Those Disagreeable Swamps

D wortllüiil well tllled they Jl II! ! lor beauty and profit. Thiey hould 'not bc allowed (o i natutal, uoéeeïrabl and damaglng e apparontiy a curse bo -il iii" country about ti - ii i-.-iy tlicy can be nin: aiuable. Itero le m ín tfluem for -whocvcr reclaima iills i!,-m judk-iously. ín a wíld, un nll. valed tate tlLcy in-e Rlmply ■■.üravr-yards'" oí anímala nnd vegietaW cte&d car lie, part of tbem picklod in a fixcd te and part oí titan s'.owly dccomitag and finitting unhoaltliy and ajwl HSdOy fíajse.s. Tlwy are vast mud btoies, tii-' abode ol frog, lizanls, Miakc-s and oth.r disiíusting creahures - breedJog cesspools. In Isickly sea&ons persons near i hem show a pailUl countenance and sulfer with. ngue and fe ver, and not infrequently lose tJieir lives ly tbo deadly e of a minsiuir atniosphere. Those dleagrecabie placea are a drawback on all 1ii.s lamí ■ to them- a -:riU'O ,to flie whole country around tlLein. Xo cuit.ivnt-d farm, ev feood, ever bo fertiilc a mi nlcely improvedif Lii ttae vicinity of tfreae quagmires (usually surrounded by Miiiítlcss people) will brinjí a.s inuc'h, per aore as ii Nvould if Hurrouiwled by wU cultlVated farms and tliriíty and intelligent tormén for netgjUbora. Bastera people liave leamed the se'cret of thc hkMeii tivasures ioi euch places, unearthed and made use of Ibhem with iica t. ptnttt. ín Genesee tounty, N. Y., tlhere wae once a low l-trip of land, part o{ it a wet marsh. huid part a Bwamp, some three or íour miles loog, along the siüe of a sort W a rMge, on wWbb ran a road. farms of from 50 to 300 acres lay from ome-half to two-thirds n that fc-wamp, -wliiCh of course made it quite Hinhiealthy near by, andj at first the Ibetter class of eaetem settlers bough.t b"way from tlne ewamp, ín good nelghfborluoods where were good schoolB tuwl nitO farmB ; -n-Mle tJie unffhriíty ones settled near tlie swamps, tilled eac.'li me from one-fourth to pcrüiaps one-tlurd of his land, had poor Lealtli, poor farms, poor neúghbors, poor 6chools and poverty in fullness genera 11, y. After a, wUte a resolute, clearhea-ded farmer from ■ermoIlt, purchased 300 acres at the Knver end of that kwamp at ."ri'O per acre, ditcliod and 5ini)ruvcil t, and in addition to lüs Inmdred acres of xipland for jrrain. he feoon had onc hundred arres of splendid frrass, oat and oorn land, 40 'acres oí beet?, bagas, carro: s, paranips, ionio-as, and cabbagee. Twenty-flYe HlO0d'(l linrsrs. a clairy oí forty COWfi and aotae yousiig attic and was ofíered elgluty-tiVe dolían per aero for luis eiitirt' farm whicb be declared had hot cewt hiini, includüii; all improvehient.-, (ivcr íiity dollars per acre. His 6wamp, as it was called, was the most valuable part of h.is land. It produced 'abundant crops of grass, coarse grain 1 roots for luis stock whlch i 11 turn lurn'.t-lifd larm: (uantilii's oi drtrpplngs ío enrich bis npifiod and doubied the Ivalue of evvvy reaolnte men boogtrt out more of tihöse slftCk farnirrs. and the cniire leng-th. of tiat toar nuiles "poor n borhood" was awakencd by that 300 acre farm. A componer was formed luid the whole BWamp ditvhed and improvied anl DOW, aftser a lapso of a ïw years, tibe country around it is i a.lled very Uicaltíhy. Tho.-e once ''poor farms" - partly rcclaimcd Bwamps and artly uplaml - now the vory best of fstock and dairy farm are valufd a i I 5 %o 25 per cent, more per acre than ít4iose contignous to them whlch are íill upland. l'irst clase farms, first - C]UH inrii, m liools, churches, etc., is ÍJ10 rule in. that cutiré loeality. Tli ía-tiest ríclMiess of thoae iwamp 9evwttB is betag reb ased by inteiiiii t.illin.i; and by actfcra of thie atmosivliiere m decompoeed aad decompo&ing organir matter whlch are weU knxyvvn to form 1 1 h very bewt oí plañí Míe. Bwampa and maralisB when thoroughiy ihaiuvci are of Immenee valué even wfaen not need with other land. lAfter a few yeara 1 LlUagT, some of them Iby p;ovel in rlrige laúd-. li; , ■ ved íalHiluiw crops of Oats, cirn. barley and even of wl.ai, each sutcoeding crop as it rtees upward from we!l tfUed iirlds, k1iiu"vs plainly the product of a mine of -wealtJi. Toe accunnilal ;;i oí untold ag68, perluíips tliousands oi ycars, of animal aiiii vegetable growtli packed in á latent i-ondiition, unnoticed and al'moet uuknown to previous gienerattions but when unearthed and utlUzed, tluey are imnn -n-i iy íertile. Few peotle realize tlie valué of ewarnps and luarshes. They havo been called waste landw, letter cali tliem gold lajide. As a rule tliedr intrinsic valué largely exceeds tüiíit of uplands. It 5s said tliry never we&r out ; once 'draiined and properiy tilled, tliey are a 'perpetual source of wealtli espectally wliien used in connection with nplands. Iu Orange county, N. Y., tlwrc are eeveral thousnud aotea of low land, mostly a peat marsJi- with pickled un two to twenty feet'deep. tu tbe cariy yean - centory, I aliii;ü - vi ni i. and bj I that and growth oí edery, ote, parsnlpe, etc. ag Oí oUi.er nii'ii soon followed Uta example .-ml öha.1 vorthless ms nearly all reclaftned. Som- of it 1.25 per ■ brouihi a thoueand ara per acre. Vba famcyus "Gray, i i ■ townsblp oí iter, Orange coomty, X. Y., are a part cu' !h-u inarsii bol 'f tteed not c,, , ■. iilrn ■■■ oi Ih ■ transfur1 1 1 .- 1 1 : ,! i l ol et land by cifltlvation, we t bre wltli t, within four miles of Aim Arbor. Tin.ri) are several tracta of Krw land oí frora 30 to 300 ■ caclL wlik-h within twculy rars past li.ave leen purctoased at ten (teen dollars per acre, now worth i bnndred or more dollars per acre, finil t s said that on íinu-h OÍ that land at timo.1 the CTOpi Of a shmlWe&T liave more than paitl for that tiu.-r-ir. entdre tlrsi eoet of baad, and reclatalng It. Some niiiï doubt th.-s at lirsi ïlmught, but hui toot up the amouiit ol tour lumilrcil biishcis of cmJons at Beventy:w coat per buehal, at ask Prof. J. B. Steerc, of Aira Arbor, and i h.-y wiil beconvlnoed of Ite i rut h. onions have Ieen known to .vivid eigbt hnndred i.u.-lir] per acre and briog over one dollar per buehel. Xo mtui, vvell initormed on wet land, will Bbiaa it. Il he has a farm of part ow and part upland te wïll be ure to eoiritlh, his uplamd by the droppings ol etock raiilsed on lowlaad crops. If he has upland and can purchase lowland near by, lie vvill do so, cnrich and Mouble tlue value of hüs upland as beiore exploiimeil. Xo matter luow far be inay be from market, wluerever stock $8 valuable, swampe and raarohes are raluable. PoesSbly, at gome future linie, we niay gve aome of tlue partiiculars of reolalming lowlancl, lLaving bad succeseful expentence therein. Reepectfuilly eubmiitted,