The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-05
EXPERIMENTAL FARMING.
Improbable Agricultural Pursuits Of q Dis
appointed HeIress and Her Husband.

CAprOHtaDlO agricultural PURSUITS OF p O1S-
appointed Heiress and Her Husband.
New York Dial.
A lady the daughter Of wealthy Pittsburger
whose large estate after his decease almost dis
appeared among wrangling heirs, and formed a
fat feast for the lawyers, recently tried farming
on the south shore of Long Island. Among her
other schemes was a scientific poultry yard, con-
had bright, prophetic vision, brighter than the
view of any other part of her grand plan, unless
It might be the apiary, the stock farm, or the
dairy.
She has been irving it now for about a year.
This morning she said to a Dial hand that she
was going to move to New Jersey and quit farm
ing. She parted with several stray scraps of a
years experience in agriculture that would be
worth money to visionary sentimental denizens
Of the city, who think that farming is not only
romantic, but profitable, and that all one has to
do who has a penehant for looking like a French
peasant a Vatican shepherdess, a cowboy or a
Brook Farm milk maid is to go farming look
picturesque, and make money.
She said: when we went to tho farm we
thought first we would have a dairy, and in con
nection Herewith, a milk route in Brooklyn, and
maybe make great name in milk. We thought
our milk would be so nice that everybody would
want it, / remember at home we used to have
such beautiful Alderney and Jersey cows, but pa
didn't care snap what they cost Well, we
rented the farm for year to see how we were
going to like it. We made lots Of improvements
verandas and high peaked roof with profusion
of Madeira vines and Virginia creepers, itlooked
just too lovely. But that don't amount to any
thing now with sigh because, when the year
was up, they put 81, 600 more on the price be-
cause of the improvements we had made, and
then we had used up a good part of the money
we were going to buy it with i'll making those
same improvements and in farming.
After a while we succeeded in getting FIVE
cows, but they did not look bit like the pretty
creatures we used to have at home. / guess we
fed them too high; One choked to death trying
to swallow whole carrot, and another used to
kick the pail over that held what little milk she
did give. did not dare milk her myself, and
Mr. G. used to break out and swear when he
tried it He said he was sorry but he could
not help it. TWAS such terrible example for
the children, though, that we had to sell Rosy
for $25 We paid $50 for her The man that
bought her told our hired man afterward that he
had got good bargain, for all she needed was a
good kicking herself, which he used to give her.
OF course we were not cruel enough to think of
that.
1T was great deal of trouble to arrange
with man who had milk route in Brooklyn,
but we did finally, and soon after we began with
him there was great talk about swill milk and
he was caught selling some of it. He did not
get any from US, but it was shown that he was
dealing with us and people thought, suppose,
that we were just too horrid.
I'VE have sold our horses, One of them
used to lie down in the stable and we could not
get IL up AGAIN without gettng Derrick Ihe
other one that we used in the carriage we paid
5000 for. She kicked herself to death
How did you get along with your poultrylp
"Why Matched out one hundred chicks as
nice as could be- My incubator just held one
hundred eggs, and every one of them had a
chicken in it. That was splendid luck But
they all died afterward, because it was very
early in the season, and I had no artificial
mother
What is an artificial mother9s asked the
Dial hand, hesitating little at displaying his
ignorance
The lady laughed and said 1t isn't anything
with feathers made to look like hen. It's
more like an oven. Something like the incu-
bator itself; only that the pipes run different
way, and the temperature is not so hot.
thought would not go to the expense of one
until / saw whether my incubator would work
or not, but that's where made mistake
What particular branch of agriculture are
you experimenting with nowP
None. Charley goes fishing with the fisher
men. He used to go with them for fun, but now
he goes in earnest. Sometimes he makes So a
day. Farming costs that much sometimes.
Next week / think we are going to move to
Jersey. and he is going to get position as
clerk in a hat store. He used to own one before
we were married. We have not quite decided
to go to Jersey. It is so hard to decide. That
| is one of the worst features of poverty that
have discovered ?