The Republican journal., 1885-11-12
At the Heart of Waldo.
THE EDITOR OF THE HOME FARM AMONG THE
BELFAST FARMERS.

| letteF On houHtdlu MeauoW far1n. In tne IOl
lowing article he continues his notes on Belfas
and Northport:
| Our first call that morning after leaving Bro
| Ellis was at the farm of his eldest son, Mr.
Gilbert r. Ellis, who owns a snug farm OF
| eighty acres, a mile or so away from the ole
| ''home farm'-a snug. warmly-placed, pro
| ductive farm which the young owner is put
| ting into good shape from box stall to moving
| field, just as fast as he can. Young Mr.. Ellis
has something of fancy for good colts and has
handsome little string of them in bis stable
with which to begin his breeding operations
| These comprise three-year-old flly weighing
1040-a granddaughter of Gideon, out of q
mare by Gllbreth Knox; year-old filly weigh
ing 500 pounds, and very handsome and
promising tive-months old colt-a having the
same dam. We rode over to one of Mr.. Ellis
fields to look at piece of new seeding, and see
the result of dressing with ashes. A field of
twelve acres, clayey loan, one-half seeded last
fall GSS4). and one-haIf last spring-all seeded
to oats. Fifteen hundred bushels of ashes were
applied to the field and the results were most
marked-a thick, heavy, deep green look to the
uniform stand of new grass, which, at the
time of our VISIT covered the ground with a
rank growth. Mr.. Ellis is young farmer,
full of vim and energy, having before him the
pattern of good example of high farming on
the old farm which he left, and Is sure to make
his mark as successful farmer and breeder. 1t
Is most satisfactory, once in while in this good
State of ours, to find man SO much in love
with the business of farming, and carrying it
on so successfully, that his sons, even when
given the choice and opportunity to engage in
some other business, do not do 50, but, imta-
ting the fathers example prefer to remain on
the farm and devote their energies to the busi-
ness of agriculture. This Mr.. Gilbert Ellis has
done, and so has another and younger brother,
who helps his father carry on the home farm
royal son, who will soon be the head mana
ger, we suppose, on this large farm,
MIR. Arthur |. BroWn-one of the brightest
and most influential members of Equity Grange.
Belfast-has a pleasantlylocated city farm of
forty acres, on Waldo Avenue, placed at Just
about the right distance from the post office
and in the best possible location to enjoy what
Willis called, country life within city reach.'
Of this farm about fifteen acres are under cu-
tivation, much more ''than | can cultivate well, y
says MIR. BrOwn-a conclusion to which other
farmers than MIR. Brown have arrived. though
not like him, in so few Years after taking the
farm In hand. There are scores of farmers,
who, after quite wearing out their farms, and
almost wearing out themselves in hard work,
come to the conclusion that they are trying to
farm too many acres. A man is sensible who
makes this discovery early in his farming eX-
perience. and sets about reform. Approach
ing MIR. Browns home from the city, we first
get view OF hls young apple orchard of some
thing over fifty trees-mostly New Workers.
very thrifty, and loaded with an abundant
house and some of tho l.nd ahont and ,,Jar
the trees is oiven IA small fr,,its yyhirh fnr,,,
quite a speciality in Mr.. Browns farm-garden-
ing. he has about an acre set to Strawberries.
blackberres and raspberries. One year ago he
this season nicked far market ahnnt fen hush.
els besides an abundance uSnd of noma tCho
variety crown / the Aoawam WYNN ;s ,ar-
fectlv hardy very nrodnetive snd of oood oral-
itv of rasIhorr;as Nr pro,rn nraff,, Tf"th
hsrt and 0toon nf 10 WrI'at n; o.
acre in sTrawhorrias i. sat ant to HiIson
Sharnia.s Nannbastar .,,d Iarsor n,oo,' Ti
latter he astaene hinhost for hono,a ~. Sbari1
less and Wisnn fo, he marlaf creen on.'l ,}o.s +
lea1ino cron win NJ prn,rn a,,i ,,,,pn ~ tho
.an,a Ignd ha aisa ,1la,ts and r,c,,, i,a ,ns
snuashes a. Second nro,' ~ r6a sri,I, "fei fer
early neas are nJaced thrpe feet anart md
every third drill or row is 1I.nte,l tn Sonash,.s
thus bringing the drills nine feet apart. The
laho ! heaVlly manufed ana well cultivated,
thc meas are markote5 the sn3ash rem,in in soo
possession of the ground. Last season Mr..
hro"u ialseu lhree anu hall tons oi squash
of Weld from his oardan-farm tbis Iast snp,oar
We're seventeen thousand ears of sweet corn-
an uialheteo ia ti1e clsy.
inst on me noint Of hIrryno of far [nrth,"rt
and our little visit was much more limited
than we could have wished. Later in the day.
however, we met him at the grove, where we
were also introduced 10 his wife-and il was
MIR. Brown who kindly took us up to the sum
nit Of .Old Bluff" MI. Percival-where was
obtained a proud view of the two universities
Mr. Hamerton calls thenl-the measuIeless
ocean of the air, and the limitess eXpanse of
sea, union and combination of these sublime
features of nature which one gains new and
more vast conception OF in viewing them from
50 high an elevation.
We fplt hurried yhiIp at Dra, for
everybody, we know, was in a hurry to be off
for Northport. But, notwithstanding this
haste, we could not bear to drive past the head
quarters of that splendid county paper the Re
publican Journal, for we wanted to see the
ideal editorial sanctum of the country editor
which our old friend Simpson so well described
in his essay read at the meeting of the Maine
Press Association few years before his death.
The essa1 rafarred to was a,,+itIJ ..rto
TESS i's hela'iohs 10 fatrohs ana the iubhc'
was read by W. III. Simpson, editor of the Re-
nubljcan Journal at the animal meatino of the
49, ,..
Ni"ihe lless Associatloh III January 1910, ana
perhaps WE may be permitted to say that is
one of The hest nanars avor road hefore that
Associatieh. Altef descflolhS the ONCE OF the
city daily Mr.. Simpson says:
ssrTbis is the American iournaI in IFS larpest
most extended. and comprehensive yiew-the
wonderful result of tho entarnrisa and mind of
the nineteenth centurv tCnrr we to tha h,,p,-
bier but NOT less meritorions snhere of tbe cajl-
ing. the country newsnaner If has berone a
living and Indispensable feature of semi rur,J
life. and az much "a the more nretentio:.s g
sheets. supplies 4 public want and flls an hon.
orable place in the great world of letters. LET
us look i'm unon the conductor AZ we find him
in a thousand workstons of the brain. All over
this broad land-and in no other for the Amer
lean newspaper is INDIGENOUS 10 the .oil M
towering structure of brick or marble nresents
to Won lis imposing front. Ground room
abounds. and the pronrietor dislkes lbe asnir.
alton of stairs. There is epouoh Of treadmill
in his occupation without that His modest
Office rises but a single story, crowned hv an
attic roof. The one annie floor Is at once com
posing room. press and MAILING room In one
corner. partitionpd for the seclnsion Of the
CHIEF. is The historic sanetnm. The editor is 3,
man of taste. therefore is his literary habjtation
attractive. A neat carpet covers The tloor.
pictures hang upon The walI-portraits of no,
iitical heroes of tbe mast or The future sayiours
of a bleeding country: a well-filed hook ease
stands at one side. with heavy cvconeIias as
its chief wealth. and the bound yolnmes Of the
editors own journal balastino lis secnre base,
Conveniently are nlaced the desk and easv
chair. There are evidences that Nv a rommoi3,
attraction all things remarkable oravitste n
This as a common Center from all the countrv
round The biggest eoo of the moet ambi,Ions
hen. tbe LARGEST trace of maize NJ ia great
corn wear: the tail of the raccoon 1h,t fotteI
on that same corn. and was butchered tn make
!, Roman halliday on a mooniiohi nioht there
are snecmens ri the cold ore t6at va tn m,te