Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 18, 1914, Page 12

o3 NGRWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, APRIL i8, 1914 HOW A SCRUB-OAK FARM WAS MADE PROFITABLE (Written S Ily for The Bulletin) y Preston didm't find it a gold-mine, If it can't be done one way, perhaps | either. He had pretty hard sledding 8¢ can be anotied g the first year or two. He couldn’t even That simple fact is one of the big- | §et enough off the place to feed him- gest les of experience, taught as|self and wife, though he put all the Sften by failtire os by success. ground he could work into such veg- That it i a fact is pretty clear, con- | etables as they needed for home con- side: e number of wise saws and | sumbtion. i proverbs which state it in one way or | One day, the second winter he was another there, his wife remarked that it was It a you dom't succeed, try | @ shame a farmer should have to buy gl e o eeed, x¥ | i cans at the grocery store every cne to A cats “lverything | Winter the same things he had grown comes to him who waits. 5 in his garden the summer before. | ted the smart young — - | whom this last had been The chance remark set Preston to to know how long a thinki Why couldn't they can, | wait before he could)each summer, their own vegetables carry water in a sieve?’—"Till it|for the coniing winter? He raised froze,” calmly answeged the old man, | corn, peas, tomatoes, beans, sweet po- Me dropped anothti potgto im the | tatoes and various small fruits which urrow and care pressed it down | wouldn't Keep over winter in the na- with his foot tural state. At first he dismissed the _— idea as simply a dream. How could 1 common unirained farmer expect to There are a good far who : T failures, Simple beenmce they | Can_such things successfully, even if are farm failures, simply because they doing the sort of farming that | he had the money to buy the canning Which doesn't mean at all | outAt? But the idea wouldn't stay sort never paid anybody | dismissed. It kept bobbing up in his Jokt Shat 16 Sn'th oul mind and pricking him. At last he blew in.a _one-cent postal card, as a prelminary investment, asking the Department of Agriculture to _send him its bulletins on canning. When they came he studied them and, as he ay them on the farms they're hably would do a they’d stop trying Some farm: good deal bet to rn s pr and potatoes and devote themseives 1 ha and hay yne. | studied, saw his previous doubts grad- Some would probably make more | ually disappear. money if they sold all the:r farms ex- brook and a gravel ban: ens. Some might perbaps Iz The next summer he had a speciaily :ase their incomes by cuiting out all | ¢00d and big yield of * tomatoes. Whereupon he “plunggd” to the extent his _first e staple farm crops and making a @ at berries and small fruits There | of $13.50, the exact cost of are “skunk farms" and “frog farms- | CAnning outfit. With it he and his which are said to make money for their | Wife canned not only enough tomatoes managers or their cwn winter use, but sold Almost anything is “farming” which | some to their neighbors and the vil- is done by a farmer on a farm. He grocery store. doesn’t nced to re: himseif to As they were put up strictly on monotonous repetiflon of the corn- | honor, without the use of a drop of potatoes-oats-hay rotation. He can | Water or a grain of sait or other pre- h out in any earthly direction to | servative, the people lucky enough to \is abilities or his opportuni- | get hold of some immediately wanted or even his limitations point. | more. | For illustration, take the case of T.| Within three years Mr. Preston C. Preston, a Missouri farmer. output grew to fifteen thousand can: en that wasn't cal demand. 1ev nough to supply oak” land, and reckoned abour the|foTty under intensive _cultivation, | poorest in the Vi TR o: o | 8ms muns I cherry; peach, PHEn:aiic on it a one-room shack and the prev- | Pear trees, has a roomy and attrac- | Sous owner had m to work al- | tive house, ample outbuildings, etc. had been him. 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Our lines of CORRESPONDENCE PAPER is made up of popular styles at popular prices. During this week we are selling a line of POUND PAPER the 25¢ grade for 19¢, ENVELOPES 8c. A new and fine line of INITIAL STATIONERY at 25c the box.. An extra fine line at 50c.. . Cranston & Co. 158 MAIN STREET, NORWICH, CONN. > lrunnm: outfit which cost just $80 i complete and ready for work. ‘With this outfit and help he can put up 300 three-pound cans of tomatoes a day. He pays $23 a thousand for the cans which come all ready to cap, with solder attached. The labels cost him $250 a thousand. His shipping crates, holding two dozen cans, cost from twelve to fifteen cents each, ac- cording to the quality of the lumber used. The tomatoes sell to: the gro- cers for from $1 to $1.35 a dozen, av- eraging abbut $1.25; or more when delivered direct fo the consumers. It is this jine along which Mr. Preston 1s now. workinz most vigorously. He expects very soon to have educated his customers up to the point where they will all buy direct from mm, the producer, and thus save some money for themselves, while making more for him. He averages better than 3,000 cans to the acre of tomato plants. Mr. Preston’s tomatoes thus bring him in an average of over $104 a thousand cans, while he pays $30.58 for cans, labels, and crates. This leaves him over §73 to pay the wages of five girls and the cost of produc- ing tomatoes enough to fill the thous- and cans. The business is not a bonanza. Mr. Preston does not buy any fruit or vegetables to can. He limits his op erations to what he can raise him- self. If he sells $1,200 worth of can- ned goods, he expects to take just an even half for his own wages and profit He doesn’t worry over the danger of competition or of being swallowed alive by some trust. “There is one good thing about it he says whim- sically. “The business is too small for the big companies to take notice of, and yowre in no danger of being crushed out by some trust.” He doesn't depend on tomatoes alone, but grows all sorts of vege tables, o as to broaden nis chances in_case any particular season should turn out disastrous to that particular crop. He cans corn and peas for home use, but doesn’t try to put them up commercially, as they require an extra heat which would call for a more expensive outfit, if they were to be attempted in quantities and general distribution. But he aoes put up beans and sweet potatoes for market, besides berries and small fruits. 3 Of course, he sells fresh fruits and ‘egetables, all there is remunerative demand for during the regular s son. The canning proposition is sim- ply a conservation of what would otherwise be waste: a profitable using of stuff which otherwise would rot and be thrown away What do you think of it?."Twouldn’t for | a- | It's a condition yowre in, to; some sort of a conditlon. If you Teaily want | to petter it there may not uniikely be some way,—some way Which the very conditions themselves finger-post you to,—by which vou, also, might add a needed stimulant “to Your financial circulation. I know of farms where practically all the farmers hard-earned wages and all his possible profits are repre- sented by rusting heaps of tin cans behind_the barn. Tin cans which had been bought at the groceries to fur- nish in winter a supply of the same vegetabies which had gone to waste the fall before on the farm. ‘win cans, every dissolute-looking one of which had ‘cost him, not only the price ~of the vegetables within, but a profit to the other farmer who raised them, a profit to the speculator who bousht them, a profit to the cannery which canned them, a profit to the whole- saler who “jobbed” them, and a profit to_the retailer who distributed them. That makes five separate and dis- tinet profits to five other fellows which these farmers paid because it was “too much trouble” to can the same veg- etables at hom Perhaps yes.—And perhaps No. I'm sure L can't tell any other farmer how to run his own farm. I'm never quite sure of the best way to manage my own But waste is waste: and savings are | savi and “economy is wealth” if | the wisdom of our forefathers isn' | folly. The most useful thing about one farmer's success to other farmers is not that it sets a copy for them to imitate blindly, but that it inspires them with suggestions towards wor ing out their own farm salvation on their own lines. Because Tom Jones won a prize for a big pumpkin is not good reason why Bill Smith should plow up his potato field and plant the whole of It to pumpkins. But a little thinking it over ‘might, just the same, suggest to Bill that Potatoes weren't the only crop for his patch, and that he might perhaps, do’ something else with It more profitably. | | | | WpFen one farms it he takes his farm | as he finds it; he takes the weather as he gets it: he figures himself up as accurately as he can. | "Ana then he makes the best of the | whole situation. That is, he does if he expects to succeed. He doesn’t t to make his farm do things it can't. Nor does he try to raise what his ciimate forbids. Nor does he sell all that he has and buy chickens just be- work with vou, eh? All right, then |CAuse some neighbo making money Sont try It off chickens. He fnds out what his But isn't it just possible than some- |Jand will do, what his season wiil thing else would work with you, if | Permit, what he himself is fittest for. you could get on to the right thing | ile hifches the conditions up abreast for your surroundings and vour ca- |ahd Stands a mighty sight better pacities? 5 | chance of getting somewhere than if Yon don't have to do just as Pres- | were all pulling in different di- ton ‘does. You can skin vour old cat | rections, or sulking despairingly and in any way that suits vou. There are | Pulling nowhere. meore ways than one to do it. EEY: The point is that he found out the| And all the time he keeps his eves wav to get a very neat income off a wide open, looking for wayvs to do bet- little patch of scrub land, by taking | ter even that which he now may be the conditions which he found anda |doing fairly well making the best of them. JTHE FARMER. T " sirad to form a stand up; olland County | about 20 Bays an arose. There names were taken and the following officers were sen: President, | Phillip 1sham vice president, b Luther vice presideht, Mr. Brundage Forms Boys and Girls | !! secretary and Into Farm Club— Clark-Robinson | [T¢25U ith Lyman. ’1\'h (,‘;“" is Miss Agnes Fuller of Manchester | e, o1 Y % e eahhition ag] has been spending several days .With | Prizes are offered for best products her cousin, Miss Ella Curtis and oth- i S e o er relatives in town. News In General. The W. S. S. E. Ladies' Club_met iss Amy Weeks a teacher in th on Columbia’ Green, Thursday of last | 1\ “siains somChool whose home is D . | in Maine spent tho week-end with Schools in town closed Thursday of | Chestnu tn o™ 8t her home on last week for ten days' vacation ew addition to the Cemetery aked out into lots, avenues ks Boys and Girls Form Club. Mr. Erundage of the C. A. €. ad- dressed a fair sized audience ar Yeo- mans’ Hall on Thursday evening of last week, in the interest of Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Clubs—Corn. Po- tato, Poultry and Canning ' clubs There were the speaker said $00,000 acres of unimproved land in_Connecti- cut. Country boys and girle were drawn by the lure of the o The ery should not be e land, but “Stay on the land this get he boys and girls ted in some hrase of 2 lture. At the close of the lecture the speaker asked all present under 18 years of age who de- Check Your April Cough. Thawing frost and Aprii x chi YOu to the very marrow, you catch cold —head and lungs stuffed—you are fe- verish—cough continually, and feel miserable—you need Dr. King's New Discovery. It soothes inflamed and ir- ritated throat and lungs, stops cough, your head clears up, fever leaves, and you feei fine. Mr. T. Davis of Stickney Corner, Me., “was cured of a dreadful cough after doctors _treat- ment and all other remedies failed. Pleasant—chil- 50 Relief or money back. dren like it. Get a bottle today 2nd_$1, at your druggi Arnica ‘Salve for all sore Strengthens Weak and Tired Women. | | “I was under a great strain nursing a relative through three months’ sick- ness,” writes Mrs. J. C. Van De Sande of Kirkland, 1il, “and Electric Bitters kept me from breaking down. 1 will never be without it.” Do you feel tired and worn ou won't digest? It isw't the spring weather. You need Electric Bitter Start a month’s treatment today: nothing better for stomach, liver and kidneys. The great spring tonic. lief or money back. &0c and $§1, at your drugsist. sucklen’s No appetite and food | Re- | Last Sunday, the church was hand- somely decorated for Faster. The Re oster preached an excel- lent s 1 and t was speci: music e choi My Mrs. Burdette W. Downer {of Hartford were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fuller over Sunday and Were present at the morning church Wedding Invitations. are out for the marriage of Clair Leonard Robinson of _this place and Miss Laura Verena Clark of Williman at_the home of the bride's sister, at No. Albany ave- e artford, Thursday aiternoon, April Miss ham teacher in the wn . | m Chestaut e of Gottlieb Koo~ slumbia. Koemg cert piece of RIPLEY FiLL Hilltop Homes Club fo Celebrate Sec- ond Anniversary in May. aker of Ne : Hill Thursds Mrs. A called on t London at a num- pine winter has roses, many choice va n winter kilied. Negative Won. e Hilltop Homes club met with April 9. A pleas- of the programme was a de- Resolved, That vegetarianism is than a mixed diet. Affirmative, E. Peterson and Mrs. F. B negative, Mrs. Rowley and ah White. Judges, Mrs. Ayer Clark, who decided in favor tive. A lively discussion fol he ciub welcomed their guest, Baker, who was a member before Mrs, ax Frank Boynton belt | Mrs. Suffering Humanity Finds thatrelief mustbe found for the illswhich may come any day, —else suffering is prolonged trouble wiil follow. Most se ders of the organs of digestior and there rious sickn 1 and elimina rective and preventive,in such cases, is acknowledged to be EE This standard home remed; y tones the stomach, stimu- lates the sluggish liver, regulates the inactive bowels. Taken whenever there is need, Beecham’s Pills will spare you hours of suffering’ and so improve your general health and resist disease. Tested hy strength that you can better time, Beecham’s Pills have proved safe, certain, prompt, convenient and that they Always Lead to Better Health Sold everywhere. The directions with each box should be In boxos 10c.. 28c. read by everyone, pecially by wome: possible | leaving town. Plans were made for | the seeond anniversary of the club, to | ‘lfiheld with Mrs. Sarah White, in Y % SOUTH WILLINGTON Start on State Road Work—Mr, Wes- terfield to Have Pastorate in New Jersey. The steam shovel to be used on the state road work has arrived and 20 laborers came Monday afterncon. Miss Bdith L. Morgan is spending her vacation at her home on Fishers Island, Y Fred Colbuin accompanied his broth- er-in-law, Mr. Lewis of Andover, to the Hartford hospital Tuesday, where the latter is to have an operation for appendicitis. John Whitford of Cromwell called on some of his friends in the village last Monday. Wallace M. Lillibridge of Hartford spent Friday and Saturday with his ‘fathr. H. L. Lillibridge, in this vil- age. \ Old Barn Removed. The appearance of the north end of Main street s greatly improved by the removal of the old red barn. Of Interest to the Fans. Joe Conzelman, who pitched a num- ber of games for the South Willington team back four years ago, now pitcher for the Pittsburgh Nationals. Arthur Moriarity was home from Worcester over Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Morlarty of Hartford spent the latter part of last week here with relatives. Mrs, Moriar- ty with remain for a few da Has New Jersey Pastorate. Waiter H. Westerfield has gone to Arkville, N, Y. where he will have charge "of a settied pastorate. He | _ X &4 ADMISSION, NORWICH Industrial Exposition STATE ARMORY APRIL 18 to 25, 1914 MERCHANTS’ WEEK Opens Saturday, April 18, at 2 P. M. Wonderfully Attractive Exhibits Beautiful Decorations Delightful Musical Program 25 CENTS preached ihere Easter Sunday for the R - Rottman’s house and moved his fam- first time but has a few weeks more | o to spend at the university before his |ily in. Mrs, Rottman will board with graduation. Westerfield is to_re- | them A | main here until the fore part of May | Miss Mabel Knox returned Sunday When they expect to Set up house- | night after her vacation. | Keeping in_Arkville, Miss Josephine Hart returned Sun- The Andrew J, Horton place has |day 2. 2 z 2 | been sold to C. S. Amidon and there| Mrs. ) F. Frink has been sick are rumors of the sale of a farm|With a cold and sore throat for a property near this village. few days. 1 effort is being made to get a two | Mary Lord and Helen Gilbert were home over Easter. 3 There was a lecture and dance in the town hall Friday evening, the pro- ceeds being for the benefit of the Im- Provement society | horse load of youne people to attend | the social at the church on the Hill | | next Friday evening. SPRING HILL Mrs. Keliy has returned to New | York. Baptist Officers Recleoted—Judge | Rdmund Horton lost & valuable horse r last week from pneumonia. Storrs Treasurer Over Twenty | e Agnes Wood of Gllead has pur- e chased the Bphraim Wilcox farm, b nual Dusiness meeting of | #bout one-half mils from the Green, the board of trustees and other offi- | SPFIP&. A P Tn cers were reelected. l. L. Storrs, who | 4 % has served as clerk and treasurer for | COVENTRY over twenty years, positively declined i and B. F. Storrs was elected to the | mps, william Rese Stricken in Church 2 Easter Concert. | —Orator for Memerial Day—Poultry There was a good attendance at the | Night. Sunday school Easter concert at the & Baptist church: Sunday morning given | Mrs. H. M. Bartlett has resigned as under the direction_ of the _superin- | Secretary and treasurer of the Ready tendent, W. P. Wildes. The little | Helpers on account of leaving town folks spoke well, and the music was | May lst. Clarence S, Fiske was elect- unusually good. The work of ihe|ed to succeed her. quartette, Mrs. W. L. Storrs, Miss | Ethel Freeman, and Messrs. Shultz Striokan’ in’ Chueoh ana Weld, was complimented. | _During the morning service at the Walter Cummings and fam of | Second Congregational church Easter ster, Mass, spent last Saturday | Sunday, Mrs. Wililam Rose was taken Sunday_with B. M. Sears. {11l and had to be taken home. Her lda F. Reynolds has been vis- | clan pronounced it a shock. try Speaker Secured. | £ was In North| mne committes in charge of Memo- ANy | rial day exercises has secured Rev. | Leon ustin of Roslindale, Mas: for | HEBRON | sbeaker. A committee meeting was s | held Tueesday evening and_arrange- | Improvement Society Gives Lecture | ments are being made for the rest of nd ‘Dihoe, the programme. The committee is o % Charles R. Hall, chairman; Mrs, C. School commenced Monday for the | £ Sohallans \[N W. 8. Haven. | spring term | Poultry Night at Grange, M H. F. nna and children | The meeting of Coventry grange was b been visiting her mother on the | held Thursday evening. Poultry night green was observed as follows: Best breeds Howard Hart has hired Mrs. Susie | for winter laying; best general pur- pose bird; different way ing ezgs for the table; cooking chickens. BOLTON NOTCH Mrs. Marion Scott of Hartford is isiting her nlece, Mrs. Minnle How- | friends in Danbury. =a 3 A number from here attended the Miss Sadie Howard returned to New | auction on York Saturday. nesday. of prepar- Mary Warner of South Mancheste. five ways of spent Thursday and Friday with he grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Howard. friends here Friday and Saturday. Ethel are visiting at the parsonage. Mrs. Grace Lathrop is visitin DAVIS TH ROADWAY, RVEYS THE RUSSELLS SE54% The Big Spectacular Novelty Vision’s LaFlame. ALLAN CARTER |HARLOWE & HALEY [} MARGARET WOOD Singing Comedienne Real Comedians Comedienne. Scer. 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