The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1904-02-18
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Uses o. Adopted Farms.

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a correspondent.
Health. rest and recreation, largely,
and that pursui, Of happiness which
our inalienable right, according TO the
Declaration Of Independence, is much
easier Of successful issue in New
Hampshire than elsewhere, especially
in the good old summer time.
Bot, doubtless, this is not the sort OF
a reply tho inquirer desired NOR would
he be entirely satisfied with having as
an answer the story Of the plucky New
Hampshire girl who took the old home
stead farm, which would have been
abandoned but for her, and went to
keeping summer boarders.' One OF
the first guests to arrive fell in love
with his young landlady and happy
marriage resulted.
Romance, comedy and tragedy take
up their abode as often within the
weather beaten walls Of our farm homes
as in marble halls across the sea or in
the plush palaces Of new rich America.
One who sees into the heart of things
through the clear air Of our hills mat
ches in his daily walk the printed page
of Alice Brown, Miss Jewett or Mrs.
Slosson.
Books like theirs, and others--his-
tories, poems, plays, works Of science,
criticism and biography--are nowadays
the product Of summers spent upon
adopted farms. World famous sculp.
lures, paintings and engravlngs come
from studios that once were barns. in
which, on January mornings, the far
mer broke thick ice in the pals before
he could water his stock.
Farm lands devoted to more utiltar-
ian ends, yet not, perhaps, within the
scope of the correspondents inquiry.
are those whereon are located the scores
Of school camps within our borders,
for young men, for boys and for girls.
Summer boarders as regular crop
form profitable source of revenue on
not few farms that might otherwise
be deserted. There are varieties and
degrees in keeping boarders as in
everything else, and it is by almost
imperceptible gradations that one
traces the evolution from the homely
but hospitable farm home into which
comes one guest, OF two, or three, at
81 day, or even less, up to the mag
nifcent ST. 900, 900 hotel, with its hun
1reds of guests, some of whom pay
$Ioo a week and demand and receive
service and entertainment in proper
ion.
Golf links and other modern devices
for out-of-door enjoyment have requir-
cd our hotels to maintain more spacious
grounds than in the past; so that not a
few abandoned farms have been re-
claimed by alert bonifaces and devoted
to tee, bunker and hazard. When, as
in few cases, the hotel holdings reach
% thousands of acres and are managed
as estates. their returns are more visi.
bly,, if not more directly, in dollars and
:cnts.
Here scientific forestry is practiced,
Is it is also by some corporations. as
,ociations and private individuals. In
his way the timber land that formed
part Of many of the abandoned farms
S made source of permanent profit.
An exempliication of this is to be seen
n the Blue Mountain Forest Park,
where not only are trees preserved, but
nimal as well, for this is the largest
md most successful game club in
America.
Aided by the laws of the State many
are doing something in this
after line by stocking brooks and the
'onds with fish and in other ways.
)ne summer resident purchased the
me place he now owns principally be-
ause a colony of beavers had built a
am upon brook within its limits, and
hey are still his tenants and the most |
ighly priced feature of his property.
All this is scarcely answering the |
uestion of the correspondent, who,
cry likely, seeks to learn how he may |
,ake a living on his abandoned farm
! case he adopts one. The keeping of
oarders, the marketing of timber upon
well ordered plan, the possibly profit
BILE preservation of fish and game
ave received mention, but there are
Their ways more certainly and quickly
roftable.
The dairy business at once suggests
self. Here one has his choice Of sell
ng milk, cream and butter direct to
dividual consumers, to a creamery or
the Boston market. The splendid
eighton farms, near Dublin, which
Ipply that famous resort, and the ]