The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-10-29
Mountain Meadow Farm.


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Mountain Meadow Farm,
AN AGRIC ULTUR RAJ EDITOR AMONG THE BEL
FAST FARMERS.
s 7. Boardman ESQ the editor of the Home
VIZ w..
al H. was the Sueet VI Nun l''H"HI' " i-iii'
of Bella >t recently. and has written a Very in
terestina account of his visit here. II i. too
-onS 10 reproduce III luI' Dul olhll'lhg OH! the
purely personal paragraphs we give his des-
ar;ntion of NIoputair Meadow L'or,,,
,.,,.
me Honlt farm OF MI E'.i> comprises Hnc
iunV GU a. an " "a III gu "a, VftO 80
ol thS IOau' pun tIi1>eH LVI P">tultt re-
<eNthta atltS' MI EIlS ma !tsiu'u ~ 'niN
farm some GieNen years: nav M previously
lFSu III Nol MOL 'uSa ~ iInIl,S o'e1 a.
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GIs ~ nne o.; anu iiio>l "i'apit MN io4.es
III Ma'nL' NE usual p 5!uel ld5ion l. Ivy
quaI's snolt>, one guar lhILah 'ntal or FotloH
sea lleal: 1--WE 5iiHe> gay i" hth II NJ Darn ne
vi ov"inS d ian a'o VI "a anu Al
dU"illon ~ soou nay was dISo iT'dIh5 out 10
1iIs oiie ~ d uHH VI !"p toNVI
~ e9Aia C"'' u' '1e VI iEe II was mat
sne Cow "lu ny, uo @s wen VI IL ~ oh Coi Ii
Sialhs-nol ul4 ,htH sleiu a> hiugh HIN on Tue
I!oNel aut anu Icu ~ tntih III ne cllp III; me
ui''eis y a. Iut' a. Ine4 ulu H'H sl"Hls tht
'orel iloih tnc Helu' III 1-iils hd> ltu Colh
anu COD ilta 10 some extent anu thinks IL AS
Soou' anu gives - soou Ie>ults a. Fdtloh oi
oHt-haii co i iLeaI anu oiie-haii oat meal
Turing an MI Lllis laIi H7 operations MS
ann seems ~ haNt peel 10 Increase we nay
lop' as thelepH 'l!e amount % stoch "HCh the
ann N4h t'liH ihCioaeou, anu VIM LUIS
eoLes lie means VI Iucleaseu leltl.its 10 tne
helus' u a. MI Ems expresses II. Ne mas
~" lhaue lnlee spires ol grass 10 gro" on MS
idl III " htle out one SIt" "Ieh ne LOOK IL IN
hand, ana ne Is now after the fourth as hard as
ever Ne was alteT me thifd' Inc n@ures OF
grass prouucton eieNen year ago ana now teii
lnS stoIA OF increase. linen lht farm cut |" en-
y IONS OF nay now II cuts sixty IN rev
years more ol MS COCO hu>bahury MI EMS
VIII adu lhe olher 1ourth splre TO al MS now
ing acres ana then he VIII ron on his elghtY
tons from the same surface which now gives
MN Sixty. Ashes nave Deen great factor IN
thlS WORK OF renoN alton, anu MI EMS places
great 1alth IN them. Indeed, next 10 farm
dressing draWn from the barn cellar, Mi. Ellis
esteems ashes as the great formula Tor bringing
up our grass llelds. lhey are generally applied
at the rate OF TWO hundred bushels per acre of
reached ashes, or one hundred and nifty bushels
OF dry ashes, Mir. Ellis says he can turn over
a run out hoId, apply the above quantity of
ashes. get a good crop Of hay and thereby III the
y
IN succession. He Is satisfied that the l>he.
VIII beat the manure twice over All this and
much more concerning the history OF this farm
we talk over as We hurriedly tramp from or
chard TO pasture, and then to other fields and
over the farm buildings. The soil seems natur-
al orchard land, trees of Baidwns. Greetings
and other varieties were heavily loaded with
fruit. Mr.. Ellis believes in grating and reno
waiting old trees and helping them to produce
good crops OF fruit RAJ her than in cutting them
down as many farmers do. a tree that i, 50
Old as to be thought almost worthless may be
made valuable little piece OF property. In
evidence OF this we went across the road 10
look at very large apple tree, which Mr. Ellis
thought was as many a hundred years old.
wherein he had set two years ago two hundred
>cions. They We're, most Of them, doing spien-
didly. and the tree is good for another genera
ton with good crops right along. How much
better this l. than TO cut them down and ami
hllate them, as so many tanners do, " hen trees
that have borne well begin to topple over and
fall up. An apple tree i not like man-il j.
not old at seventy or hundred Years. and with
grating. manuring and pruning, will take a
new lease of Ilfe and generally reward its own
er for such care.
Then. the horse beng harnes>td-and, by the