Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-09-19
some specimen New Enslnnd Enrm..


Apropos to the question of the prospects
of New England farmers and the free
trade camor about the alleged decline of
New England agriculture lsays the Boston
Journal, we find some facts IN one or two
of our contemporaries which show how i'm
portant the personal factor is in these equa-
tons. For example, the Springfield Union
mentions the case o1 a farmer who went To
Nebraska from Franklin county Mass
and who has among ms relatives an ener.
geuc Young farmer n North sunderland
The latter. ia answer 90 his cousins boast
over the superior advantages of western
farming offered "a wager that he would
mike more out of a given number of acres
ou his farm than the Nebraska man could
make ON hi- The competition was tried
and was % victory for the North Suuder
land man. He was obliged to make more
generous use of fertilizers than the other
but the nearness of a market and the op-
portuniues for vegetable gardening gave
such returns that the New Highlander was
considerably ahead after paying for ms fer
tihlcr-
ln like manner. the Hartford Oourant
gives this account of the results secured bv
Frederick Ellsworth of Hartford ON farm
oi about l>6 acres in East Windsor Conn
The Oouraut says
EVERY wear since he began the farm
has yielded more than the cost of conduct
ln- lt. Last year was about the worst
Tins year promises to he one of the best
fltI.
en- acres of Havana seed every leaf of
which is nov hanging under cover. 10 is
estimated To- yield $500 10 1900 pounds To
the acre. The corn this year will he the
envy of Western farmers 1t Is already
glazed and practically safe from frost and
m large abundant ears. 1t will run from
100 to 20 bushels ON the ear to the acre.
equivalent 90 from 30 To- 80 bushels shelled
Potatoes are doing something better than
200 bushels TO the acre He has Beauty OF
Hebron, Early Rose and New Queen. Thir.
~ acres of grass has put a little more than
- tons OF hay IN the barns and IN stack.
and one experimental acre gave four tons
MIR. Ellsworth keeps an account with each
lot, and ne knows what results come from
different processes and where the profit Is
Ills principal crops this year are as fol-
lows
Potatoes 3lo0 TO $500 bushels
ttNh 2nuu bushels on the ear
ltaN 80 tons
Rye 300 h,,shrI.
Havana seed tobacco 20 acres 5000 10 l4nlUIh.
These are the principal products Eight
hundred healthy peach trees furnished no
fruit tins year. OF course there are cows.
pigs etc, ON the farm and there is an am
pie chicken yard enclosed in wire fence. "
Yet when Mr.. Ellsworth bought this farm
it had been worked over year after wear
aud not renewed, and people laughed at
the idea of making anything out of it. So
at North Sunderland there Is land as good
as that ON which the results described have
been secured which lies unproductive. wait
ing for some one with energy and knoul
edge sufficient TO get the most out of it,.
Similarly the Berkshire County Eagle of
Pittsiield, Mass, says
Although free trade newspapers are
having a great deal To say about the de
cline of agriculture in New England. the
people who are best informed about 1t know
that there Is nothing IN such talk There
Is an instance right at hand The smith
farm IN lee produced crop of nav this
season estimated at zoo tons 1t was all
gathered bv machinery in 30 DAYS with 1G
men. In one day 40 loads were harvested
That is a great record. even in these DAYS
of machine work. Think what an army of
men with scythes, hand rakes and forks
and OK carts would have been required tn
gather such a crop 30 or - years ago. and
what quantities of ginger pop, cider aud
New England rum would have been CON
sumed The Smith farm did not begin TO
have storage for It's crop and stacked great
quantities, making stacks - feet wide and
100 feet long
The same paper also reports that several
farms have recently been sold to city PEG
pie in Washington, Beckett and Monterey
and that the farms taken up during the
year at New Marlboro are undergoing tex
tensive Improvements