Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 11, 1909, Page 13

is now complete, and you can do your Christmas buying at no bet- ter store anywhere. One immense advantage this store has this year, is an entirely new stock of the latest and best the market affords. It has been the inflexible rule of this establishment from its very foundation, never to permit de- ception, falsehood or fiction to enter into its advertising or sell- ing of merchandise. We have found this a successful policy. Another point is quality, and our friends are proving daily by their continued patronage that they appreciate the soundness of our motto. “It is not What you pay, but What you get that counts.” You will find the same high grade lines of merchandise here at popular prices that have made this store headquarters for Eco- nomical, Satisfactory and Sensi- ble Christmas Gifts. Our lines of Fine Furs were never more attractive, and while the qualities are absolutely right, the prices are reasonable. You can depend on your Furs if bought at McPHERSON’S. An extra good assortment of Holiday Umbrellas for Ladies or Men. Handsome Holiday Neckwear in all the new silks, new shapes and patterns. Bath Robes, Pajamas, Night Shirts, Coat Sweaters for Ladies or Men, Half Hose in silk, lisle and the finer grades of cashmere and cotton. Men’s Soft Shirts and Bosom Shirts in excellent neat, new and distinctive ideas. Full Dress Protectors, Reefers and Mufflers. Silk Hats, Silk Opera Hats and Walking Sticks. High Grade Gloves in all the reliable makes at moderate prices. Traveling Bags and Suit Cases. Everything in Full Dress Requisites. Scarf Pins, Studs and Links. Everything in Correct and High Class Headwear for Men. And some very good novelties in Children’s Headwear at M°Pherson’s 101 Main St., Norwich, Ct. novsd Portable Lamps The finest line of Gas and | Electric Goods in the city. BATON CUASE Company, 129 Main Street, Norwich, Ct. dec7d Winter Millinery A CHOICE LINE OF THE LATEST STYLES AT MISS BUCKLEY'S, 308 Main St. nov2id is no adavertising medium 16 ern Conneetficut equal to The Bul- | A FARME R A Dairying Methods—Extremes Not the —The Cow’s Tastes and Desires Cannot be Ignored —High Scientific Notions which Do Not Work Well —June Pasturage Makes the Best of Butter and the 'S THLK .3 Most Commendable Best of Cows—What a Cow is and What She is Not! (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) As I think I have mentioned some ten or a dozen times, I believe that the best farmer, in order to become and remain the best, must know some- thing of the sciefice of agriculture, as well as of the art of farming. Any kind of blundering will bring results on a new, virgin soil, rich with" the accumulated fertility of ten thousand uncropped years. A man doesn't need to be a farmer to raise wheat on the broad levels of the Canadian north- west. All he has to do is to turn the dirt over, scatter on the seed, and then hire a traction engine with a thirty- foot reaper or “header” attached to cut and thresh and clean and measure and bag his grain. This is about as near to “finding money” as will ever hap- pen in agriculture. It’s no wonder that such people are getting fich and buy- ing automobiles, at the present price of wheat, Here, on old lands which have been cropped for two hundred years, on soils depleted of their natural fertility by the annual suction of two hundred harvests, a man must know something and do something to raise wheat, Or corn, or potatoes, or cabbages, or any other old thing. Therefore, he must know something about the science of agriculture; for “science” means sim- ply knowledge. He must learn, in some way, what his soil needs, field by field, to restore it. He must learn, in some way, fleld by field, what sort of cultivation will best nourish His fos- tering plants. He must know a whole Jot of things. And the sum of his knowledge, however acquired, is the measure of his attainment in the sci- ence of agriculture. He may learn #ome of it from books; he may learn some of it from observation of his neighbors; he may learn it all from his own callouses and his own sore | knuckles, rapped tender by hard ex- perience. My own impression is that he will save time and a great deal of trouble and some loss, if he will heed the teachings of ‘all three—books, ob- | servation and experience. The trouble with many farmers seems to be that they will not accept help from more than one of the: sources, They are either “book farmers,” or else they are just the opposite—won't have any- thing to do with books. Neither one of these classes ever wholly get there. On the whole, judging from what | odel Ranges Have all the improvements for light- ening kitchen labor and lessening the fuel bill. They are fully endorsed by cooking schools and progressive house- keepers. Sold Oniy By ANDREW J. WHOLEY, Telephone. 12 Ferry Street. Plumbing and Tinning. auglld AMERAS - HRISTMAS —AT— RANSTON'S Mr. Cranston says he has been sell- CAMERAS Supplies in Norwich and vicinity for ing and Photographic thirty years, and he is sure that his long experiénce will help you in se- KODAK PREMO which you are going to buy for Christ- lecting that or mas. And he has two smart young| women in his Photographic Depart- ment who know a lot about CAMERAS and can take and make pictures as good as anyone. They will be pleased to show you the new goods. it be the There's nothing, unless after-delight in the pictures them- selves, that more universally appeals to young and old than picture taking. And it's inexpensive now, for KODAK has made it so. There are Kodaks and Brownies and Premos for all people and purposes, and the price range is from $1.00 to $200.00, that all purses can be suited. The BEST CHRISTMAS*PRESENT All can The best so is something all can enjoy. and do enjoy a KODAK. place to buy a Camera is at - Cranston’s Right on Main St., No. 158 decl@daw 13 have seen, read and undergone, I should think that the old-fashioned, “practical” farmer who discards all theory and simply sticks to what his own experience has taught him, is apt to make the most money. The book farmer, who reads up all about some specl_al crop and soil and coddles the two in accordance with his reading, is apt to get the biggest yield—at the highest cost. But neither of these is “success.” Making money, alone, is not success—never was and never will be, s0 long as there are so many other and better things in life. Nor is the raising of a two hundred pound pump- kin on land which never before. pro- duced over twenty pounds success, alone and by itself. Success implies making money; granted; it also in- cludes making manhood. And to make the two things, at the same time, on a farm, requires just about all the knowledge, i. e., the science, which can be accumulated from any and all sources, That's why it seems short- sighted folly for any farmer to ignore books utterly and to sneer at “sclen- tific” farming. Nevertheless, there is such a thing as being too durn scientific. The other day, reading an article by a professor in a big agricultural college on the fas- cinating toplc of “A Cow to the Acre,” wherein he told what a man with for- ty acres and forty good dairy cows could do, I came across this sentence: "He cannot afford to give his cows pasturage, but pasturage is the most expensive feed, anyway, so we can well eliminate this.” : ded my reading of that particular arti “Pasturage the most expensive feed!” Oh, rats! I have a neighbor who goes in for fancy farming on a big scale. His specialty is dairying. He has a big modern barn, all finished to the queen’s | taste; cement floors, big ventilators, | patent reversible self-dumping hang- ers, running water always before the animals, manure carriers on hanging tracks, big silos, Babcock testers, im- proved separators and churns, sanitary milk and butter rooms, etc., etc. His herdsman is a graduate and his milk- ers wear sterilized linen clothes at milking time, and wash their hands in medicated water with antiseptic soap, and dry them on towels that have been boiled and baked and fricaseed, for aught I know. He had been taught by this professor or some other highly certificated scientific authority in dairy- ing that pasturage was expensive and unsatisfactory fodder for cows. So he kept his sixty head of pure-blooded, high bred stock all the year round in this fancy barn, with only an ocecasion- al run in a small yard on particularly pleasant days. They were scientifical- ly fed and watered and groomed and milked and blanketed. Right there And he has just had nearly half the had condemned as tuberculosus. The experienced and common sense veter- inary who examined them did not hes- itate to say, so I am told, that they had been kept shut in too much. That is, they hadn't had enough of that very pasturage run which some of these ul- tra scientists condemn. Now, I have not the slightest idea what my neigh- bor pays for his cow feed in stable; nor could I guess what pasturage would have cost him for the open months, It may or may not be that the first money cost of pasturage would have been the greater. Really it makes no difference whether it would have been or mot. Certainly it could not have been enough greater to counter- balance the loss he has now had. The manager of one of the biggest dairy farms in the great state of New York wrote over his own signature in an agricultural paper, some years ago, that his idea of the proper care of a good dairy cow was to put her in a box stable as soon as she had her first calf and keep her in it till she was fifteen vears old. I ghould just like to have that tried on a good sized.herd, some- time, and see how many would live to be fifteen and pass satisfactorily a test for tuberculosis, say every three years. The farmer who lets his cows lie outdoors through all sorts of wintry New England weather, and feeds them on nothing but mouldy cornstalks and swale hay, isn’t likely to get rich from dairying. Per contra, the farmer who treats his cows much as if they were members of a young ladies’ finishing school—well, he mustn’t wonder if they turn out about as delicately invalid. There's a difference between animals and folks. Nature, which denied them reason, gave them an instinct which, for their particular safety and welfare, is about a thousand times better than our best reason. That is, than our best reason as applied to them. We don’t know, any of us, all the secrets of Old Brindle’s internal economy. We .an’t tell, any of us, just how a part of her food is diverted to the mainte- nance of warmth or just how another part of the same food goes to make milk, and another part to enrich that milk with its varying proportions of butter fat. We know a good many things about how her rations act, but we don’'t know them all nor anywhere near all. And the man who, basing his dogmatism on his half knowled asserts flatly that we must do this, that or ’'tother for her, regardless of her instinct, is either excessively self conceited or something worse. As b tween Professor Know-it-all's theorie | l \ | g 4 P womanly diseases. drugs. wtters from them clearly describe. It Hunger Thought of you makes me hungry. Between the thought and sight of you, Indged I'm always hungry. makes me think of you; But with appetite awaiting— a nickle in hand and you in store—who could wish for anything more? NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY of what she ought to have and Old Brindle’s instinct of what she wants I bet my pile on the cow! It must be a queer sort of farming country where pasturage is {ound more | expensive feeding for cows than buy- ing grain at present prices. Jut even it it does cost more, in some places, it produces more. They can s all they | please about creamery butter; you and | I know that there never yet has been any better butter made than that which came out of the old-fashioned stone churn, from the cream of cows fed on June pastures. Such pasturage not only produced better butter and more of it, but it also produced animal health and strength; rounded out Bos- sy’s ribs, regulated her liver and im- osroved her digestion; put friskiness anc “ginger” into her. A cow isn't a pump—though some milkmen are said to mix the two up, sometimes. If she were a pump, all one would have to do would be to see to the valves and work the handle. But she isn’'t; she’s a mighty complicated compound of hair and hoofs and horns and meat and fat and bones and nerves and some scores of other things. And the more one really learns about her | the bigger grows the number of things he finds he doesn’t know. In our present state of knowledge about the wisest thing we can do is to find out her ideas and let her have her head. It she wants grass and there is rass, Jet her have it. Ir le under a shed, let Le , or come into the stable if she prefers that. Give her all the chance in your power to be comfortable, in her own way. But it seems to me that it is really about as foolish and almost as cruel to “coddle” her as it is to neg- lect her. I know that this will be considered by some rank heresy. Well, some of the heresies of 1809 are quite orthodox this 1909. 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