Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 27, 1915, Page 12

NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 19156 " FARMING A BUSINESS AND A PROFESSION [Written Specially for The Bulletin.] We all know Dr. Harvey Wiley. He is the one man who sincerely and hon- estly tried to enforce the pure-food laws. He really succeeded in keeping them on their less, despite the treach- ery .of disloyal assistants, and despite the indifference of those who should have ba.cLed him, and despite the at- tacks of impure food manufacturers, and despite the constant trimmings of interest controlled courts—until the said interests at last got so complete a hold on the then president that a pretext was found for throwing him overboard. Since then he has been living the private lifo Among other things he ig farming it down in Virginia. And his experiences in that line have led him to write a ook called “The Lure of the Land,” which is published by The Century Co. of New Yorlk. X Dr. Wiley was born on a farm and has in his own veins the seeds of the disease which he names “ruralitis.” This is the disease which affects a good many city people with an itching for a farm and a cow and a garden. It manifests itself, in Individuals, in & tendency to pore over seed cata- logues and lists of garden tools. Col- lectively, one symptom is in the “back to the land” movements constantly starting into life It is usually accompanied with the delusion that *“anybody ean run a farm.” Also with the like delusion that if the victim could only once get on a farm of his own his troubles would all cease, instanter. Some ars age, this sort of stuff was all the rage among a certain class of city magazines and papers. It be- came a sort of “fad” which ran its course, like an epidemic of measles or whooping-cough. There are signs that the disease is growing less virulent of late. One of the signs is. this very book of Dr. Wiley’s. In it he makes very clear his own Delief, based on a life of careful ob- servation and much personal experi- ence, that farming is only for those fitted for {t, and not at all for whose devold of both fitness and experience. Farming, he says, is hoth 2 business and ‘a profession. *“It js a business which requires the highest business talent; it is a profession which re- quires the best techmica skill.” Oh, yes; of course he has to admit that tnere is a larger percentage of un- skilled men among farmers than T —— No Use to Try and Wear Out \’our Cold It Will Wear You Out Instead Thousands keep on suffering Coughs and Colds through neglect and delay. ‘Why make yourself an easy prey to serious allments and epidemics as the result of a neglected Cold? Coughs and Colds sap your strength and vi- tality unless checked in the early stages. Dr. King’s New Discovery is what *you need—the first dose helps Your head clears up, you breathe free- 1y and you feel so much better. Buy a bottle today start taking at once. Health Promotes Happines: ‘Without health, genuine joy is im- possible; without good digestion and el movement you cannot Ve health. Why neglect keeping ogen and risk being sick and ou_don’t have to. Take one Dr. King's New Life Pill at nxghe. in the moraing you will have a free bowel movement and feel muuh better. Helps your appetite and digestion, Try one topight. 3 Hearn Amyr~ among other professions. “But that is not the fault of farming itself.” “There is no other profession that requires such a variety of learning, such an insight into Nature, such skill of a technical kind, in order to be suc- cessful, as the profession of farming.” So_avers the doctor. Kindly notice that phrase, “in order to be successful,” in the last quoted sentence. It may be accepted as an axiom, too plain to need proving, that farm- ing, as at present conducted, is the poorest paid and, averaging everything up, the least successful of any business or_trade in the country. Why? Well, I suspect that one of the most potent reasons is the very one sus- gested, that too many farmers lack the combination of 'Vfi.fiety of learn- ing,” “insight into Nature,” and “skill of a technical Kind” which, as Dr. ‘Wiley says, are fundamental require- ments for true success. A good many of us practical fellows, whose hands are calloused and whose backs are bent from hard farm-work, will heartily agree in laughing at the absurdity of city men trying to farm, whose main ideas of the job are de- rived from seed catalogues and station bulletins and the wishy-washy drib- blings of suburban sentimentalists, We can see with one eye their un- fitness and safely predict their as- sured failure and disappointment. But sometimes we fail to observe the beams in our own eyes while point- ing out the specks in theirs. We can tell, before they begin, that they will be unsuccessful. But are we ourselves always and invariably successful ? Are there no glass windows in our own houses, that we think it safe to throw stones through theirs? Let’s be reasonable about this thinn —-if we can; let's try to be anyway. I once knew a man who could hard- ly spell out a line In capital letters and who couldn’t slgn his own name, yet could do a better job at plowing than any “scientific farmer” in the United States. And I once had a neighbor who used, every spring, to go around his small flelds with litmus paper in ong pocket and test tubes in another and a vial of acid In another and a microscope in his hand, testing his soil, and who used to spend his even- ings working out chemical formulae, So as to make his fertilizer fit his crops. But neither ome of these men was 5 succeseful farmer, in any sense of the word. The first had technical skill, but didn’t know how to make it count in results. The other had vast- 1y superior theoretical knowledge but, again, didn’'t know how to make it count in results. One could plow like an expert; the other couldn’t even keep his plow in the furrow ecross a two-acre sward. One could tell you just how much nitrogen and potash, efc., his last crop of potatoes took out of the soil, and how much there was left in it for an- other; the other didn’t even know there was such a thing as nitrogen in the universe, One spent his life as a day laborer, hanging all the time on the very verge of want; the. other gave up farming and went back to bis city desk because he couldn't sell his potatoes for as much as it cost him tp raise them. One failed because, while he had technical skill, he lacked knowledge and business sense; the other, who had plenty of both those factors, failed be- cause he had no skill in adapting them to_practical ends. Both were unsuccessful, and those You've asked me whene to buy ysun fusnitune. J'LL tefl you. &o whene o do. Why. do you krow, when dohn and o wene manaied papa Lought us from them a sef of furnifune fon a present. Not a single piece of it has Lroken, ner had any of the varnish enacked, and here f am now the mothea of 2 great Lig young Lalby! You and Bol just muit Aun over Lo see us Qewrays Lovingly, Lowu, P. 5.-0f counse you'll Luy iaht new rockern you weed frow SHEA & BURKE, 37.47 MAIN STREET of their sort always have been and al- ways will be unsuccessful as farmers, because, as Dr. Wiley puts it, farming to be successful demands of its pro- fessor both “a varlety of learning” and “skill of a technical kind.” It is true that many farmers “make a live of it” without this combination, or even without any high ranking in either direction. But they are not successful farmers. ‘That is the point. It used to be thought that the bright boys should go into stores or offices, while “the fool of the family” could stay home and run the farm. That's not so generally held, now, as it once was, It still remains true, though, that al- most anybody can be a farmer—of a sort. There is no profession or trade I know of that Is so generous with fools. It is rare, indeed, that a farm, no matter how sadly mismanaged. will let its occupant starve to death. If it don’t produce wheat it will often grow rye. If it won't grow corn it will ripen beans. There are generally fish in the brook and rabbits in the woods. And ‘most anybody can keep a few hens, even if he lets them live by foraging on his neighbors’ crops. Al- so, there are always woodchucks, and woodchuck, when properly entreated, makes a possible “veal stew.” But mere existence on baked beans and rye bread and occasional wood- chuck stew is not successful farming. Furthermore, the ability to pay one’s taxes and meet one's bills and earn more day’s wages is not successful farming. There are lots of us who do thati—too many of us who, hav- ing done that, are disposed to stop and accept it as the lmit. For some of us, indeed, it is the limit. And that is the sorry thing about it. ‘When it is the limit, it is so because we lack either the learning to guide t to real success or the technical sl to grasp it. Pll_join with any practical farmer in holding up a warning hand and ut- tering a warning cry to those Inex- perfenced and unskilled “back-to-the- landers” of the town who think all they have to do is to buy a farm and live happily ever afterwards. The great majority of people of that sort had better stay in the skillet than jump into the stove. They may not enjoy the frying-pan of the cily shop and tenement, but they’ll gain no cool- ness by changing it for the fire-box. At the same time, I wish I could hold up doth hands and utter a very fog-horn bellow of expostulation and admonition to my fellow farmers of the intensely practical sort, who are falling of the success they might and could achieve if they would only be willing to hitch up study and science with_their admitted skill. I don’t care where you live or what your mneighbors are, there are some among them who pass, by accepted MARIE DRESSLER and MABEL NGRMAND IN THE BIGGEST AND FUNNIEST COMEDY IN THE WORLD Tillie’s Punctured Romance A BIG 6-REEL KEYSTONE COMEDY A MILE OF FILM WITH A MILLION LAUGHS NO ADVANCE IN PRICES 3 SHOWS DAILY at 2.15, 7 and 8.45 3--BICG VAUDEVILLE ACTS--3 PARAMOUNT PICTURES A ND KEYSTONE COMEDIES DON’T MISS THIS SHOW common understanding, as “good” farmers, and some who are never men- tioned in that class. But how many of them all, even those whom you would call the best, are really suc- cessful? : You know as well as anybody that the number of such is_small, pitifully and pitiably small. It does not include a majority even of those whom we practical men admit to be expert at their work, There's such a t as one-sided development. That's a_trouble with some of us farmers. We've got the technical skill and it comes so natural to us that we can’t help both laughing | and sneering at the city feller who | thinks he can farm it out of a book But why can't we all see that e the highest grade of tech most effective only when it is | and controlled by the widest knowl- edge? I don't suppose Goethals ever lifted a spade-full of dirt out of the Panama Nor do I suppose that the Ja- n negro who lifted a good many and spadefuls out would ever have dug the ditch alone. It took, to open that water-way across the back- bone of the not only lahor at the pace and skill at the steam-shovel, but also a tremendously wide variety of knowledge in engineering science at the directing headquarters. Successfuf farming is at once a more intricate and a more insistent job than digging a canal. It calls for both muscle and skill. Of course. But no living man knows so much or ever will know so much that he mightn't be a better farmer if only he also knew just a little more! THE FARMER. BUSY DAY IN GENERAL ATSEMBLY No Quorum in House, But Routine Matters Were Disposed of, and a Favorable Report Made on Amended Automo- bile Laws—Bill to Empower Committee on Education to Appoint a State Library Committee. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hartford, March 26—There was no roll call of the house on Friday and the faithful few present were disap- pointed in not having their names re- corded on the roll of honor in the journal. The routine reports were dis- posed of anq all calendar matters re- cetved consideration. It passed a bus- iness grinding session and the dispo- sition of many minor matters cleared from the legislative deck so as not to retard the progress towards early adjournment. Just before the motion to adjourn to next Tuesday morning at 11.15. The committee on roads rivers and bridges made favorable re- port on the amended automobile laws. It is a voluminous document and was tabled for calendar and printing. Rest and Double Pay. The committee on labor made un- favorable report on the proposed act which provided that railroad telegraph operators and despatchers shall be employed more than two Sundays in any calendar month without having had at least two days of twenty-four consecutive hours each for rest, alx receive double pay for Sunday wor in excess of two Sundays a month. The report was accepted and the bill rejected. Labor Bill Rejected. The bill which provided that in the event of any labor trouble in any man- ufacturing establishment or corpora- tion, that in advertising for help the advertisement must specify the nature of the labor trouble then pending, came from the committee on labor unfavorably reported. In motion of Mr, Taylor of Danbury, the report ‘was tabled for calendar and printing. Delayed Judgeship, Th:' judfciary committee made fa- The resolution was tabled for calendar and printing. Bill Back on Table, There has evidently been an agree- ment reached between House Leader Hyde and Representative Martin of Orange, on some point in connection with the bill relating to clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc., which was passed et Thursday’s session, when the gen- tlemen named had a parliamentary duel, and in which the Orangeman won over the Manchester man, and elimi- nated palmlsu'y from the operations of the law. Friday’s session Mr. reconsideration of de made a motio] reconsider ‘be tabled and the house members so agreed. Hotsl Liabilities, The a concurred with the sen- ate {n sage of the aot concern- ing dutles and li&hfliues of hotel pro- prietors, ch reads as follows: Whenever a guest of any hotel or inn ahul tn.fl to offer to deliver uo ch.rgka of the office of sth hotel, for safe keping, any seour- les, mmwy elry, ches, or or- longing to such guest, the etnr o! such hotel shall not be room same -mn he lpenh.fly entrusied to the care of such Bhotel keeper or his servants, Prastivs of Midwifery. The eot concerning midwifery wae amended 80 that no resident shail be such ex- amination until she shall present to ~=id evaminine heamd ———n factory to said boarq that such non- resident is of good moral character. It was voted to pass the matter and that it retain its place on the caien- Commitment to Reformatory. The act was amended concerning the Connecticut State Reformatory ang provides that sheriffs and con- stables shall execute warrants for the commitment of inmates to the reform- atory by delivering them to the super- intendent of said reformatory, or his agent, at the reformatory; and such sheriffs and constables shall receive for such transportation, for each in- mate, twent-five cents per mile, to be taxed and paid in the same man- ner as other costs in criminal cases. Deed Validated. An act was passed which provides that the warrantee deed from Lydia Amelia Warren of the town of Wil- lington to Andrew K. Brown of the town of Mansfield, dated October 25, 1887 and recorded in volume forty- one on page 225 of the land records of the town of Mansfield, otherwise valid except that sald deed was not witnessed, is hereby validated, pro- vided a copy of this act certified by the secretary shall be recorded in the land records in the town of Mansfield on or before the first day of Novem- ber, 1915, Notification of Deaths. In accordance with an act passed on Friday, the official having charge of any hospital or pubdlic institution, immediately upon the death of any in- mate- thereof, shall notify the rela- tives of the deceased of such death if known; otherwise such notice shall All Next Week AUDITORIU MONDAY, A™"™ COHAN (BY ARRANGEMENT WITH UR HOPHINS) Shows 2:30, 7 and 8:45 Mat. 10c; Eve. 10 and 20c Tod Brown’s Minstrel Misses Presenting Mon. and Tues., SPECIAL FEATURE School Days A Real Girl Show 14—People—14 MONDAY AND TUESDAY 1 AFTER HER MILIJION A Neat, Refined Musical Comedy 1 Girls—3 Men WITH BILLY RIT AND GERTRUDE 3 REELS—THREE QUARTERS OF AN HOUR OF SOLID LAUGHTER—3 REELS TODAY--LEW ORTH’S TOURISTS IN ALLADDIN OF BROADWAY MUSICAL COMEDY FARCE be given to bringing the person or committing institution. The or petson in riod of twen dmth and if no relative or friend of all provide for the d: position of such body, it may be di pposed of by cremation or burial. Prohibition Milk Sale. Following is the text of the act concerning the prohibition of milk, which was on the calendar and pass- ed_to retain its place: Section 1. Every offic to prohibit the sale of m in each order issued for whether the purpose 0 health. S the average produced by each pe such order, and _the wherein the sale of such mil hibited shall pay all dam such producer may sustain by of such order, upon proof th time of the aance thereo: milk was fit for public con as_food. Sec, 2. Any person agerieved by such order, in event of his failure to reach an agreement with the munici- pality wherein the same is effective. may collect all damags so sustained by him by reason thereof in any prop- er action at law. Sec. 3. BEvery town, city, or bor- ough is hereby authorized to adjust any claim presented to it by any pro- ducer of milk who has sustained in- jury by reason of the action of any official issuing such order. Calendar Matters Passed. Act amending charter of Ousatonic Water company; amending charter of Fairmount _ association; amending charter of Derby Gas company: ex- tending time for the completion of the works of the Yalesville Water company; extending time for organ- izing the Seymour Gas company; e: tending time for organizing the Lebanon Engine and Hose company; incorporating the Young Men's Total Abstinence and Benevolent society of Southington: establishing the town court of Norwalk; increasing capital stock of The Torrington Electric Light company; authorizing city of Hartford to issue water bonds; incorporating the Totoket Electric company and con- cerning centain rights, privileges and franchises of The North Branford Light, Water and Power company providing for lights on boats in Hig land lake in Winchester. The act concerning foreign attach- ments to amend Section 1 of chapter 181 of the general statutes, which changes the sum of wages attachable at $15 instead of $35, was on Friday’s calendar, and was tabled on motion of Mr. Gorman of Danbury. daily iColon MILADY’'S BOU%OIR Matinee 5¢ forenoon, there being twenty-two sen- ators in their places. Reports. Incorporations— Increasing the al stock of the Bridgeport Gas compas from $2,000,000 to | i the Deer Is- land association of Morris, Calendar. Loomis Institute. The committee on incorporations reported a bill_requiring the trus- of the Loomis Institute in Windsor to file with the town clerk of that own an annual statement of its eipts and expenditures, the amount of funds invested -and where steq and the number of students. Free Public Libraries. The 'committee on education re- ported a substitute bill concerning free public libraries. It empowers the state board of education to ap- point annually five persons who shall be known as the Connecticut public library committee. No mem- ber shall be paid compensation, but shall be paid for necessary expenses. The committee may expend $4,000 for clerical assistance and expenses. Cal- endar. Proved for Merit 80Years contmuous Sale ASE YOUR DRUGGIST FOB Schenck’s Mandrake Pills SUGAR COATED FOR Constipation, Billiousness &ec., &c. A Vegetable Substitute for Calomel without its Mercurial after effect Do NoT GRIPE OR SICKEN DR.J.H.SCHENCK & SON, Phila IN THE SENATE. Bill to Appoint a State Library Com- mittee. Hartford, March 25—For a Fri- ray’s session there was a large at- tendance of senators, when the sen- ate was called to order at 11:50 this DR. PECK EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT, ONLY Removed to 16 Franklin Square, Thayer Building Hours—930 a. m. to 4-30 P m. Saturday evenings 7 Thea%rfi' 1 stay AER WEAKLING BROTHER................Lubn IN TWO PARTS R. 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