The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-25
FARMING IN CONNECTICUT.
May be Made Profitable if Conducted
 in the Right Way.

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 in the Right Way.
 Can a man in Connecticut. with no other capital than five hundred dollars, pair of horses and four heifers, buy an old farm and in eleven years make twenty thousand dollars in farming? Most people would answer no. But a writer in Country Life in America for September tells how a man in TOrring- ton has done this between the years 1894 and 1905. Facts and figures to prove the statement are furnished. This enterprising young man, thirty two years of age, in 1894, owned seven hundred dollars when he bought his farm in that year. It contained three hundred acres and had a fine colonial house on it. He paid five hundred dol lars in cash and shouldered a mortgage for twenty-five hundred dollars. He borrowed nine hundred dollars more with which to stock the farm, and he also had seven hundred dollars of mis- cellaneous debts s-forty-one hundred dollars in all.
 In four years the whole amount had been paid from the products of the farm. He bought another farm of one hundred acres for five hundred dollars, and added yet another fifty acres for three hundred and twenty-five dollars. He has bought and paid for milk de- pot in Torrington, costing him thirty five hundred dollars. His original farm, with one hundred and twenty five cattle, is now worth nine thousand dollars, and he had twenty-eight hun dred dollars in the bank this spring. He has made, besides his living, nearly two thousand dollars year for the eleven years, and his business has been that of 8 dairy farmer, selling his milk in Torrington. If he can do as we'll Cor better) during the next eleven years, he, will be a comfortably rich'' man. is worth noting that he sells his milk for eight cents a. quart during half the year, and six cents a quart during the other half. E--
 Can anybody who tries to do, it du- plieate this. success? ....... The writer plainly answers that no man could do it without either busi- ness training or good deal of farming experience. ...s. The same writer gives other instances of remarkable success in farming ope- rations in this state, describing in de- tail the prosperity of a fruit-grower who came from Italy in 1893 and found his way to an old farm a mile and a half from the end of the trolley in South Glastonbury, after he had earned money enough in selling fruit in New York city. to buy an abandoned farm in | 1898. He learned how to develop our | fruit trees from J. H. Hale, worked in mill for a time while paying for his | farm, ard now, seven years later, has a 1 lace for which he has refused an offer of ten thousand dollars. 5s'e9 We have frequently dwelt on the possibilities of farming in this state. There are great opportunities for men of good minds and character, who are willing to work hard for a few years and who have a faculty for business. The writer in Country Life advises his readers to skip Fairfield county and get into the Connecticut valley, some- | where near Hartford. Here, undoubt- edly are the best opportunities, and a | great many bright young men will lay i hold of these opportunities during the next twenty years, for there are no bet ter opportunities for gaining wealth any where else in this country, while the advantages of life here are great as compared with most other sections of 1 Arnerica.-Hartford Times.