Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-28

new shingles, etc. When l got through
every building on the place was al
good as If it had been built new thai
summer
The following fall / filled the tie-ul
with live stock, quite part of Il
thoroughbred Holsteins. / remember
with special pride. two cows that
could put on the scales together
which about always raised the beam
to a ton and half.
/ was quite a-hand for experiments.
Among these was a plot where / had
an acre of alfalfa planted in strips
with four kinds of seed, Other odd
crops were cow-peas, kale, spanish
peanuts, etc. This alfalfa of course,
was good investment and there is
still quite a little of It growing at the
farm. The COW peas and spanish pea
nuts were interesting enough but not
especially profitable. The kale was
| splendid pasture for hogs. l did so
much experimenting that the Federal
Department of Agriculture became in
| terested and sent two men who spent
week or so making surveys about
my farm. have their plan now nice
I
shows every apple tree location and
the boundary fences are outlined in
such a way that the material of
which they are built and every meas
urement are indicated. The woodland
is shown with its area in acres. There
Is also noted the number of acres In
each separate field. The buildings APP
pear on this plan and the whole is
drawn to scale. OF course this is in
valuable in all kinds of building and
farm problems.
The Federal Department also sent
a man who started a system of books
for me. / did not consider his ser
vices productive of good as the sur
veying party. He did, however, make
complete inventory Of my farm, land
buildings, live stock, farming tools,
household effects and everything else
placing his estimate OF the valuation
on each This was very interesting
and useful, and it is worthy of note
that his footing of total valuation was
over $4,000. l kept my accounts
according to his system for a year or
two, but finally abandoned part of the
detail which seemed somewhat I'M
necessary.
During those years of 1910-11-12 /
had the time of my life. ! used to go
out to the farm Monday morning and
stayed there until Friday night, all
through the summer. In the winter,
would usually go to my village
home Thursday nights for the week
end | enjoyed working with the live
AZ 60 nd
cially with the apple trees. My health
came back with a rush. Our original
plan was to give up our village home
and move to the farm, but when it
came time to make the change. it did
not really seem advisable l had
three children In the Skowhegan
schools, and we did not like 10 face
the problem of getting them in town
in the morning and out at night dur
ing the years Of their school course.
At the beginning OF 1918. there came
an opportunity for me to get back in
to the newspaper business, under
what then seemed and has suhse-
quently proved to be advantageous
conditions. was conceited enough
to think that l could manage a news
paper enterprise and carry on a farm
at the same time, and this l tried to
do during 1894. There are many
people who are able to thus man
age business projects at somewhat
widely separate points, but ! am not
one of them. My mind would just
about grasp what / could bring with
in my range of vision or within min
ute's walk of my business desk. NV
crops and live stock five miles away
were too remote for my limited ca
pacity to keep an eye on" and | had
to give it up.
Since they were planted my apple
trees have had splendid care. There
is nothing very difficult about that,
even as a side issue to the newspaper
business, but do not want 10 acres
of corn, 20 acres OF potatoes and
ue-up full of cattle to look out for.
unless / am going to be where l can
see them when l get up every morn
ing.
And this Is the reason why Eaton
Mountain Farm is for sale Having
recovered my health and become con-
WINGED that am better adapted to
newspaper work than to farming, and
having abandoned the hope that my
family would consent to give up their
village home, l am forced to relin-
quish any dream / may have had OF
passing the rest of my life on Baton
Ridge. So somebody will get a mighty
good trade in this farm. One building
alone, that one hundred foot New Eng
land type dairy barn, would cost s10,-
600 to build at the present time, and
for this amount (ten thousand) / will
sell the entire two hundred acres and
from ten to a dozen other buildings
that would also cost $4,000 to build.
Some statistics of this farm follow:
BUILDINGS AT EATON MOUNTAIN
FARM
r. L. W. P. H.
New Barn 100 46h Is 40
Manure Pit 1910 34-S IA IA IS
Shelter Shed 1910 30 is ia