The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-05-27


catch the faint odOr OF a delicious
perfume waited from the great
"snowheld~
But Il wasn't a snow field after
all. II was huge orchard Of 400
early and late Richmond and Dye
house cherry trees. on the most ca.
tensive fruit orchard farm In this
section.
Beautiful Cherry Hill" farm l. a
lOo-scre tract owned by Edward a..
Everett. president OF the American
Bottle company. II Is situated three
fourths Of mile from Black Hand
station.
or the 400 acres. nfty represent
hardwood timber land thickly grown
with chestnut. beach. hickory aud
oak The balance OF the acreage
accomodatcs $4,000 handsome young
orchard trees Here is the list:
5000 apple trees.
1900 cherry trees.
1000 pear trees.
1000 ounce trees.
5000 plum trees
l2.S00 peach trees.
Some orchard. isn't it,
Not only that. but II Is undoubted.
ly the most scientifically managed.
planted and cultivated OF any fruit
farm in this part OF the country. II
is unde- direct care OF II. A,
Albyn. an expert in his line. engaged
for the purpose by Mr.. Everett. Mr.
Albyn Is ably assisted by Ira Mayor
the farm foreman. and a corps OF help
ers varying In humble. as the season
demands.
There Is everything necessary IA
10 make the farm success, from a
branch government weather station
installed through the activities of j
Warren Smith OF the state weathe.
bureau. to 5000 'smudge-pots" OF
orchard heaters. designed. to pro
tect the trees and drive of old King
Frost on chilly nights. Near the
residence occupied by Superinten
dent Albyn, and snugsled down in 4
cleft in the hillside. is splendiC
spring of purest water. In front o
this spring is built a monster con
crete cold storage building, tunnel
shaped, through which the icecol'
water runs in a full stream afte
bubbling down over ornamental rocl
shelves set back in the natural grot
TO which shelters the spring.
Here is where the fruit is packe'
and sorted.
| Farther back on the hill stand
the cannery. 1t is long, Low
structure completely equipped witt
canning machinery with which 4
put up the fruit which is foun'
to be in excess of the ready marke
supply. So
But this isn't altogether an OF
char farm. They raise few othe
products on Cherry Hill. For in
stance. last year there was but iii
tie canning; the supply was sbor
aud the market used II up CLOSELY
but the year before there were ,
500 cases of tomatoes put on tn
market from Cherry Hill. Gree
beans. too. were produced I'm abund
ancc. In 1912 the farm produces
approximately 10000 quarts of ihes
beans. Fifty children were given en-
ployment picking them. This yea
about ten acres will be grown an
| canned
Last year there were 500 bushel
OF potatoes raised on the potat
patch at Cherry Hill.
And here's a striking thing to b
observed on the farm: There i
scarcely a square foot of cleare'
ground that is not utilized and place.
under cultivation.
One may obtain some conception
of the extent of this utilization o
rich farm land when Il is know
that interspersed through these So
acres of orchard are
Three acres Of blackberries.
Five acres of black raspberries.
| 5000 gooseberry bushes.
5000 currant bushes
! 1880 grapevines, covering thre
| acres
i Nowhere in Ohio, at least. is Their
more varied assortment of orna
mental shrubbery than on Cherf.
Hill farm. There are in the neigh
/ borhood of fifty distinct kinds o
garden and decorative shrubbery nov
growing there.
/ Much of this assortment comes IL
the form of samples from the Ever
EFT country home in Bennington, VT.
where an even larger variety is un
der cultivation.
The good farmer. the skilled agri
culturist, doesn't wonder at thu
great assortment of products raiset
on the big orchard tract, because h
knows 1t is all part of the grea
scheme of scientific farming, all tent
ing to enrich the ground and add t
its productiveness.
On the Cherry Hin farm may b'
found a genuine freak of nature
| curiosity OF great interest to the mai
ure student. 1t is natural graf