Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 12, 1913, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin) | When I was a boy and had to help | weed the onion bed and hoe the corn, | 1 came to have a fairly intimate knowledge of the weeds of the time. I don’'t think I ever bothered much about their correct botanic hame: Most of them were known by local titles: some I invented designations | for, when the older heads admitted | their ignorance. But I knew what | they looked like and, in a general way, | what their habits were. In the years, 1 { | last twenty-five or (hir&y\ should say that the number | of separate and individual weeds in my gardens has doubled, at least. That is, there are at least twice as many yarieties growing there grew on the same land fifty-five years ago. Some of the new sorts, which I aever saw a boy, are chicory, | dodder, crao-grass, wild buckwheat, mustard, sow thistle. and tumbleweed. My the onion-patch were mostly pusl shepherd's purse, chickweed, quack grass, green amaranth, ragweed, mal- low, dandelion, dock and plantain. I | never saw a single one of the first- named list, when 1 was a boy. Now I have them all. And more are coming | almost every season hawkweed, sedge of old enemies As | look out of my eastern windows showing al against a hill-slope seve: flelds of oa two e been noti | able for a fortnight by reason of their | color. They are, or have been till| within a day or two, fairly vellow | with wild mustard. Close inspection | shows that for every five stalks of oats there are at least two stalks of this pesky weed. The two fields be- long to a neighbor whose oats have, for the last twenty years, to my sonal knowledge, shown th degreé of weediness, with the sort of weed. He always buys seed oats where he can buy, cheapest. He boasts that he pays from five to ten cents a bushel less than the rest of us. And he gets, year after year, a mix- | ture of oats and wild mustard which | he ought to be ashamed to have seen | on his farm. | I've often wondered how many of | the new weeds which are bothéring my gardens have come to me in boughten seeds. A recent bulletin of the New York Agricuitural BExpe: ment station tells of the analyses of | seed samples made there, last year. The results are illuminating, not to | b eye-opening. The station has | tested only grass and clover seeds of the kind we all use in “seeding down” a patch of ground for rotation pur- poses. The tables printed tell me where | some of my new pests came from. For instanes; in the samples tested of timothy, wed-top, blue-grass and three kinds of clover, last 'season, were found Jjust ome hundred and fifty different sorts of weeds. They | include all those I have mentioned as of recent imtroduction with me, except the hawkweed and the tumbleweed. | The latter doesn’t need any help in| spreading iteelf. It will roll across | two states before the wind, if it! doesn’t happen to fall into some river or lake on the way, shedding seeds at exery tumble. And the hawkweed has come to me in manure, bought from neighbors who don't keep their pas- tures clean of #t. The rest I have no doubt have been sown on with grass | or clover seed when stocking the land. The samples analysed by the New York station were all of commercial | seeds, offered in the usual way, by retail dealers. Some of the facts dis- closed are startling. In the 150 sepa- rale samples of timothy seed tested | 51 had in them cinquefoil seed, 13 dock seed, 25 fox-tall seed, 33 lamb's quarters seed, 65 plantain seed, and 70 sheep sorrel. In the 179 samples of common red clover examined 28 had In them biack medick seed, 3¢ fleld madder seed, 2T chicory seed, 66 heal-all seed, 57 lamb's quarters seed, 42 pigweed seed, 73 sheep sorrel seed, 40 wild carrot seed; and eight out of every ten had more or less plantain seed. The clover also carried, in smaller quanti- ties, such peculiarly abominable weeds as chicory, chess, crab-grass, dodder, knot-grass, mallow, mayweed, mus- | tard, witch-grass, ragweed, shepherd's | rurse, smartweed and yarrow. Al- together, no less than eighty-six vari- etles of weed seeds were found in the single item of red clover, and fifty- six varieties in timothy. These two | are probably the most widely and commonly used of all seeds for re- grassing old ground. Now nature has seeds with amply adequate means for | distributing themselves. Some are made with downy or bladdery attach- ments to assist in their carriage by the winds: some grow in such a way | that the whole plants, when ripe, break off and roll back and forth be- fore each shifting breeze: some are cunningly designed - so that birds, pecking at their seeds for luncheon, carry others and drop them in their flight: some are so indigestible that, when eaten by cattle, they pass un- harmed through the intestines and lie dormant in the manure. 1t really seems a little too much that farmers, who must necessarily | fight weeds distributed on their land | by these mnatural and unavoidable means, should also have to fight scores of others, foisted upon them as adul- | terants in the field seeds they buy. { provided most | isn't always the 1t retail dealer from whom we buy directly who is to blame. He must sell as cheaply or a little more cheaply than his com- petitors, if he wants to sell at all the | And cheap goods are not alwavs best goods, whether in grass seed or in_crowbars. Nor is the individual buyer to blame. He seldom has either the time | or the skill' to discover what weed | seeds are in the bags of stuff he buy | THE SOURCE OF MANY NEW WEEDS | what i | money | brook below, analyze | erally la station a few miles from me, | on his way he was accosted by a —certainly he hasn't the time or skill to_reclean them. Many of the states have laws against the sale of adulterated seeds, and some of the states enforce the laws they have; but none of the laws {of which I have any knowledge are really effective. They sometimes serve to palliate the evil: none of them strike at its root What'is needed is & universal, coun- try-wide law which shall govern the production of the seed: which shall compel the man who grows seeds to grow them pure or, winnow and sift | and pick out of them every single foul seed which may happen to get into | them. Such a thing may_be difficult I but it is not impossible. Moreover, it would strike the evil stream at its spring and prevent it from damaging along its course. Still more, as there are fewer producers than there are retailers, it would take less de- tective work and cost less to watch them than the dealers. . D! A ‘“pure seed law” is as practicable nd as much needed as a “pure food aw.” Let it be made illegal for any one, anywhere, to sell any seeds un- they have first been tested and ven pure by expert examiners, and unless every package bears the talis- man “inspected and passed” of a disinterested government surveyor, with the date of inspection” and the number of the inspector. Then, if by chance John Farmer found mustard growing in his oats or dodder in his timothy, he would know where and whom to kick. As it is, now, we buy offered us, and take what is measured out to us. IUs all a matter of chance. We many get fairly good seed, tolerably pure, and we may get a_mixture of seventeen different sarts of pests. The retaller buys what he can make a profit from, and the wholesaler buys what he, also, can make & prefit from, and the producer puts up the sort of stuff that the wholesaler is willing tb pay for. Everybody something to say or something to make out of it except the final buyer,—the farmer. He takes what he can get and pays what he is told to and is expected to feel grate- ful that he is permitted to turn in his for crab-grass seed and sand. | personally, am more interested i garden than in farm see There is much less aduteration in them; at least, much less mixture of foul seeds. 1 have come to learn the houses from which I buy and there are some which are comscientiously careful about the grading of their seeds. At the same time, in my this season’s gardens, I find an occasional tomato growing in the onionrows; now and then a tall hard worthless pea among the dwarf wrinkled sorts; and so on. But I don't find any new weeds growing in drilled ~rows. Those which come grow everywhere, showing that they were probably broadcasted with the grass or clover seed, some previous season. Really, T find that,.if one chooses his Aeed-house with regard to fits reputation and its performance in filling his orders, he need not do much complaining about his garden seeds. |In other words, they are graded and cleaned till they are pure and true to name, The same thing is fertainly possi- ble with distinctively farm. seeds. But the only way to insure jt is to make it impossible to put any but tested and certified seeds on the market. The place to b water-supply is at the source. doesn’t do much good to take out dipper-full, here It a it and- report what impurities are in it. The things to do.is to see that no impurities start in it at the spring. THE FARMER. The Land of Poetry. Visit the home of a peasant in us- cany on some wintel evening, and you will be surprised and charmed, writes Mr. Richard Bagot in “The Italians of Today.” Gathered around the kitehen fire after the day's work is done, ‘these peasants, fresh from their rough labor in the flelds and vineyards vie with each other in re- citing, poetry and telling stories. Gen- both are extemporaneous, and often they have a good deal of poetic grace and imagination. The gift of reciting improvised poe- try is mot however, peasants n Tuscany. I know of an instance that occupied in my own neighborhood not so very long ago, | b that certainly could not have occurred | anywhere but in Tuscany. A | doctor was driving to catch a train at and col~ the | in in purifying our | and there, from the | confined to the | local | nourishing soda crackers upon. And all There’s 2 world of satisfac- fionin‘bgiflngflneedamlscuit S because you know you will what you crackers that are oven-fresh, aiép., clean, appetizing and Uneeda Biscuit are always uniform in quality—they are always alike - in crispness, in flavor—they are Biscuit are uncommon soda crack- ers packed in an uncommon way. Five cents everywhere ‘in tha moisture-proof package. NATIONAL BISCUIT COM FA:NY you can depend because Uneeda | Question Of Who Owns Dyke that the the creek It was always supposed dyke along the banks of leading to Alewife cove and which formed the eastern boundary of the Ocean Beach property, and upon which the board walk of the beach, was al- ¥s open to the public just as is the beach front. It has been used by the public ever since Ocean beach became a public resort and was considered as public property even by those who own the cottage sites that border on the cove and. in consequence there have been no obstructions until the present season. Now some of the owners of property well along the creek have fenced to the water's edge and the public seems to be barred. In order to determine just where the public rights begin and end in connection with the dyke privilege, Alderman James F. O'Leary, chairman of the public prop- erty committee has introduced into the court of common council a vote which was adopted, and instructs the corp: ation counsel to make investigation and report to a future meeting of the council. Alderman O’Leary did well in mak- ing the move to have the ownership of the dyke and the board walk right of way investigated and if the obstruc- tions are placed without legal authority | to have them removed. It was always | conceded that the property owners had a right of way over the dyke to the water and to build boat landings in the rear of their premises; but had no right to obstruct passage along the .dyke. The alderman’s plan is the only way to determine the question as it will pave the way for the city to defend its ights if it has any in the dvke. This dyke was built many years ago and made from the dredging of the cove and constructed in a durable way, It cannot be expected to last forever and is now very much in need of pairs, in_fact must be repaired either by the city or abutting property own- ers. If owned by the gity It must be repaired for the safety of pedestrians jand if by the abutting owmers to pre- !vent their land from sliding into and checkine the rise and fall of the tide, which would not be permitted by the | federal government as the Alewife creek is as far as the bridge that con- nects the towns of New London and Waterford. The public demand that there be speedy and thorough invest gation and the opinion prevails that the obstructions have been made in hope that they would fot attract pub- lic attention and that the landowners | could confiscate what is considered to { be public provert to private use, just !as has been done in other strips of | water-front property not only along | the harbor front but in some of the es- | tuaries of the harbor that are crossed |and seem to be divided by railroad | bridges. Hats off to Alderman O’Leary | for his courage in bringing this,im- | portant matter to thé attention of the | court of common council regardless of | consequences. He considered it a duty | and had the courage of his convic- | tions. Everbody in New London knows that ut for the characteristic generosity of Morton F. Plant the city would have no connection with league baseball and | everybody knows that Mr. Plant is on | the level in all he undertakes and that | no matter what may be the result the league who happened to be 100KINg | New London club will not vi ; : : | Ne t violate anj over his garden wall. The colleague | of the league rules not excepting the shouted out a line of improvised verse { important one regarding the salary to him; upon which the other instant- | limit to players. ~Perhaps the New ly pulled up his horse and capped the line with another. Doctor number two responded and for three hours the poetic contest was continued without cessation. In the meantime the whole village had turned out to listen, and wagers on which would be the first to lack an inspiration. It was only as dusk came on that doctor number one remembered that he was on his way to_catch a train! Whether a patient ¥ was expecting him T know. not, but I feel convinced | that such detail would not have been allowed to interfere with this war of to make | | Liondon club is as well equipped as any in the league to pay fancy prices for | superior baseball players in order to | stand well in the list, but this will not | be done. The players are paid up to | the limit and are sure of the pay. In | consequence good players are released | to keep the sdlary list within the limit. | Judging from some of the changes | that have been made in some of the other teams the players recelve more than the sum specified in the rules. | Perhaps not in direct salaries but there is a way to dodge that point by an oc- verses. | casional gift or some other outside It is interesting to see'that even the | Consideration, or consideration of literate peasants detect at once the |Others than the actual management ghtest departure from the form in | under some tacit agreement. But un- which the original lines are set, and der no subterfuge will'any member of consider the offender to have lost the match, Michigan and Abyssinia, Illinols women how have equal suf- age, but Abyssinia and Mechigan hold to the good old ways.—Detroit Jour- nal The Food Drink For All Ages—Highly fiut'rit;ns and Ct;lkvel;ie! Rich milk, with malted in extract, in powder form—dissolves in water—more healthful than tea or coffee. Used in training athletes. The best diet for Infants, Growing Children, Invalids, and the Aged. Lunch Tablet form, also, ready It agrees with the weakest digestion. '8*°—at Hotels, Restauranis, Fountains. 't travel without it. Also keep it at home. i A lunch in a minute. to eat. Convenient—nutritious. | the New London team get pay beyond legal limit. Mr. Plant has taken a de- | cided stand on that point and will not permit any deviation. He loves the game, takes pleasure in attending all home games when possible, and is | pleased to see others enjoy the pleas- | ure with him. He surely did not en- { gage in baseball business for the mon- ey there is in it and nobody knows just how much it costs him to see his own team play baseball. He would naturally like a winning team, just as he likes to have his Elena win in the yacht races, but the winning must be on merit and in strict compliance with au‘rules and In true sportsmanship style, There is.a story afloat that Mr, Plant has been instrumental in preventing a break in the Eastern league and made it possible to have the Holyoke team saved and transferred to Meriden. It is said that the Holyoke team did not receive paying support in the Paper city and that the management could not. afford to continue the team at a finan- cial loss. The story goes on and says that the matter was laid before Mr. Plant and that he generously agreed to NEW LONDON'S BEACH PROPERTY mined—M. F. Plant Friend of Baseball—Congressional Committee Coming To Navy Yard. | cities are make good all deficits of the club and has done so for the past three weeks, At Ocean Beach To Be Deter- There's the story as it has been relat- ed and the reader can be the juror. The naval congressional committee and several naval officers will come to New London next week for the pur- pose of making personal examination of the government property on the Thames that started out as the great navy vard of the future, but which dwindled to a coalinz station and then to a temporary instruction school for the marine corps and then down to a plain government reservation, with two -or three men in charge as care- takers. It was on the verge of total abandonment but was saved through the efforts of Senator Brandegee and Ex-Representative Hi~=ins. Now ef- fort is being made to revive interest and put the valuable site into use for the benefit of the federal government and incidentally for New London, and Norwich, t0o, for what benefits one city benefits the other, and now it has come to pass that the people of both united in the progressive work of a public nature, _ Congressman Mahan _although new in congressional work is row butting in some big licks to get deserved recognition for the largs district he represents, and, naturally among the first things he tackled was the devel- opment of the New London naval sta- tion, so-called. The natufal advan- tages, the accessibility of the place by water and rail, the great harbor and all that sort of fact has been in the public eye and ear of the representa- tives of the general government ever since: the days of the Immortal George. At intervals the station has been vis- ited by army’ and navy experts and favorable reports for thesdevelopment of the 'site on the Thames have been reported to congress, but;some how and by some hook or crook that New Londoners could never understand the desired ~action has never been taken. Now Congressman Mahan, is now seeing what can be done to infuse life into the practically dead question of securing for the naval station on the Thames the recognition to which it is entitled. He has made the start by having the powers that be make a personal investigation. What he will be able to do remains 0 be seen. As the editor of the old New London Star used to put it: Wait and see!” $100 REWARD $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that sclence has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional disease, requi nstitutfonal treatmen s 'Ca- tarrh Cure Is taken intérnally, acting directly upon the blood and 'mucous surfaces of the system, thereby des- troying the foundation of the disease, and glving the patient strength by building up the comstitution and as- sisung nature in deing Its wors, The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it talls to cure. Send for list of testi- monals. Address ¥. J. CHE. & CO., TOLE- DO, Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, 7 Take Hall's Family Pill pation. for consti- For Cuts, Burns and Bruises. In every home there should be a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, ready to apply in every case of. burns, cuts, wounds or scal J. H. Polanco, Del. valle, Tex., R, No. 2, writes, Buck- Arnica Salve saved my little gir cut foot. No one believed it could be cured.” The world’s, best salve. Only 25c. Reccommended by Lee & Osgood. len’; Delivered to any part of Norwich the Ale that is ackuowledged to be the best on the market—HANLEY’S PEERLESS. A telephone order will receive prompt attention. D. J. McCORMICK, 30 Franklin St. NIVERSALISM Denies the doctrine of an angry God, a personal Devil, and Eternal Punish- ment. It affirms a God of Love, 2 Suffi- clent’ Saviour, a redeemed ‘humanity, a successiul God. For information, books, tracts, etc. address REV. F. A. DILLINGHAM, Supt., 85 Cottage St., Bridgeport, Ct. apriéd Most Cigars Are Good. THESE ARE BETTER TOM'S 1-2-3 5¢ CIGAR GOOD FELLOW 10c CIGAR Try them and see. THOS. M. SHEA, Prop. Franklin St. Next to wue Palace Cafe NEWMARKET HOTEL, 715 Boswell Ave. First-class Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Meals and Welch Rarebit served to order. John Tuckie, Prop. Tel. 42-5 WHESR you want to put your bu: neas before the public, thers is no m ijum better than through the adveriis~ g columns of The Bulletin. | p | Joadiin M Sierras,” who died & few months 280, || has been put forward as the very worst writer that ever lived. The sec- | retary of a literary society once in- vited him to a banquet and received an answer, of which no one could de- clpher a word. He wrote again to the poet, stating the difficulty, and sug- gesting that in replying, he should’ make a cross at the foot of bis letter if he were coming and a -circle if he could not be present, Miller com- plied with the request, but nobody could decide whether the mark he m:de' was intended for a circle or a cross! When the reform bill was being put through the British parliament in 1867 the clerk of the house intimated that an amendment had been handed in, the writing of which was so illeg- ible that he could not say what it was about or who had written it. It was discovered that Lord Lyttelton was the author and that the amendment proposed ‘the disfranchising of all persons unable to write! The Suez Canal. Returns of shipping and tonnage of the Suez Canal durfng 1910, 1911 and 1912 have been »issued as a parlia- mentary paper. The net tonnage for 1912 shows an increase of 1,950,326 tons as compared with that of 1911,| and an increase of 3,693,222 tons as compared with that of 1910. The in- crease in the net tonnage had the eg- fect of increasing the gross receipts, which amounted in 1912 to the highest sum ever reached, nmamely 136,423,831 fr. as against 134,762,199fr. in 1911, and 130,436,547fr. in 1910, notwith- standing the reduction in the transit dues from to which came in- to force on Jan. 1, 1912. The number | of vessels which passed through the canal was 4,533 in 1910, 4,969 in 1911 and 5373 in 1912, of which 2,778 i 1910, 3,089 in 191i, and 3,835 in 1912 | carried the British flag. There was an increase of 1131674 tons last year as compared with 1911 in the tonnage of British vessels, which amounted to 10,423,610 tons in’ 1910, 11,715,947 tons in 1911, and 12,847,621 tons in 1912 During the same period the tonnage | German vessels increased from 63,749 tons in 1910, and 790,963 tons in 1911, to 415 tons in 1912, The .percentage of = British vessels and their net tonnage in 1912 was 62.1 respectively, as compared and 64 in 1911, and 61.3 and The percentage of Ger- vessels and their net tonnage 3.0 and 149, respectively, as compared with 13.4 and 15.2 in 1911, | and 14.0 and 15.5 in 1910, while the percentage of net tonnage of the other maritime nations using the canal in 1912 remained practically stationary as compared with the preceding year. No Closed Season for Them. The Secretary of Agriculture has, issued regulations for the protection of migratory birds. Vanishing bank shiers, however, are not included in i New York Evening Sun. NORWIGH Tuesday, July 15th Afternoon and Evening THE GRANDEST AND BEST TENTED SHOW EVER PROJECTED < A PERFECT AND COMPLETE EXHIBI. TION, eminently worthy of the country and the age and patronized by the pure and good evervwhere CARRIAGES CONCORDS BUGGIES RUNABOUTS SURREYS BUSINESS WAGONS ! TOE-BOARDS DEMOCRATS A lot of Second-hand Carriages and Wagons cheap. The L. L. Chagman Co 14 Bath St., Norwich, Ct. i MARTYNE THE GREATEST G As Singers and Comedia 2! Different From All ‘ HARDY l BI (2000 1) “THE GDVERNOR’S DOUBLE. " Big Patheplay (2000 ft) “A ROSE OF MAY,” Big Selig Romance “THE BACHELOR’S BABY,” Vitagraph Comed: MISS MARGUERITE BASSETT, Conoert =hl¢ G “THE WELL,” Biograph Drama LINCOLN PARK CASINO Tuesday, Thilrsdny and S: CADILLAC ORCHESTRA OTHER EVENINGS RESERVED FOR PRIVATE PARTIES Cars Leave Franklin Square at DANCING aturday Evenings 7.45, 8.15, and 8.45. NORWICH W AIT Nothing New U is included If you want to see Wild West If you admire Marvelous Shooting If you enjoy Trained Animals If you are interested in Strange People If you are thrilled by Death-defying Feats EVERY CONCEIVABLE KIND OF AMUSEMENT COMBINED MONDAY, 3 JULY MONDAY, JULY 21 See a COMPLETE Show, one in which EVERY variety of entertainment 21st WAIT ntil WAIT FOR THE BIG SHOW. THE Y OU N G BUFFALO WILD V/EST, HIPPODROME AND FAR EAST INTO ONE MAGNIFICENT PERFORMANCE that at no other exhibi REMEMBLR JGE_AND LING SPEC on can even a half of these features be seen for a.single admission AN EXHIBITION THAT IS BROADER THAN ITS. TITLE N 5’/’» THE URITED STREET PARADE o DAILY, 1030 A.M. 3 E}?\‘&‘r MOST ORIGINAL SERAN D4 ACY, corner Broadway and Main St Reserved seats on sale day of exhibition at the BROADWAY PHARM- Pricés same as at show grounds. 50 ft. JOSEPH BRADFORD BOOK BINDER Blarnk Books Made aad Ruied to Order 168 BROADWAY Steamer Block Island L and BLOCK ISLAND . 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