Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 22, 1912, Page 12

FARM TO FARMERS ERS TAL ;LLUSION AND THE REALITIES OF ; FARM LIFE (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Machinery instead of drudgery, wience instead of guess-work—that's farming in 191 1 quote from one of those excessively optimistic persons whose aim seems to be to delude sim- ple city folk into the idea that farm- ing is one life-long picnic You'd think ,to read some of the stuff, ih!l all the farmer has to do is to press the button” and let gasoline en- gines and dynamos do the rest You'd think that his chief o tion was to pass out bunches pa- and bushels and bags full of produce to | his one at in GAgEr consumers swarming back door, all with baskets hand and bills in the other You and | ,who are in and of it, know that “‘tain’t no sech thing.” More- over, we know that these well-meaning boomers of country life, who minimize the tofl and magnify the rewards of farming are doing more harm th good. They are building up fals hopes which are certain of extinction in the first cold wind of actual ex- perience. They are urging innocently igno- rant people to loss which they can’t afford and to unhappiness which no one can afford. For a long course of years the ten dency of writers was to pity or sneer at the farmer. He was caricatured in type and picture. He was held up as an example of dunderheadedne slowness ,of hand-to-mouth existe The whole world of books and papers was filled with the explicit or im- plied idea that farming was a “low- down” business and that the farmer was only one little step higher than a pauper Then, twenty or so vears ago, there came a change, From unjust de- preciation of farm life the pen and pencil shovers pranced over to the op- posite side of the arena and suddenly became vociferous boomers for it. As they went to the extreme in the old days of ridicule and caricature, S0 they are going to extremes, now. Farming isn't all “machinery in- stead of drudgery.” Nor is it all “science instead of guess-work.” I've just come in from a morning tour of five acres of gardens. For twenty ears l've been living with those five acres. 1've summered them and wintered them. I've had their and I've tried them out 1 know wha present in soil analysed in all sorts of practice, forms of plant-food are them in ample supply afild what are stinted. 1 know what analysis and experience both tell me are suitable areas for cabbage and for corn and for asparagus and for green peas, etc., ete I know what analysis and experience dictate as the most 5 and economical methods of supplying de- fleiencies. In other words, I'm farm ing those five acres by “science instead of guess-work. Also, 1 have all the machinery that is economically wise for such a garden. What does my morning tour of i spection tell me of the results of thus farming with machinery instead of drudgery and with science instead of guess-work? Well, to begin with, there are about three acres of corn ard beans and po- tatoes, a large part of which are eith- er killed or sadly hurt by the four frosts which this “rare June” has, thus tar, shook out of its ice-box over my gardens. TESTIMONY OF FIVE WOMEN Proves That Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Com- pound Is Reliable. Reedville, Ore.—*“1 can truly recom- mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all women who are passing through the Change of Life, as 1t made g me a well woman after suffi-ringh three years.”” — Mrs. MARY BOGART, Reedville, Oregon. New Orleans, La. — ““When passing through the Change of Life I was troubled with hot flashes, weak and di; backache. Iwas notfit for anything until T took Ly- dia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound which proved worth its weight ingold tome.”” - Mrs.GAS- TON BLONDEAU, 1541 Po- lymnia St., New Orleans. Mishawaka, Ind.-*“ Wo- men paS\‘inE through the Change of Life can take nothing better than Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. 1 am recom- mendingit tosllmy friends because of what it has done forn '-Mrs.CHAS, months troub my thought eould not Lydia E. Vegetable and [ ant other sufferin| en toknow about it.” 1MA BAILEY, Alton Deisem, No. Dak. — T was through Change of Li bad. I could not sleep Lydia E. Pinkha rfect health vould not be without it.”’—Mrs, HORN, Deisem, No. Dak. F. M. Reputation proves value, Tested throughout three generations—known the worldover as themost reliablepre- ventive and corrective of stomach, liver, bowel troubles—an unequal- ed requtation has been secured by BEECHAMS PILLS Seld everywhers In boxes 10c., 25¢c. ells and | ki assing | and f«vn very | | was very | s Vegetable | “Science” never gave me a hint or suggestion, when 1 was planting those crops in May, that we were to have a recrudescence of winter in June. A little old-fashioned *guess-work” did enable me to save a few hundred tomato and pepper plants by hasty recourse to box and bran-bag covers. But even they are looking more‘or less sick have lost the cheerful hope- fulness which they showed when first set out into & too cold world. In my truck patch, the rows of let- tuce are thick and of fair color. But | the rows of spinach, just beside them, | show only here and there a plant. Dit- | to with the beets. While every lettuce seed sown seems to have germinated | and lived. A little radish seed, sown | early under gla came up finely and grew into handsome radishes. The rest re of the half-pound, sown in the open at the proper time and in ground analytically and experimentally shown suitable for radishes, hasn't produced ingle plant, A very few tiny leaves have appeared at intervals ,only to be eaten off instantly by the turnip flea- beetles. S, Green peas, which started promising- ly, have been standing still for the last two or three weeks. Two years ago 1 began picking for market on June 12, This yean there wasn't a “slat” pod an inch long visible on the vines June 12. The larger vines are barely holding their own: half-a-dozen long rows of smaller ones, planted for late crop, are turning yeliow and wilter- ing. Early set cabbage plants are dying by the dozem, apparently for no r son except that they're too discouraged to live. In my seed-beds cauliflower and celery have either refused to germinate or have been destroyed by some mys- it light or bacterium before ing the soil. Those whick have managed to get their heads above ground stubbornly refuse to grow any further, In three seed-beds, two un- der cheese-cloth and one'in the open, | 1 may have a thousand or two celer plants still alive. They have been three weeks or more and the biggest of them may be an inch high, no At | present rates of progress, it looks as if some or them might become settable by September. Though I don’t want to be over-sanguine about that! Winter squashes came up promptly | and rankly. Of my melon hills a single sickly stem is visible in about one out of ten To sum up, lettuce, squashes, onions, asparagus and chickweed seem to be doing finely. ¥For the rest my gardens resemble & vegetable hospital Now | haven't been telling you all this to whimper over or snivel about. Nor to bespeak vour sympathy. Thank you, I'm not in the market for that, either. It is simply to sug; t to you from the one experience which is closest to me and which I can write about most intelligently, that Step-mother Nature is still on the j and that neither machinery nor science has yet found a way to meet all her whims I'm rather hoping and expecting that, some time or other, science will do even that miraculous thing. But it hasn’t been done in 19 And the fellow who intimates that it has been is “talking through his hat The simple truth is that we farmers in this part of the country are having a phenomenally backward season, with an wunusually vigorous irruption bacterial and insect pests. Science arn us of it, nor any practical formulae by- whic nay overcome Nor is there wasn't able to forew she cure in “machine) We still to take the wea as it comes the seasons as they go. Generally Nature is fairly good to us, —kinder than our fellow-beings, the middlemen, anywa Ours isn’'t th | only calling which its bad years. We can «ll remember times when husiness men were going into bankruptey like panic-stricken sheep into a ditch years when banks by the hundred to close the s and liquidate. it our business is the steadiest and surest there is, with the Yet there are compensations for that there are a few trees in sight, one of which T might scramble if that should e | We haven't | where we ca ! the ! yet reacned the point iscount > evils of her 0 th mach { tion. There are enough good ti 0 be said about farming,—whi without going false hopes. | known ants more farm- {ers and 5. But it doesn’t want untrained an dincompetent men cajoled into taking up the work through unduly rose-colored pictures of utopian impossibilities. It is the unexpected which happens: and it is | st as likely to happen up here on dunk Heights as on Main street or urth avenue. THE FARMER. PINE GROV’E SAVED. | This Means That Cherry Park is to Be Preserved in All of its Beauty. Dr. Flint, who recently pure g i bought from of Nepaug the ghts iy the pine £ ich d been sold to them T to the disposa! of the real This is one of the finest pine gre n Con necticut, and, standing on the shores of Cherry pond, it made a beautiful place of that part of the park. The timber was very valuable and it must bave added a good bit of money to the purchase price which Dr. Flint has had 1o Inquiry Justified, The promptness with which condi- tlons at sea have been made safer justified the American Titanic inquiry, Had not the senate acted insiantly, months would have been spent In d bate and the force of the disaster hay worn off,~New York Tribune, ot | least risk and the rarest f | failure. But all risk and all d of failure e not yet been eliminated from it We 1 our chances, lim chances, even in defeat, You remember scared lady aboard ship i who begged to . be | in her cabin, t 15c Ll want “to drown in the ¢ - got to meet disaster I, one, waild rather meet it out in the open fields and the wide country than in a stuffy store or office or factory. There's something in having plenty of room to fight in,—or to run, if one has to! I don't want to be driven up a tree, but, if the bears come, I like to know ’r in farming on in any other voeca- +“BE CAREFULI DON'T BREAK * the PLASTER1”§ No nced to worry if your walls and ceilings are lined with Compo-Board. It can’t crack, * chip, crumble, or fall down. Water can’t leak through and stain the paper. % Any one whe can drive a nail can put it up. 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