Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-08-02

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the Proceeds OF Two Acres Most of 81
Work They win do Themselves-Tl
Ewes OF Mel. Farmers To he opened.
Two bachelor girls Of New Nor
and their mother have started q
4 experiment this summer to Sc
il they can actually live iro'
the proceeds Of two acres Of land. In
land is situated on one OF the Berkshir
hilltops. near the village of TerDville
not far from Waterbury, Conn Las
summer was the first they spent there
and they sold fifty dollars worth Of gar
den truck, besides supplying their owl
table.
This spring they started early They
have ploughed bnd planted the whole
two acres, half IPf it to potatoes. They
eSpsss~-----;seSfve hundred bushels Of
lev W.T. to Blacthem for one dollar a
- lear $3.50 or $500 from
are now selling hotbed
r'''ehoen "enl "uce, and have sold 1000
y.5ma.o plants r~esed under oheesecloth
from seeds plant d in April
The other acrd will include a big vege-
table garden. strawberry bed and a
scrap Of pasture for the horse. Eyentu-
ally they will N e a greenhouse. They
keep hens enoughNo supply their own
table. They hired a man to do the plov-
ing and hoe the potatoes. The rest the,
expect to do themselves.
Il believe" said one Of them, that a
great source Of modest prosperity is be
ing wasted by the absence Of market gar
dening in the neighborhood OF the
smaller places Teryville has about
1900 inhabitants. There is one factory
there.
Before that came It was a farming
village. The farms are all there yet but
the farmers are all working in the fac
tory There are 10 vegetable gardens
IN that village ard no market gardens
around il.
They raise nothing on their farms but
hay. They viii take a vacation in the
summer and go and do their haying. or
they will hire a man to do it for them
but as they do nothing for the land the
hay crop gets poorer every year.
AT Terpville and Waterbury all the
garden truck comes in from New York,
and is, Of course, expensive and not
fresh. With great stretches of uneulti-
waited land all around, the people eat
canned vegetables. There is some mar
ket gardening around Hartford. but
there, too, supplies are drawn from New
York 1t is so all through that region
and other regions Ike it.
Now, don't blame a man who has
always lived on a farm and iarmed in
the old-faShioned, unscientihc way for
wanting to get into town and 60 10 work
in a mill Il is another stage in his evo-
luton. But il leaves an opportunity FOX
the scientific farmer, the educated farmer
who farms with brains.
That sort Of person is one who has
got done with cities, who has been
through the uill, who has had enough
and longs TO get on, Of the treadmll
OF city life. Such a person finds int,
est and fascination in the life which IN,
owner Of the place abandoned to 20 &c
work in a woo,en mill. ! believe tha
all the small farming Of the East, whicl
is practically only market gardening an,
raising Of specialties is going to pas
into the hands Of this class
Il believe that every year will Sc
more and more educated young men an
women turning TO scientific farming fo
a living. That sort of farmer will d,
mand more than the old fashioned on
Books, newspapers, periodicals, batl
tub and an occasional trip TO the eli
will be necessaries to him.
"He will make them possible by h
better methods. both of cultivating an
of marketing. He will raise high-grac
specialties-fruit, butter, mushroom
violets-all sorts Of things, and ship the
straight TO customers. He won't haN
very much money, but he will have +;
much at the end of the year as he ha
on his salary in the city. He will |
free from the strain and grind of eli
life; he won't be afraid of being fired
forty, and he will be his own boss"