VOL. XLIX. NO. 2100. 
NEW YORK, APRIL 26, i 89 o. 
PRICE, FIVE CENTS, 
fca.oo PER YEAR. 
W. W. Farnsworth was born November 21,1855, near 
the village of Waterville, Ohio, about half a mile from 
where .he now resides. He worked on his father’s farm 
daring spring, summer and fall, and attended the village 
school in winter. While very much interested in all of the 
operations of farming, stock 
growing, etc., he has been 
especially interested in the 
garden and orchard, and his 
spare moments have always 
been devoted to them from a 
very early age. At the age of 
seventeen he began teaching, 
and taught for two winters 
in a district school, but he pre¬ 
ferred an out-door life and 
spent the several winters fol¬ 
lowing “in the woods.” In 
the fall of ’77 he purchased 10 
acres of land and began hor¬ 
ticultural operations for him¬ 
self, with such success that 
in ’84 he added 30 acres to 
his holding and began plant¬ 
ing. In ’89, 30 acres more 
were Becured and are now 
about half planted. He has 
orchards of apples, pears, 
plums, etc., and grows small 
fruits among the trees as 
long as practicable and then 
secures “ fresh fields and pas¬ 
tures new” for his small fruits. 
His money crops are berries, 
fruits, nursery stock and pota¬ 
toes. He saves all the barn¬ 
yard manure possible, buys 
all he can, and is using com¬ 
mercial fertilizers in anexper- 
imontal way in addition to 
clover, rye, buckwheat, etc., 
wherever practicable. He be¬ 
lieves in thorough underdrain¬ 
age also. In fact, he finds that 
ho cannot afford to till wet 
or poor soil. He has been sec¬ 
retary of his county horti¬ 
cultural society for 11 years 
and is now secretary of his 
county agricultural society 
and of the Ohio State Horticultural Society, besides being 
connected with numerous other societies. He evidently 
believes it is “ better to wear out than to rust out.” 
John B. Wright is 35 years of age, and was bora and 
reared on the farm he now owns and occupies, only 2J* 
miles from Toledo, where he is well known as one of the 
leading market gardeners of the place. He has made it a 
point to be first if possible, and in following out this deter¬ 
mination year by year he has made a success. He has many 
times succeeded in taking in hundreds of dollars for a cer¬ 
tain crop before his competitors were ready to visit the 
market. He has been very successful with all garden 
truck, especially with early lettuce, cucumbers, cabbage, 
corn and melons. 
He sells a large share of his produce at a stall he owns in 
the Toledo market, and a good deal to commission men. 
His sales through the busiest season average close to $200 per 
JOHN H. WARN. 
Fig. 76. 
FIVE YOUNG OHIO FARMERS. 
It is always pleasant to read of pioneer farmers and the 
energy and pluck they displayed in conquering difficulties 
and subduing the wilderness. Pioneer life was rugged 
and hard, filled with dangers and difficulties; but it 
afforded glorious opportunities for great-souled, hard¬ 
muscled men and courageous women, who only needed 
such opportunities to prove themselves worthy of a place 
in history, that will always be secure. There are many 
young men who complain that their fathers and grand¬ 
fathers have exhausted these great chances for profit and 
fame in agriculture. It is true that the time has gone by 
when a man may successfully cope single-handed with the 
wilderness as he could 50 years ago. The railroad and the 
telegraph have changed all that forever. Still, who can 
say that all the great chances of agriculture have passed 
away? There are thousands of farmers throughout the 
country whose successful lives are direct arguments against 
such a statement. The young farmer of to-day must use 
his brains and make them double the strength of his hands. 
He cannot work as the old pioneers did. This is not a 
pioneer age. It is an age in which men must utilize the 
forces and materials which the pioneers could afford to 
regard as waste products. 
Scientific farming and fron¬ 
tier farming both require pi¬ 
oneers—men of sound, hard 
sense and patient application. 
The young man of to-day 
who, by means of his own 
thought and labor, can de¬ 
velop a poor farm, on which 
somebody else has failed into 
a productive piece of property, 
is entitled to as much respect 
as the young man of 50 years 
ago who brought his farm out 
of the wilderness. 
The R. N.-Y. is glad, in this 
connection, to call attention 
to the portraits shown at Fig. 
70. Here are five young men 
who well represent a class of 
farmers who will have much 
to do with future American 
history. There are many such. 
We have not heard so much 
from them yet, because older 
men have done most of the 
talking. The younger men 
are quietly at work, however. 
They have no desire to push 
older and more experienced 
men aside. They hope to fit 
themselves so that they may 
fill with honor and credit the 
places that their fathers have 
made for them. We give be¬ 
low a brief biography of each 
of these five young farmers. 
We have no further comment 
to make beyond the remark 
that ihere is nothing in the 
appearance or the histories of 
these young men to give any 
excuses to the people who 
maintain that "farmin’ don’t 
pay I” 
selling organs and creameries, but has also carried on 
farming in the summer aided by his two sons and a hired 
man. For the last three years he has paid attention chief¬ 
ly to dairy farming and the making of fancy “ creamery ” 
butter. To keep up with the times, he built, in 1888, a silo 
that holds nearly 200 tons of silage—the second one built 
in the county. He has the first and only herd of dishorned 
cows in the county, most of them JerBeysand grades, and 
the dishorning was all done by himself. In 1887 from 10 
cows he made 2,204 pounds of butter and in 1888 from 20 
cows he made 3,900 pounds; while in 1889 from 20 cows he 
made 5,198 pounds 11 ounces : several of the animals were 
two and three-year-old heifers. He expects to keep on im¬ 
proving his herd by breeding and care until it is second to 
none. He is a practical farmer and dairyman and believes 
that plenty of manure and thorough cultivation are two 
of the leading points in farming, and that special breeding, 
care and feeding insure first-class butter that will com¬ 
mand the top price in the market. 
Wm. N. Teacy was bora in Pittsford, near Rochester, 
N. Y., in 1846. His father was a lumberman who made 
his own way. The son worked at home and handled 
lumber till he was nearly 21 years old. He was married 
JOHN FINZEL. WM. N TRACY. 
W. W. FARNSWORTH JOHN B. WRIGHT. 
FIVE YOUNG OHIO FARMERS. From a Photograph. 
John Fin/.KL was born in Waterville. Lucas County, 
Ohio, in 1847, on the farm which is his present home and 
which his father entered as government laud. His health 
was poor when he commenced business for himself, so that 
he was unable to do hard work and took to selling sew¬ 
ing machines, in 1871. In 1873 hard times came, collections 
were slow and he was driven to the wall; but straightway 
set to work on a new part of the farm. Most of it was yet 
in the woods and what was cleared was badly draiued. In 
'74 to ’75 the seasons being wet, crops were failures, and he 
secured next to nothing for his outlay and labor. By this 
time he was about $1,100 in debt aud had not much to show 
for it—only one horse aud an old buggy. In the autumn of 
1876 anew sewing machine caine out aud he commenced to 
sell it in winter, farming, etc., in the summer. Most of the 
laud was cleared of timber by contract aud is almost all 
free from stumps now. For the last five years he has been 
at the close of 1866, and next spriughis father gave him a 
fine team and wagon and a few farming tools, aud he 
started “ West,” as it was then called, and after driving 
for two weeks reached Toledo, Ohio, on April 1st. 
Presently he went on a farm of nearly 150 acres, knowing 
nothing of the details of the work before him and with no 
definite expectations. He did not get along very well at 
Unit, on accouut of hisiguoranceof farming, and, moreover, 
he suffered severely from “malaria” In all its forms. 
After a struggle of six years he was advised to go north 
into the pineries aud did so in 1872, and remained there 
nearly eight years, during which time his family regained 
their health. In the spring of 1881 he came back to his 
Toledo farm or what was left of it—about 45 acres—near 
the city limits. Here ho started in a small way to raise 
small fruits for market. Since then ho has added all kinds 
of fruits till nearly all his land, which is in a high state of 
cultivation, is set out with the best marketable kinds, and 
there is a succession the year ’round. His receipts for the 
past year were nearly $3,000, and they will exceed that in 
two or three years, as a large number of his trees are not 
yet productive. Through his ambition and desire to suc¬ 
ceed he has worked early and late, and he declares that he 
can truly say that his fruit is above the average in the 
market, and, as might be expected of such a man, he be¬ 
lieves that the contents of his baskets should be as nice at 
the bottom as at the top. The main part of his fruit Is 
sold through Toledo commission men. Last fall he 
was elected president of the Lucas County Horticultural 
Society, having been long interested in its prosperity as 
well as in all matters relating to horticulture. He is a 
close observer and quick to adopt any new device that 
facilitates operations in his business and is a firm believer 
that honest methods and work are best for himself, his 
neighbors and his township. 
