Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-17
NO. 5O--934.

argument, all breeders agree. Breed
to the best. Take good care of your
{ stock and the two-minute trotter may
| yet be raised in Barnard. Certainly
, what has been done can be done again
with all the later improvements added.
SHEEP.
There are many farms in Barnard
Just suited to sheep, and those wishing
to engage in sheep hush indry can find
no better place than this. Here sheep
can be kept at as little or less cost, as
at any place in New England, and here
they will thrive and be healthy, and es-
cape those diseases that are so discour-
aging to breeders elsewhere. III ere
are old men here who have kept sheep
all their lives and will continue to do
so, being satisfied that no other occu-
patton affords the farmers so much
comfort, happiness and prosperity, and
so little care and anxiety as the keep
ing of sheep. A few of the finest sheep
farms in town are now for sale at low
prices on account of the death or old
age OF the owners, and any one in
search Of the best locations for the keep
ing OF sheep will do well to examine
them before buying elsewhere.
MAPLE SUGAR.
Barnard is proud of her maple sugar
groves, and her sugar and syrup, for it
is here that the purest and best flavor
ed of maple sweets are manufactured,
aud lucky are those who order their
supply of such sweets from the makers
here. These groves being mostly situ-
ated on high land, covered with snow
during the sugar season, thus keeping
the sap clean, and free from dirt aud
leaves, make large quantities of no.
sugar and syrup that find ready mar
ket, aud goes to nearly every state in
the union. Maple sugar is made on
nearly every farm in town and is
source of great profit. Some of the
farms for sale have the best of sugar
orchards on them.
CATTLE AND DAIRYING.
Barnard will not admit that any
other town can beat her in the raising
of neat cattle, whether for beef or for
butter and cheese. The premiums a
warded her for town teams at past
county and other fairs viii prove that
she can beat all other towns in the
great county of Windsor for oxen. She
has never failed of taking the first pre-
MUM at White Riyer Fair when she
has exhibited town team, and has
seldom failed to do the same at Wind
sor county fair in long series of years.
These cattle were almost without ex-
ception raised from calves in Barnard,
while the best oxen in the teams from
other towns had grazed in Barnard
pastures in their steerhood. When
outsiders want a good, large well-mat-
ed, and in every way no. yoke of
oxen or steers, and have a good pile of
money with which to pay for them,
they always steer for Barnard where
they know they can find them.
Our people have never boasted much
Of their method of dairying, or their
breeds of cows and are not obliged to,
10 sell their butter and cheese at the
best prices. The amount of butter aud
cheese sold by our farmers is very large
and would not only surprise outsiders,
Dut the residents themselves if the ag-
yregate was only known. A cheese
actory established in town this year,
ias already so good reputation that
t cannot make cheese enough to sup
,ly the demand. 1t makes it like that Of
'ur old mothers, soft and pliable and
-ellow like good butter from which il
an hardly be distinguished in appear
nee when placed on the table in like
orm. Its flavor is so delicious that it
5 sold at the very doors of other cheese
actories. Its two hundred Jersey
ows may have something to do with
his, but the sweet feed and the pure
rater Of our pastures do more.
POULTRY.
Any poultry buyer in the adjacent
owns will tell you that we raise more
nd better turkeys than any other town
! his circuit, and the amount OF mon
' that comes into town from them at
is quite large, and makes
thanksgiving day doubly joyous. Tur-
eys kept in connection with sheep on
le larger farms makes profitable farm-
lg. While but few chickens are rails
! to sell to eat the number of eggs
I'D is quite large. The winter output
tremendous, nearly every farm has
; hennery where from twenty to one
undred hens are kept which usually
v constantly winters in consequence Of
lie mildness of the winter nights here,
nd the early sunrise.
We have three general stores in the
,wn. the owners of which seem to
ave an interest in the welfare of the
rmers as well as their own, and the
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