Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-05
BAKER KElLY'S FARM
Oae oi lhe Interesting Sights
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| 'saAt VI NhNhH " rtOH Ol aL
 Quassapaug and spend an hour or so
 at the lake. The place was well pa-
 tronized yesterday and the naptha
 launches reaped rich harvest. Ev-
 erybody wanted sail and those who
 could not get aboard the White beer,
 the greyhound of the ocean, took
 some other vessel" Tickets used
 to be 25 cents each, but this year
 they have been reduced to Is cents
 the result of competition or quick
 ening conscience, something which
 the tourist is at liberty to decide for
 himself If he cares to give 1t
 thought at all. The distance around
 the lake is five miles and the White
 Deer covers 1t in twenty-five minutes,
 providing the sea" is not rough nd
 the coast clear. The principal sights
 pointed out along the shore are
 Thomas Kelly's handsome private
 residence, the J. H. Whittemore
 place, the Bronson cottage, John
 Moriarty's country seat far up among
 the jutting lodges and dense foliage
 and that of his neighbor, Dr B. A. l O'Hara, the Chase summer home and few other charming spots, all veri- | table bowers of beauty, and each | within few minutes walk of the ! trolley.
 Thomas Kelly, or Kelly the baker, as he is familiarly known, is one of
 the largest, if not the largest and
 most prosperous farmer in that dis trict. With three farms aggregating about 1000 acres. large share of which is under cultivation, MT Kelly has his mands full experimenting the work of saving his crops. His | hay he has already secured and now he has force of men harvesting his corn, which has grown to such pro- portions one would be almost accused of prevaricating If he should tell the truth about it. Think of cornstalks seventeen feet high, with two ears each containing about 750 kernels, all from one grain of seed planted three. months ago, and then perhaps you may get some idea as to how residents of Middlebury, Woodbury and Watertown always managed to lind money to loan to Waterbury folks. It is common saying that these towns own half Waterbury, and when one sees how easily they pry dollar loose compared with the struggle city people have to get hold of a few cents, he quickly realizes what a serious mistake able bodied | men make who hang around the cities begging for work when they could do much better by taking to the woods and becoming tillers of the soil with reasonable prospect of some day being owners of their l own places and independent men. something which is almost out of the question in the crowded districts, where even though he owns little he still fears every man about him, and necessarily so, too.
 Yesterday-and he is at it to-day, too. Mir Kelly had number of men and teams cutting down corn and hauling 1t to one of his farms, where 1t was thrown into cutting machine, chopped up and hauled onto the top of barn by automatic process and then dropped into the building. The machine if kept in operation all day cuts up fifty tons of corn in ten hours. This process will be repeated at Mir Kellys different farms until all the corn is cut down and taken in. This is fed to cows and Is considered the best fodder in the market. MT Kelly has 143 COWS and--we forgot to count the horses-and 1t takes 500 tons of silos and hay to put fhnr,, ha Int it behoopes him to hustle at this season else his cattle would eat their heads of from the time the snow flies until the following May or June. John Mulhall, the eminent British statesman would be puzzled to make out the total of all the fowl on MT Kelly's farms. Hens with broods of chickens may be seen in every other nook and corner, some times quite considerable distance from any house, but 1t seems they all turn homeward towards dusk and spend the night under the shelter of some of the farm houses.
 Next week MT Kelly will have his corn cutting machine working near the lake and people who never saw such a machine will be amply repaid by taking peep at it while 1t Is eating.
 Until the present time there was not much to admire in Middlebury except one happened to be lover of choice farm stock and liked to take ramble amid the wild grandeur of a peaceful New Englarfd town. It is different now. Aside from the att fractions already referred to in this article, the new Westover school, across the way from the town hall, is magnificent structure and peo- pie who visit the lake should not re- turn without making call at the school. Then there is the new Cath ollie church just across the way from the Westover, which, 1t is expected. will be completed and ready for oc- cupancy next spring. The basement is finished and if the people have the sinews of war there is no reason why they should not be able to vacate the town hall as place of worship early in 1909. With the Westover school. the Catholic church. the town hall, the Congregational church, the post office, the bank and a few business houses. all within a short distance of each other. Middlebury will have something which stranger would recognize as the center of a town, and the natives will not have to an- swer any more questions regarding