Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 24, 1911, Page 13

‘(Written specially for the Bulletin.) Lots of us farmers, especially if we are youngish and pushing farmers, having the “big farm” itch. We want- more land. We tkink we can’t turn around on the lan. we have. We are forever looking over our line fences and wishing we had the field to the east of us, or the farm to the south of us, Or else we want to “swap” the little old place and move to some other part of the town where we buy a good big farm. Or, even yet, some of us want to sell out here in the east and go west whére we can have “ranches” or “ranges,” plow with ten- furrowing traction-engine plows, raise wheat by the township and pasture our cattle over whole counties. “1f" is the word constantly on our lips. “If I had that next farm I could do something.” “If I had a hundred acres more to put under the plow I could show the meighbors a thing or two.” “If T had a-big enough pasture I'd soon let folks know that there is money in dairying.” And ser on, after some such fashion. Of course, a large part of this dis- content with our present possessions is just the patural human state. At least, it is so common that it seems natural. I mean the state of wanting what we haven't got and despising what we have got. What says the poet ?— y “As a rule man’s a fule. When it's hot he wants it cool; When it's cool he wants it hot; Always wanting what it's not; Never pleased with what he’s got:— 1 maintain, as a rule, man’s a fule.” We're all of us inclined to think that we're having just a few more troubles than other folks. Every lad on the farm thinks that his row is a leetle harder to hoe than father’s. Most ot us are never out of that state of mind We all know where our own shoes pinch, and we don’t feel the hurt of the other fellow’s .corns. But that doesn’t prove, by any manner of means, that the said other fellow may not have a hidden crop of those com- Forters. If we could only, every time and everywhere, put ourselves in that other fellow’s place, we might have some more sympathy and respect for him we surely should be shamed into sation of some of our own grumb- lings. I've been led to these reflections by just reading a long plea for the small farm, written by a man who farms a huge ranch, known as a ‘“honanza tarm” in North Dakota. This man, whose name is Twitchell of Fargo, N. D., has had experience with both sorts of farms, big and little, and he sets Yorth the advantages and disadvan- tages of both in an unusually clear way. For instance, the big farm can usual- ly get hirec help easier than the small farm, because most travelling farm workers like to be with big crews, and dislike the “chores” which they have to help with on smzll farms. Consequently they can be had easier and cheaper. Per contra, Mr. Twich- sell has found that this class of helpers take much less interest in their work, care less for their employer’'s profit, are wasteful of his time and des- tructive to his tools. “While they work at a little less wages, their labor really costs more.” Then, again, the big Tarmer can buy his supplies a little lower, as he is able to buy in large quantities. He can protect himself against the un- reasonable extortion of speculative buyers and handling charges, which the small producer must submit to. Again per contra, he finds that small farmers can protect themselves against this latter form of robbery, if they only have sense and ability to co- operate; while the benefits of cheaper buying are more than neutralized by the breakage and waste caused by recklessness among the hired hands. other Various evil of the big farm are mentioned by this ent advantages experienced bonanza farmer, and the other side pitilessly pointed out. He makes it very clear that big farming in the boundless west, with traction engines and reziments of hired men, isn’t all fun and prodit. Its advan- tages are apparent, rather than real. And even these apparent advantages, he charges, are directly “the result of unbusiness-like methods on the part of small farmers.” They can’gereral- 1y “create as advantageous conditions through co-operation.”. Let me quote a few lines from Mr. Twitchell: “If there ever was a time when big farming in North Dakota was w that time is passing. . . . Big farm- ing does not, nor can it be made to square with the economic rules that govern other big business. It is put- ting a square peg in a round hole. It does not conserve waste but rather multiplieg it. As a business proposi- tion it is fundamentally unsound. It will have to go. The owner of a bon- anza farm has missed his calling. He $100 Rewnrd $100 The readers of ‘this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease :ferce has been able to cure in : Catarrh. Hal y positive dical frate tutional di treatmen aken internaily, ucting blood and mucous surfac thereby ~destroying to the o the disease, and giving patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so mueh faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred ollars for any case that’ it s to cure. Send for lisl of testimon » Address F. J. CH 'Y & CO., Tole- o. . 0. Sold by Druggists, 7ie. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- pation. A Leading Califernia Druggist, Pasadena, Cal, March 9. 1911. Foley & Co., Gentlemen: We have sold and recommended Foley's Honey and r Compound for years. We be- lieve it to be one of the most efficient expectorants on the market. Contain- ing no opiates or narcotics it can be given freely to children. Enough of the remedy can be iaken to relieve a cold, as it has no nauseating results and does mnot interfere with digestion. Yours very truly, C. H. Ward Drug and Treas.” Honey and Tar Compound in the yellow package. At Lee & Osgood Co. OTHE g R R OWDER: OUR AIM :—NOT HOW _MU(H WE CAN FARM BUT HOW WELL isn't a farmer at all. He will have to go.” The future historian will not “cite the big farmer as the leading citizen. . . . He with his holdings will be considered something of a menace. The story will not be about the big farm but the many little ones. We shall not be measured by the acre or the section but by our profits.” And here is something that strikes me as pretty near pure farm gospel: “I fancy that Providence in planning things for us intended the farm as a home for those not foolish enough to live in_ town; that the farm unit should be such an area as the farmer and his family can well look after and care for, conservinz the waste, doctoring the soil, preserving or in- creasing its fertility,—-a workshop in which not only to produce bread and meat but there raise the strong and clean men and women of the next generation,, the land to be handea down by us to the future better than when taken by us. . . . Farming was intended to be a one family job helped, not by hirelings, but by a fam- ily partnership. Here is Mr. Twitchell’s conclusion of the whole matter: “If you have ever had it in your system to be a bonanza farmer, forget it; rather, strive to be a good farmer, as big as you can be good. It is far easier, far safer, far better.” It has been my good fortune, for a couple of vears, to have the reading of a wide variety of western farm pa- pers. Their news columns are full of stories and pictures from big farms; their advertisements are largely of traction engines and gang-plows and irrigation plants and forty-man thresh- ing outfits. I confess it has some- times made me a little discontent with my little farm of some swamp ana some mountain and some pasture and a few acres of arable intervale. I have only one field with actually square corners and straight sides. And that has only four acres in it.” The rest are of such shapes and sizes as the “lay of the land” compels. A traction engine with gang-plows would be about as possible on these many- cornered patches of mine as a Maure- tania in my two-foot ‘trout-brook. Yet I've sometimes looked with en- vious eves at the big farmer of the western prairies, pictured as riding comfortably on his tractor while ten plows behind it turned ten furrows of level sward down the center of a field apparently about thiee miles long. The comparison between that way of plow- ing and my way of turning one fur- row at a time, and that often not five rods long, with the seemingly unend- ing alternation of twisting around stones and lugging around angles at the ends,—it has occasionally made my old plow-handles seem a little harder than they really ought to be. But, after all, | don’t suppose that the riding of a traction engine back and forth across a level prairie is all a “joy-ride.” That engine has about as many diseases that must be doctor- ed as any old pair of farm plugs straining at a plow. And I don’t be- lieve it turns around at the end one bit easier .or faster than my one- shared landside plow. Just as likely as not that farmer whose picture made me envious was thinking, at the very moment it was made, how much pleasanter work was back on the old New England hill farm, with the old- fashioned plow and the steady ola team of horses, who didn’t slip a cam nor break an eccentric every time any little thing went wrong. I'm very much obliged to this Da- kota farmer for his exposure of the evils of big farming and his cham- pionship of the small farm. All the time, down deep in the bottom of my heart, I've felt assured that ten small farms were better, anywhere and any time, than one big farm. But it's good to have one’s suspicions corroborated. now and then, by somebody who knows. So far as the east is concerned, he is everlastingly right. What is wanted is not big farming but good farming. . We little fellows on our lit- tle farms can’t compete with the big farmers of the west in the number ot carloads of wheat and corn we can raise and ship. But we can compete with them,—and beat them out of their boots,—in the number of bushels of corn and potatoes that we can raise to the acre. Moreover, we can raj corn and potatoes of Dbetter quality. Furthermore and also, we can sell ’em, even in small quantities, for better prices, by reason of our near- ness to market. When we become in- igent enough to get all that is pos- sible out of every acre we work, and shrewd enough to see that neighborly co-operation in buving supplies and selling products is better than Is- hmaelitish aloofness,—then we shall have passed the stage when envy of bigger farmers is possible. “It's the little things that make up life.” We've got to keep on learninz that and repeating it. T know that it is the age of “big busimess.” T know that there is something inherently at- tractive in mere bigness. But I can’t hold with those who urge that future farming must tend towards the elim- ination of the small mer and the substitution of farm. managed solely for mon , from a cen- tral office-build deal for the future in the y. is a land of little farms. divided into little fields, each one cultivated to the last avail- able inch d ducing the last pos- sible ounce or pec of product. In that future our farming will be as careful, as painstaking, as resourceful and as productive as the best forms of market-gardening are today. Our true aim ought to be. not how muech we can farm but how well. THE FARMER. An Efficient Police Force. The Bristol Press says that Bristol has a police force that is doing excel- lent work, that the streets are nearly WINDHAN COUNTY . PHOENIXVILLE New Turbine Wheel for Mill—General Lyon Schoolhouse Repaired. Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Russ of limantic are visiting Mrs. S. C. D ley. James E. Latham of Providence was at O. H. Latham’s last week setting up a new turbine wheel at the old Latham mill site. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lyon and Miss Grace Lawton attendad the graduating exercises in Willimantic and Putnaim this week. e Schoolhouse Repaired. C. P. Latham has completed the re- pairs to the General Lyon schoolhouse ordered by tha school board. “A. V. Green is repairing roads in the Pillshirs distriet. Selectman_ O. Latham has re- paired the Potter and Ponegannett bridges. The local constable and grand juror were callad out to settle a dispute among Polish residents this week, bui the matter was finally settled amicably by themselves. To Attend Reunion. A. B. Atchinson expects to attend the reunion of his regiment in Vermont soon. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Walsh are on an automobile trip to Lowell and other cities in Massachusetts. Alfred Peck has returned to Phila- delphia for a short visit. CANTERBURY. Miss Medbury Kicked by a Horse— Damage Done by Deer. is able to downstairs Mrs. Lavina Madbury leave her room and go without aid. Miss Clarissa Medbury, oldest daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. William N. Med- bury, was kicked on the side of b stomach by-the family horse, Dollie. She has suffered a great deal, but the physician hopas she will recover com- pletely. Recently Charles Richmond caught in Kit brook six trout which weighed five pounds and ten ounces. . Mrs. J. D. Pellett of Central Villaze, who has been visiting her daughter. Mrs. E. E. Bennett, has raturned home. * > Mrs. Harry Earden is able to ride out. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Graves and Mas- ter Fred, J Miss Evelyn Graves, Mr. and Mrs. arles Kenyon of Black Hill itors Sunday William N. Medbury’'s. There was 24 "visitors at Mr. and Mrs, Medbury’s Sunday. H. F. Williams and daughts Liss Williams, were recent visitors n ich. F. E. Medbury has been ing friends and relat in Danielson. 5 While there he ecalled on Mrs. Glinn Lyon (A. B. Lyman), one of Canter- bury's former teachers. Deer are raising havoc with dens. ete. There were about 60 at the lawn party at the Center. CHAPLIN. gar- Grange Interests—Archibald H. Stew- art Stricken With Shock. Natchaug grange held an open meet- ing at the vestry Friday evening, June 16. The programme was furnished by members of Storrs grange and was much enjoyed by the large number present. A number attended from Meadow Brook grange of North Wind- ham. Condition Serious. Archibald H. Stewart was stricke. with a shock Monday and his condi tion remains serious. His son, Archie Stewart, of Portland, Me., has been with him this week. Rev. H. C. McKnight will exchange with Rev. William M. Brown of Hampton next Sunday. Miss Lanphear Resigns. Miss Mabel A. Lanphear, a succe: ful teacher, who has been principal of the Winsted graded school for sev eral years, has resigned and is at the home of her mother, Mrs. Nancy E. Lanphear, of South Chaplin. HAMPTON Several from here attended th2 grad- uating exercises of the senior class of W. H. S. Thursday evening. Amang those who were graduated living in Hampton were Miss Helen Spalding, Miss Maud Hyde, Clarence Webster and Marius Jewett. . The ladies of the grange gave onc ef their fine strawberry suppers at Granga hall last Saturday eveni They cleared about $18. News has been received that Frank E. Pearl. who is in a Norwich ho~- pital for treatment, is Teginning to improve. The Ladies’ chapel last W Aid society met in the nesday afternoon. Orin W. >hillir who has been sick. is able to be out. The teachers from this town are enjoying an outing at South Coventry lake. £ SOUTH CANTERBURY H. J. Larkham and daughter Doro- thy of Plain Hill, Norwich, were the zuests Sanday of Mr. and Mrs. Levi N. Clark. Mrs. H. E. Larkham of Plain Hill is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Carris E. Clark. Mr. and Mrs. J. Walsh of Norwich were guests of Theodore W. Yerring- ton Sunday. g Mrs. Charles E. Waldo was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Nelson J. Lyon, last week Friday. WAUREGAN Joseph Danme. an Ialian laborer em- ployed by the Cummings Construction had his foot badly crushed Henry Gazzette was attacked and severaly bitten by a young dog owned by John one on the Green Hollow road Monday afternoon. TOLLAND CODNTY HEBRON Exhibit of School Work—Graduating Exercises Followed by Recspticn— Death of Mrs. Annise Wells. free from intoxicated persons, rowdy ism is reduced io small proportions, orded is maintained all the time and the ‘town is unsafe for ecrimin How many places of the size of Bri tol can make such a claim? Not many, The town is growing and is increasing in importance in more ways than in the numbher of its inhabitants and there is good ground for its at- tractiveness. The Press likes to stand up and shout for its home town and in doing <o it makes it e heard by quoting facts. n Herald. Singing and Work. A man who sings at his work should remember that he isn’t the only one on the job who may be entitled to happiness.—Atchison Globe. Outclassed. When the dog in the manger hears about Colonel B we expect to see him gquit in disgust.—Washington Post, The schools of the town gave an ex- hibition of work in the Town hall Fri- day afternoon, which was very enter- taining. Some excellent work was shown. The closing exercises of the Center school were held in the evening. Music was furnished by Lyman’s Concert or- chestra. The programme was well car- ried out. Mrs, H. F. Tennant of East Hamp- ton, with her children, are at Mary F. Frink's over Sunday. Afiss Olive Smith of Hartford w: the guest of Genevieve Little over Sunday. The school children had a very en- joyable time at the lake in Columbia last Tuesday. Miss Sadie Rayvmond is at Frank Ravmond’s in this place. Florence M. Jones is at Hart Buell's for the summer. S. T. Marshall, teacher of the gram- mar school at the Center, is at his uncle’s in Ellington for a short vaca- degree of k in scholarship. -Besides completing his college course in three years, Mr. Wil- liams has been-active in college af- Zairs Rev. and Mrs. Williams and son, Milton, will spend two weeks’ vacation with Mr. Williams’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas - Williams, in Sharon, Mass., and will also visit frféends in Boston. They will return to the M. E. parsonage about July 5th. Springfield Pastor to Supply. Rev. Dr. L. G. Horton of the Meth- odist church of Stafford Sprinzs will preach in the local Methodist Tipisco- pal church next Sunday at 3 o’clock. Briefs and Persohals. Mrs. W. A. Thompson and son, Mer- ton, returned home last week, having spent two weeks in Cushman, Amherst and South Deerfield, Mass. Mrs. Emily Roberts, Mrs. Julius Rob- erts and daughter, Doris, of Spring- fleld, were guests the first of the week of Mrs. Almira Chapman. Miss Pearl Bowden and Earl Bow- den are spending their vacation with their sister, Mrs. Fred Parker, in Mon- son. Mass. Mrs. Dana Jaquith of Turnervilie has been spending the past week with her sisters, Mrs. Minnie Belcher and Mrs. Jennie Chandler. P. A. West joined his wife in visit- ing friends in Taunton, Mass., over Sunda: James Tobin of Meriden was home over Sunday. BOLTON Grammar Schools Hold Graduating Exercises—Gifts for Departing Teachers. The graduating exercises of the Bol- ton grammar schools were held in the Congregational church, Bolton, Wed- nesday evening, Jume 21. The pro- gramme included a song by the Cen- ter school: address of welcome, Theo- dore. S, Perry; prayer, Rev. C. W. Ru salutatory, Mary Mathieu; song, Smith schoel; class prophecy, Maxwell Hiitchinso Tecitation, Charles Schell; essay, Peace, Frederick W. Richard; recitation, South schoo treading of a prize essay by the win ner, Elizabeth C, Seward, the prize be ing a gold watch N\ reading, Frederick Rennet: The Unit- ed States Reservation Indian, Henry Hutchinson; essay, An Incident of the Revolution, heridan; song, Cen- ter school; reading, Edward Bird; val- edictory, Doris E, Warfield; presenta- tion of diplomas, Frank W. Barber; America, by all. The graduates were Doris Elizabeth Warfield, Mary Mathieu, Frederick William Richard, Maxwell Hutchin- son, Keeney Hutchinson. The church was decorated with roses and ferns and with the class flower, the daisy. As the Center school teacher, Theo- dore S. Perry, and the South school teacher, William R. Purple, have se- cured other =2ppointments, and will not return for the ecming school year, they were presented respectively a gold ring and cuff -links by their pupils in appreciation of their hard work and successful efforts. MANSFIELD DEPOT Carlos Brigham Taken to Hospital— Frightaned Horse Overturned Car- riage. Carles Brigham, who ha ferer frem stomach and he: tle, was this week taken to Will tic hospiial. Carriage Overturned. Mr, and Mrs. George Baker and Her- bert and Leroy Waldo made an auto trip through Eastford, Woodstock and ‘Willington on- Sunday. When nearly home théy met Dr. Ross and family, who were pleasure driving. The horse a suf- frou- man- became frightened, overturning the. carriage, but no cone was injured. Mrs. Williams of Merrow spent Wednesday with Mrs. Baker. Carlton Pollard and family of Wil- Tirantic visited the Dimock homestead Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hansen entertained relatives from Stafford this week. Mr. Beard is very ill Mrs. Mary Durkee of Stafford visit- ed her son and daughter over Sunday. 3r, and Mrs. William Buxton of Westford are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Wilcox and daughter Ruth are moving into the west tenement of Elm cottage. BOLTON NOTCH Small Blaze at Soap Mill—Big Pickerel - Caught. . The soap mill at tke Notch belong- ing to W. E. Alvord of Manchester Green, caught fire about one o'clock Wednesday afternoon, but thke blaze was discovered before getting under headway and soon extinguished before doing any more damage than burning a few of the roof boards. Sparks from the stack probabiy caused the fire. Childran’s Sunday Observed._ Children's Sunday was observed at the Quarryville M. E, church Sunday evening, vre were recitations anad singing by the children and asddresses by the paster and superintendent. The boys are catching some fine pickerel at Lake Holbrook. Joseph La- Chapell recently caught one weighing two paunds nine ounces. Miss Sadie Doolittle returned Tues- from New York Miss Mabel Hew chester Wednesday Mrs. R. L. Warner. ~ STAFFORD Sale of Mead vas in Man- iting her sister, v Place—Recent Mar- riages. Mrs. T. M. Mead has sold her home here to W. T, Jones and is selling her household goods, and expects to return to Berlin, N. H., the middle of July. Her daughter, Mrs. Grace Toothaker, and son, Curtis Cady, are with her. Aliss janet Dobson, wio went to the Springfield hospital, has returned to her home. Miss Kthel Sault is making recovery. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pinney, with Mr. and Mrs. J. Orcutt, were visitors in Union last week to get the laurel vein. Mrs. E. M. Russell and srandson, from Chaplin, are guests of Mr. and | ' Mrs. Frank Thompson. Otto Possardt and Miss Catherine McLean were married last Friéay by | Rev. L. G. Horton at the Methodist | parsonage. } Charles B. Fox of this place and Miss Emily T. Kanig of Rockville were united in marriage by Rev. J. W. Bal lantine of West Stafford last Saturday at the parsonage. 'SPRING HILL. Andrew Gurley of Willimantic, a for- mer resident, is visiting at Judge L. J. Storrs.. Danisl W. Bingham of Hartford, who formerly lived =at the parsonage, has been visiting friends here. + Mrs. Walter Cummings and daugh rapid 4nty Drudge—“What! eating dinner in this steamy, smelly kitchen? I should think it would take your appetite away.” rs. Slow—*“T have noticed that George doesn’t eat much on washdays.” 4nty Drudge—“How can he! Why don’t you use Fels-Naptha? Boiling water isn’t necessary; and youw'll be through your wash plenty of timé to have dinner in the dining-room. Or if you prefer the kitchen, there will be no steam or bad smells.” Talk about energy! . A half cake of Fels-Naptha soap can display more energy in getting rid of dirt in half an hour than®an able-bodied woman can in half a day. - But there’s this difference: Much of the woman’s energy is wasted: When she rubs clothes hard on a washboard she wears out the clothes in trying to rub out the dirt. Fels-Naptha concentrates its energy on the dirt—dissolves it into tiny particles that are easily rinsed away—without harming the most delicate fabric. And it does this in cool or lukewarm water, without hot water or boiling, sum= mer or winter. Do you prefer to supply the dirt- removing energy yourself or to use that stored up in a cake cf Fels-Naptha? If you choose the ‘easier and better way, follow directions on the red and green wrapper. ——————e e ————————————————————————— ter of “Webster, Mass., are stopping at | pist manifé®ted no desire whatever to B. M. Sears’. die poor.—Washington Star. Mrs, C. C. Davis and_daughter are visiting in Springfield, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Wildes have finished their season of canvassing for post cards, and are at home for the summer. W. A. Weld was in Worcester, Mass., last Tuesday on business. A;;Iing Disclosure. One of the most startling disclos- ures was to the effect that some finan- to ciers are so irreverent refer to Mr. Carnegie as ‘Washington Star. as “Andy. A Missing Invention. What has become of Willis L. Moore’s furnace that was to provide hot air in winter and cold air in sum- mer?—Columbus Despatch. When He Knew Andy. John W, Gates has no hesitation in declaring that he knew Andrew Car- negie when than eminent philanthro- CONCENTRATED NOURISHMENT Sick*and Convalescent BORDEN'S Malted Milk Easily Prepared Palatable Very Nourishing For Sale at Your Druggists bungry, you s - . ¥ do not want to spend the evening getting supper ready. ¥ You want a stove you can start up in a mu twill cook quickly and well. «* For camp, houseboat or a New Per- fection Oil Cook-stove is the i device. It is ready for use in 2 moment. ; It saves all the trouble of cuttingwood and getting in coal. It does not overheat or make dirt in a kitchen ; there are no ashes nor- smoke. - It requires less attention and cooks better than any other range. " Made with 1,2 and 3 . with