Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 30, 1914, Page 12

A REVELATION OF (Written Spectally for The Bulletin.) kl-wwm—dluum-- tics of the country, the census b has brought out one highly mumxm.t- ing fact about farms and farmers. Of the 6,961,503 actual farmers liv- in the United States on April 15, 1910, it got answers from 5,794.768, or from ninety-one in every hundred, telflu how long they had iived on eir farms. These anewers disclosed that, in the south, omly forty-one in each hundred had lived on their farms so five years; in the west, only g— , and in the nmorth and east, anly fifty-seven. In the south thirty- lour out of every hundred had Iived onflui!hn:-onlyamgleyeu in west twenty-seven; in the north twenty-two. meore than a millior fs had lived on their farms less & full year. The census bureau very pertinently that herein may be found reason for the decline of rural prosperity. It remarks that “it re- § three or four years for a to become acquainted with the conditions on ms farm, such etc, and put it ir for raising crops.” Amend that last clause so it will "yllt it in condition for raising crops”, and you've come nrm near the truth. to it “and thirty or forty vears are mome too many to learn any farm ly,” and you'll be still closer lete truth. there to be found a farmer who is a genius in his voca- tion. - He seems to be aware, instinc- tively, of just what a certain field needs, and just what it can be made to do. He jumps to conclusions, and rlxht conclusions, at that. He can walk a farm he never saw be- fore decide, offhand, that one fleld wants more potash and one more lime and.one less stable manure and more hate and one a year's fal- lowl He can predict that corn will well on one lot and cabbage well m another. But such a man is a rarity,—a sort first-hand success. Of the 6,361,502 farmers reported, it is highly pn)hable that at least 6,36 900 In any sense of the word; just com- mon sart of folks with common minds and common abilities, compelled to feern what we know by the comon rule of trial and experience. What san most of us expect to know about a hundred acre farm, from a walk actoss it? or from a single year's experience with it? Of course, there are a few genera. les, which govern all land. Wea now that it is best to sow molti ge in the spring: that wet land is tter for grass than for corn; that a giay subsoil hoids moisture bette: thlaln £l ;ravbel: that Paris Green will kill potato-bugs; and a few smn‘xl& Mmg is an occupation of in- finite detai}, coming under the| operations of almont every form of | natural law, known and unknown. The soil of one field differs from that of another;! nay, the soil of one! squaze rod in a field may differ from | that of every other square rod in the jame fleld. Their exposures arc Auf- lerent. Their natural aptitudes are f:fferent. One patch may be just traxy to grow cabbages and have an eternal incapacity for growing any- thing else, except under compulsion and in a half-hearted way Anotner patch may be less cranky, anc ssem good naturedly willing to produce al- most anything—if you’ll only keép the cultivator going all the while—ang | then some more. Still another pa chk will yaise timothy, of a sort: but it will take you.ten years of counstant experiment and putter before you can find out how to make clover “catch.” Morgover, differath from angther in whim, so each searon differéth from another in meanncss. A certain crop may do quite well on as each soil a certain field in a wet year but prove a complete failure on the m in a dry summer. Take ,vhen thetda{’:.\r is m-nm. t:e m-n ngs apt to :OW t! warm and “sticky”, and sore thirgs will make fine crops on land whereon, in a summer of bflmnmy U, sh!n? days but coolish nights, they hardly pay for seed and lator So on and so on, through a whols list of varying conditions n.'n:l dimiy understood causes. How is a common farme' who ic neither a prophet nor a genius nor the seventh son of a seventh son to find out ail these things in one mr' or two? or five? He can find out some things ln about five minutes. He will find out some more in five months. ¥ will be finding them out for fifteen years, l_aml 1 guess for fifty, if he laste that o My father worked this Mttle ranch pretty nearly all his long I lus father worked it before him; his grandfather began digging away at it a hundred and thirty years ago Eacn succeeding generation has itherited much of the painfully gained knowi- edge of the preceding, and has adied some of its own discovery. And this spring, after a hund:ea and thirty years of farming by_thc Farmer family, this particular John farmer, the fourth, would cheerfuliy give a whole lot of old boots to knuw just exactly how to manage his “South lot,” which didn’t do well in grass, last year; which didn't do well in oats the year before; or in corn the year before that; or in potatoes, the las" time I tried them; or in anything ex- cept shepherd’s purse and pigweed and ragweed and a few similar things for which I have no immediate use. I've tried stable manure on it, and FIve tried comercial fertilizers, ard i've tried lime, and I've tried fallowing. Tests show that the soil is not unduly sour; analysis reports a fair amount of plant-food in it: observation proves that it is not lacking in humus. Un- questionably it is all ready and will- ing to grow a fine crop of something, if properly asked and its Interest judiciously stimulated. But what? That’s the question which I baven't answered after ten years of trial, and which it may take me ten years more to solve. —_— Certainly | am not ng to gize up just because the nut an extrx hard one to crack. If the nut-crack/r won't work, then there’s the hazumer. "It that's too light, there's a s'-dge me. If nothing else will do the :ob perhaps dynamite will. The point is that "ve got to keep on trying, firet <iie thing and then another. And, as a farmer can thor- oughly try only one thing a year, it takes a mighty long time to exhaust the category of tests he may have to make before he stumbles on to the right thing. One reason why the farmers of the older continent of Europe grow belter crops, as a rule than we Americans, is that they stay by their farms longer and come to know them better. I took hold of this place, I was able to do more with it than any stranger could have done, because I had the| experience of rrecedipg ns to guide me. I can do still more with it, now, because I have since added to the stock a good many years of perscnal experience. The average Buropean farmer usually succeeds to the farm of his ancestors and spends the whole of his own life on it. He comes to know it, as no one else| coud know it, and is therefore able to make it do for him what it would do for no one else. “What ie the secret of your wonder- ful lawns”? asked an impatient ‘Amer- ican of an old English gardener, as he looked over the expanse of shaven, velvety sward on which tho latter had been working. “Why there’s no secret”, was the answer. “It's perfectly simple and easy. All you have to do is to put on plenty of fine sheep manure and keep it close mowed for about. three hundred years!’ If it takes three hundred years for a series of expert English gardeners to get a really first-class, A No. One, ‘bang-up lawn, isn’'t it a bit ablw to expect the average farmer suin 'Ibl‘odbrnkl’atfllm—flndfly anmmu Mw in extract, in powder form—dissolves ul than tea or coffee. Used in training fl;h milk, with malted in water—more healt athletes. The best diet for Infants, Growing Children, Invalids, and the Aged. It agrees with the weakest dlgesuon. SHORLIOK’S”’—at Hotels, Restaurants, Fountains. 't travel without it. Also keep it at home. Alunchinnmmufie. ZLunch Tablet form, also, ready to eat. Convenient—nutritious. A ’fi'fect Feed for S\assiae Meal MADE \N ERCGLAND Horses and Cows PIGS, SHEEP and POULTRY A scientific feed, made under a patent formula never successfully copied. Twenty years of public approval war- rants your own faith in Molassine Meal. NOTHING TAKES ITS PLACE You need have no fear about the keeping qualities of M%’ Meal—it has no “expiring date” when it ceases to -be’ @ives satisfaction twelve months in the year. - YOUR YOUNG STOCK THRIVE ON.IT Cows give more milk and richer milk, because its pecul- iar antiseptic and digestive qualities make a healthy stom- ach ;nd the cow gets all the value out of her re; @ar ration. | tion in this family or—" quick he may be; he for many years with thé new speech as with the fn.mlun:r old one. THE INCONVENIENT MEMORY. “Willie!” called Fruby. It was the third time. “Yes-s-s-s, pa,” ‘Willie, in a leisurely way. It also was for the third time. Fruby threw down his newspeper and transfixed his wife with furi- ous eye. “I aum tired of this! he stormeéd. “Something has to be done to cure ‘Willie of da 1 The time he takes to do is frightful. He went upstairs half an hour ago to wash his hands and brush his hair—and if he's been doing it all this_while he must have rubbed his hands to the bone and worn his bair down to the roots! Willle, you hurry up, now! Come downstairs instantly! At once! I don’t care if your hands are still wet—bring the towel along. Do you think your mother and I have nothing to do but sit around and wait while you kill time? We've missed our train now as it is. ‘What on earth have you been doing?" “Washin’ my hand,” growled Willie. “An’ brushin’ m’ hair. Can’tchu give a fellow time to do nothin’?” Fruby tried to Jook patient “It's for your own good, son,” he be- gan. “Youll find the older you be- come the more you have to hurry to get through life without being stepped on. I never saw a boy as slow as you ' “Why, at your age” comtinued Fru- by, “I waes rushing around as fast as 1 do now—I got through th things when I started ’em, I tell you! Down to breakfast at 7 o'clock, with my face and hands as clean as a whistle! My dad didn’t have to yell himself hoarse calling me. Why, I loved to get up early. I was anxious to get my little odd chores around the house and barn done so I'd have time to study my lessons over again before I went to school! There was no diliy- dallying when I was a boy!”™ “Huh!” breathed his son, dubiously. “And here,” proceeded Fruby, stern- ly. “I have to wear my temper to a frezzle and waste my time keeping at you to make you hurry! You dawdle from the time you wake in thé morning till I make you turn out your light and get into bed '~ When I was a boy I used to get ready for bed in five minutes! I can’t imagine why it should take yon three-quarters of an hour to climb out of a few gar- ments and into your pajames! It is just natural born shiftlessness. I'm ashamed that a mon of mine should be so afflicted! You haven't any en- ergy, any ambition! When I was a boy ] was bubbling over with emergy. 1 was anxious to-get ahead! I can remember lying awake wishing day- light would come so I could get up! ow many times was it I had to call You this morning—six or eight? I tell you, there's got to be a reforma- The doorbell rang just then and MUSIC BY TUBBS’ BAND Westerly troliey for ball grounds. In case of rain game will be played SPECIAL TO WOMEN The most economical, cleansing and germicidal of all antiseptics is Paxtine caused bytemlnnomnnh-m ual. For ten years the Lydia E. 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If he was my brother I must say he had the patience of a saint, for you were the lmit, Joh: Your father would call you ten times in the morni and then start up- stairs on the double-quick and dle you good! “Somebody else always had to feed the chickens and bring in the wood for the cook stove—those were your jobs—because you never got dressed in time to do it, and even then you were generally late to school! It took you hours to get home—and it was only half a mile. You never were ready for meals because you were al- ways washing your face of something. 1 can see your father now pounding the table with his fist and trying to force upon your attention the fact that you hadn't all the time in the world. You never would hurry. Hurry? You hadn't any more idea of what that word meant than a rabbit! I do be- leve if the house had been burning down you—" “Uncle Hiram,” broke in Fruby, feverishly, wouldn't you like to go up to vour room? You must be tired dtcr your trip. Let me take your p.” He hastily brushed past Willie, who stood snickering by the door—Chi- cago News. Embarrassing. Miss Blank was not young when she was married, whervefore the innocent Question of a little neighbor proved annoying. “Why, how nice of you to bring me flowers, Jimmie!” was the way the trouble started. “And such a surprise, too; I don't think I ever had such a nice surprise before in all my life.” “Not even when you got mar ried?” asked the wide-eyed child. D BY ELVE BIG FANS EXCEPTIONAL VAUDEVILLE NEXT MONDAY Colonial “The Battle of the Wuk." “Mel and Art,” Bi “In the Soup” and “ MATINEE So Coming Tuesday for one day only, “MYSTERIES OF PARIS,” Five Reels SPEED-SOMESPEED MOTORCYCLE RACES ---FAIR GROUNDS--- Decoration Day, at 2.30 P.M. Admission 38c B e U — 2000 Ft—*“THE GAME OF POLITICS,” Lubin—2000 Ft n-v- of the Clubs”. 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The delay was caused by the tries of Europe are much more indus- | néed to have a marriage license prop- trious than when they come to this | erly filled out.—Pitisburgh Gasette- country. our bottling capacity paceIwith ' the demand (or‘, _entire building the * purposetand equipped faa'l'ty for} hyg'emo;botthng. ’ WOjyears agoJwe installed . a]eompletelyl new?bottling {department, § oocupying fan especially, constructed ! for with1 every} modern productlve capacity of.this new, plngtm*_ barrels 3 every ten honrs_,‘l' Wé?“ Q“V*WL' anficipatedgrowthmthcdemnnd for our brewery bottling and believed we bhad solved the problem for years to_come. The new plant has been’ worhngmty] practically from the day it started.”™ Almost from we hadn’t.’ the beginning we have been literally behind orders. mm] So we are now bnfildingmaddiiwwhieh doubles capacity and hope to:be able to keep rewery,, bottling of Y vy