News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-09-10

considerably expand his bust
ness the ensuing year.
In 1875 Mr.. Foster married
AlVira, daughter of Lewis Har-
low of Stowe, and they have one
child, Ethel l.. Mr.. Foster has
a residence at the Branch. A Re
publican in politics and a Meth
Odist in religious preference, he
takes a liberal interest in the
progress and well being of his
adopted town.
P. h. GALE.
PressOn X. Gale of Stowe is an
excellent type of the progressive,
energetic, up-tO-date farmer. He
was a son of Presson r. Gale of
BroOkfeld, Vt, and came to
Stowe with his fathers family
when about nine years of age,
and here spent his minority upon
the farm. When he was 81 years
of age he married Elvira L. Hill
of Underhill, Vt. He bought and
carried on a small farm, worked
one year on the dairy farm of r.
d. SlaytOn, spent year in Mich
igan, and worked one year on
the Malvern Stock Farm of Nor
ristoWn, all the while accumulat-
ing a fund of experience for fu-
ture use in farming.
He bought his present farm OF
200 acres on Luce Hill in 1875,
and in a score Of years has liter
ally made a new farm of it. He
has remOdeled his farm buildings,
fenced his farm with wire, re-
moved stones and fitted it for
cultivation by machinery, built
two silos of $50 tons capacity
. each, erected a large and cOmmo-
dious sugar house, and put in a
thousand new tin buckets, and
planted a large orchard of the
best standard apples and pears.
He has increased the dairy
from 16 to 80 COWS and by jul
diciOus feeding and breeding
more than thr1bbled the butter
product. After having used the
large open pans and the Cooley
Creamer, he has now put i'll a
United States Separator of 600
pounds capacity that gives en-
tire satisfaction. His Jerseys are
high grade and with well venti-
lated stables and daily exercise,
/ seem in perfect health. He puts
his butter up in the small prints
with the veneer packages manu-
featured by p. D. Pike & Sons,
i'll his opinion the best form used
for the retail and customer trade
He has an upland sugar place
OF $500 trees all in one body anC
sloping toward the south, prob
ably the largest sugar place set
up in town. In 1894 he made
10, 800 pounds, largely maple
! honey. He has carefully under.
brushed his sugar place, erected
a camp 2OX6O, with a lean-to or
the upper side, where he has q
storage tank made of galvanized
iron of 1000 gallons capacity
His sugar house contains three
rooms, one of 2OX24 feet fo1
wood, sealed up from the boiling
f room o. zOX24, which contains
two Champion and a Bellows
f Falls evaporation, with stee
smoke stacks thirty feet in height
The sugar room contains a
Champion range for making
honey or sugar. His boiling
: works have a daily capacity OF
100 pounds of maple honey
, He uses the Eureka spout for
hanging the tin buckets, and gal.
: vanized iron gathering tanks
with strainers, provided also
| with rubber hose for drawing of
the sap.
He gathers and stores the ice
during the early and colder part
of the season and by using it in
his storage watts during the warm
days in the last of the season
keeps his sap sweet and cool
thus maintaining the quality Of
his sugar. His product is of ex.
cellent quality andmeets a ready