The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
CULTIVATED FARMS.


The Elijah Burton Farm of Manchester.
Editor SITTER About l-2 miles South
of Manchester courthouse, and on the
road known as the valley road, Mr. Graves
G. Burton owns the farm known as the
Elijah Burton farm. The first purchase
was of l25 acres, which constitutes what
is called the home farm. Several years
later IA hill pasture lot of 100 acres, lying
west of home farm, was added. The
home farm has been owned by gr nd
father and by father and by son for so
years, and wears the features of early and
constant care. Mr.. Burton k cps so
head of cattle and horses, and cuts
about 80 tons of hay. He had 6 acres of
corn last year and 10 acres of oats acre
of buekwheat, and acre of potatoes. He
MIXED % cows last year and manufactures
milk into butter and pork; makes gilt
edge article Of butter, for which he has
customers in New York at good prices.
Mr.. Burton taps 250 naples, and sells
about so barrels of apples per year; two
families are supplied with all necessary
farm pl oducts, and the cash sales of the
remainder for the last two years has not
varied much from fifteen hundred dollars
per year. Mr.. Burton, like all liberal
minded farmers, never weighs or meas
ures for family use, but supplies all the
needs of his families and sells the re-
mainder. | have aimed at briefness ia
reporting few Cultivated Farms" Mr.
SITTER, and to give through your paper
just such information to farmers as they
would seek in personal interviews with
each other; and 1 have avoided lengthy
historical maeters, knowing that you had
not the space to spare, nor | the ability
features about the settlement of Mr.
Burton's neighbolhOud that are as fixed
and prominent as the mountains on each
side of its fertile valley, so please indulge
me in few words of history in regard
to Burton's family. Mr.. Elijah Burton,
the grandfather became the owner of the
home ia, m in 1910 but did not move on
1t until 1914. When Mr.. Elijah Burton
came on TO his farm he was 81 years of
age, and his son, Joseph, (father of G.
G.) was 25 years of age. Among Mr..
Burton's neighbors at that early day we
nd na.n
Samuel Pet ibone, Daniel Purdy, Jesse
Hard, Abner Hill and Horatio Walker
And | understand that no public highway
passed Mr. Burton's and his neighbors
until 1924, 10 years after these people had
settled there. Mr.. Elijah Burton lived
on the farm 30 years, and died at the age
of SO years, and his son, Joseph, lived on
the farm SO years, and died in 1867 at the
age of f5 years; since that time Mr.. G.
G. Burton has owned and occupied it.
| dare not ask for more space this time,
bun If some of the grand children of the
people named as neighbors will kindly
assist with statistics | shall be pleased to
give yoa more at future time.
j
BARNUMvILLE, Mar. 14th, 1890.
The SITTER will give Cd" all the
space he wants for any such matters.
1t believes in Vermont and her peo-
pie, especially of this class about
which he writes privatel y, as follows ::
sit is an interesting neighborhood, not
because it is the best laud in Manchester,
but because it was settled with a good
element. The 7th verse of Proverbs 10,
is wonderfully verified: The just man
walketh in his integrity; his children are
blessed Almost the first thing these
old pioneers did was to organize that
church al the street. and the next thing
they did was TO 90 to church regularly
and take the family; and today there are
several, yes, nearly all of the farms are
occupied and owned free from incum-
brance by the grand children, and not
one of the farms has been sold out the
family"