St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26

eve had this year 1000 acres il
wheat and 1000 acres enough to feed
the stock) in oats. Nine successive
crops have been raised off this land,
and this year our wheat averaged four
teen, fifteen and sixteen bushels to the
acre. Next year we will begin to sum-
mer fallOw, letting about 1000 acres
lie idle each season till II has all had Il
rest. We expect that after the sum
mer following the yield will be from
| twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre.
"The 81, 900 acres are divided into
| three farms of nearly equal size. For
each of these there is "A headquarters,
with a superintendent, bOOkkeeper,
foreman, agent and other officers.
| These farms are again divided into
sections of 2OOO acres each under di-
vision foreman, who carries out the
orders from headquarters, transmitted
to him by telephone. Each division
has its boarding house, with men cooks.
In the spring seeding about 500 men
are employed, and during the harvest
about 1000. In the fall all the hands
are discharged except sufficient to at
tend the 400 or 800 horses and mules
quarters there is store, upon which
the cooks make requisition for all pro-
visions. The whole thing is SO systema-
tized that we can tell To Il cent the cost
of n meals victuals for man, and the
cost of seeding, reaping or ploughing
an acre of ground. We ship all our
wheat to Duluth and thence to Buffalo,
where we find the best market. To-
day wheat sells in Bnffale for four
cents more, after the shipping expenses
are allowed for. than at Duluth.
Cleveland Bays for General-Use Horses.
There is a large number of horse
breeders who are not fully satisfied
with any of the breeds now permanent
~ before the public, SO far as they
have tried them, for the production of
large, rangy, stylish horse, suitable
alike for the work of the farm and the
pleasure of the drive. The draft is too
big, the thoroughbred is too light, and
the trotteT, while not large enough,
natures too slowly and takes too much
money to develop. The medium weight
English Shire produces the model of
an all-work hOrSe-lOw down, com
pact, blocky and active, with good
form and splendid legs and feet 4; but
he doesn't quite fill the bill for the fas-
tiHiOus lover of horses who, admiring
the blOOd-like appearance of the thor
Oughbred and the road qualities of the
trottcr, requires the weight of the me-
dunn draft. just here comes the Cleve-
land Bay, combining in remarkable
measure the last described qualities.
1t is now pretty generally known
among hOrscmen in America that the
Cleveland Bays as originally bred were
used on the mail coaches of Englsnd. I
They weighed from 1000 TO 100 pounds,
and were remarkable for their strength /
and endurance, as also for their ability /
to pull those pOndeTOus vehicles at a
good round road speed. During the /
past fifty years their size has been con
reduced by fresh infusion |
of the blood of the race horse, which .
has effected an increase in speed with |
out materially reducing their strength, |
the reduction in size being more than /
by increased nerve.
They may very properly he called the |
royal horse of England and, in fact, of .
Europe, as the strongest competition .
American buyers have to encounter is 4
from the agents of the crowned heads /
and wealthy nobility and gentry who
come annually to England to procure
the finest specimens of the breed, and /
which may be seen attached to- the .
equipages upon the fash
lOnable drives in every city in Great .
Britain and Europe.
A century's breeding in one direction
with one purpose in view, has thor
Dughlyly established the breed and
their strength Of blood is attested by
the remarkable uniformity with which
the general characteristics of the breed
color, form, style and quality-are
even to their grade off
spring, and any one who will take the
trouble to look over IA large number of
,hese horses and see, as | have re-
Gently, in one stable nearly seventy
i've specimens of the breed. and note
heir uniform size, color and form -
will be convinced, as | was, that they
are the coming general-purpoSe horse
Of America G. II. V. in Breeders
Gazette.