THE HOMES OF HAYES AND GARFIELD. 



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street, and have the dignity of a name, is the old 

 state road, and runs from Euclid avenue, Cleveland, 

 direct to Delaware avenue, Buffalo, thus connecting 

 two of the finest urban thoroughfares of which our 

 country can boast. It does not require a very 

 great stretch of the imagination to look ahead to 

 the time when its whole length of some two hun- 

 dred miles shall be a continuous line of handsome 

 country homes — for such is the destiny of these 

 roads along which our great cities are growing up. 

 The land is already too valuable for the ordinary 

 uses of agriculture, and fruit culture is being largely 

 resorted to in order to get commensurate returns 



his effort to solve the problem is raising mainly 

 such crops as can be most profitably fed. keeping a 

 herd of some forty fine Hereford cattle, and selling 

 from the farm only the surplus products. Besides 

 the Herefords, a dairy of a half dozen Jerseys is 

 kept to minister to the needs of the home table. In 

 all the farm operations a strict system of accounts 

 is kept, and the conclusion thus far arrived at is 

 that cattle have an up-hill task before them to pay 

 their way upon lands of such value. The low por- 

 tions of the farm have been underdrained, and in- 

 telligent direction is given to the effort to bring it to 

 a high state of fertility. 



Slow and Rushy Brook Affords a Restful Stretch of Rural Landscape. 



The place was purchased by General Garfield 

 only four years before his death, and it is to be re- 

 gretted that it was not his home for a sufficient time 

 to enable him to impress his individuality upon it. 

 Little effort has been made to ornament the grounds, 

 beyond keeping the ample lawn in good condition 

 and planting and preserving the shade and orna- 

 mental trees about the house. A group of fine lo- 

 custs stands upon the west ; a tall native pine rises 

 at the front, while here and there we notice a 

 gnarled old English cherry, a graceful paper birch, 

 some Norway maples, a London smoke-tree, a 



from the value of the investment. Grapes espec- 

 ially are largely produced, and apple and peach or- 

 chards occupy a considerable acreage. The Gar- 

 field place comprises one hundred and sixty acres. 

 Of this some ten acres are given up to lawn, which 

 makes a pleasant setting for the house. There are 

 a few vines, a young orchard, and perhaps a hun- 

 dred peach trees ; but as yet most of the land 

 is being used for the purposes of a stock farm. 

 James R. Garfield, the younger son of the presi- 

 dent, is engaged in a systematic study of the much- 

 discussed question, " Does farming pay ?" and in 



