Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 15, 1912, Page 12

THE REASONS WHY FARMING DOESN'T PAY titten Epectally for The Bulletin.) are reasons, plenty as black- s in August, why “Farmin' don’t pay That is, Farmin’ as it is Farmed. For there are three vastly different sorts of Farming. There is first, ing ws it is: second, Farming mg as it is ond, Farming as it might be. Or, to phrase the thing dif- ferently, there is Actual Farming: and ldeal Farming: and Intelligent Farm- ing In any practical consideration of the general subject, it is safe to leave the second sort out of sight. ldeal Farm- ing won't happen till we have an ideal world of ideal people with ideal wealth- er. When that ideal state arrives we shall all be farmers, to the last man Jack all as chipper and cheerful as crickets: and we shall all live happy | ever afterwards, But such a thing won't be in your day or mine. That leaves us Actual Farming, as it is, and Intelligent Farming, as it might be-to think about. They are quite different things, even though you | country life We're shovelling out millions to | make fancy roads for automobiles to SDy over, and almost nothing coms | and 1 who are actual farmers may think ourselves and may really be Righly intelligent individuals | And it must be admitted that the sort of farming and 1 do.—we representing the great majority,—does not pay, in any financial sense. Mind you, I'm not admitt 't “pay” in some othe e talked that over L e, take back nothing about the value of the intangible rewards which farm life brings it, consjdering money in- eome only, Farming as it is done does not pay. Not so we coal mining, or bricklaying, or working wages by the day. Why doesn't it? at present | beg to suggest just a few of the reasons. One is that we are forty bushels of corn to the ac we might raise a hundred: that w are eutting about a ton and a half of hay to the acre, when we might cut three or four tons; that we are digging ninety-five bushels of potatoes to the mcre, when we might dig two hundred and fifty and three hundred. That is to say, we are not producing half what we ought to produce on the same land with the same labor,—if only land and labor were more wisely used Another reason:— About thirty cows in every hundred are not paving for their keep. They are not returning in milk or butter or cheese as much money {c as those owners feed, ete, ers declare it doubtful if half the cows in the state | bring in as much profit as their cost would return, if put into the savings bank. That s to say, we're keeping a whole lot of unprofitable stock just for the sake of keeping it. This may be fun,— but it Isn't farming Amether reason: Taking the countr 1t large and | farm products as a whole, it seems to be clearly demonstrated th: about sixty cents of every consumer’'s dollar goes into the bank accounts of the middlemen and only about forty cents into the farmer's pockets. to say, the consumer pays s for his dinner and sixty cents “tip” to the waiter for bringing it to him. It is one of the mysteries how a people, most of whom, indi- vidually, have brains in their heads, should endur outrage for & this incredibly rapacious le year. Another reason: Boys and girls are still leaving the 'ms for factories and shops and es, and’ the dwindling supply of available farm labor makes its cost almost prohibitive. Just long as money is plentier and easier in the city, just 3 And money w those tow: / cents out of every farmer's for themselves, letting only forty trickle back to the men who made if all. Another reason We're spending s of wealth in hools to te: city children hand drawing and music and bank s, but mighty little on country to teach country children the elements of success and happiness in paratively speaking, on roads to haul hay and potatoes, Another reason: We're,—too many ashamed of our busines: bottom of our hearts. We're ashamed our old work clothes, and our coarse shoes ,and our roughened hands, and the gr : of the onion-bed under our finger-nails (which won’t come out, scrub as we ). We look upon our as drudgery, to be done because we must; not as a high vocation, to be followed with joy. And no good thing will ever come out of any such mentally obfuscated Naza- reth as that. of us,—half down in the Another reason: We're disorganized and individualis- | s no ten- | tic to the extreme. Ther dency towards socialism among farm- ers. It would be a good thing if there w more of it; that is, more of a trend towards o sane and safe habit of combination and mutual co-opera- tion.C The business world is all ganized, and comes at us with forty million_battering-ram power at ever blow. We can't hope to sustain its at- tacks, singly and each one for himsel The whole situation reminds me of th eternal wi > are the pebbles and the sand-grains of the beach ,Incessantly being pound- ed by the waves. Every wave is made up of innumerable separate drops of water, but they gather themselves to- gether, by tens and by thousands by into one great massive roller whic§ thunders up the beach and whirls the pebbles and sand ever which way,—and a few other way Better Than Talcum Powef. — Says Anty Drudge. Druggmt -"‘What can I do for you, Madam?’’ ars. Tiredout—*‘Give me some violet water or any other perfume that suds. sickened me.”’ will rid me of this 5% Pre st in s e of this odor of scalding steaming laundry till it’s Drudge—‘"Now, after you’ve paid for these thi A y things, Wgw a cake of Fels-Naptha and wash with it nég:?t onday, and you won’t need to boil your clothes. Be up-to-date ang try the new way of washing.” ~ Have you ever seen a stick of dyna- mite? You wonder how so much explosive force can be stored in so small a space. _ Not less marvelous is the great cleans- mg power stored in a cake of Fels-Naptha soap. An electri mite. Ai spark explodes the dyna- T'o make Fels-Naptha do its marvel- ous work you need only have cold or ewarm water and some soiled clothes. Fels-Naptha is made to dissolve dirt. F(-Is—A\Ialptha separates it into atoms and they are carried away in the rinsing water. And 1t.docs this in cold or lukewarm water, without boiling or hard rubbing. Follow the simple directions on the red and wrapper, and Fels-Naptha will do green washing better than it was ever donein | ARQther wax, your ’ too. It's only when Nature has fused and prossed and baked, in her under- ground laboratory, the sand and the ebbles into rock, and then slowly guved a great cliff up on the shore line that the wave meets something it oan't batter about. ‘We farmers are the incoherent, un- organized jumble and huddle of sand- grains on the beach: big business is the great tons-heavy comber that comes crashing upon us, with all the welght of its uncountable drops com- bined into one smashing blow. If you'll accept these as some of the reasons why “Farmin’ don't pay,” it ought to be possible to see a few of the things to do in order to make it pay. ‘When one has found out what disease he has, he is more likely to know what medicine to take for it. If, for example, we should make up our minds to move into the hundred- bushel class—and stay there—we should certainly step up one noteh. If we should take the trouble to find out which cows are paying us and which we are not paying and sell off the {last, we should certainly save a few | pennies,—every one of which would be two pennies earned. If we should plant ourselves solidly on the demand that the country, which is the ultimate product of. all wealth, should have spent on its roads and schools a ratable proportion of the wealth it produces, the young tolks— and the old 'uns ,too,—might find the country better worth staying in. If we would only organize sur pro- ducing business, as the handling and transporting businesses are organized, we might sometime find ourselves get- | ting sixty cents on the dollar, instead | of the“forty we're now put off with. If we can't do all thes and right off the b, a try ” ¢ little would heip. Most important of all, it we could all brace up a little in our ms¢ at- itude, quare off the shoulders of | our minds, you know : up a ligtle ! more enthusiasm, absorb a little more progressivene put a little more hope into our eye-water and a little more | zeal into our morning coffee, we'd on find that things would show a change. | don't suggest that we should get any more bumptious thaa we Some of us are cantakerous en | in all conscience. Dut there's a | gger and and proudly, without Lec- rily carrying a chip on his should- 1l the time. Farming as it might be is Poth a trade and a profession: both an art and a science, It is both labor and recreation in the true sense of that {latter word,—re-creation. It is a | calling to be proud of; not one to keep in the background or apoligize for. Nor is there another vocation in the world with wider opportunities for progres- | siveness, for character-building, fcr hopefulness, for education. ’ R | wouldnt wonder if, when some of us get into the next world, one of cur worst punishments may be to look back and see, mapped out by ocur larger consciousness on the Lack- ( ground of memory, how much of joy and gain and growth we missed here nounced it a local and pre-| seribed local remed by con-| Pum stantly failing to cure cal trea ment, pronounced itgnourable. Sc has proven catarrh to be a constit tional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment Ca- tarrh Cure, manufactured by J. Che-| | ney & Toledo, Ohio, is th constitutional cure on the ma: on our little farms, just by our faflure ACKOWLEDGE IT Norwich Has to Bow to the Inevitable —Scores of Citizens Prove It. After reading the public statement of this representative citizen of Nor- wich given below, you must come to this concluslon: A remedy which cured years ago, which has kept the kidneys in good health since, can be relied upon to perform the same work in other cases. Read this: Mrs. C. Bennett, 46 Palmer St, Nor- wich, Conn,, says: “Some years ago a member of my family suffered from backache. Every cold he contracted settled on his kidneys and aggravated the trouble. His kidney were dis- ordered as was shown by the kidney secretions which were irregular in passage. Doan's Kidney Pills, pro- cured at N, D. Sevin & Son's Drug NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1912 LAJOURNA. Monday WALTON & LESTER. .......The World's Worst Wizards Very Funny Burlesque Comedy AUDITORIUM ™. No. 7 of the 101 Bison Series —— Tuesday THE LIEUTENANT’S LAST FIGHT Exciting Military and Indian Picture FOSTO & FUZZY Sterling Equilibrist and His Dog ... .. Character Artist Store, brought prompt relief.” (State- ment given August 27, 1908.) LASTING EFFECT. On July 21, 1911 Mrs. Bennett said: “Doan’s Kidney Pllls cured a member of my family of kidney trouble some years ago and there has been no re- currence of it. I willingly confirm my former public endorsement of this 4 remedy.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember take no other. the name—Doan’s—and S. HACKER, Telephone 254.12, 65 Franklin Str Norwich, Conr:'.' Manufacturer of COUCHES AND LOUNGES. Fepairing and Polishing Urhcistery Barber Chairs § Mattresses made over equal to New Slip Covers cut and made to order * a Specialty to see the things that were before 1 and do the things that offered daily to | our hands. THE FARMER. | There is more Catarh in this of the country than all other diseas put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. 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