New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-31
USES OF ADOPTED FARMS.
Ways an Which They Are Made
Profitable in Merchant shire.
BY Governor Nahum j. Bachelor.

Concord. N. H. Jan. sO-''To what do folks
put your abandoned farms after adopting them?"
asks a correspondent.
Health. rest and recreation. largely. and that
pursuit OF happiness which, inaIlenable 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.
But doubtless. this is not the sort OF reply the
inquirer desired would he be entirely salts
fed with having as an answer the story OF the
pucky New Hampshire girl who took the old
homestead farm, which would have been aoan-
doned but for her and went to keeping summer
boarders." One OF the first guests 10 arrive fell
IN love with his young landlady and happy mar
riage 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
IN the plush palaces OF new rich America One
who sees into the heart OF things through the clear
air OF our hills matches in his daily walk the
printed page Of Alice Brown. Miss Jewett Mrs.
Sosson
Books like theirs and others-histories. poems.
plays. works Of science. criticism and biography
are nowadays the product Of summers spent upon
adopted farms. World famous sculptures. paint
ings and engraviugs come from studios that once
were barns. in which. January mornings. the
farmer broke thick ice in the pals before he
watered mis- stock
Farm lands devoted to more utilitarian ends. yet
perhaps,
ent's 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 profit
able source Of revenue not q 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 hospltable farm home into which comes one
guest or two or three. at 81 day, or even less,
IN to the magnificent 100000 hotel. with It's
hundreds of guests. some OF whom pay 500 a
week and demand and receive service and enter
tainment in proportion
Calf links and other modern devices for Out-ot-
door endowment have required our hotels to main
tain more spacious grounds than In the past; SO
that not few abandoned farms have been re-
claimed by alert bonifaceS aud devoted 10 tee
bunker and hazard When as IN q lev 1850 1900
and managed as estates. their returns ile Oie
visibly. If not more directly IN Golia5S anG iso
nv some corporations. associations ana pr!Nle III
dividuaIs In this way the timber land that formed
source of permanent profit. An exemplii!catlOn OF
This is to be seen in the Blue Mountain Forest
animals rs we'll for this Is the largest and most
successful game club in America
Aided bv the laws Of the state, many lnOlVldllals
are doing something this latter line by stocking
brooks and ponds with hSh and IN other ways
one summer resident purchased ne me pace ne
now owns principally because colony OF beavers
had built a dam upon brook wlthln us iuhitS-
They are still his tenants and the most highly
All this is scarcely answering the question OF the
correspondent, who, very likely, seeks 10 learn
farm in case he adopts one The keeping OF board
ers the marketing OF timber upon a well ordered
plan the possibly profitable preservation or fish
and game have received mention but there
other ways more certainly and quickly profitable.
The dairy business at once suggests itself Here