Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-15
A FARM THAT SUCCEEDED
Another Answer to the High Cost
Of Living.
Tho Actual Experience Of . Man who
Bought an Abandoned Farm and
Made Money Out Of It-How
He Managed.

Not more than six or seven miles from
New England city or about $1,000 peo-
pie there Ia farm Of q acres The house
on II was built just after the Revolution.
somewhere about 1856. 1t u two stories
high. painted white, has two chimneys.
fronts the cast with It's long side, and
stands on a high, wind-swept hill bohind
dosen or moro elms, oaks, butternuts
and hickor4cs. At night the myriad
twinlning lights Of the distant city seem
not more than half mile away from It's
huge front-door rock. BY day the smoke
OF tall chiinneys, the towers Of churches
ana the miles and miles Of brick walls
that border the shining river are the EVIL
dcnce Of busy industry. The summer kitch-
On. ell, shed. shop, horsebarn. cow
barn are all connected with the house
so that when the snow lies deep and
dr'fted without, the good man within can
do his work snugly and in comfort, while
| corncrib. henhouses and beehives form
the irregular third side of the square
| "dooryard.''
The approach Is by road of half mile
or so In length leading under ancient
NAPLES and chestnuts to the south door
The first thing you see you drive In Is
the wellsweep and under It the grind
| stone. At the back there Is a ,niddle-aeed
| orchard of some 60 or 60 trees, mostly
| Baldwins. 1t has been long neglected
| The pasture starts from the back barn
; ard gate and covering some 20 acres
, stretches west to and across a little brook
that hurrlcs down the hill. the general
character of the tllage is strong clayey
loan with not much stone. Most Of the
stone was built into wallis years ago
| There Is a small woodlot of Is or 20 acres
of young hardwood. The pine and hem
| lock have long been cut
ANOTHER ABANDONMENT
| For nearly hundred the same family
| rad occupied this farm and the evidence
| of their thrift ard care is apparent to the
observant eye in the roomy, comforta bic
| and handy arrangement OF sheds and out
! buildings; while within the house, the
| size of timbers. the ancient wansco..ng
| and cornices Of the rooms the deep
| mouthed firerlaces and the wooden SHUT
tered windows all tell of long ago when
houses were built for a llfetine's use
by man and wife and family But the
| young fellow who inherited the farm
found 1t lonesome" end having a tidy
sum IN the savings bank, which he had
also inherited. determined 70 move to
the city and get a job as a salcemac in
store somewhere. He announced that
| 'farinin didn't pay" His vile alsc con-
| fided to friends that there was more
chances for Henry In the city" The Job
which he found as salesman In hard
ware store paid him SIS a week and the
hours were from seven in the morning till
six at night. with ar hour OFT at noon
Two evenings week the store was open
| till nine O'Clock. SO the farm was Cor
| sale.
| During the last years of old Warner 3
| l.fe and for the short time that hia son
was there. little done In the way of
cultivation o. care and the land was
pretty we'll run OUT when 1t was pu. on
| the market.