Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-11-28
"LINDENHURST. !"
DIR. HAINES FARM AT THE FOOT
OF GREEN LAKE.

OF GREEN LAKE.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS MADE DURING
THE PAST sUMMER-A FARMER OF
MODERN IDEAS is THE DOCTOR.
There are farms and farms. There are
farms which run themselves, and which
furnish the farmer bare subsistence,
and there are farms which are run by the
farmer, and which yield him pleasure and
fair margin OF profit for his labor.
The farm of which this article speaks is
one OF the latter. 1t is the dairy farm Of
DR.. w. M. Haines, OF Ellsworth, which
stretches from the lower shore Of Green
Lake to the western bank OF Union river.
The farm contains some three hundred
acres, OF which seventy-five are under
tillage, and the remainder about equally
divided in pasture and woodland. The
buildings consist OF the farm house, 24x2S,
with ell 2Ox26, and storehouse and wood
shed attached, 1sx30, and two barns, one
36x4O for grain, with shed attached, 12x36,
for tools, and the other 40x69 for hay,
stock, etc.
Farming is somewhat Of new de-
parture for DR.. Haines. 1t was only last
spring, after subscribing ten cows to as
sist the starting Of the creamery, that he
acquired the three adjoining farms
the Harvery Moore farm, the old Abram
farm and the Patten farm-situated on
the Msriaville road, about five miles north
OF this city, which comprise his present
farm, "Lindenhurst," as it has been
y christened, for reasons which will be
] shown further on i'll this article. But
iwhile the doctor may lack practical ex-
.lperience as a farmer, he does not lack
knowledge OF farming. He is a farmer OF
modern ideas, and takes pleasure i'll put
ling these ideas in practice. That the
tieas are practical, he has already proved.
Though having taken possession OF the
trm 50 recently, DR.. Haines has already
ade great improvements there, not only
the matter OF appearance, which has
: Aen accomplished by the removal OF un-
,htly fences, the clearing away OF brush
Il stone piles, moving and repairing
rre lldings, and by grading, but he has
ioh ., by enriching the soil, increased the
l., Effectiveness OF the farm. The farm is
81, inarge OF Esker Jordan and wife, the
ioh dor attending to his professional
zoo. dns in the city, and directing opera
~ tidat the farm by telephone, and pay
ing occasional visits.
THE BARN.
Tlarge barn recently built is worthy
49, of afu description. 1t is one OF the
w., larg, and best arranged barns in Han
49,. cock, unity. From the golden COW on
the tola, which keeps her nose ever
point up The wind, to the stones OF the
;.,- foundon, the barn is pleasing to the
=, eye, ala delight to the modern farmer.
,,oa The bding is constructed for COW
,ra barn, Al is arranged with special refer
ence tsonvenience and utility in the
care Of, rvs.
~ Large>ors open at either end OF the
49, corridoIf it may so be called, which
IA runs thigh the centre OF the barn
auo Hay tear may drive in at one door and
-. out at tbther-there is no backing out
~ Of teams
80 AT one de of the corridor is the COW
tie-up, the being twelve open stalls and
,,. box sta and separate apartment for
49, horses vii two stalls. A door along
he the front othe stalls may be let down SO
he that the COS may be seen from the cor
ith ridor.
~ Along tn front OF the stalls, within
easy reach the cows, extends a zinc
ue lined trougEhrough which pure spring
'e e water is conantly circulating, entering
he at one end ad going out through the
1le waste at the cher. The trough is COW
yer cred, but in flint of each stall is small
70 70 trap door, thedge of which extends over
ae. the side Of II trough. The COW soon
i'll learns to lift It's trap door with her nose
"a and thus to rich the water, the trap
,ty door again falling into place when the
COW is throug thinking, and thus keep
ng ing the water fin from dirt. The water
nv comes from he spring on the farm
. some distance fom the buildings, and
. has a sixtyfoot head. A branch pipe
gh also supplies watt to the dwelling house
Us and another branh pipe supplies large
eP iron watering trot,h on the highway fol-
sh the public.
40 The iced boxes re another ingenious
contrivance of tt doctors own, and
. must be described The boXes-a large
one being in front [ each stall-are hung
at the bottom by 'inge, and so arranged
that they may be SWING out into the cor
ridor to be filled, AID then swung back
into place and fastAed with a button
The boxes are so balAced hat they swing
easily. The contriynce is an excellent
cne-the boxes may be cleaned easily
time is saved in feeding. and there is ne
showing of fork in Ne cows face.
The cows stand onAa platform raised
about eight inches. Mack of them is {