Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 7, 1912, Page 12

NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1912 danger of frost, carefully covered his dozen tomato-plants with thick manil- la paper. About half of them froze undér the paper. And his garden is fifty if not @ hundred feet higher than mine. Ever since, I've been puzzling .my poor wits after a reason for this curi- ous freakishness of frost. At first I was inclined to suspect that the rel- ative maturity of the plants had some- thing to do with it. Might it not be that plants whih had- attained their tull growth were sturdier and hardier than those still pushing out tender new growths? But a moment's re- flection showed me that such evidence as I had before me didn't bear out that idea. The summer - squashes were certainly at full- maturity—have 3 been bearing the last six weeks. They - were Kkilled, while a lot of muskmelon vines just beside them and which are less mature than any melon vines I ever saw at this sea- ICE IN JUNE AND AUGUST CHILL THE FARMERS’ PROSPECTS \ ”Ell"h:;enl m::?:::fld " the proposiu?;x; (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) jTow of Summer squashes—crooknecks. |’tother end to. Perhaps it might ‘When I woke up, Saturday morning, | Every hill was black as a coal-heav- | that maturer plants, having expended Aug. 81, roofs, board-piles, follage, |er’S hat, and the big leaves drooped | much of their energy in preduction, were all covereg with sparkling white | Wiltedly around their stems. But, | Were less able to resist extreme cold frost. ] when I reached the Limas, it tock care- | than those younger and of lustier veg- " When T went out to the pump in |ful search to disclose a single evidence | etable vigor, But no: this couldn’t be to water the horses, 1 found |of frost-injury. I did find a few leaves | 80; for ‘the winter squashes and buck- 'of water which 1 always leave | 00 runners Wwhich had lolown loose | wheat, both of which are very imma- purposes covered | from the poles and were sticking out ) ture, were killed, while tomato and ‘of ice. into the air, which had frosted tips.|pepper plants which have been_plcked I let the sheep out of their | But I have seen vines of the same va- |and picked over and over again, and pasture, I saw that the [Fiety in the same place other years, |are manifestly past maturity were un- ‘beside the lane were | Killed beyond hope by a mere white | scathed. frost, insufflient to produce ice. THE FARMERYS TALK] . TO FARMERS This hasn't been my first_experience As | progressed over the garden |with the queer actions of Jack Frost. similar evidences of the freakish ac-|Last June there was a similarly mys- tion of the frost met me at every |terfous behaviour on his part. He turn. Squash-vines everywhere I |froze ice as thick as window glass on 'found dead: cucumber vines badly [water in pails and tubs, June 1ldth. hurt. But two patches of muskmelons | We had expected him that time, and widely separated, were both untouch- | had covered the newly set tomatoes ed. In previous years I have found |and peppers. But of course, we cucumbers usually a degree hardier | couldn’t cover five acres of general e and peppers and tomato than melons: this time the reverse.|garden stuff. Téen rows of extira early to say nothing of “nipping” corn. The “nip” was so severe that a few |sweet-corn, which had been hoed, ol cattle-beet tops, commonly re garded |were frozen off, Four rows beside On my return at noon, and after I |as perfectly safe against any ordinary | them, which had not been hoed, had fortified myself with a good din- |cold, were frozen. But I didn’t find a | weren't hurt at all. Whereupon I re- mer, 1 took my courage in both hands | single tomato plant ouf of eight hun- | member the saying of the old farmers and . out to see if it might be |dred. showing any serious damage |that even if a frost cut off corn- possible to save anything from the|And those tomatoes are on a lower | sprouts, the seed would send up fresh wreck. Mirst I went to the pepper bed. [ level than the beets or the squashes, |ones, if only the ground hadn't been Judge .of my & when I.found |close to a little brook on the other|stirred about the hills But, when I single even that not lant was killed, nor | side of which is a swampy fleld. came to- examine my patch of late e wilted leaf-tip to Thus far, I haven't seen a single | sweet-corn, which hadn't been hoed at where Jack Frost's toes had |trace of injury on two acres of Sweet |all hadn’tbeen touched since planting, toyhed on more than a dozen plants. [ corn in three separate patches. lo and behold, about a quarter of it I started for the Lima ‘was killed, killed so dead that not a ‘my way I passed a long ighbers, foreseeing the | chit ever gtarted again. I waited two ~ Of Interest To Every Woman in Norwich Vicinity We have succeeded in purchasing from the leading manufacturers of fashionable || : SUITS and COATS for Women and Misses their entire sample line at less than the .cost! to manufacture these garments. . . __{These being samples, ‘are made of the finest materials and workmanship, as sam- ' These styles embrace the newest creations ever seen in this city at double the prices elsewhere. Their'fit is perfect, and most every garment is a reproduction of the lead- ing French models. You can see styles that you will not see elsewhere. 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For this bar- gain event we will sell these Coats at $7.98 to $16.50. One of my v Remember there is nothing but the newest Fall and Winter styles. See Our Window Display. THE GRAND SALE REMNANT STORE 261 Main Street, Norwich, Gonn. No old models. | | | i | over Labor day of her weeks and then replanted the m.lnln:Y hills, for the sake of the fodder they might produce. | And right in that last corn-field was | presented a fresh illustration of frost- l caprice. The portion which was killed lay along the western edge of the plat, and next to a meadow of tall oat grass, which stood an average of four feet high and very thick. None ofi the corn was six inches out of the ground. As what wind there was had been from the northwest, one might have expected this wind-break of grass to protect the corn growing be- side it. On the contrary every hill in the two rows next the grass was killed, while damage grew less with every row remoter from it. The neighborhood of the grass seemed to have drawn the frost. Curiously enough, a plat of early potatoes, two acres away, showed similar effects. While the corn was bounded on the west by tall grass, the potatoes had on the north a twenty-foot wide head- land of bunkum timothy backed by a stone-wall fence, And every potato top within ten feet of this grass was frozen off to the ground, while the rows farther away were less injured. Again, the propinquity of the high grass seemed to produce intenser cold. Have any of you farmers noticed this sort of a thing in your exper- ience? Some years ago a similar case oc- curred in a patch of narrow beans. On one side 4f them, and only three feet distant from the last row, was a piece of green peas, with vines bushed up at least three feet high. A late frost killed every bean-plant in the Tow mext the peas; about half of those in the second row, and left the re- ;nninder of the beans practically un- urt. My old father used to tell of an ad. venture he had with Jack Frost 'way back in the 1850's. He had fin- ished hoeing his field corn the second time when, one night in July, a cold wave swooped down and killed all the corn in towh with the exception of one hill in the middle of his field. That solitary hill, standing some three feet high and ready to tassel out, wasn’'t even nipped. He plowed up the fleld and put it into buckwheat, but saved that one hill, and from it ever knew, the only corn which ripen- got five ears of corn, so far as he ed in the town that season. I've been reading lately about a few big-headed farmers who bluntly assert that they don't have any more crop failures: that they can always raise good crops, any season, beause, for- sooth, they farm intelligently, not to say scientifically. Do you know I wish one of them had been in charge of that cornfield of the old gentleman’s, that time half a century ago, when a winter night jumped out of January into July and froze a whole township stiff! Of course he might have saved the crop by buying about a hundred dol- lars’ worth of fire-pots and half a car load of petroleum and hiring two or three dozen stokers to keep the fires burning. But it would be dum poor farming to spend $250 to save a $50 crop, now wouldn't it? ¢ Take it altogether, this certainly has been a remarkable year. In my im- mediate vicinity we had a spring of constant rainfall, which kept the ground so wet and cold that many acres of corn and potatoes’ failed to [ up at all. The seed rotted in the godden soil rather than germinate. This season of drench was followed by six weeks of baking drouth, in which the shallow-rooted plants which had’ managed to come up had to struggle hard for water enough to live, with- out any to spare on growth. And we've had.a frost every month in the year, so far: ice in both June and August, and a white hoar frost in July. In spite of it all, some of my gardea crops have done really well For in- stance, my asparagus was exceedingly good in both yield and quality: my onions were never better: my sweet corn most of it grown on land which has been in corn for nine consecutive years, is fifty per cent. better than last year; late potatoes are at least an average crop. And I never had so promising an acre of cabbages in my life. On the other hand spinach, green peas, squashes, tomatoes, beans and early potatoes were practical failures. I used to think that I knew better how to raise peas and toma- toes than any other crops. Yet all my experience and skill have amount- ed to nothing with both crops, this year. They have been commercial failures. The two crops which I have always felt most doubtful about, corn and cabbage, are really the best I've got. Say, brethren, the longer I keep at this business, the more things I come upon that I can't understand. The more I learn, the more I don’t know! Whenever I think I've got a hand that can’t be beat—both bowers, the joker and two aces, say—Old Lady Nature calmly euchres me and sets me scratching my head to see how on earth she did it. Then again, when I hold nothing better than a collection of nine-spots, she sometimes lets me The very freal sicality of our invisible opponents i perhaps one of the things that makes bucking at them so fascinating. If things always turned out just as we expected them to the day before, farming and gardening might be somewhat more profitable, pecuniari- ly. But there’d be a good deal less excitement in 'em—and a lot less fun! THE FARMER. Washington County, R. 1. USQUEPAUGH and Lawn Party Nets $15- Local Small Notes. Supper The supper and lawn party for the benefit of the church, held at Rev. C. H. Palmer’s, was well attended. It netted the society over $15. Mrs. Henry Garbutt and daughter, Dorothy, have returned to Providence after spending July and August at Rest cottage. Mrs. Frank Tefft and daughter, Jennie, and Mrs. M. D. Palmer of Ex- eter, were callers here Tuesday. Mrs. Mary McConnor was a visitor in Providence a couple of days. Amos H. Kenyon of Pawtucket, R. 1. came home sick Saturday morn- ing and remains about the same. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Lamond and daughter are visiting at Aretic with Fred Clark and family. Joe Bagley has gone to Narragan- sett Pler to work. George Webster of Westerly visited friends here Saturday. Henry Garbutt of Providence spent Sunday with his family here. Benjamin C. Locke visited Wakefield one day this week. ROCKVILLE Mrs. Crofoot conducted the services Sabbath day, Pastor Crofoot being ab- sent to fill an engagement to speak at Ashaway. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Burdick have re- turned to Stamford, having spent the summer here, Miss Jennie Burdick was a guest sister, Mrs, Charles P. Palmer, at Pleasant View. Mr. and Mrs. William Kenyon of Barrington were guests Sunday and Monday of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Bar- | ber. Mrs. Georze W. Mylod of Boston is the guest of her sister, Miss Jennie Burdick Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Kenyon have returned from with the for-j mer's sister at Wickford. 2 visit BREED THEATER SENSATIONAL FEATURE TODAY Silver Wing's Two Suitors: SUPERB PATHE INDIAN STORY i Chas. Ledegar Sensational Bounding Rope Artist BIGYCLES 55 * Extra Bargains in guaranteed Wheels. MOTORCYCLES EXCELSIOR, INDIAN AND POPE Second-hand Bargains 1911 Pierce 4 h. p. Belt Drive Magneto “?.tlo"‘i“ 4 h. p. Chain Drive Mag- Prices Low. Terms Reasonable. C. V. PENDLETON, 10 Broadway DENTIST DR. E. J. JONES Suite 46, Shannon Buildiag hhm-mmw irance. “FRomm AUDITORIU SPECIAL ATTRACTION THE HARRIS COMEDY TRIO: In a MATRIMONIAL WAGER. 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