The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-02
| properties than the solid manure

Il
can"
"You don't say so! Where dye
larn all that?"
Partly from reading, and partly
| from observation, answered John,
smiling at his good neighbor's open
sarcasm.
81 don't s'Dose it costs anything to
do all this?"
90 yes; it will cost me considera-
BILE before Iget through"
"Yaas; l should rather calkilate IL
would"
IL swami" Ben Grummet cried, as
he met SAWYER shortly afterwards.
"John Walton's reglar hifalutin.
He's jes' about as nigh TO crazy as a
man can be-"
"Eh!-craZy, Benz"
O-I don't mean really upsot, like
! folks who are sent TO the insane asy-
lum; but he's got his head full OF all
sorts OF nonsense"
"But what In natures he goin' TO
do?"
"Why-he's goin to save the
liquids, as he calls 'em! And he's
goin' To put in somethin to take up
the vol-voluntary parts"
VOLUNTARY parts? What arc they,
Benz"
ut was vol somethin'. But /
don't know. | wouldn't ask him. /
s'pose he Jest used the outlandish
word SOS TO get me to ask him
what IL meant-an' then he'd show
off his larnin'. But want so green"
II wonder IL he thinks he's comm
here 10 show us farmers how TO
work." said Sawyer rather indig-
nantly.
IL guess he thinks so," returned
Gummet
"Then guess he'll find out his
mistake" added the other. 'Jes'
you mark my words, Ben. He'll be
fiat on his back before two years Is
out"
Autumn came, and after John
Walton had moved over a twenty
acre field getting hardly hay enough
to pay for the labor, he set men at
work digging deep trenches all over
IT, He had two dug lengthwise, run
ming up and down the slope; and then
he dug quite number running across
these. They were quite deep and
broad, and into them he tumbled
nearly all the stones that could be
found I'm the fields.
"a pooty expensive way OF gettin'
rid o. rocks" remarked Grummet
"Its better place for them than
on the surface, isn't IT." returned
Walton with a smile.
"Mebbe. But what on airth are
ye doin' it forH"
"Why-l'm going TO see IL under
draining won't improve the land"
"Under draining! What's that?"
at is simply drawing of the water
from the surface. This land is cold
and wet; but II can get the water
to drain Off among these rocks, the
sun may warm the surface, and give
me good piece OF soil here"
But IL looked very foolish 20 Ben
Grummet He believed that "what
was the nature OF the soil couldn't be
altered" However, the young man
made his trenches-tumbled In the
rocks-flllcd In on top with the loan
left il To work for itself a while. A
month later he plowed up two acres
OF IL, and he could see that the soil
had already changed wonderfully.
After this was done he cut his way
TO the muck swamp, and went TO
hauling out that article, which he de-
posted in various places, as he
deemed proper.
That's a Gurus contrivance, said
Sam Bancroft, He and Ben Grum-
met had been at work for Walton at
hauling muck He alluded TO large
vat back OF the house, into which ran
spout from the sink. This vat was
capable OF holding severa. carloads
OF stun, and was already half full.
That's n compost vat" exclaimed
Walton, who had overheard the re-
mark. "All the slops from the house
the soap-suds and such stufT-which
most people wasted, save by this
means, and turn IL To good account;
and instead of throwing away refuse
matter l put IL in here and let IL rot
and ferment, and make manure.
THAT all sounds very pooty," re
marked Ben, after Walton had left
them; "but let me jes' tell you, 1t
don't pay! He'd better let sich fan.
dandles alone IL he ever expects to
make livin at farmln'."
Before the ground froze up Walton
threw out most OF the muck back OF
his tie-up, which had become well
saturated, and Tiled up the trench
anew When spring came Walton
went to some OF his neighbors and
asked them to go in with him and
send for some good scions TO graft
upon their apple trees. He explained
to them just the plan he had formed
for his own orchard.
"How much will it cost you9' asked
Sawyer.
"Why," returned Walton, 'Im 60
into IL thoroughly My orchard is as
large n one as yours is; and the trees