Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 14, 1913, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) The amount of advice we farmers et in_the course of a_year is some- thing fierce,—to use a bit of Manhat- tan slang Sometimes 1 think that most men and women were born to be preach- ers, they show such a love for preach- and little zeal in practice! s once said that a lit ry critie was a man who wasn't able to write, himself, and so undertook to tell oth- ers how to do so. A good many of our most prolific farm advisers write like men who can’t farm successfully themselves, and therefore feel qualified to teach the rest of us how to farm. Now, if there is any one thing in the world which the working farmer, struggling against daily odds to wring a living off his s, would like, it is advice from a fellow farmer who ha been through the same mill and ha rnan d to t a good grist But that exactly the kind of advice he doesn’t get. The farmer who succeeds at working dirt isn't apt to be handy with pen and ink. He has been spend- ing his life with things and isn’t adept at handling wor over,” Know- ing how much of chin; worry and bitter drudgery has been required from him, he is apt to have a little | contempt for the unsuccessful neigh- bor, whose failure often seems to him iue to sloth or inefficiency. He often els towards such other farmers much as the old hen in the verses may have felt towards the ch . The story was told something 1 this,—I quote rom memory and ca swear to be- ing verbatim “Baid one little chicken, With a funny little squirm, ‘I wish 1 could find A fat little worm, aid another little chicken, With a quaint little shrug, ‘T wish I could find A nice little bug.’ “Said another little chicken, With a flirt of its tail, 1 wish I could find A week. little snail.’ Said the old mother hen rom the dusty garden-patch It you wa breakfa COME Ot RE AND SCRATCH!" The old hen had learned by experi- ence that the oniy way to get daily grub was to work for it, dig serateh for it. The farmer who won out has generally done so working and digging and scratching gravel. He hasn't much patience with chickens who stand on one leg and squawk for worms .or with farmers who sit on the fence and wish for things which ean only be got by hard work. And So the very man who is best informed about his business and possessed of the wide experience is apt to be a rare nt fellow, keep- ng his advice till it is asked for and then jerking it out in short and not over lucid phrases. They tell the story of two carpenters, one an old fellow whb couldn't have drawn a plan to save his life, but Id build a house or a bureau “out of his head,” and the other, a young chap who was better at talking than matching. The young fellow had been told to get out a certain rathes pernickety little job and didn’t quite | know how to at it. He strolled over to the older man and said: “Lijah how would you lay out so-and-so, naming the work he had been assign- ed tc The older man looked up with a ‘grunt: “Why, I sh’d take the square and pencil and mark it out and en saw to the marks,” he responded, and bent back to his own bench. Which was -exactly what he really would have done: but it didn’t help the inquirer much. That’s one of our troubles: we can't seem to get much helpful advice from ose who are best flitted to give it, ut we can get tidal waves and Day- floods of it from gentlemen and > find their tongues or their typewriters easter to use than their hc The other day | picked up a farm paper and my eve fell on a column of ;. s for Spring” Here were some m See that the N mower is arp.” Tighten up the hinges of tI arm Determine that no noxious weeds shall be allowed to grow'on your ATTR, this year.” Clean up the back-yard.” Give the horses a good currying ce a day nging coats tw Yy need it most when ON THE FARM RESULTS ARE FIRST—APPEAR- ANCES SECONDARY . The frest ’rim up the shrubbery in the front rd.” “Get down your pea-brush. “Wash the ’carriage and. give fresh- coat of varnish.” Bt ceter: d so forth, and so on. a it Now imagine the average working farmer reading a column of that sort of stuff. Very likely each ite as something to be said in its But—the weather is catchy n; there is more plowing to do than there are days to do it in; there is a mile or so of fence which must be repaired before the stock can be turned out; the barn roof must be put ‘into shape; the tent caterpillars are eating up his apple-trees; half-a- dozen clogged ditches must be clean- ed out, or his best meadow will never dry up; he has got to go te towa and snap tiat ever popped out of P Ju 125t spiciest ginger an oven or satisfied a hunger. - NATIONAL BISCUIT haul fencing and feed and fert and other supplies; one horse | il sick and cawt do full work; the |s<press my opinion that substance and O S O it e tothe Lleok. | show should be discriminated between, come vet, and he must go to the black- | SO Should, be TR AL E JeRI | smith's shop and have temporary re-|p. treated more respectfully than the | pairs made to tide over till they do | FERC MOME TSI arrive; he cant get any help for love | "¢% 1500 Sine his farm up to and L 8% Npnty . ang tuusy o that is done |y cop it at the wvery highest level of with his own hands in the intervals between rains of the too short days. And the advice given hi i sharpen the lawn-mower,” and h the carriage!” to “var- | n 1t isn’t to be doubted that a_sharp lawn mower will cut better than a jdull one, or that a mewly varnished | carri is more shiny than a dirty one. But a lawn mower is hardly the tool to do a big haying with; and the manure. reader is much more to the purpose than any top-buggy in the hurry of spring work. How to do the pressing work in less time;—or how to do two men's wor with one pair of hands;—suggestior along these and similar lines might prove ‘helpful Instead he is advised to trim up the lilac bushes or go to digging dande- lions out of the lawn and wild carrots | out of the hill pastures! Samuel Morehouse, the New Haven lawyer, who attended every session of the general assembly of 1913 and kept tab on nearly all corporation matters, ecially those that dealt directly with raiiroads and gas and electric light ] | plants, and who was the only oppon- ! don’t wonder that so many real|ent to the act authorizing the Norwich farmers despise what they call “book | Gas and Blectric Light company from farmers,” in view of the slushy stuff | assuming all the rights that were cov- which is printed about agriculture in|ered hy the company that ewned the so many books and farm papers. In|plant before it was taken evVer by the truth, real farming isn't a matter of | city of Norwich, was in New London lawns and floral parterres and land- |last Tuesday evening. As usual, he scape gardening. It is a mighty | was in the interest of the eencern in strenuous work in very common soil [the city owned by the Cennecticut and upon very dirty clods, A farm |Light and Power cempany, Several isn't a “country estate” nor is a farm- | citizens have breught petition te the house a “vill Looks count for a |public utilities commissien te order the | good deal—if you're trying to sell the |local company to reduce the cest of place and get out of farming. But|light and power to consumers, The they're of second-rate importance to |Officers of the company ewideatly be- farmers who are interested in getting |lieved that if the petitioners and the returns from their wor officers of the company had a get-to- gether meeting agreement ceuld be reaches iti e com- OF iainres: sthe: tdealitilre: weuld ihs | L oached Bad Hio pedilion 1o h one that would look as fige as po | ble and produce as lavishly as po ble. But ideal farming hasn't arrived, yet, any more than ideal doctoring or al lawyering, Most of us have | limitations of strength and capacity. | We can't do more than one thing at | the | Atterney Morehouse acted as_ | spokesman for the company givir many reasons why a reduction in price ought not to be asked at this time, owing tosthe increased expense in the manufacture of gas, but that perhaps | house was a large man at the meeting much larger than when appearing be- ch w p e { fore some of the legislative committees 1% 1;,,‘:;2,,:"" e ;,‘,}:,"“ I eSsence. Bub | when Attorney Robinson and Manager The average farmer has got to think | Funderford were present. To au more about potatoes and hay for next | did keep tabs on matters in which he winter “than about lawn-mowers and | &S interested that were introduced in il reite sl Lol N | the legislature and nothing of signifi- 5, | cance that affected the right of thoge = | he represented escaped his notice. When we go to face New England | was the Johuny on the Spot and kept | weather, substantial and serviceable | his clients posted on the progress of garments are rather more important | certain legislative matters. | than fringes and frills, however much the latter may add to the appearance. When the farmer has brought his farm up to its highest productivity | some future age, the practical and the | beautiful will walk hand in hand, and Judged from the sentiment expressed | at the meeting in New London \!.\;lthn]: s h | representing the petitioners and t has made it do its utmost, has amply | company no happy medium was reach- provided for all the fundamental needs | cq" and from present indications of life, then he may wear ostrich | ytjlities commission will make careful feathers in his hat and tie his Oxfords | jnvestigation and decide whether it is | with pink ribbons and ride a gasoline | possible for the city of New London | driven lawn-mower at his leisure,—if | #na the residents thereof to get gas stes run those ways. But these | anq electricity at a reduction from the lhx‘nh «.y:\y\;-.‘lnIt:‘rM:xllial\'l(-‘rwa x::;‘ 'l;h_ | present high rate. It ]\\ s }v;‘(-nl,\dfllififlfl st_business is to farm his | at the “love that if a reduction rm,—and to clean up his back-yard } in electricity not forthcoming at when hé has time, if he ever has. Sub- : least one semi-public institution would stance is before show in his business. install a private plant to produce light P e and power and that plants would be Too much of the advice that is|tablished in more than one residenc | shovelled and pitch-forled at him |in the city, as the present rate wus | comes from people who, I verily be- | considered to be excessive and not lieve, couldn't tell a pitch-folk from a | justified by the cost of production. le in the g nd, if shown the:two, ——t by side. e tendency is towards | The Yale and Harvard crews are in ay rather than accomplishment: | 5ctive practice on the Thames course towards making a- big Show out of | and the crews expect to be in cham- small materials: towards “putting up | pionship condition when Race Day a front”. rath a real success. r than towards building interest centers; the other beins comes. Of course all on the varsity crews, v | almost classed as side issues, though 1s a matter of fact these races are of | Mind you, | am not here excusing | H , slovenliness: I am simply trying to | more real interest to those outside of college than the too often one-sided big Pro aguatic event of the season on the Thames. The advance guard of the e newspaper writers have arrived and RE— the main hody will soon follow and for then New London will get the cus- o knocks from the writers whe ORIGINAL e Il Ag and the Aged. Don’t travel without it. Also keep In Lunch Tablet form, also, ready —Highly Nutritious and Convenient Rich milk, with malted grain extract, in powder form—dissolves in water—more healthful than tea or coffee. athletes. The best diet for Infants, Growing Children, Invalids, It agrees with the weakest digestion. 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Now there is something for the smart city chaps to write up that will serve to make complete the real race story, for it has just as much io do with the race as dces any insulting {hing that can be written regarding the { city and its citizenship. the minor ailments arising A former motorcyele racer was nabbed in New London by a state po | liceman this week and fined in poll | court for reckless riding or rather run- | ning at a reckless speed, ax the speed limit s not clearly specified in Connee- ticut law, The offender was returning from his work on his metercycle when he was trailed by state policeman en a similar maehine and in that way the cvidence was secured that the speed \Was So fast that it beeame reckless, though the complainant agreed that the | rider was an expert and had the mie- toreyele under centrol. The gquestion arisés as (o just what speed the state volice officer had attained, or is an offi- cer of the law privileged (e vielate the law. If so, it is not in very large in the book of statutes. The sta | lice have been busy at times in London in other lines of work and by <o doing have plaved rings around the spared hours of suffering attacks of serious sicknesss. take them. They help the clear the kidneys and regu- As actions depend ills Life 'NEW LONDON GAS AND ELECTRIC Opposition to the Reduction in Price at This Time—Interest in the Boat Race—Motorcycle Speeding—Tears Over Moving Building in Highway. ing | a time ,and do it well. Also, most of £ us_have to think of the flour barrel |@ slight reduction might be made in| | before the jardiniere. Perhap | the charge for electricity. Mr. Moore- But he suve | the | i and local police, so to speak, reference of | production and, the same time, make it look like a picture, I'll give him three cheers. But if he can’t do both, he’d better do business than merely make a show. The farm is of more importance than the front-yard. THE FARMER. which appeared in the correspondence at different times, State policemen have ridden motor- cycles in the streets of the city of New Londen at a higher rate of speed than any other vehicle ever traveled, and accerding te their interpretation of what comstitutes reckless driving they certainly violaled the law, This is known te leeal pelicemen, Suppose, in retaliation, complaint should issue against these state policemen and they were haled into police court-ceuld they give justificatien of the vielatien ef the law or could they convinee the court that it was their special privilege to vielate law? There has been considerable trouble over the removal of houses through the public strests in the past and there is just a litds trouble brewing over the removal' of one for which the required permit has been granted by the court of common council.. It is perhaps just as well to permit the ome in question to proceed on the way to perhaps final destination and then to adept an ordin- ance prohibiting the moving of any more houses through the public high- ways that would interfere with public traffic. It is not so many years asv that there was serious trouble over the removal of a house in the Northwest section and not far from where the present house awaiting removal is lo- cated, and just at present there is indi- cation of dupiication, for in both in- stances the trimming of trees was the main bone of contention. This house moving business to the detriment of public traffic is older to New London tham its oldest inhabi- tants, and prevailed in the days when the parade was a sort of market for cord wood, chercoal, hay and general farm products, and when it was no un- usual Sight to see yokes of oxen lying in the street resting from their journey to market. These scenes have long { faded away by the strong light of pro- gress and it is about time that this | house moving business became a thing | that was and is no more in progressive | New London. It is nobody's business ilf the owner of a building sees fit to | move a_building on private lands, bat when the public streets are used for such purpose and public traffic blocked there is reason for complaint, Hence these tears. With the exception of a small riot caused by some disaffected workmen who were at work in Main street some vears ago in reiaying the trolley tracks, there has been no violance in connec- tion with labor matters until the pres- ent week, when striking weavers of the | Brainard and Armstrong mill, mostly | Syrians, undertook to have things their own way regardless of law and order. They evidently came to that conclusion when they were in full force and on four members of the police. force in op position. The strikers used force in at- | fempting to prevent others from ente-- ing the mill and the peliee interfered, ~laced the effenders under arres witheut much ado there was riot, and the fight began, the police being outnumbered twenty-five to one. The officers put up a valiant fight and landed those placed umder | arrest in the police station, though they had te fight their way threugh the | erowd of fighting strikers from the mu 1 | to the police station. Then there was | return to the mill by the pelicemen | hut the attack was not renewed by the strikers. The policemen were more or less injured, not seriously, and there Then, general Guaranteed Eczema Remedy. Many mothers think their children are suffering from indigestion, head- ache, nervousness, weakness, costive- ness, when they are victims of that most common of all children's ail- ments—worms. 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All druggists, or by mail. Price 50c. Pfeiffer Chemical Ceo., Philadeiphia and St. Louis. Lee & Osgood Co. ! not an 14, 1913 were a score of the si\:lket;s nu club wounds after the riet was ended. That was one of the times when the poliee expected ne -trouble, but fer warned is forearmed and now the de- partment is fully prepared te cope with any similar disturbanee. There aré twenty-four men on the ferce and they" can be depended upon to quell any riot that may be develeped in New London ‘and hereafter ne bey will be sent on a man's errand, and when extra pelics- men are wanted in case of emergency the force will be large enough te pre- serve order without being compelled to engage In an unequal hand hand fight with wunreasonable and half- crazed ~men and women, Wwho are strangers to the laws of the land. The interior mill matters are of no special concern to the public, but the police h‘ive resolved that public peace will reign. e Honest With Children. Tt should meed no long discussien to convinee pareats that, if they waat their children to be honest and straightforward, they must be honest and straightferward in dealing with their little one: Children are such arrant imitators ihat it behooves thelr elders to set the best example for them in speech aad actien. As We Speak It. A German who had come to Amer fca to master our language was beiag shown behind the scemes of a vaude- ville theater by one of his American friends. “That man,” said the Amerl- can, indicating an aotor with a wave of his hand, “is taking off his make- up to make-up for another take-off.” ‘The Gsrman departed, sputtering.— Success. Dangerous Wax. Not many persons know that the preserving wax used in jellies is high- 1y explosive. It should be placed a small teapot, and the vessel must be only half full when ready for use. Be careful of the drlp when replacing it on the stove. Several accidénts this season have proclaimed its danges ous features. 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