Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 28, 1911, Page 13

THE FARMERS TO FARMERS STATISTICS NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM (W ritten Specially for The Bulletin. 'There are in the United States, not iacluling Alaska or any other outlyin portions, about 1,900,000,000 acres of | JanAd. Of these nearly two billion acre: Perhaps you're not interested in fig ) | theic thumbs? There is reason to ex- | pect that they will know more about dry farming in 1950 than we do, just as we now know more than they did in 1#60. Land which, half a century age. was considerei hopeless, is now g | « =290 o are actually in P < T prtmont of agrioul- | STOWIng noble crops. Why may not S tiratas et oniy about 13,000, | 1an¢ which we consider hopeless, now, acres more are “capable- of culti- | ke dcing somethirg half a century ation © Thai would be 830,600,000 h=nce, for farmers who know more . all told. This calculation, you |than we? e s ot | 1 think it won't quite do to surrender {ble of cuitivation. That is, an _even |2l 1he remaining ariC and semi-arid walf of our entire nmational area is set | 1anGs to the limbo of “incapable of down as unfit for farming. What are | improvement. 5 e Classed s improved farm lands- | _Moreover, how about irrigation? mount to cnly. 477,448,000 acres; a | Even the wholly rainless lands are, e over of fthe land actually | Some of them, turning in phenomenal- owned in nd Tess than a quar. | 1V_productive’ farms under the soik- e of al in the countrv. . ings of the irrigation ditch. More than 25,000,000 acres are now in pro- cess of redemption from the barrenest ures. Mere talkk about so many mil- [Sort of desert by varicus irrigation lions or billions of one thing or an- s"“”"“" ther isn't very thrilling, we must ad- - He mit. But it seems to me rather in- h:dstha-;g L o chcuff’e""fi;"",:ffi?-'? eresting to know ss th a ~ 2 ¥ e Taarcer of the Jand in the United |tains. Well, I own up that some of States is “improved” lamd: that only | {he western mountains seem to me a half is consiGered by those in author- | Pretry _discouraging proposition to v as capable of improvement; that |farm. You can’t do very much with ar e e hich 13 e cultivated | bare crags and snow-covered peaks here are three uncultivated acres, |2nd rock heaps without dirt enough to imd thit two of those three are re. |File the water that occasionally rains garded as uncultivatable. Why, it begirs to look as if the cal had got about to the end of its tether on them. They are not forever hope- less. They are making the soil of the future. Bnt erosion and disintegra- tion are slow processes, and it surely does Jook as if we should have to ig- f ‘an it be that we are so near the > 5 it of asricultural expanmsion: 1s |nore them for a few thousand vears, here reall o omy fore- | et & Lhere really ground for Elogmy fore’ |’ But there are mountains and moun- wand waen we shall not be able to |tains. Not all are Sierras. Our roduce crops for our own needs? |ountains, here in the east, are not _el's see: What sort of land actually | 0¥ any means waste land. s this half which is summarily dis- . EEERE A e e imeapable of cultivatlonsz | It won't do to say that all land 7 e 5 i “* * | which can’t be plowed is incapable of Well, there's a lot of land covered | improvement, It won't do to marrow e PN and ke e S amDe =2 |and corn and potatoss, etc. Where w't cultivate ponds .and lakes | there is demand for ir, cord-wood is 'S SUA BNah a Pegiass a crop as truly as cabbages where plows and hoes and harrows. It it coanka nle food products in the way of fresh not be made to produce valua T at all clear that many of them there is demand for them. everywhere in demand and at coun- stantiy rising prices. It is reported that the average profit of the western fis ro cate N g o e O e, or o% the | wheat grower is about $5 per acre. If may not be actual food, but it hclps | he makes that amount on land worth o preserve fcod and prevent waste, | $50 An acre, he is king ten per cent. Tm mot so sure that even the lakes |1f vou and I can make $5 an acre on mightn’t be “improved.” \umber sold off mountain sides worth As to the swamp lands, however, I |DOt cver $10 an’acre we're mskim.:( 0 N s i =y f the isn't a yrote t against their being any of them per cent. And 50 per cent. bad business proposition. =et down as untillable and waste. It Bpos Ttin nd 51 ther Tor cultivaiion. Tut | Don't forget that forastry is as much they are, ninety-nine acres out of ev- | farming as fertilization or irrigation or hundred, reclaimable when the | CUltivation, One part of the farm, by necessity arises and the demand for |iDtelligent management —will —grow produce reaches an insistence iwhich |800d corn. Another part won't grow will make it pay %o reclaim them, |COrn fo profitably as it will potatoes. There is hardly & swamp in the Upited |A third part won't grow either Stz States which would be as difficult to |Profitably as it will timber. Wha turn into farm land as the sunken |then? Shall we refuse to grow po- basins of Holland, where thousands |tatoes on the theory that only corn- of fertile acres lie actually below the {ni ing -xf(a_xnnng'.’ Sl;al‘a:;?xxnrgrt?s: urface of e % 0 grow timber on he s Sarface of the nelghboring dvked-out |y, it ien't farming to raise anything | don’t know how many acres o wamps there are in the country, bu there are meny millions of them. And | jmproving our wooded mountain lands well dile a demurrer against their be- | a5 for improving our gardens. When ing ruled out of the count, to begin | the farmer England grasps the | with. How about ihose “cranberry |ope simple little fact that wood and bogs” of Cape Cod and New Jersey. | timper are crops as truly as wheat and too: And the rice swamps of Texas | spples, when he gives as ratable a and 1er siana and Arkansas And | gshare of attention to his forests as to the Minnesota wire-grass swamps? | hjs fields—why, then he will be getting In thes. cases what used to be con- |, petter income and making more off sidered absolutely hopeless wastes are | yig farm than he generally does,-now. wow more profitable producers than | eauzl acreiges of arable land near by. | SRR, No, thank we'll not tirow our | We're not anywhere near the ragged ps out of consideration; at leasL | edge of national pauperism yet. The not vet for a while. land which the gentlemen of the agri- but plowed-land crops? There is just as ample ascope for f t | cultural department kick out of court, Ancther big area is classed as arid | now, as “incapable of improvement,” or semi-arid land. The annual rain- | will'be hauled back into court, much sver parts of the extreme west | of it just as soon as the real need for runs as low as five inches—in fact, | its improvement demands its recall. there are small ar where rain is Thente Counirs, taking I the western |, One other thingz Did you know that adag- N iaaks. and the average production of average Dakota, and practically all of New |CToPs In many parts of Europe, on Me " Arizoma . Caiorade, Nevads, | 1and which has been constantly farmed Tiah Wyoming, Montana. ldano and | fOF 2 thousand years, is very much where the entire annual arger than the average production of ke crops in this country? There are i et o emich, "mehe; | lands in England and Germany which et are accustomed -rhn_\‘_‘!)wwfl been farmed for more than a nd ass e “semi-arid” and | thousand years, which produce regu- ere for vears regarded as unsuitable | Jarly two and even three times the for farming. But it has been found | Yicld, per-acre, that our riches soils hut they are simply superb for wheat { 92 in this countrq. The ieda of ng. All the moister portions of | S°Me that soils are necessarily worn e states are now taiken up, and | out DY constant cropping is not true lew “arld farming” movement has | in any sense, Properly farmed land showr at wheat and corn, ete., can | May produce good crops every year he profitably grown wherever as much | fOF centuries, and still be richer and as ten or twelve inshss of annual pre be v expected. 2tion czn Now it isn't by any means sure tha the last word has yet been said abou | better land at the end than it was at | the Dbeginning. Ot i course, the soil exhausts it. Robbing the land impoverishes it. But real farming is neither mining nor robbery. Real farming constantly enriches the land. t » farming the desert. Forty years ago Even if all our available acres were o man would have thought of trying | taken up—which they are not—there 0 CTop crops vhere there wasn't rain | would be no reason for foreboding. We enough in a whole summer to lay the | can double the production of the acres du Ii is dome, mow. And without | we now farm. We shall do it, too, rigation, too. What do you suppose l whenever it becomes essentiai that we people will be doing the next forty | should. ears? Standing sl and sucking | THE FARMER, Against Substitutes GettheWell-Known Round Package Skim | " Against «. 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There is evidently something jr the conduct of the police depart- ment that is not satisfactory to the mayor-chief or he would not have made one of his characteristic, short and effective speeches to the members of the department from chief to super- numerary. He spoke of the recent un— du_te(:t_ed burglaries that had been com- mitted, of the habit of policemen while on duty engaging in personal conver- sation and gossip and of the practical atandonment of the beats at the night lunch howur and reminded the officers that the rules of the department were way to bring about that result was the adoption of conciliatory resolutions and On the first night of the convention there was a meeting of the conserva- tives at the Palmer house and of the resolutions could be secured that night came to the window once. Another there was a re among the | time, I saw both the song baby and the conservatives to get a copy of the res- | cow haby following a song sparrow in olutions that had been prepared by the| the yard. The cowbitd came to the Ford party well in advance in order| window for eighteen or nineteen days. that the main features might be adopt- | coming fewer times in a day at the ed by the conservatives and approved |Jast. Some weeks later I saw one eat- in convention by the radicals as well | ing in the yard with some English as the conservative srarro Neither song sparrow or cowbird would eat from my hand. The radicals at the Sherman house for the consideration of different Sets of reso- | frequently in January and early in lutions, and Mr. Powderly was the pre- | February to eat meat fastened on & siding officer at the Sherman house | iree mear the house. February 9 o meeting.. Father Waish announced | picce of suet was put on the window that it would be a great benefit to the | i) for the first time. Downy very | cause if a copy of the so-called Ford | g5on it and came and ate a nuin ‘down. I suppose that it was less greedy than It appeared. It was so much larger than ihe SONg SParrows, that they must have been unable to ! have given it all it needed and prob- | ably went hungry themselves. 1ts colors were similar to those of an ;uduh femule, aark brownish gray above and lizhter below. The breast mot- tied or striped with brown, the throat plain. It soon received the name of Oliver Twisi, for, like Dicken's char- cter, it always asked for ‘“‘more.” After a few days it learned to come alone and pick up small pieces. It was more quiet, when by itself and when It succeeded in picking up a crumb, it would sometimes give a sat- isfied little note. which sounded some like the noise a chicken makes when it is full-fed and comfortable. Even after it learned to eat and when 1t had an abundant supply of food, it would beg to be fed if the song sparrow came to the window at the same time, but the sparrow seemed to know that this was unnecessary. If it was very per- sistent, perhaps it received a bite or two, then the old bird would pick up a load and carry away. She had at least one baby of her own, but it only | sparrow came for about a than the cowbird. A female downy woodpecker came week lonwer Absolutely Pure <3 Where the finest biscuit, ‘cake, hot-breads, crusts or puddings are required Royal is indispensable. Royal is equally valuable in the preparation of plain, substantial, every-day foods, for all occasions. The cnly baking pdwdcr made from Royal Grape Creain of Tartar for their guidance, that o cCi ai ber of hit hen I stood wicain five them for efficient .'fl:'r\'ioe‘.?x()dkgx\éxlp;!}x\: Zhoofl ieante Som Siaw ] onddu B vt e e S e Gl citizens were entit] ° and that the |, ivate conference with the chairman | oot OF the window, —As there was S oy ahiited 1" e bust pont | SIS SO e i, | oo, meat om e el wh cane 4 No Alum —No Lime Phosphates that it was not the purpose of tha | e has the privilege of previous Der-|15° when she became a comimon, p-r- isit to find any fault with any par. | SONal acquaintance with Mr. Powderly | yono gaily, caller. She came for the tieular membor of the police force and | &id, Went direct to the parlor in the|jast time on June 3. During ute st | that if in the future every man did his Loc AR house where, the Iford meet” | three weeks of her stay, she ate from dcty all would be well, Iog was o e el e A nCey eat | my hand four times. Once, picking up man on the force is aware of the te.y, | The meeting was calledgto order an e e D s ohen T Wwas | uated. I bope that we may hear from | Our idea of a modest man is: one but just what that somethin ie Y\j{t- while the sergean: rnis was mak- | reaty Rolllhe “‘m- ad. Bhe el him in the future, C. E. H. who doesnt’ honestly think he’d make not “divulged. The mayor-chief jues | Mg inauiry of thos sent as to their | & e B0 O Ot soff food. When | Freston City Conn, Oct. 26, 1911 |a good president—Columbus Journal. mentioned a few matters that should be | %o ne, o0 e Ford movement, he| cating trom the sill she held her bill | improved and at the sa - e w_LonGoner was busy talking with | g alidoelr e i i Al Persuasive and. forceful are wary 1us | Mr. Powderly, and naturally the chair- | and seemed to scoop up the | officers to understand that whatever| a0 2nd the visitor were mot dues : = | ; 5 dereliction in duty that has prevajieq | Loned. Shortly after the meeting w T e juncos were very common at the 5 2 Hr must be cerrected or that ther (M?“I in session printed copies of the Ford | J e ]‘_y\ commo taml 9 e be something doing in the police de. | LeSolutions were distribn g At e Munan.y Fer theucamal] < o6n. t walt partment for 3t is well Rnomcn S ats; | faithful and the aspiring delegate from | part of Ma Then they came | 420 Lo the mayor—chief’s warning there must| NeW _1ondon. In short order the Dan cuiEe At oA e e T haps reformation in the comduct of | SeFvatives and handled that el come Lot W RAD f ll_ t 3 o offirmation fn the comduct of | el o naterial aid in harr [ Sojdfinghes nave heen quite common SAail:InNto your and hereabouts knows that Mayor | the doinss that ereat | o yard .during the suimids R : Mahan does thinzs and theve ioor | This little episode will be news to e [nurmner ot timesE nodeed tusiawne % S e doubt but the e oficern me i hell | Powderly and perhaps to most of the | INg on a perpendicuiar ng branch { - G z fobt but the police officers will heed | gOUEIY 10 "Connecticug as this s | of the g ne. Several times one | EUEESINb00] grlp 10)8! <o wn the first time it has been told in publ lighted o some sialks e lhaw‘ld\ = f e e lelion and reaching out with its : 3 The field day of the D =g . 5 SR ARG the American Revelution i Nea Cou! | ,, The recent death of Lyman H. Bagg, i rew he stemt unfiop U don, Thursday, was a decided success, | the author and for vears interested in } Whote 1t beld i and ate the seeds.) na partiomated T 1y Seoled success: | Vale boating, and who was manager | When {t Jet go. the stem was cracked, prominent in Connecticut, and, swong | Fiarvard boat race. recall another an- | i SR | tho speakers was Terence V. Powderly, [ Cient incident that has mewer bEIore | This summer | have had my first SR former mayor of Scranton and the head | aPPeared in public print. Among the | opportunity to observe a pair of barn o o of the Krights of Lahor in its most | duties of Mr. Bagg i gction With | swallows and_ thet The nest Vl'tallt active times. Mr. Powderly is at pres. | the races ae the charge o she P | under a piazza was ps built, when L4 ent chief of information. bureau of im. | PoAt and the issuance of tickels 10T first noticed it May i7. There were | S migration and natoralization ot Wasn. | representatives of the newspapers. He | panics June 12, perfaps a day cariier Stren thH Tnicton. And he delivered an agnrors on | established quariers fn the office of the | Eot " sduiie brongnt food and 1 i4 Our Duty to the Immigrant. The com- | 0ld TFvening Telegram and receive it that the took tu ing of Mr. Powderly to New London | otions from alleged Tepresenta- | ip itting on the eggs. In orce. reminded a delezate from New Ton- | tives of newspapers from aimest CVOPPs |a week five comical little heads don of an incident that occurred at the | Where in New F "—"‘;"'\“ g e Jarges above the row of feathers, Weak big land league convention held i iegy clsewhere, Bot whenvile [LeCCIVer stood up around the edge of the If Chicago abont thiriy-threa year: (44?“‘j ersonal application from alleged ey e you are eanr, when the No Rent auestion he | repre itive of hinese NewsPADET | 5,5, ang had e By Wi B o et fhe | TarNoe Yok el e ueiaeed Tt B | 2002 g, g, smommons velioy Nerveless, Bloodless, Trishm of the world mit had heen reache. He delivered | = o i 5 s LG G e | the coveted tickot to the press hoat-and | A5 00 JURe OF U LT bR came badk your arms are bound, convention and one of the lead Jilhen moppeg ot Ty rom his | 3a\ time to . | the radical so-called Patric | broad forehead and wondered WRAL| " qyare have been only a few nests in | ur yzed. movement, which if adopted would | next [our yird. The e PR e yo €nergies paral rend asunder the land leaguve and vn,f i When t wo snbsequently - s = Pttt l': 12 hiot i,:, 3 ;-]::a,;as(dhr; mnm,»i:l 1“1 t pre ‘m‘nu amer :§ !:" ‘AH'\" C ]‘,"A,”*m hd her secret until I saw her driving ’ eade 4 e league Among he | € €3 eape B4 e uthatch from a tree 1d upon in tion were the late Rev. Lawren »% don ch | e e b e A e Walsh. of Watert a leader of the|of the active worke I D e e IEE G| - conservative wing of the league, At-|boat races to the T jev .}:.n\ trying to rea h rl.u In ';\l!n 3 pi i aiak e L or | Bage was plonssd with the imposition, | WHiCh Were very noisy, ‘Tt had crept | orney Jeremiah J. Desmon Vo ge was ¥ Toava s [up the tree ahout three feet, when : wich and Colonel Michael Wise of h .so; that there was alwavs.a ;5. — 0 Be S0 walked Blowiy 1 Feartford. There was earr desire | press boat ticket for James H. HIll as |, SHITCC, €108 Wade (Eawalied Bowvy that harmeny nrevail at the conven- | lone as Mr. Fagz had to do with | Bkadi S dodint el di bop e iond | . s T3 o meaTT was believed’that the best ! distripution. Pne et ule Dranjsan | is the Vitalizer—and AR AN i | The robir pies, and song spar- | riuni . . . s 1ests in the yard and your oppo fllty. chimney. _ Pleasant Hours With Native Birds | sight kinds of birds, which | window for food t H T TR i probably . forty indiv A Preston Woman Who Feeds Them From Her Hand- Sttt T om s i il = , oy 4 B e Eisht Varieties Eat From Her Hand—Sympathy For: _hand and Mr. Rawsen in His Loss. If any one has followed a suggestion in my last report and tamed some chipping sparrows, I wish they would write The Bulletin, so that we might compare notes. L As usual { have had a number of tame sparrows. 1 saw the first on April 26th. Four days later one came to the window-siil for food, its mate soon followed and by the tenth of May when one ate three bits from my ha there were two pairs. By the er the month, one pair would eat from my hand. 1 did not try again for about iwo weeks, then day, when I stood at the open w a chippy came and ate and carried way food from the After it went I held out food. It soon came back and carried from my band, without skowing any fear: Another came and ate with it. Three times I held my hand up or out from the sill and one hopped on readily. Once it crept un- der my wrist to get food on the other side. The first baby came to the window on June 26th. The next day, an adult would feed it from my hand and the baby itself took one bite. Soon there were two, probably more, which would come to me for food. July 19th there was a new young baby, which I suppose belonged to the othér pair. In 2 few days one of the new babies ate forty-three bites from imy hand at once, later one ate seven- ty-five_bites in the same w. An aGult became so tame that it would sit on_the sill and wait for me to raise the screen a little and hold out <rumbs, then it would come and eat. On May 18th, T found a chippy’s nest, with a broken egg shell, on the eround under the grape arbor. This probably unted for the second 1ir having ir_family so much later then the others. August 21st, there were new which T sunnpose helonzed to which 1 suppose belonged to sized. and the little babies con- to come for a little. The last that I saw one at the window. I have kna October tog tinued time, was on September 11th. them to come as late as The cowbird, or “lazy” bird, as it is sometimes called, because it builds no nest but deposits its ezgs in the nest of some smaller bird. is not welcomed by other kirds or by bird students. Yet during the past summer, 1 have had a novel and interesting experience with ome. On May 21st, a song spar- row commenced coming to the window, in a few days it was followed by an- other. June 11th. T saw one in a ires feeding = young cowbird, which was able to fly only a few feet from .ane branch to another. 1 had heard its harsh cry for two days. At the end of a week, it followed a song sparrow to the window three times one day and esch time was fed a great quantity. The last time, when the sonz sparrow flew away, it remained and picked up a few tiny bites, in a feeble babyish way It was so much larger than its that the sparrow | mouth. In its ea ess to be fed it | seemed as if it would almost swallov | the old bird's head in its enormous re | mouth. 1t fluttered its wings and & ur a continua lisn, when th | sparrow w the | At first she N er i in a few days ) of ever s 5 | up the nes = | ana t N requently it w to_stret »fore a h large piece How v would s | have not tell ds in or adjoining our yard, vear, number thirty-four. T heard the whip-poor-wi ch-owl. 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