The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-02-24
AGRICULTURAL.
Terry's Farming.

by the name of 7. B. Terry moved on
to farm in northern Ohio. He was
young, in debt $1,000, knew nothing of
farming, neither did he have a good
farm. The land was naturally poor,
with swampy spots, stones, stumps,
and some steep side hills. The build
ings were in wretched condition. The
tenants who had been on the farm had
burned the fences for quite distance,
also the barn doors and good many
of the boards for fire wood. The barn
leaked badly, and when he went on to
the farm in December he found that
the cattle had not been put in the sta
BILE at all, and they were really more
comfortable outside than they would
have been inside. The one hundred
and twenty-five acre farm produced
twelve tons of hay. The house was
about as bad as the barn. During the
first years they shaved themselves and
did not get enough to pay the interest
and taxee. That was the beginning of
Terry's farming. Well, he found he
had to do something different; there
must be a change or he and his wife
would toll like slave and get nothing
for it. We fear there are many like
this, certainly there are in this country,
and there may be in Vermont. How
did Mr.. Terry get out of that way of
farming? He did get out of it, made
the farm produce such crops and farm
ed in such way that he got out of
debt, put up new buildings, the best of
their kind, and has large income
from this once wretched piece of land.
How he did all this he has told in his
book "Our Farming" We want to
make this part of the WATCHMAN
help to its farmer readers, and we are
sure that papers and books are very
great help. But there are papers that
are of little worth, and books that help
little. We have tried to commend pa
pers which will help the farmers of this
State; but we have never found book
which is both so practical and helpful
as this one of Mr.. Terry's. Probably
there is no one in this country who is
helping so many farmers and giving
them such real assistance as T. B. Ter
ry. He lectures at farmers institutes,
writes exclusively for the Practical
Farmer, and his farm is an object les
son to all who see it. Then his book
has wide circulation, and he also has
an immense correspondence.
The book has three hundred and
sixty-seven pages, six by nine inches,
with good many illustrations. 1t is
published by the Farmer Company,
Philadelphia, Pa, and the price is two
dollars. A great part of its value lies
in the fact that in it man tells just
how he succeeded in farming, and then
he shows up the general principles I'M
derlying success in agriculture. He
stopped doing as everybody else was
doing, and struck out in new path.
Instead of growing little of many
different things, he changed into grow
ing good deal of few things. One
of these was clover, and he shows how
clover has made him rich, and the
same plant is patiently waiting to make
others, perhaps the reader, rich. He
has made farming business as few
men have, using his head, studying
and thinking to save time and labor.
Then he has gotten pleasure out of
farming, taken comfort in it. He did
not find much comfort in toiling, both
he and his wife, until they could hardly
stand and then tumbling into bed to
get up early and go to toiling again.
He did not take pleasure in not getting
enough to provide his family with the
necessaries of life. At times they
were not able to dress we'll enough to
even attend the funeral of neighbor,
they were so terribly poor. But he
began to make money, paid all debts,
built good house as comfortable as a
city house, and found pleasure as well
as profit in farming. IT you are dis
couraged farmer, you had better get
Terry's book and read it this winter.
1t will set you to thinking, may be put
you in the way of changing your meth
DDS 80 that you can make money, even
in these hard times.
The very worst thing man can do
is to get discouraged. Terry did almost
he might have got thousand dollars a
year in the city, but he stuck to the
farm, and now he feels that he is far
better off than ne would have been if
he had gone into the city. But get his
book and read how he succeeded, and
perhaps it will put you in the way OF
success.
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