The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-10-07
SOUTH RANDOLPH

stayed with your correspondent Monua.
night. They are on their way from Cap
OF, with auto, intending to make tril
to California this fall, sleeping in TIN
auto on the way. They intended Y
start Sept. /, but have been delayed il
| settling up his business affairs here fol
more than a month. He called for al
vice in regard to the proposed trip. Al
he was man, should say, past 80, ant
had had only few days experience
running d car, told him thought it a
perilous proceeding at this late season Of
the year, but perhaps If he kept on and
took the southern or Santa Be route
they could get through before winter set
| in, if they did not have any mishaps. A
man at his age does not learn to run q
car as readily as young man.
They started from here Tuesday morn
ing for Boston, intending to visit and
bid good bye to relatives there before
proceeding west They intend to go to
dairying in the San Joaquin valley,
about 80 miles south of st. Helen on a
20-acre irrigated alfalfa farm. They re-
moved from that place four years ago to
Vermont and bought a l75-acre farm,
which he has sold, claiming the Vermont
winters do not agree with him and it
took too much money to buy grain for
his cows. He claims he can keep more
stock on 20 acres of irrigated land there
than he could on his It's acres of land
here and his grain bill there was moth
ing. They feed alfalfa for the whole
year and nothing with it, as he claims it
is well balanced ration for dairy COW.
| believe Vermont can raise the alfalfa
with or without irrigation.
Mr.. Kenfield agreed to write us In re-
gard to his progress on bis trip west
ward and perhaps will keep your read.
ers informed as to their, what call,
perilous trip, for this time of the year.
Your Vermonter in Michigan calls on
your correspondent or some other YER
mont farmer to tell what is raised on
the l00-acre farms in Vermont that can
be bought for from $500 to $4,000, after
acre farm there.
Well, they raise on the $4,000 farms
from 80 to rs tons of hay, part of which
is oats and peas cut and dried as hay
or fodder; from five to 20 acres of corn
for the silo, and it is all fed out on the
farm, mostly to a dairy of cows and
young stock, and the gain on the young |
stock and the income from the dairy will |
average much more than one-half the
sum received for the grain, etc, sold
from the 200 acres he cites, and we have
the manure made by feeding the crops |
to put back on the land, making the land /
gain in fertility, while there the land,
by selling off the crops, is being impov-
srished year after year.
These $500 hill farms are farms that
nave been farmed as many farms in the
Middle West have been farmed-that is,
most of the crops of the farms have been
'old, not fed. Others are farms owned
~ men advanced in years and retired to
ome village, being unable to hire help
II to rent their farms at remuneratiye
,rices, so have abandoned them. There
re several such hill farms within three
niles of my place, with quite good build
ngs and quite a good road, where the
nail is delivered every day. The hay
his summer was cut and sold from the
lace and the pastures were left I'M
locked.
Wages to-day average higher in New
England than in any other part of the
United States. Ii is hard to hire and
.eep efficient help on our farms. A III
avs work on a farm, especially in the
ummer, is naturally larger than a days !
'ork in shop, mill or quarry, therefore
clip gravitates towards the shop or ,
marry and leaves the farmer short OF
clip. Perhaps If we cannot have the !,
APPS and Chinese TO help us out, the
ord 5000 farm motor will, when prop i
rly introduced. j.. ID. Camp.
Complaint was made TO Town Grand I
uror f. d. Camp that Olive May Toby !
as a truant from school and was ad
cted to petty thefts from scholars and !,
theirs, beside other misdcmeanors, and
warrant was issued, hearing being !.
ED before Justice T.. j. Prince. She
oaded guilty 20 petit larceny and was
to the reform school at Yer
,nnes for the remainder Of her minor
v. Deputy Sheriff L. w. Kent CON =
wed her 10 Williamstown and left her =
the custody Of Sheriff Reed, whose q
ity il is 70 make the commitment at
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Henry Camp Of WATERFORD, Ne, IL Wis
ing friends here aud intends TO 20 20 >
e sanatorium at Randolph for treat
emit. =
ID. L. LOOMS has returned from the =
andolph sanatorium and his condition -
ems to be much improved. p