The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-04-05


Greenfield, Mass, April 5.--Hundreis
Of New England farms were abandoned
| yesterday, while the owners, their hired
men, wives and children drove Or walk.
ed to the nearest Boston 4 Maine Rail.
road station to meet the @better farm
ing special train, which started from
Mount Hermon yesterday morning, They
will 20 back home to try for themselves
the experiments which Director William
r. Brooks and his assistants from the
Massachusetts Agricultural College at
Amherst are giving them.
The weather was SO fine that even the
new ideas sown in the heads Of these
farmers begin to sprout before they get
home, and fairly lift their hats of their
heads.
At Amherst. where the train was
made up AMI equipped, and at Mount
Hermon and Bernardston, where It stop
ped yesterday morning, between 200 and
800 farmers inspected the cars and lis
tened to the lectures.
One accident has married the trip.
Isaac 3. Snow, Of Chicago, Western
manager for the Massachusetts Mutual
Life Insurance Company. owns a farm
ati BernarJston. Being there for d brief
visit, he drove down to see the special.
His horses took fright as they approach
Jed the train and bolted, throwing Nh.
Snow 10 the ground. He received a
severe shock, possibly conclusion OF tbs
brain. 1t is said, however, that he has
is about as well known throughout this
region for his interest in agriculture as
he Is in Western insurance circles.
Sim trying to drive home the few
ideas / DO give, and set them thinking
and reading and experimenting for them
selves" said Director Brooks. His talks
are examples OF wit in more than their
brevity. They are concrete more pota-
toes than philosophy.
use phosphate for your turnips,
potash for your corn" that's his Cos
pei. Look on fertilizers as means Of
helping out a short supply of manure.
Make what you have 90 as far as you
can.
'sHigh priced fertilizers are generally
the cheapest What you want is to get
not the greatest quantity OF the stuff
but the most plain food for your money.
The low grade stuff has filters in u.
Don't pay for that. You have enough
filler right there on your farms.
"Thnts 50 sang out voice IN the
audience.
~This is mighty good thing said
one man to his neighbor Them fertil.
Ter companies been beatin' Us right
along. We got to find out how to stop
it,
cThc way to stop it, said Mr., Brooks,
eis for each farmer TO have his own lit
Gle experiment station. Spread different
grades OF stuff over rod OF two Of
ground, and, having planted seed, com
pare results. You'll see it, plain as the
nose on yonr face. Where your ground
brings forth ten bushels Of corn, Try
potash and you'll get forty-seven bush,
els. After that when you seed you'll
cot splendid clover" .rcet irlist
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from the other end of the carl tried
ashes on potatoes. M good but when
n seeded down you could see the way
the clover punched up right where them
rows had been.
After each talk anybody was at liber-
ty to ask questions. The professor bad
told his auditors to use lime to swceten
their sour ground.
"Ain't there some danger Of getting
too much limo on?" asked one.
eNot when you have 30 pay for il
Yourself was the answer.
That brought down the car.
a few stIagglers came down to the
station TO scotf.
nBy gun, these college fellers may
know how to raise stuff indoors, but
they can't teach me nothin' about rails
ing outdoors"
So the many talked when Noah was
building the Ark; but this time the
crowd Is inside, where Prof Noah IL tell
inc them how TO food their barns with q
pleuteous harvest.