Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — New England Farms. [ARTICLE]

New England Farms.

Two causes were originally assigned for the desertion of rural New England; the desire of the young people to get into towns, where there is more life, and the natural exhaustion of the soil. The extension of railroad systems, that makes it easy for country people to get Into towns, fox business or amusement, would seem in a measure to obviate the first tendency and the long rest that some ol the abandoned farms have had would seem to invalidate objection on the other score; nevertheless, a Massa- | chusetts farm of 500 acres, with i house, wells, sheds, and barns comi plete, easy to reach from the Berkshire towns and seven miles from a railroad, was sold at auction a few weeks ago for SBOO. There are social economists who declare that within ten years a reflex wave of population will roll from the West and the weedgrown farms of New England will ouce again be tilled. An Action may be so clothed as to change its proper effect on the people; with most of us a sugar-coated vice seems preferable to a lepper-coated virtue. A load of sorrow doesn’t wear one so much as a swarm of annoyances.