Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

lands except where there Is some question
of title or peculiar conditions Of ownership
are in some way fertilized, and such farms
as are not under cultivation have been
turned into pasture. Upon the pasture
lands farm buildings may have been allowed
to 60 to decay and some farms have been
used for the growing of wood. The change
in our farming methods from raising our
own breadstuffs to dairy farming, requires
larger farms with less labor for their culti-
vation. Location has more influence on the
value of farms now than it had in the past.
The farmer uses less and less of his own
products. The modern conveniences of city
and village lie with their so-called social
and educational advantages are drawing
away the population to business centers and
farm property is depreciating. 1t has now
no certain and fixed value in New Hamp-
shire. At a forced sale it will only bring
the honest estimate of its worth and the
conditions of its purchase are changed.
"I believe" continues Mr.. Gold, "that
there is no better place to bring up child
than on Connecticut farm. The boasted
high schools of cities and villages fail to
give him that habit of foresight and that
self-dependence so necessary to success.
Many of the farms of Connecticut
HAVE NEVER BEEN SOLD
and they are still occupied by the descend
ants of those pioneers who cleared away the
to such farms, but we'll managed by fam
lily trained to frugality they furnish means
for liberal housekeeping, generous hospital
ity, education of the children. charity and
the institutions of religion. The supply of
village and city markets have largely en-
hanced the value of farms in some localities
in Connecticut, and in other places not so
we'll located there is no sale and there is a
consequent depression of prices. The most
of the money saving by our farmers goes
into Western loans"
Representative Boutelle, of Maine, in
speaking of the beauties of the scenery of
his State and of the prosperous condition of
ITS farmers, tells me that large number of
Western mortgages are held by them. He
describes Kansas man, who, in travelling
through Maine, stopped over night with a
a farmer. The farmer had 16O acres of
stony land, and the Kansas man asked him
how in the world he could get a living off
such barren soil. He replied that he did it
by cultivating it and selling the products,
and that he not only made a living, but
had something each year to invest. He
thereupon asked the Kansas man as to the
value of certain property in the town in
which he lived.
GROWING DEEDS OF TRUST.
He seemed to know all about Kansas
bank stocks and Kansas mortgages, and
finally opening box in one corner Of the
parlor he took out number OF papers,
which, upon examination, proved to be
deeds of trust on the most valuable property
of the county in which his visitor lived.
"These," said the Maine Yankee, "came
put of that barren, stony ground, and you
will find dozen of my neighbors who have
grown other seeds quite as valuable on no
better SOIL"
Senator Frye, of Maine, tells me that
such vacant farms as exist in his State are
far from the railroads. "Our boys have |
left them and the old people are not able to
carry them on. Some of our young men 60
West. Others are engaged in the maDufac-
uring interests of the East and we have a
ew who stay at home. Maine is far bet |
er State than it gets credit for. We have, |
n fact, some of the best farming land in the |
United States. and in the northern part of |
Aroostook county a man raised, last season, |
'4S bushels of potatoes on a single acre of |
and, and the wheat raised in that county is
'etter, both in quantity and quality, than
my grown this side OF the Rocky Noun
aims. Our river valleys all contain fine
arming lands, and Ex-Governor Robbie, who
S President of the State Grange of Maine,
ately made statement in which he said
hat 70 per cent of the farmers of Maine are |
making money"
That these abandoned farms will be reoc-
upied and retilled within few years seems
ure beyond doubt, and the interest that has
een awakened in the subject is already
ringing to the leading men Of these dis
riots letters from all parts of the United
states. FRANK G. CARPENTER.