The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-07-23
CHELSEA

Ernest A. Corwin and wife lett last
week on an auto trip to Boston and
other Massachusetts, cities, expecting
to return home this week.
Ned A. Hatch has been clerking in
the Il, A. Corwin store during the alb
sence Of Mr. Corwin
Will A. Densmore has taken the con-
tract to harvest the hay on the Whit
ney and Townsend farm on east hill.
Miss Marjorie Thompson returned to
her home the first of the week from
North Andover, N. H., where she had
been visiting relatives for week, ana
her brother, Harold Thompson, rs Wis
iting relatives there at the present
time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman II. Hill have
taken the four weeks old Guild OF their
brother Arthur Z. Hill, whose wife
died last week. They will care for the
little one until the father can provide
another place for it.
Paul Morey, son of Arthur IL, Nor
ey. is working for Judge Benjamin n.
Adams on the farm during the hay
season.
Mrs. Walter w Arbuckle is suffering
from second attack OF gall stones.
Raw Keyser took a short vacation
from his duties as assistant cashier
in the band last week, and went 70
Boston and drove back a new BUICK
coupe for Mr.. Madison.
Orange County creamery paid It's pa
irons almost ten thousand dollars for
butterfat for the month of June
Jesse NJ. Hunt is working IN the Or
ange County creamery as an assistant
during the summer vacation.
AS the scribe on recent day was
passing the large garden owned and
operated by Mrs. Dennis w. Densmore
on North Main street, which is Iesplen-
dent with beauty each summer, and
made so not only by the protusion OF
flowers but by the evenness aud arts
tic design with which the various vege-
table plants are laid out end carefully
cultivated by her, she called TO him
to enter her vegetable and floral en-
porium to inspect a project she had be-
come much interested in, which was
none other than Transforming large
lime stone ledge into virgin soil which
she could plant and cultivate and pro-
d,lce therefrom vegetation. On enter
ing the garden, she unostentatiousiy
lead the way through winding pain
bordered on either side by variety OF
sweet-scented flowers, intermingied and
interviewer with all the different kinds
Of plants of the vegetable kingdom, TO
an elevation overlooking the scenic
beauty of the surrounding landscape.
The area of this elevation was approx
mately 40 feet square and m relation
To IL Mrs. Densmore stated that dur
inc the 30 years she had known the
nroperty. this elevation had been
| barren ledge until two years ago, when
she conceived the idea that it might be
| possibIe to decompose and disihtePrate
| this ledge so as to make IT available
| for tillage purposes, and with tha'
Thought in mind she went to work TO
: accomplish the purpose, anil her labor
which has been absolutely experiment
tai. has proven beyond the truth in the
ancient adsge. where there's WIZ
there's way" and not only this, ou'
that even such an obstacle as the Rock
of Ages" can be transformed into dust
| and virgin soil by the undaunted viii
determination and manipulation OF
even a woman. The method she has
EMPLOYED to accomplish her purpose
has been simple indeed. but the meth
cd and the result are both object les
sons which farmers whose soil con
tains limestone or lodges or even lime
precipitate can well pay heed and emu
late. She covered this ledge with hare
wood ashes from four 70 six inches
deep and the lye from these ashes and
the moist ashes themselves in con
slant contact with the ledge, has
wrought decided disintegration and
the ledge has now become soft and car
he shoVeled and spread about like &c
much soil, and bears every indication
that within the next two years, this
ledge which during the memory Of mar
has been a barren waste, incapable oil
cultivation or producing vegetation
will be smenable and Weld to the
plow and under her skilled hand viii
become a paradise of vegetation and
covered with bloom and fragrance OF
| flowers. Right here our farmers should
apply the unquestioned wisdom gained
/ from her experience and instead OF fol
lowing the custom of their foreiathers
in selling their ashes annually for 3
small pittance. apply them TO their soil
and reap the benefit of the real and
fun value there is in them for all pur
poses. Our own townspeople and thou