Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
FARMING IN NEW ENGLAND.
Evidence that There is Still Money in 1T IL
Intelligenily Conducted.

On an elevated plateau in East
Windsor Mr.. Frederick Ellsworth of
this city has farm of 100 acres that is
worth the careful study of those who
profess that farming in Connecticut is
played out" This farm is ten and a
half miles from Hartford. two miles
east OF the Connecticut River, and on
ground $50 feet above the river level
SO that the view up, down, and across
the valley is ample, and so, of course,
beautiful, for any wide sweep of Con-
necticut scenery is bound to be beauti-
full. Mr.. Ellsworth bought part of his
farm eight years ago and the rest later.
When he got it the land was literally
starved 1t had been worked year
after year and not renewed, and people
laughed at the idea of trying to make
anything out of it. The land yielded
about six bushels of rye to the acre or
about thirty bushels of corn in the ear.
He proceeded to feed it. as we'll as to
clear and otherW Use improve it, and
thus furnish it the means to yield with.
AS a result of intelligent planning and
honest, steady work, the farm that at
first was laughed at has become ex-
ceedingly fertile and very productive
property. Mr.. Ellsworth does not
claim for it any exceptional advant
ages, but said to a Cour0,at representa-
tive who went over the farm with him
recently that the same results could BE-
got elsewhere by similar methods. Ia
four years after he took possession the
land that had yielded thirty bushels of
corn on the ear to the acre yielded 100
bushels, and the next year three and
one-half acres of it yielded ten and one
half tons of hay, and in five years aftel
he began on the land that was unwill-
ingly giving six bushels of rye to the
acre he got almost three tons of hay to
the acre.
Every year since he began the farm
has yielded more than the cost of con-
Quoting it. Last year was about the
worst. This year promises to be one
of the best. The tobacco crop is very
fine. He has seven acres of Havana
seed, every leaf of which is now hang
ing under cover. 1t is estimated to
yield l. 800 to 1900 pounds to the acre.
The corn this wear will be the envy of
Western farmers. 1t is already glazed
and practically safe from frost, and in
large, abundant ears. 1t will run from
100 to 125 bushels on the ear to the
acre, equivalent to from 30 to 65 BUSH
els shelled. Potatoes are doing some
thing better than 200 bushels to the
acre. He has Beauty of Hilson, Early
Rose. and New Queen. Thirty acres
of grass have put little more than Is
tons of hay in the barns and in the
stack, and one experimental acre gave
four tons. Mr.. Ellsworth keeps an ac-
count with each lot, and he knows what
results come from different processes
and where the profit is.
His principal crops this year are as
follows;
Potatoes, 3, 600 to $500 bushels.
Corn, 1000 bushes on the ear.
Hay, 10 tons.
Rye. 800 bushels.
Havana seed tobacco e acres, 139 U to H,OOG
pounds.
These are the principal products.
Eight hundred healthy peach trees fur
nished no fruit this year. Of course
there are COWS. pigs. &c, on the farm,
anil there is an ample chicken yard en-
closed in wire fence.
The farm is in direct charge of Mr..
George Bartlett. native of East
Windsor, who lives the year round in
the farmhouse on the place. About
105 acres are now under cultivation
Hartford COurdnt.