Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-04-01

acre Of potatoes by carefully caring for
his land, Others ought 10 BE- abl- to do
the same
The Steele farm is one Of the best
farms in Island Pond. Il has been kept
under fine cultivation most Il not all Of
the time, for the last twenty years or
more, aud il is needless 10 say that Mr..
Blodgett was very careful to select one
OF his best acres aud gave il the very
best of care aud had his crop come on
when potatoes brought the highest
price, thing very hard TO do in North
ern Vermont on account Of early frosts,
and the editor Of the Essex County
Herald has compared the results Of that
one acre of land with the average results
Of Western land. would like that
same editor to give the average results
Of land in Island Pond.
have talked with men here in Pasa-
dena who have farmed for thirty years
in different sections of Vermont, who
say that a yield of 100 bushels to the
acre is counted good in Island Pond
OF course that editor better try aud
keep some of the people there, for unless
something is done to excite the people
of Island Pond he won't have any local
subscribers, for that town is going to
pieces at a rapid rate. There are scores
of farms in that section that when was
a boy were under cultivation, that today
have grown up to weeds and bushes aud
some are covered with growth of good
sized trees or at least they were when
left that desolate town, about five years
ago.
| have showed that article to several I
men that farmed in Island Pond, and I.
they laughed at it. Mir W. S, who |
lives near me, farmed in the same town
for nearly twenty years. He told me
one day that he would not go back
East to live if they would give him
deed of his old farm; and would not
go back to live there the remainder of
my life if they would give Inc deed of
the whole State.
But taking for granted that Mr.. Blod-
gett did so well on his potatoes, Cali
fornia is the place for him for he seems
to be a live man and the soil here is
superior to Vermont land, and potatoes
bring higher price and that acre he
did so well on last summer in Vermont
is now covered with snow aud if he had
it here he could be raising oats hay on
it in the winter that would bring him
from SIS to s25 per ton, the same as his
w. s., is doing.
1t is not often man in this state
experiments with one acre. But sever
Al years ago Mr.. J. W. Roe of San
Gabriel, did on strawberries and one
acre netted him sll55.
Very respectfully.
Pc. H.
To the foregoing the editor of the
Western Empire thus comments:
Our correspondent is certainly a loyal
adopted son of California, and he knows
he hardships OF the farm in his old home
State, Vermont
California is big State, larger than
most of us appreciate, and having a
'ariety of climates and soils, conditions
ire bewildering to even the wel-in-
ormed. The writer has been in Cali
ornia for tifty,two years, and has had
exceptional opportunities to study the
states productions in every department
If agriculture, and still he says 81 do
lot know CALIFORNIA; limitations in
agricultural lines no man does. Each
'ear brings some new development,
ome new achievement, to add glory to
CALIFORNIA; marvellous agricultural de-
and her ever surprising pos
abilities.
California, embracing an area greater
han the New England and Middle
States, with agricultural victories with
,ut end, need not feel any otherwise
han amused at the deductions of the
Essex County Herald. and we congratu-
ate Hazen Blodgett on his potato sue
Tess, and Island Pond, that it has so
worthy farmer.