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OWN  THIS  SMALL  THRESHER 
As  one  field  after  another  showed  re¬ 
sults  from  lime,  farmers  became  con- 
=JJ  vineed  of  the  need  of  liming,  and  the 
,  practice  is  now  spreading  all  over, 
on- 
n _  A  LOSING  Game. — Years  ago  a  share 
U  of  the  wealth  of  Western  New  England 
lino  went  np  the  river  to  Canada — carried 
,lt;  away  by  the  hands  of  French  and  In- 
ro  din  ns.  For  the  past  century,  and  pnr- 
,j  ticnlarly  since  onr  Civil  War,  the  great 
rise  wealth  of  this  section  has  been  flowing 
,.(WS  down  the  valley — on,  on  with  the  river 
vi>]j  to  the.  ocean.  Part  of  it  has  stuck  in  the 
large  towns  in  the  valley,  but  most  of  it 
lias  gone  out  to  the  great  social  whirl- 
pool  at  the  mouth  of  the  Hudson,  which 
n‘f  sucks  in  men  and  dollars  with  irresistible 
power.  The  manhood  and  the  money 
from  this  section  have  gone  down  the 
river,  taking  the  soul  and  the  soil  of  the 
section  with  them.  Now  and  then  a 
nn0  rich  man  comes  back  and  builds  a  great 
11  b  Summer  house  where  lie  can  sit  and  see 
i,rs  the  glittering  stream  pass  by.  and  the 
':l^r  interest  on  the  investments  come  back 
10W  to  help  earn  more,  but  all  these  years 
the  valley  has  worked  too  hard  at  the 
^,e  principle  that  a  farm  is  a  good  place  to 
1PW  make  a  dollar  but  a  poor  place  to  invest 
m  s  it.  Ask  any  Vermont  man  who  lias 
md  gray  in  liis  hair,  what  would  have  hap- 
pened  if  Vermont  people  had  kept  their 
,,,r'  money  at  home  and  invested  it  in  good 
'"V  roads,  limestone,  home  factories  and  a 
l'1'  s  dozen  other  needs  which  are  now  nppnr- 
"Ir  ent.  They  will  tell  you  that  farm  wealth 
the  -would  now  be  doubled.  There  would  be 
fol-  K)0.000  more  people  in  the  State,  and  the 
cm.  problem  of  the  hill  towns  would  be  set- 
’^s  tied.  Here  in  the  Connecticut  Valley  as 
ght  well  as  elsewhere  it  is  the  disposition 
of  father’s  dollar  which  seems  to  decide 
the  actions  of  the  second  generation. 
'  is  They  will  chase  father’s  dollar  over  the 
ng,  hill  or  stay  at  home  with  it.  It  was 
of  Vermont  money  sent  out  "West  from  those 
to-  little  farm  towns  which  helped  make 
en-  Iowa  and  T’Mjmm  land  worth  $300  per 
to  acre — ami  reduced  many  a  Vermont  acre 
ills  to  $25. 
hut  Farm  Bureaus. — At  Windsor,  Vt„ 
llP_  was  held  the  animal  meeting  of  the 
ly  seen.  Corn  for  the  silo  and  grass  for  ‘Windsor  County  Farm  Bureau,  and 
hay  •wei«?  the  chief  crops.  Most,  of  the  ulllUy  0f  these  things  were  in  mind.  Tt 
rami  lur Tings  were  area  tir  ed  in  groups  was  a  good  meeting — about  75  sound. 
— the  house  being  connected  with^  the  srl,sible  men — most  of  them  farmers  by 
barn  by  comfortable  closed  sheds.  1  here  occupation,  and  every  one  owning  a 
was  no  wading  through  drifts  or  si  and-  ffirm  Fivo  V(,irs  .,go  it  would  have 
ing  in  the  wind  in  -order  to  reach  the  been  impossible  to  get  any  such  cotn- 
harn.  According  to  Toother  <  osgisoc  pfU)y  together  to  discuss  the  farm  situa- 
these  farmers  must  all  lx-  prosperous,  for  t  wMl  libenil  intelligence.  Now  they 
there  was  always  a  big  wood  shed  stuffed  fnny  to  realize  ilie  need  of  or- 
full  ot  dry  sjdit  fuel!  It  always  seejned  ’g-inization.  A  man  in  New  Jersey  necd- 
to  me  that  the  old-time  New  England  ,,,]  two  Vermont  products — one  was  a 
farmer  had  a  poor  idea  of  beauty  in  marble  slab  for  a  gravestone  and  the 
building  his  farmhouse.  He  just  put  up  otllflr  mapie  svrup  fffl-  his  children.  Bfi- 
a  big  square  box  of  a  hofts  just  about  a  ••,.], ^e”  mm  i  hasty  with  hg- 
as  handsome  as  a  coffin,  with  just  about  ,m.-s  he  investigated  and  found  that  if 
as  much  ornament  as  tlx-  tails  on  a  ]1(,  bought  the  marble  the  Vermont  pro- 
Quaker  s  coat.  I  he  young  folks  arc  duo#rs  would  receive  CO  per  cent,  of 
changing  that.  Some  Of  these  old  square  w)i;lt  h..  ]  when  bo  bought,  the 
boxes  have  porch  and  bay  or  dormer  sv  nip  yf  retail  the  actual  producers  tp- 
wimlows.  all  painted  and  bright,  until  C(,ivcd  about.  30  per  cent,  of  what  be 
they  look  as  pretty  as  Mother  does  "hen  pjlj(]  One  industry  was  closely  orga li¬ 
the  girls  come  home  from  school  and  izril  the  other  was  not.  This  man  de¬ 
practice  their  arts  on  her  hair  and  dress!  to  make  a  concrete  gravestone, 
ECONOMIES. —  T  saw  a  few  tilings  which  .while  his  children  compelled  him  to  lmy 
made  me  think  of  boyhood  days  in  the  the  syrup!  TVben  you  think  that  out 
Capo  Cod  country.  Out.  behind  the  barn  and  apply  it  you  have  pretty  much  the 
the  garden  was  being  started-  The  hens  whole  financial  story  of  the  upper  Con- 
run  at  largo  now,  and  there  was  no  gar-  netjtieut  Valley.  Farming  must  ho  made 
den  fonoo.  So  they  plant  the  seed  and  more  like  the  marble  industry—  closely 
then  lay  brush  from  birch  trees  over  organized  for  producing  and  selling,  and 
them.  This  "ill  keep  the  hens  off  until  keeping  more  of  its  capital  at  home  for 
the  plants  are  so  large  the  hens  cannot  improved  equipment  and  purchasing  pow- 
desti-oy  them.  Tlc-n.  if  the  liens  come  or.  That  is  what  is  coming  to  this  see- 
and  pick  the  tomatoes  open  the  boy  can  (ion.  Thousands  of  beautiful  Summer 
stone  them  or  the  women  can  run  out,  homes  and  holds  will  bo  built  on  the 
shake  their  aprons  and  call  “shoo!”  hills  along  the  river,  bringing  labor  and 
after  which  the  farmer  will  hear  a  few  better  home  markets.  In  future  years 
remarks.  My  memory  is  good  and  lm-  these  homes  and  hotels  will  be  as  famous 
man  nature  rarely  changes.  It  would  as  the  castles  along  the  Rhine,  and  even 
seem  strange  to  a  Western  man  to  see  far  hack  from  the  river  farming  will  he 
the  way  some  of  these  farine  -  go  out  stimulated  anew  and  improved  as  better 
into  a  good  meadow  and  plow  a  piece  roads  stretch  out  among  the  hills.  Tt  is 
for  potatoes.  It  may  be  a  long  narrow  surely  coming,  and  the  Farm  Bureaus 
strip  j>r  a  zig-zag  shape  with  many  corn-  can,  if  rightly  managed,  have  more  to  do 
ers.  In  one  farm  I  saw  ;wo  men  plow-  with  organizing  and  directing  the  forces 
ing  with  oxen,  one  drove  -and  the  other  of  agriculture  than  any  influence  which 
held  the  plow,  and  they  must  have  had  has  yet  been  started.  They  are  to  do  a 
plenty  of  time  for  thought  as  the  slow  work  which  the  colleges  cannot  hope  to 
brutes  -toiled  on.  Somewhat  near  the  do.  Why,  these  75  earnest  men  who  met 
other  extreme  of  farming  was  seen  on  fhe  at  Windsor  last  week  could  change  the 
next  farm,  where  a  farmer  was  driving  agricultural  thought  of  one-fourth  of 
a  team  of  Jbig  gray  horses  to  a  lime  Vermont  if  they  c-onld  have  wise  leader- 
spreader.  It  was  good  to  see  that  white  ship  and  follow  it  like  drilled  soldiers, 
streak  across  the  dark  plowed  ground.  But  here  I  am  at  the  end  of  my  space. 
The  lime  wave  has  rolled  far  up  this  Later  I  want  to  tell  of  what  I  call  wise 
valley,  and  during  the  -past  five  years  leadership  and  faithful  soldiers. 
HOPE  FARM  NOTES 
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Everything  that  will  do  fast,  clean  and 
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