Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

would be good sugar house with from
| 400 to 1000 good maple trees conven-
lent thereto, capable of making annu-
ally from 1000 to 1000 lbs. of sugar.
There would be from l25 to 200 acres
of good land always we'll cared for and
not run out. 1t will be we'll watered
with running water at house and barns
and cold, neyer-failing springs in all
the pastures. There viii be from 200
to 600 rods of good stone wall that will
last lifetime with almost no cost for
repairs. The remaining fences for the
owner to keep in repair will not be so
extensive as to cost much annually, and
that only five or six days in time spent.
There will be likely to be good apple
orchard of the best grated varieties,
with an abundance-some or all-of
pears, plums, cherries, grapes, ,currants
and garden berries from which con-
siderable revenue can be deri yed. The
grass and hay will keep team and 10
or 20 cows or 200 sheep, summer and
winter. From the above you will see
what $1,000 viii now buy. This is a
great deal TO strive for. 1t is what will
constitute happy home in every sense
of the word, when bought and inhabit-
ed by an Industrious, temperate, honest
and loving family. feeling confident of
their ability in few years to pay for
it and own it free from debt, and where
they can truly feel that they are of those
of whom the poet speaks when he says !:
"a health unto the farmer.
Who lives among the mills,
Where he is Ia truth sovereign,
II he owns the land he tilis,
Where all the girls are beautiful
And all the boys are strong,
And who'll ever strive to win the right
And hogd it fast and long"
1t is greater and better acquisition
than nine-ten of the people OF this
world, in wordlv sense, ever attain
unto, or than majority of its people
ever dare TO hope for. Now, what
propose to prove in this paper is, that
this VI. farm, this pleasant Green Mt.
home, provided by loving God and
improved, cultivated and fashioned IN
to convenience, usefulness and worth,
day by day, by human hands, during
the last hundred years. can be bought
and paid for with as much certalnty,at
least, as home so nearly perfect, can
be anywhere else, in the wide world.
have always farmed more or less,
have always loved farming above all
other occupations, and wherever ! have
been. and have Travelled more or less
in more than twenty states of the In
ion, have taken great interest IN Its
study. 1t has been sort OF mania
with me to get at the real ups and
downs OF farming in other states as
well AS in Vermont, to find ont how
the farm comforts and conveniences OF
other states compared with our own,
to learn how the chances To make mon
ey in other states compared with VT,
and many other farm comparisons as
well. Now, should not have space
in the short paper proper tor TINS occa-
sion TO state my conclusions all these
subjects. and should not choose to If
had. But / will state this much, that
il is my present belief that there Is no
other place in the United States where
40 desirable farm can be bought Tor
$4,000 as in our own Green Mountain
State. A farm where so much farm
comfort can be enjoyed for the money.
Don't understand me TO say that more
money will come from $1,000 thus in-
vested than would come from the same
amount invested in farms in some 9th
ar places if one has the money IN hand.
Rut I will state that believe that IT a
Young couple of small means purchase
sucb a farm here, they viii have as
rreat a certainty OF paying for it as any
where else if they viii dispense with
the mxuries, comforts and conyeniences
.hey would have to elsewhere. Now,
after all these preliminaries LET me go
IN TO prove what intended.
a Young couple in buying such
farm as | have described should have
come money 10 start "i1h' nVs ="
amount but something, say S6OO Tor
he man aud $3.50 for the woman. Sh 4
,rt YOU say not-many young men ana
vomen have this amount when they
marry. ! am sorry 20 say the new
5 sb;ons-new views aud new depart
,ras make this true, and equally true
I, n, mt nay for their farms
vhen they do buy. But ! am not tell
no how to marry without 5 or how
,ot to paw for farm, anybody can do
hat Those who have considered the
ns,ter written or lectured on the sub
-, seem to have settled upon the pro-
- sgs At which to marry as being %
~ The man and p for the woman.-
I,i,;s Gives each four years after the
ges of 2l aud l8 to save something to
- ip life with when they do marry
~ old-tashionedt thing to do was