Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 27, 1912, Page 12

THE FARMER'S TALK TO FARMERS ' FARMING FOR LOSS AND FARMING FOR PROFIT “What are we living on the farm bluntly asks Mrs. Edith M. Kfnnedy of Moosup, in a recent issue of The Connecticut Farmer. 1 wonder if that question hits any other farmers in Eastern Connecticut as squarely on the solar plexus as it hit John Farmer up here on Podunk Heights? What — are—we—1living—on—the— farm—for? | know one so-called farmer who is— apparently—living to feed potato-bugs and cut-worms and stinking pumpkin- bugs. That is, he every year plants| some potatoes and some corn and some cabbages and some squashes, hich he usually allows the aforesaid bugs and things to eat up, because he had rather talk politics or go fishing than attend to them when they need | attention. The bugs and s get some fodder f rops; he sel- except the chance y grumble that » an't no mone n farmin’, no more.” It surely looks as if he were living on the farm to feed the bugs. | know another so-called farmer who | is,—living on th m to demonstrate ¢ rs what he seems firmly to be- | lieve himseif, t he knows more than all the rest the universe including God ture and his neighbors. The farm was his father's and before that, grandfather's. He is working it | the same way his grandfather did, a hundred vears ago, barring a very few modern tools. He has to use a steel plow, because he can’t buy one or the old wooden ones, and his grandfather is too dead tell him how to make and, of course, he has some oth- er tools that the third generation back seer But in his methods and adheres as closely as he methods and aims of a rs ago. He still “plow out” his corn and potatoes. He won't b spoonful of commercial ferti- ce. He nses nothing | nure for his potatoes. rand-dad, on virgin soil, ed from a few million forestation, used to dig an 1 bushel from every thir- teen hills, he geis less than a peck, and those so scabby and grubby that he can't sell 'em and even the cows sniff twice when they find the things n the mangers. The world has moved | n to new nowledge and wiser | management the last century, but he will h one of it. I sometimes think, if had his way, he would raze all experiment stations in the land and burn all their teachers at the stake as dangerous heretics, | know a lot of farmers, a whole big They have to sell what they raise for less than it is really worth because the various middlemen have got to get their sixty per cent. rake-off before the produce finally reaches the con- sumer. They have to pay more than it is worth for all they buy, because the same or some other middleman must have a like rake-off on that, too. They lose half their load going to market and a half of the other half getting home with their imported and out-of-season purchases. The old farm has to bear all the loss, both | ways, going and coming. Is it any wonder that the tired acres eventually go on strike against such reckless wastefulness” = Mrs. Kennedy was indignant when, in a state which could raise a hundred and thigty-five bushels of corn to the acre, sife had to pay a dealer $1.70 for a bag of corn to feed her hens:—when, | in a stile which might raise first-class heef and veal and mutton and pork, | she ‘was compelled to pay the butcher twenty-two cents a pound for round steak., v, the last round steak 1 bought from the butcher cost me| Lwenty-eight cents a pound, and was | 50 tough that it gave the meat grind- | er a toothache trying to get it into | shape for Hamburgs! That was the time I struck against the meat trust. ‘Can we not make the old farm furn- ish more of our food and more grain for our stock?” she asks. She calls attention to the fact that fifty vears ago farmers got their liv- ing from their farms; today “they sell one or two products from the farm at any price they can get, and buy every- thing needed at someone else’s pric Again: “The farmer's family of fifty vears ago lived on the vegetables and meats raised on the farm ;today the farmer's family is dependent on the | grain dealet, the butcher, the grocer, etc, hecause by’ hard and constant practice the members of the family have acquired an appetite for foods al- most unknown fifty years ago.” Mrs. Kennedy doesn’'t want to go back to all the customs of half a century back, but she very pertinently asks if it | isn't possible to revive some of them. | in connection with modern methods, to the advantage of the farmer. Here is her plan for helping to solve the .problem,—a plan drawn from | housewifely experience and from the | housekeeper's point of view: “By re- turning to the food of our fathers, sim- ple home-grown bread-stuffs, rye bread, rye biscuits, good old fashion- ed buckWheat cake raised with yeast, more johnny-cake with real butter and cheese, old-fashioned cured meats that were raised on the farm. At least, we shall know what we are eating and our grain-bins will be filled from our fields and not by the grain dealers.” It does me geod to read this kind of | talk. T am especially pleased to hear | lot of them, who are,—apparently, living on the farm to support the gro- cer and the butcher and the feed- dealer. They are working their legs off to raise things to sell for what they can get. Then they use the mon- ey to buy things to live on for what the other ow sees fit to charge. it from the in-doors branch of the Anty Drudge an Postman—*‘Well, Anty; pretty soon I'll have to get a push cart.” dnty Drudge—'‘Sakes alive! from everywhere wanting to know how to clean this, that-and the other thing | d the Postman. They’re writing to me with Fels-Naptha. Seems as thoigh they’re just finding out that Fels-Naptha is good for other things besides washing clothes. But I answer them every one. Drudge, Philadelphia,Pa. Just say: ‘Anty L] R Next to a willing husband, Fels-Naptha soap is the handiest have about the house. thing a woman can Not only on washday is Fels-Naptha useful, but when- ever there is anything to be cleaned. Fels-Naptha will clean windows and polish them at the same time. only soap that will without scouring. F It is the “ cut’’ smoke grease els-Naptha is just as superior for washing dishes as for washing clothes. And as it is used in cold or luke- warm water there is no danger of cracking fine china or glassware . For washing floors, walls, linoleum or anything else that is wuslmble‘you'll find lukewarm water and a able combination. And don’t forget Fels-Naptha, cold or soft cloth, an unbeat- that Fels-Naptha is the best kind of an antiseptic. Germs do not live in things was hed with it. | for doing it. farm family. When that side of the | menage definitely decides to return to economical farm living on the fruits of ,the farm, why, then we shall re- tgrn thither, by a large majority and th great ‘celerity! So far as the high cost of living is concerned it ought not, and need not bother the real farm family. Because the real farm family can, if it unani- mously chooses, live adequately, live wholesomiely, live satisfactorily on the products of the farm, with only a very few purchased importations. Almost any farm can produce ail the meat which wholesome living requires, within its own borders. Almost any farm can produce all the grain that is needed for home consumption, both in the kitchen and in the harn feed bins. Almost any farmer can pro- duce all the vegetables that are es- sential to healthful living, the year rounid. Almost any farm can produce all the fruit which a family would find it desirable to use, either fresh, pre- served, or canned. BUT,—and I beg the compositor to put that in capitals and the reader to say it out very loud when he reads it, —BUT no farm can supply the table with fresh porterhouse steak every day. If the fam@y can’t eat pot-roast and stew and corned beef part of the time, if they must have only fancy cuts and those about every day, why, then they've got to buy off the butcher and pay him enough to give him a good profit and make up for the “scrag” he has to waste, too. BUT,— few farms in Connecticut can produce the bleached de-vitalized, innutritious and pithless flour-dust which is used to make the “snowy- white” bread and biscuit many cooks insist upon If the fam- ily won't and can’t eat bread with the npatural yellowish or brown- ish tints of honest flour, why, then they must continue to buy of some- one else the poor stuff which the cities are compelled to use, because they can’t grow their own grain. BUT,—no farm in. Connecticut can supply the table with cucumbers and lettuce in January, or new onions in March, or green peas in December, or sweet potatoes in April. If the family must have its vegetables out of sea- son, why, then it must buy them and pay a lot of transportation charges and of handlers’ profits ,to get them from distant tropical lands. BUT,—no farm in Connecticut is likely to produce oranges and bananas and grapefruit and kumquats and dates and figs. If the farmer’'s family must have these—can’'t get along with mere apples and pears and peaches and plums and currants and gooseberries and strawberries and raspberries and blackberries and quin- ces and grapes and cherries,—why, they must buy oranges at whatever they're asked to pay, knowing when they do so that, of every dollar they spend, only twenty cents goes for oranges. The other eighty is taken up to pay the retailers and the jobbers and the wholesalers and the railroads and the refrigerating plants and the various other chaps who pass the-Los Angeles twenty cents worth of oranges to you,—and charge you eighty cents The real trouble lies in the unworthy desire of too many country people to ape city customs and methods. The city has its opportunities and its limi- tations, bath of which the country has it its not. Likew the country has limitations and its opportun neither of which the city possess City people show good sense when they take all the advantage they can of their opportunities and make the best they can against théir limitations, Country people show a big lack of sense when they throw overboard their differing opportunities and try to live on their limitations, because, forsooth, they must imitate the cities. The city man, before a fruit stand, hesitates be- tween an apple and a banana. He fi- nally takes the banana, because it sts less. Why should he? He can't raise either. He must buy whichever he eats. But the farmer can raise apples by the barrel. He not infre- quently has'so many that he uses them to feed his hogs or make cider from. Undoubtedly he has the right to buy bananas at twenty-five cents a dozen and sell his apples to the cider- mill for twenty-five cents a barrel, if he wants to. But he hasn't any right to yawp about the high cost of living after such a specimen of farm mismanagement. If we farmers, men, women and young folks, are only willing to return to the natural manner of living afford- ed by our environment and made pos- sible by our opportunities, the only ef- fect high prices would have on us would be to bring us in more money for the surplus we sell. And we shouldn’t have to live on baked beans and salt pork three times a day, eith- er The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our rms, but in ourselves, if we won't satisfied with what they give us, must reject their bounty in order to call for flour from Minneapolis and oranges from California and onions from Bermuda and grapefruit from Florida and figs from Smyrna and beef from Nebraska and pork from b bu Missouri and lamb from Montana and new potatoes and cabbages in March 1 Texas. THE FARMER, Tolland County GURLEYVILLE M. E. Church Debt Removed by Liber- ality of Subscriptions—Personals and Briefs. and Mrs. Otis Conant have been ning Mrs. Conant’s sister, Mrs. » and Mrs. Buell from New Mr. ent Ly dia Haven Dr. Guy o immings and Ware, Mass., are the g Cumming’s parents, Rev. Tunnicliffe at the parsonage. Guy Cummings, 2d, and Alfreda and Robert Walker were baptized Sunday morning at the preaching service by E. R. Tunnicliffe. Mrs. Dwight Beebe and son [Leslie home in George- visit h Mrs. Beebe's and Mrs. G. R. Dimock and Mrs. Charles Dodge enter- i Mrs. Dodge’s nephew, Herbert Simonds and Miss Marsden from Wil- limantic recently. Mrs. Arvilla Dunham is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. 4ndrew Grant at Mount Hope. H . Simonds is the guest of rela- tives in Willimantic this week. The M. E. Church, which has been considerably in debt for the past six months, has been cleared, having been raised by subscriptions, and the church wishes to thank those who so liberal- ly contributed towards it and especial- ly the summer residents on Wormwood Hill and Knowlton Hill. ANDOVER . Oregonian Here After 21 Years' Ab- sence—Ladies’ Benevolent Associa- tion is Prospering—Automobile Tour to Ohia. have returned to the town after g w Thomas Morrow of Hartford is en- Poylug & iwo weeks' visit with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wright. Mrs. k. H. Norton of Manchester, formerly f this place, is the guest of Mrs. Weébster. Mrs. S, Smith of Waterloo, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. Willard Smith, after an absence of over 21 vears from this placey where she was born Ore., Follow directions on the red and green wrapper, - JULY 27, 1912 They Make Good who keep themselves in fine hysical condition. Regular wels, active kidneys and liver, good digestion, and 'fior follow a greater natural vi ) the timely use of the reliable BEECHAMS PILLS Sold everywhere in boxes 10c.., 2Fe. gational church was held at the town hall Thursday afternoon. The report showed a balance for the year of over $40 over the expenditures, and a heal- thy condition of affairs. All the officers were re-elected. A public *supper, which was well attend- ed, was held in the evening, and a so- cial time followed. Norwich Orchestra Played. A concert was held Friday evening at the town hall by Eldredge’s Orches tra of Norwich, followed by a dance. Another Accidental Shooting. | The young son of Charles Twist, | blacksmith of North Coventry, acciden- | tally shot the son of Mr. and Mrs. Somers of the “Red House” on Tues- | day. The wound, while serious, is not dangerous. By Auto to Toledo. Deacon and Mrs. Phelps, with their | new auto, started for Toledo, o, | Thursday morning. Besides the ehauf feur, C. Parker Stearns, they were a companied by Deacon Winthrop White, who will go the entire distance with them, and Mrs. James, who goes as far as Westfleld, Mass. Mrs. Percy and Ruby Beebe are vis- iting in New Salem, Mass. Open Air Service Plann At the Congregational arch the pastor, Rev. John J. Lockett, will preach morning and evening. If the weather is fine, the evening service | will be in the open air. At the Baptist church the pasto Rev. F. H. Cooper, will preach at 10. a. m. on “Paul Gathering Stic STAFFORDVILLE Notes of the Visitors—Missionary From Turkey Guest of Miss Jones. Miss G 5. G. Rogers, a_missionary o Van, Turkey, and Miss Clark, of Wor- cester, Mass., were guests of Rev. Miss Jones last week. . Mr. and Mrs .H. B. Smith of | Southington were the guests of their | daughter, Mrs. W. D. Hamilton, last | week. Mrs. Smith remaining for an extended visit at the M. E. parsonage. Miss Pearl and Earl Bowden who have been visiting their sister, Mrs Parker in Monson a few weeks have returned home. Mrs. Lizzie Shepard h home after an extended v atives in Canada. John Bowden and William have accepted empleyment in field, Mass: Mr. and Mrs. Allen S. West and two children of Springfield, Mass., are spending two weeks with their mother, Mrs. Lina Booth. Mrs. E. Harrington and children, and Dubrelle Wilson are guests of Mrs. E. | Duncan in Worcester, Mass. | Mrs. C. Dunbar and son Robert, of | Springfield, have been the guests of Mrs. H. G. Dunham. Horatio West has accepted employ- ment in Pittsfleld, Mass., where he expects to move his family soon. STAFFORD Former Pastor Will Doctipy Universa- list Pulpit—Grange Holds a Lawn Party. | returned sit with rel- Ryder Pitts- A. D. Cady has been confined to the house the past week by illnes Miss Katherine Remmert of is the guest of Mr. and Mrs, P. Cecil Ogden from Sou Baltic Shea. h Manchest is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright. Jacob Glover has been on the st the past week, but is im- proving Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pinney are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Or- cutt of Bridgeport Mra. Nettle Kiffe and daughters Dorothy, of Springfleld are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Johnson. Mrs. Delia Eno of Somers has been visiting a few days with M Needham, Lawn Party Under Grange Auspices. A lawn party under the auspices of the Stafford grange was held Thursday evening. Miss Dobson of Springfield the guest of Miss Anmie Phillips, who is enjoying a two weeks vacation at the Mrs home of her parents, Charles Phillips Mr. Hersey Will Preach. Rev. Harry A. Hersey, a forme tor, will conduct the morning s and preach the sermon at the U sallst church next Sunday SPRING HILL Rev. Frank Brean, who the Baptist church last Sunday, preach again at the same place Sunday. While on his vacation h ting relatives in Mansfield Centre. The Ladies' A fety held an ice cream sociable church last Wed nesday evening. There were aboi present and the supper (including ice cream) was 20 cents Pike, an old res 5 been at the Gardi Mr. and corner. Mr. W. B. Trobridge of Coveatry is st of E. F. S R. Storrs of Hartford spent | part of the week with his brother Judge L. J Mr. Will Johnson of New Rochell N. Y., was the guest of his sister, Mrs. | Alfred Warren, last Sunday Mrs. C. A. Hawkins of Willimantic was at the home of her son, Byron S last Mondas Apples suitable for pies are ripe and quite plenty in this section; in fact this | is a fine fruit country. 1 | | Ellen | 4 rroay, - AUGUST 2 FRIDAY, Repair Work —OF ALL KINDS ON— AUTOMOBILES, CARRIAGES, WAG- ONS, TRUCKS and CARTS. Mechanical repairs, painting, trim- ming, upholstering and wood work. Blacksmithing in all its branches. 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