Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 19, 1913, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) | The University of Illinois made a dairy survey” of 317 dairy farms in Kane County, Ill, last season. Please | don’t think that this meant an irrup- | ton by a lot of callow college boys | with a bunch of insane and silly ques- | tons. It was undertaken by , the TUniversity's trained dairy experts, | men who not only study the theory of cows and cream but also milk the | cows and churn the cream and know | where theory and fact sometimes col- lide. The figures were gathered with | the most finical care, so as to show | | 1o the last fraction of a cent all the | income and all the outgo. Interest on the investment and a fair perce..tage included among for depreciation were the expenses. The investigators had | the fullest help from each one of the | 317 dairymen who were under exami- | nation. Altogether, the result may be taken as pretty close to an exact | statement of the net earnings of those 317 dairies out in Illinois. The farms were all ~+ them either 160 or 240-acre farms; i they were either “quarter-sections” arte sections™ with an extra add- ed. Of course they differed more or less. But, as they were all within the | narrow limits of a single county, there couldn’t have been any wide difference in climate or weather conditions, or in the sorts of forage which could be Erown. No two farms anywhere are exactly alike, whether they lie hun- dreds of miles apart or touch at twe corners. But this Kane County bunch | couldn’'t have had any fundamental differences. They were about as near e as observers would be likely to anywhere. Anyway., we, at this are not so much interested | of farms they weretas in farmers did with nd distance, in the sort what respective them. Of the 317 dairymen studied “one | made $5,602 a year clear profit, after | all expenses, including interest and on, had been deducted from ross income. That was pretty good, eh? | And one actually lost 31,716 a year, after every possible receipt from milk d butter and cheese and cream and ilk and calves had been care- | a added up. { Which was certainly a pretty bad showing. This last man was having to_ put $1,716 a_year, earned from other farm | sources into the.discard to support his | herd of cows. The difference between | his business and that of the best dairyman aggregated $7,218,—adding the profit of ome to the loss of the other. | Now, these two farms were not | greatly dissimilar, either in point or e or soil character, or othcr condi- ons. If the stock was dissimilar, that W the result of the two owners’ management. One had practically the same chance as the other to grade up herd,—or: to let it run down. rtement from the whoié his In fact, the sta 317 dairfes is an illumating sermon on the resuits of farm management. | In all the lot thre rmers netted $5,000 or over; four $4,000 or over: eigh t $3,000 or over A REVELATION ABOUT DAIRYING IN ILLINOIS twenty £2,000 or over: eighty $1,000 or over, and a hun- | dred and twer ix $500 or over. On the other side twenty-nine were losing $500 a year or over: | $1,000 a » losing more The other thirty dolGrums,—neit ar or than enough to be worth men oning. ten were losing | over, and two were $1 a year each. ve were just in the making ~or losing Now, if a man has an ample income from herd am; ness whether othe of e . r sources and is keeping a ows P playthings to leisure, it is nobody’s busi- e makes $5000 from them or blows in $1.700 on them. But if he dep: his farm it i spend $ to one branch bran br 0 ch of ings i s for might a vear the fari n. his more on ‘m than income -poor—farming any that It was way back in the middle of the ble: overtop Lantern Hill. Eve ing fa etc. v tha acts f y farmer #m the world we sented by a small pebble and of all the ¢ Liebi, dus poor er farmer: bout the soil and known every 1 piled up in a heap, they Iso, they would | since 2 fact dam di have re re Agri Ived been 1bout | by pre the peb- | would | then be about what they know are, a gravel bank of uselessn big went on to “F loore grains of sand: these In the last hundred years, and laborious attempts hav are now making to cen 1n, er intq principles vel-bank 1d ¢ us att have brought forth | from that a great ma by f imit, mpts h: beer their of rmers frank ade n labor built out of the ciples which can logi explain and One would think that every farmer |in league games d we tion about the big, ‘world-wide princi- | t Those dairymen out in lllinois who | be 1 he er might the parate in their ly, that been failure ks - by othing b rs. The truth principles have been | scatte welcc f) to derive made money from their almost withcut exception, only knew their own co own pastures, but also everything they could abo the world-wide principles ed As are ess. bee t tog agzlomer; fa-ts farming. ut cranki cts p Prove -ordinate the seemingly unrelated facts. the infor ome om herds w men who ws and t had stu get hold principles rems: Lie- like eth- ated discov - Let some of these | at some who have ne: n rin- n ro helr ‘ma- ples which under business. ight there where one of the| | aueernesses of “human nature” comes in. There seem to be a considerable percentage of working farmers who simply won't accept any covery they don't themselvs m who | won't admit any know e which jumps .their line fences from some neighbor's field: who would rather scrimp and starve in the shadow of their own hat- s than srow and thrive in the universal sunshine which | lights the whole big world er ne heir died of of 'SEED POTATOES Carload is here and ready for de- livery. Let us have your order right away, please, and we are sure you will be more pleased with. results. than We can also serve you promptly and sat- isfactorily with the very best (irass and Garden Seeds FERTILIZERS LAWN DRESSING AND ALL KINDS OF Farm Implements Everything reasonable in quality and price. We are headquarters, you know, for everything in this line, and there is no need of send- ing away for anything when you can get it better and cheaper right here. Sanitary Plumbing is our specialty, and we can give you just what is needed at just the right price. J.P. Barstow & Cc. Same Old House at the Same Old Stand 23 and 25 Water Street dairving.. They had learned the laws of milkk ‘and cream production, and then they had applied these laws to each particular bossy’'s peculiar and individual make-up. = Those who lost mone$ were, almost invariably, farmers who stuck to the old “rule ‘of thumb:” who sneered at “book-farming:” who, like Old Josh of fhe story, “dicn't never believe nothin’ that nobody ever told ’em.” Isn’t it funny, whén you comé to think of it, that any man can be found, in any walk of life, who would rather have his own way and fail, than ac- cept a chance of success unless he himself has dug up that chance with his own hoe from his'own back-yard? What's the explanation? Some call it “old fogyism,” and some call it stupidity, and scme call it seli-conceit, and some call jt bigotry, and same think it simple stubbornness. But these are not explanations, and little good is apt to be accomplished by throwing mud or calling names, I haven't found farmers any more old-fogyish or bigoted or self-conceit- ed than other folks, in matters out- side their farm work. And a majority of them are sincerely anxious to do better farming and modestly willing to accept any help towards that end from any source. It's the nority I'm thinking of;—the “off-horses.” ~What is it, at bottom, which makes them what they are? Where do they get the idea’ that” nothing can be of any ser- vice to them on their own farms ex- cept what they themselves learn from their oown experiences? As I’ quoted some ‘of them saying, in my- talk two weeks ago? Different men have differing apti- tudes and capagit One man can dig a ditch who could not make a watch te save his neck. Another man can predi¢ct an eclipse to the fraction of a second, who couldn’t milk a cow, if he were starving. One man can ob- serve facts, but can’t make head nor “tail of 'em. while another can dove- tai] them .together, so that they make a connected and intelligible story. | Shall 1, then, who can perhaps dig ;ai:ch.-q, refuse the aid of the watch- malrer to repair My watch? Perhaps I can build a barn: shall I chen refuse to believe the man who predicts an ! ecli even when the eclipse- comes | along on_schedule time? Or it may: be that I can:observe facts, 'dozens | and hundreds of them. Shal] I reluse“ to accept the natural law which some differently constituted mind has been able to discover by patient detective | work among the heaps of observations made by me and others? 4 | it’s a fine thing to be up-standing and -independent. | But, seems to me, it's a dum foolish thing to stand up so straight as to fall over backward! 4 THE FARMER. ;‘Planters Open the Season at | Preparations For Return to the National Game—Change | in Groton Judgeship—Clean Up Week Extended. | Th h the generosi: and true sport nship of Morton F. Plant, of Groton, the city of New London s be represented in league baseball son now opening, and the init- of the league in this city plaved by the Planters on field next Wednesday afternoon. ame ness of the whole city will be | pr ally suspended so that all can | g0 the ball game and, in conse- it is prophesied that it will be st crowd ever atsa ball game T s as rest and should” not wa during | While Mr. Plant made | the ground and tbe player Seaside city patronage the season. provision for and secured sball club b the league franchise the ba: will be conducted on a stric i- ne basis and should be at least self- supporting. | The public 1d see to it that this s done in_appreciatjon of what M Plant has done for tife baseball public s the tleman is.not in the game for money there may be in it nt ](' Id is the best in the league and it i\'\l be kept in thel league and it will be kept in the very best of condition ang therefore will not be used only At the opening game { there will be music by the band and here will be opportunity for the fans | o size up the personnel of the team | which it is believed will compare fav- orably with any other in the league. | Those who expected a team border- ing on the marvelous will be disap- pointed as the salary limit precludes opportunity to engage players of oig league grade, as no player with the Planters will receive p evond the | league limit. There is a distinct un- anding in that respect between NEW LONDON IN BALL LEAGUE | on | i | it should { { | Home Next Wednesday—Bigi . TR | | sembly signing the invitation, includ- | ing the mileage that they will not re-« ceive. _The unfavorable action of the ju- | diciary committee in declining to re- | nominate Judge Frederick P. Latimer s judge of the town court of Groton, ommendiing the appointment of Hewitt, ed cour and Ibert F en rene and Nat who aspi the New London polic | cupied by Ju id that democrat “harles the democrats on the bench of court now oc- B. Coit. It ge Coit expects better ge to ¢ “he: i Ju nt by the judiciary committee ally that two democrats are after place and he wishes there were more, for the more the merrier from h: ndpoint. He would be glad to _democrat irmish develop a fight and so fierce that there would be no hope of reconciliation, for then his chance of reappointment would be improved, i | judge ! There is but one police court allotted to New London and there are three lawye; fter that one position | and each h slution of appoint- | ment with the judiciary meeting and | will soon siven hearing. The | aj0; of the committee, so Judge | Coit claims, favor his reappointment, | while Mes: 3 Hickey and Belcher make like claims. But, according to | one of the committeemen the claims of | the candidates have no real foundation | and addeq that, in his opinion, if both | democrats persisted in their candidacy | neither would win, and their persist- | ency would result in Judge Coit's re- | appointment. But with one democrat | eliminated there was opportunity for | a democratic judge in the New London | Mr. Plant, Manager Burns and the d SE e, et rectory of the club., But the best|Evant manr yeory (0¢. Arst time in a | | re le have been secured for In, the case lof Judge Latimer. the | |t pay and the same rule prevai cominittes: report. as: aticiin iny in the other clubs of the league they | grdered on aleany SHceDEed e should all be pretty closely matched | fater Action wiiachdar for action | and interesting games should result. Insiic anacar s »"I be taken by the | Plant fleld is owned by Mr. Plant | that body friends of fhe ophdiitt e park, so named by Manager Pat Shea | lotention. S iis | of the old NeW London B all team | | that leased the grounds from Mr. Arm- | i [ rong in consideration of his liberal | The week now ending has been ! | attitude towards the club and in the | designated as clean city weekin New | interests of the al game. London and there h en general .co- | s = ation with g g results. But | It goes without the saying that in £00 s to nue the coming ! | addition to the big opening crowd < as many w DrEvertn o | every true-blue fan in the city will be | into the clean-up game by |at fhe game next Wednesda: Of | gn .ol - heavy ns of the first | course Former Park Commissioner week. As a whole | vill be there, as he has alway s not advantageous for | an ardent supporter of s n-up week, as | His friends in the general e of the Back | of the state, familiar with Andy’s love 7 and not in candition borin little pleasantry | Lo Plant the trees and shrubs furnished | at his expenie quring the | nt weeis | free by the Municipal Ari society or [ Ohe of the St o pla te deeds presented by Con. | G0 Mo Maher to Visit the | Eressman Muhun. It was not a fting | | itol on next Wednesday time to have the accummulation of the is him of a generous rec 8}, ‘;"' ashes taken from the cellar that | Wednesday the ,WHH\'I r do many other things to carry the | : only day that time could o e 2 o show ‘him around the s a good work commenced and state capitol and library building. | Wiil have tendency to make the work | invitation was signed by the sena | Permanent and nearly ever representative from | =55 — | New London county 2nd by Sabin | Namss That Cheer. | Sayles Russell, clerk of the house. Betwee A 1 h | SeE s e B e on scan fie et nhme the verge of sending acceptance when g he last, nbled and realized the joke to = scme of nit. It was too good to keep and Woria editor of the invilation was shown'to friends. | {inp of cep- It was written on the official paper of De. October the state and enciosed in a large enve- 'Ma“‘ in ‘the lope bearing the insignia of the state. It is safe to say to add that Andy would not miss that opening game for m equal to the aggregate salaries | the members of the general PINPLES CAME IN BLOTCHES On Hand, Scratched So They Bled. Spread.to Other Hand and Face, Ashamed to Go Out. Cured By Cuticura Soap and Ointment. —_— 816 57th St.; Brooklyn, N. Y.— “About | a vear ago 1 noticed a pimple on the back of my hand. 1 picked it, and the next day | my hand became full of | pimples. They came in | blotches, about a half dozen | together. When they first appeared they were red and | inflamed and itched very much. I scratched them so they* bled and then they developed into sores. The disease spread to my other { hand, and face. At one | time my face got so full of pimples and they | itched so much I was ashamed to go out en | the street. “When T bathed they became inflamed. 1 treated for them but instead of getting better 1 became worse, and by this time | my disease became so bad that I could not sleep or eat. to despair of getting better . friend told | me to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. | 1 sent for samples and used them. I took | a hot bath, using Cuticura Soap, and then | applied the Cuticira Ofnument 1o the | affected parts before golug to bed. When | 1 woke up the next morning the itching | | | i had stopped. Within three weeks I bad no sign of a pimple. I was entirely cured.’ (Signed) E. Marks, Dec. 16, 1911. Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Olntment are sold throughout the world. Liberal sample of each mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Ad- dress post-card **Cuticura, Dépt.T; Boston.” ( #@Tender-faced men sholild use Cuticura Soan Shaving Stick, 25c. Sample fres, | the Finally when I began | p, 3 is it trust il Minnie ( | money in 1 Check, Andrew J. Million, | oney, William Penny. Bound are Marie Angel, Eli Apos- | mas Heaven, Cha F. Par- | hd Oscar R. Sajnt | alway with us, as J. Bree Agnes D.| e Dew, John F. Frost, | Snow, John R nbow, Warm and A. d. loveliest names are Luey | ariing, Fair, Rosa Hug, Pauline Lovely, Mary Love- | 1 tilda P etty, 2 . too, we discover Frank | Drunke, and the following weird Z00- | Ic al collection Constance Bird, | Frank Falcon, Julius Fowl Alfred B. Goldfinch, Irene Heron, David L. Martin J. Loon, Richard D. Parrot, W. J. Pigeon, rd Swallow. Helen, M W. Swan, Joseph Illefant, A. Fox Fred Goat, Robert M. Kid, Ada F.| { Lamb, A Lion, A. Lyon, Benjamin Mule,” Sol Tiger, A. Wolf, Fred Bee, Axel Moth, A. Roac Joseph Wasp, | Aana Worm.—JHlarper's Weekly. Dam, correspondent has injuck Dam in A Great Australian An Australian described the new B New South Wales, the largest dam in the world—second only to the A van Dam; and althoush not yet fin- ished, has already come into use. It is between two granite moun- taips t rise Murrumbidgee River. fles of the river are held back great wal] in the neck of a gory when the dam has risen to i ight of two hundred and forty the enélosed lake will be half as in Sydney Harb "wo miles further down the river, enotl work 1s contemplated. Whea combined system complete, between five and sis million ucres whl be served. Vast of the so-called barren land of ralia could be made to blossom if irrigation were as scientific as In some it et from - opposite sides of Forty-five by o at Berembed, States, immigration and ‘s the motto for Australia. o of Australian immigra- tion announces that rigated farms are now available for farmers in the Murrumbidgee Valley, gated by the rrinjuck ~ Dam. 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