The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-03-27
JOHN wALToN's FARM


HsdB'i yon better subscribe Tor ~
Z tell you. 20. | hsvent the none,
10 spare Ard. il l hsd. ! bsrent got ibs
time to waste over aewspspers sald Lber
Sawyer. with some emphasis
( Bot yon viii gain much information
from IL IN the course Of the year, sir. par
sued John Walton.
tell you, dou'i wsoi ill
This was spoken so ddly .al bluntly
tba, Walton said 90 more. bat folded up
tie prospectus OF periodical which he
bad With bin. aud then turned away
Ebsn SAWYER snd Ben Grummet were
tso old farmers that is old at the busi
ne.. though they bad only tescbed ibe
mid lie age Of life snd sfler their young
neisbbor bad gone they oppressed their
opinions concerning him.
He'll never make farmer. said Sasyer.
with q shake of his head. He spends too
much time over those papers and books OF
his He's Ieetle mite above iarmin. in
my opinion
Those are my sentiments responded
Gtummet. tell you. Eben, the man that
thinks to make livin' on 3 farm 10 this
section has got TO work for il
At the Junction Sam Bancroft came
along. He was another old native Of the
district.
We was Just talkin about young Wal.
ton, said Sawyer.
He's rippin bis barn floor up, said Ban
croft.
Rippin the floor mp! repeated Grummet
Why, the whole floor was put down new
only three years ago.
The tie-up floor. mean. pursued
Bancroft He's got, . carpenter up from
the village; and his two hired men are
helpin'.
Wbewl guess he'll make a fsrmerl
And 50 they all guessed with a reser
vation. In short. there was something
highly ridiculous in the thought OF man Q
to be farmer aud student at
the same time,
John Walton was ayoung man. and
though be had been born 10 the neigbbor
hood, yet much Of his life had been spent
IN other sections Of the country. His par
ents having both died John had married,
and now turned bis thoughts to making
living ont OF the old homestead.
Ben Grummet had a curiosity to see
" bat WAS going on in Waltons barn, 80
be dropped in there. He found that the
" hole OF the floor. where the cattle stood.
bad been torn up. and that they were dig.
sing a wide, deep trench the whole length |
of the iie.up.
What on airth is all this for? asked
Ben.
Why, returned Walton. who was busy
q experimenting the work, and also in
working himself, ! am having place fix
d here for making manure mean TO
i'll this trench up with good muck, aud
hus save the liquids which have hereto
ore been lost. think by proper man.
cement, can get full double the quaint
v OF manure which others have got on
his place.
DO ye? said Grummet ssrcastical
v.
Yes resumed the young man. 1t is a
act that the liquid msnures. could they
e saved. would fully equal the solids both
q bulk and value, and when combined
18th we'll rotted muck. and some other
rticles which shall take up and retain sll
be more volatile parts, feel slre that
hey will sfiord more fertlizing powers
nd properties than the solid manures
an.
You don't say SOL Where dye larn all
nat?
Partly from reading, and partly from
answered John, smiling at bis
ood neighbor's open sarcasm.
/ don 'ts'pose it costs anything to do all
lls2
Oh. yes. it will cost me considerable be
IRE get through.
Ysas: ! should rather cslkilate it
ould.
| swami Ben Grunmet cried. aa he
let Sawyer shortly afterwards. John ,
'alton's a reg bifslutin. He's les'
bout as nigh to bein crazy as q man can
Of !.
Eb?-crszy, Beu9
Ga Il don't mean, rally upsot, like
lks who are sent TO the insane asylum,
ut he's got bis bead full OF all sorts OF !,
But what in natures be goin TO do?
Why he's goin TO save the liquids, as
, calls 'em An' he's goin' to put 10
methin' to take up the vol voluntary
lr,s. :,
Voluntary parts? VITA, are they, !.
enf
i, was vol somethin' But | ionl know
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