Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 17, 1912, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) The tillage question ranks in farm importance next te the manure prob- lem. The mere fertilizer or manure we put on our fileds—within reason, of coumsc the wmore things grow. Including weeds, Nature is very impartial in the @istribution of her sub-soil favors. She geems just as willing te fester weeds &s grains; judt as ready to feed, their greedy: littie suckers as the rootlets of useful plants well satisfied with a ground-matting crop of pusley as with a basket-filling | ysme of omions or corn Semetimes | think she's fonder of veeds than of vegetables. You know is often happems that the worst scape grace in the family is “mother’s boy > loved more tenderly than his erving brothers. There's a good deal he externally inexplicable feminine Nature abeut Ola Lady | potice that she doesn’t produce cab- mZes nor potatoes nor lettuce nor as- paragus ou my gardens, unless 1 fix the seil up very cunningly and fertilize it very generously and cultivate it very laboriously, and generally monkey with it, day and day out. Even then she «ften treats these friends of mine quite coldly and as if she didn’t half like But let her alone and she’ll cover em. those rdens with pigweed and pusley | and shepherd’'s purse and a score of other hat are of no gse to ma# e'll put her whole heart in- rt of thing, and will de a job that plain'y outclasses almost anything we can cajole her into doing with our erops. And the more manure we put upon or She seems quite as| NORWICH BULLETIN, DAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1912 of asperagus starts up in my onion bed in another garden, I yank it out, instanter. Ie's a mighty useful plant where it belongs; it's a pesky weed among my onions. The point is, that when you work hard to get a patch of ground ready, for corn, say—when you manure it and plow it and harrow it and mark it and hill-drep it amd plant it and crow- string it and pay taxes on it, you want returns for what you've done in corn— not in quackgrass nor in pigweed nor in anything else in the whole veget- able kingdom. It's corn you're work- | ing for.” Yet, before you planted your corn, nature had filled that seil full| | of about forty-seven kinds of weed- jseed. And the mmute you've finished | your day’s work and gone to supper, | she sets herself to stealing as much| | as she can of your manure, ete., aml: | steering it into something else than ur crop. Go out there when the cm’n! pricks through the surface and| down on yeur hands and knees| ground, and ,\'uu'll; ' | get | and squint over tha find that there seven other v just ahout forty gs up beside the cor Leave the p alone all summer, and | it yield 1 about as big a crop of| each one of these forty-seven weeds as | | of that corn. * z | Then Is the time you have to get out} | your cultivator. 1 i | The things you don't want are just| as ready to absorb the value of your| | soil preparation and just as hungry rur| | vour manure as the plants you do' | want, Let 'em alone and they'il take| their ful} share—with a few spnontulsl over, to insure good measure. As most { of us find that we ean’t well do but one | thing at a time, so most seils canm't} Coupon for the Bulletin’s Corn-Growing Prize Town Sl Enters the competition to grow an acre of corn accerding to the plans i set forth in The Bulietin's anno being $100 to first; $50 to second $10 each to three others; and suject to all the rules and requirements of the contest. fnto our soils for the sake of helping our plants, the more cunningly she’ll swipe a big three-quarters of it to feed her blamed weeds—if we'll let her. That's where cultivation comes in. Not that the enly nor even the most fmportant function of tillage is weed destruction; there is another service in cultivation which is daiiy being proved still’ more important. I mean the mulching and lightening and aera- tion of the soil. But—as Kipling used to y—thdl's another gtory. There's full opportn for a whole chapter about the va of tillage in keeping weeds down. In pioneer days there was a saying along the frontier that the only good Injun was awdead Injun. I never fwas iwch acquainted with am not qualified to debate tha But I'll make affi- davit, if meed be, to the fact that the only good weed d weed. the aborign- Every decent New England house- keeper hates dirt. But what is dirt? Just matter out of pl Sawdust in the icehouse isn't “dirt.” It's the es sentizl thing for keening ice and is worth more than yards of piano cov- €rs would be. But s: ust in the par- lor on the piano is “dirt,” because it doesn't belong there. Similarly a weed is just a plant out of place. Y ve well be that ev- ery plant which grows has a purpose all its own, T doesn’'t mean, in the old rural sayving, that every plant is for some human use,-if we only knew wha It's a little bit cheeky for and women to assume that the se in the universe for anything is a d@se we may be able to make of it. We aren’t the whole th freportant. we may seem onsidered, when we certain plant the hich we do know and the fruit rve us, any other plant which comes up and tries our protege out of iis bed is in one garden and day in and day n and year out, to make But when a stray shoot ARE YOU FREE —FROM— Headaches, Colds, Indigestion, Pains, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Dizziness? [f you are not, the most | effective, prompt and pleasant method of getting rid of them is to take, now and then, a desertspoon- ful of the ever refreshing and truly beneficial lasative remedy—Syrup as the best of family laxative reme- dies, because it acts so gently and strengthens naturally ! tating the system in any way. To getits beneficial effects it is the front of every package. Lelivered to Any Part of Norwich + Als that 's acsknowledged to be tha cst on the, mwarket — HANLEY'S PEERLESS. A telsphone ardez will receive promp: attemtion. 0. d WlLnmCi 20 Franklin St z.,.' R oo e B o | e . 4 better than U g columns of The cererarendraaeane AT 8111 AN GO S without im- | Competition for 1912 uncement on Jan, 1st, 1912, the prizes 1 ; $25 each to third and fourth; and ) produce more than one crop at a time. It must be either a crop of plants or a crop of weeds. Is can't often be both. | And it's up to Mr. Farmer, in every | case, to gay which it shall be. Take this single case of corn, which | T've been referring to. Leave out of! consideration, for this occasion, and | for the sake of keeping to one idea at! | a time, all thought of tillage just for | the sake of tillage. Think only at this| ‘ul’ keeping them from robbing your i crop of the food you've furnished for | its exclusive use Of course, as we've agreed, this sends you to get out the old cultiva- | tor, first thing. But how shall you use it? How often shall you use it? Shall you depend on it alone? Are you going l(u let the horse do it all, or are you goin to use your own fingers—ard brains, to polish up the job? In these latter days, I find that a good many farmers rely wholly upon | the horse amd the cultivator-teeth. They “go over” their corn once, or twice, at the most, leave the cultivator at the end of the last row, turn out the horse and say: “Let her go at that; hain't got time to do no more.” Two years ago there died in Mis- souri'a farmer who was in the habit of rafsing about a million bushels of | corn every vear on about 18,000 acres | of land. If ever there was a man who | might be thought to have too much d in corn to work it thoroughly, it was this chap. T've just been reading over his own account of the way in | which he used to handle his 18,000 icres, The thing that impressed me { most forcibly, in the whole story, was his way of cultivating. He was care- ful to get good seed, of course. He was | particular about plowing and manur- g—also of course. But it was after il this preliminary preparation had { been completed and his corn planted | that his real work of making a good | crop developed. He harrowed his 18- h»m) acres. thoroughly befere the corn | ever came up; always once and usu- !alh- twice. Then he began cultivating | as soon as he could, even if he had to | have something like plaster dropped at | intervals to show where the rows were, He cultivated as often and as thor- »ughly as pessible. “Never less than | four or five times, oftener if we can. Corn should be gone over with culti- vator at least onee a week.” Then, when the corn got well up, along in late July or early August, “go | through ‘the flelds and pull out by | hand every weed that was left.” | Sometimes this Missouri farmer rais- | ed as much as 118 bushels of corn— ; ordinary commercial measurement, yon | e 4 ery hit b requir- During ing season he had over a hun- these tools all the time at | dred of | aire, will use the estate in forming a d time of the need of destroying weeds— | 8 T { understand: not to be compared wnlnw“l Close (hlt 'he balaflce carefully dried and accurately weighed | P | corn in a competitic He expected an | 0‘ 0|ll' { bo: shels to the acre } [ s every vear. He| | OY AL Introducing M:ARSHALL P. WILDER and JOHN BUNNY, the Tivo Funniest Men on Earth, who keep the House in Hilarious Screams. 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