St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
NEW HAMPSHIRE INNKEEPING.

hotels, but ought to stimulate all
those industries which supply the
wants of these houses. This has
been done thus far to surprisingly
small extent; even those houses
Which have farms attached and
whose advertisements treat so
seductively of cream, butter and eggs,
raise but a small part of the products
they consume. Here and there a
very large house has found its profit
in this work, but by far the large
part of the supply comes from the
| Boston market.
have never heard either landlord
or farmer deny the folly of this situa-
ton Here are thousands of acres OF
| land, close to an immense market
which demands the best there is, and
is forced to send hundreds of miles
for poor article when the best
should be produced abundantly at
it's doors. The reasons are not far
to seek. Truck-farming demands
KIND OF MAN THAT'S RARELY FOUND
in New Hampshire. 1t involves
constant watchtulness, wide knowl-
edge of varieties of products, a
capacity to change quickly from one
crop to another, study of soils and
manures in short, world of things
which the average wasteful New
England farmer has no patience to
bother with
The same is true of the egg and
poultry industry. The mountain
hotels are using today turkeys frozen
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few and poor, gathered in from the
accidental raising of scattered farm
ers or sent up from Boston, and eggs
as to whose antecedentS the less said
the better.
Small fruits, strawberries. currantS
and raspberries, all of which ripen
during the best season, with their
immense value both for the table and
for the making of preserves, are hard
ly grown here at all. Yet / found on
inquiring that all over the smiling
hills between Lisbon and FrancOnia
flowers could be set out almost as
early as in Massachusetts,. and these
small fruits would
REQUIRE NO FORCING
to bear abundantly when prices are
highest. / have seen nowhere in the
state more beautiful fields, heater
houses or larger or finer barns than
within a radius of five miles from
Sugar Hill, where hotels and cottages
are growing with great rapidity.
With hay less than ten dollars a ton
one would suppose that farmers
would take the hint, diminish the
area of their mowingland and try
what brains and painstaking would
do as against a wastefnl use of
muscle.
Another industry until recently
strangely neglected in New Hamp-
shire is the raising of cattle and
horses; and here, too, the summer
influx is already making itself ielt.
These rocky pastures OF the noun
tain country are wonderfully rich in
those short, sweet grasses which
give flesh and power to growing
stock of every kind. There is de-
mand for horses here during the
season, which is most imperfectly
met. One needs only to watch the
equipment of any mountain vehicle
to see what
LOW STANDARD OF HORSEFLESH
prevails here. Vermont, with it's
horse-raising traditions, is close at
hand to be sure, but it can look
southwark for its market more hope
fully than eastward. The mountain
farmers are beginning to look to
themselves to supply the need. AS
for neat cattle, l can find no indica-
with the great West is for the m oment
being thought of. Probably it will
be necessary to wait until western
grazing has reached low margin of
profit, thing of not so many years
yet before this branch of industry
will attain great proportions here.
Here are prospects sufficient
alluring, one would say, to change in
the next general ton
THE WHOLE FACE OF NEW HAMP-
SHIRE FARMING.
1t is not likely that city life will
soon cease to exercise its baleful
charm upon the rural population,
but the more clearly the young man
in the country can see before him a
rea sonable certainty of gain and can
be brought to understand that this
farm-life has not to be led in quite
the sordid conditions of his fore
fathers, the more successfully may
this attraction be combated. The
summer invasion is doing a grand
work in producing new conditions
under which New Hampshire farm
ing may re-assert itself. Along both
lines have indicated, the profession
of inn-keeping and the supply of
provisions needed by the inn-keeper,
there is abundant room for native
tact to put itself into profitable
exercise. ~ Nation.
A VALUABLE PRESCRIPTION
John D. Rockefeller, who has a