as excites the stare Of the neighbor
hood, and leads to his enrolment
among the dignitaries of the County
Society.
But the neighbors who stare have
their occasional chat with the canny
Scot, from: whom they learn that the
expenses of the business are "gay
large" they pass a quiet side wink
from one to the other, as they look at
the vaulted cellars, and the cumbrous
machinery they remark quietly that
the multitude Of implements does not
forbid the employment Of multitude
of farm "hands;" they shake their
heads ominously at the extraordinary
purchases of grain they observe that
the pet calves are usually INDUCED
with 50 wet nurse, in the shape of some
rawboned native COW, bought specially
to add to the resources of the fine
blooded dam; and with these things
in their mind-they reflect.
IF the results are large, it seems to
them that the means are still more ex-
traordiary; if they wonder at the size
of the crops, they wonder still more
at the liberality Of the expenditure it
seems to them, after full comparison
of notes with the "braw" Scot, that
even their own stinted crops would
show a better balance, sheet for the
farm. 1t appears to them that il
premium crops and straightforward
animals can only be had by such pro-
digious appliances of men and money,
that fine farming is not profession to
grow rich, by. And yet, ur-doubtful
friends Of the homespun will enjoy the
neighborhood. of such a farmer, and
profit BY it; they love to sell him
"likely young colts )" they eagerly
furnish him with butter Cat the. town
price,, and | ossibly with eggs; his
own fowls Being mostly fancy ones
bred for premiums, and indisposed tC
lay largely; in short, they like to tai
his superfuities in a hundred ways
They admire Mr.. Tallweed, particular.
ly upon Far days, when he appears
in the digsity of manager for some
special interest; and remark, among
themselves, that "the Squire makes