Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-17
ITS ATTRACTIONS AND ITS
RESOURCES.
AN INTERESTING ARTICLE DESCRIBING
ATYPlCAL NEW ENGLAND TOWN,
AND ONE OF THE BEST
FARMING TOWNS
IN VERMONT.
Where Good Farms, Pleasant Homes
Good Schools and Neighbors
Are to be found and
Plenty abounds.

The town of Barnard, in the county
of Windsor, and State of Vermont is
situated in the eastern part of the south
half of that New England state that is
universally conceded to be the best one
among them for general farming pur-
poses The town has never before
been written up by her modest citizens
and its general and great excellencies
laid before the outside public. But now
few of her citizens have been per-
suaded to take up the pen in her behalf,
and let the outside world know how
she is regarded within her own borders
by her own people, and to let those
know who have never seen her, that
there is no spot on earth that affords a
more delightful place for a home than
can be found among the green hills and
fruitful wales of old Barnard. The
writer's of this article have seen much
and MANY of these United States, and
the best of them, but have seen no
place, where God in his great good
ness to man has put together more
blessings in one place for his use than
in Barnard. The cool and sparkling
springs on every hillside, and in every
valley, cannot be excelled anywhere
else, and are always thought OF by the
Vermont westerner when he lowers his
water bucket down, down, down fifty,
one hundred, two hundred feet to the
discolored alkali water he ethere obtains.
Water, pure water TOR washing and
drinking is good tor the body and the
soul too, I'm thinking" Her hills,
clothed to their very tops with a thick
covering of trees in great variety af-
ford all timber needed for building and
fencing purposes, and large quantities
to sell to the large cities. Her smooth
roads, leading to common center IN
the beautiful village situated on her be-
loved Silver Lake and most convenient
to all her people, with its churches, Its
stores, its mills, its carriage shops, its
blacksmith shops, post-oflice, morning
and evening mail and doctors, afford
facilities To her farmers for getting all
things needed, and doing all their bus
ines. in short order. and with little
waste Of time-no hill town can excel
her in this respect.
Barnard is so situated that all crops !
adapted to this latitude can be more
surely raised, with less fighting OF ln-
sect pests than most anywhere else.
He who properly fits his land, plants
at the right season, and keeps down
the weeds by proper cultivation IS as
certain to harvest a good crop as he
would be anywhere else on earth, and
great deal more so than in most plac-
es. The last trosts of spring and the
first OF the (which do so much dam
age on the low lands in New England,
seldom do damage on the hill farms OF
Barnard. While our hill farms are not
a whit less fertile and fruitful than the
valleys of Vermont their owners can
truly say they have little fear OF trosts
between the first of April and the first
Of October to damage corn that they
also have less extremes of heat and
cold, and more healthy air generally,
the thermometer very seldom gong
higher than IS above in summer or
lover than II below zero in winter,
while in the near villages of Bethel and
Woodstock on the river it sometimes
registers 95 above or more in summer.
and 10 below in winter. Our hill farm
ers dread leaving their homes for either
place on a cold winter morning, know
ng so well how much lower the tenn
perature win be there. The hill farms
are specially adapted to the raising OF
apples, pears, plums, cherries and such
small fruits. none of which will be Ike
y to be damaged by blights, ,frosts, WIN
Ter killing or insect pests. Grapes,
plums, apples aud pears raised on a
Barnard hill farm in the open air, took
'he first premium at the State and To-
cal tairs last year.
The Vermont Board of Agriculture
has recently published an eight page
paper, showing the resources OF the
state, and its great advantages Tor
iarming. OF these a large number OF
copies have been widely circulated,and
iaost likely read BY many who viii read
ms paper, but for the benefit Of those
"ao have not seen that paper we VIII