The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1897-10-22
The Editors Familiar Chat.

ISN"VnPohI' mE ChefWOOu mas pr&c6lceu
intensive farming, and that he has made
it pay, is evinced by a walk and drive
through his well kept property. 1t was
our good fortune, in company with THE
BEES representative, Charles B. johnson,
to look in on Mr. Sherwood,the other day.
We had met him previously at Grange
and farmers gatherings, and were no
surprised at the signs of thrift and pros
perity on every hand. Mr. Sherwood Ia
worker. This year he has raised ego,
barrels of onions, 300 basket = noache.
S'''' 3 and other truck.
''"'0 he has greenhouses with
1000
square feet of glass. Here he
raises carnations, roses and plants for the
New Haven market and for three years,
he informed us, he had not MISE d
two shipments week. When we came
across Mr. Sherwood, he was trying to
straighten out . heating apparatus,
which was "llttle cranky" from no
fault of its own. One gains an idea of
what this busy farmer has
to attend to when he Is told
that in summer he keeps as high as 16
men employed, while in winter his force
numbers five or six. His peach orchards
looked fine. He raises the early and
late Crawford, Old Nixon, and Stump of
the World, and has met with splendid re-
suits. Mr. Sherwood's farm, by the way,
lies in one plot. He has removed most
Of the fences and has the greater part of
his land in one tract. Brush do not deco
\ rate his fences, and everything about the
property Is kept up. Some years ago
G Mr. Sherwood tried darying, making
Z cream for a nearby creamery, but he
D. gave it up, as he believed he could make
( more money IN other lines. Mr. Sher-
wood, by the way, is a modest man and
has no knowledge of this article being
!. written. 1t is simply the editors idea to
show how one hard working, progressive
farmer made farming q success, by in
tensive methods. or course we are
>, aware that the same methods cannot be
!. followed in Southport, as in Newtown,
/ Easton, or in the tobacco sections of New
Milford, Kent or Washington. Local
conditions and environment, to q certain
extent, govern results. Rural sections
nearer the cities and New York may be
more highly favored as to markets, but
may not be as highly favored in some
8 directions as towns further back from the
centers. How did we know, you say
% that Mr. Sherwood makes intensive farm
ing pay? Well, we did not examine his
:. ledgers, or ask him to pro
OIL duce his cash box. But a
n ride through his property stamped
= him at once as a man Of push and energy
And these are qualities that will make
farming pay every time, whether on the
rock-ribbed hills of Warren, in the fine
" grazing country of old Newtown, or the
%; the onion raising country of Fairfield. 1t
- is lamentably true that the sections near
I er the larger markets, like the cities
have gained at the expense Of the towns
more remote. This is the same wal
is that comes from France and England al
we'll as this country. But will there mo-
come a reaetion2 We think 80. The
cities are not altogether Paradise, anG
many are coming to the conclusion thai
a snug home in the country is more to bt
~ preferred to the crowded cities with un
certainties as to obtaining a livelihood
II A territory of al 900 square miles
comprising Washington, Idaho and Ore.