Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 8, 1916, Page 12

to you. ' 4 are the kind you’ll get if you come here. the Seeds bought to sell this Spring have been tested, and the tests have shown them to be over 99% pure. The records will be shown Fertilizers have been bought with the same care. CES GUARANTEED TO BE THE LOWEST Written Specially for The Builetin. ting language, to “agri is not only obsessed with a rela- ; large idea of his own compara- importance in the scheme of things u o haunted with an inherited feeling that “est farmin’” is a voca- tion rather adapted for the peasantry than for men of his stamp. It is ait right for Hodge and Jotham but hard ly up to the lines of one i himself “C. Fortescue Majoribank: and parts his name in the middle to do it. Therefore when he finds himself on his country place he can’t quite bring himself to do just farming. He is a conscientious chap, who feels his re- sponsibility to the 250 acres of his in- heritance as well as to the communi- ty. He feels that he must do some- thing with them and on them. But he can't thus far come down to “jest farmin’” ’em. So he turns his attention to “agri- cultural pursuits.” For there is a wide difference, please observe. between addiction to “agri- cultural pursuits” and plain “farmin’. The one is a sort of gentlemanly 2d- venture, while the other is a daily pa- plication of one’s mnose to the most abrasive periphery of the grindstone. The one is an avocation—a sort of side issue; the other is a vocation—a strenuous chasing of the main chance, The one is usually attended to in necktied shirts and low shoes; the oother in dirty overalls and muddied brogans. The one involves real interests and often veritable solicitude; the other is paramount, a matter of life and death. “Agricultural pursuits” have some- thing in them of the nature of fox hunts; “farmin’” is like the boy di ging like mad for a woodchuck w when asked if he $peoted to get Jerkily answered as he kept on digging: “Got ter; we're out o’ meat!” This “sgricultural” nelghbor of mine has rather the nicest looking place in his vicinity. His barns are better painted, his fences better kept, his vards and lawns better manicured. He has the best cornhouse I have yet hap- pened to see. And he is now buying corn for feed. He has a modernly arranged stable with a few choice pedigreed cows in it, Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA - P. BARSTOW & CGO. 23 and 25 Waier Street, SEEDSY Pure seeds are the only kind to buy, and those All Norwich who are few exactly what Professor Cowman says they ought to be fed. And he is buyving butter for his table. He has a fine henhouse, with feeding pens scratching pens and roosting pens and trap nests and all the devices ever invented for coaxing and cajoling and kidnapping hens into laying. And he is buying his breakfast eggs from Old Blli Snooks, who usually goes about with only half a suspender in service, and whose hens roost on an old pile of fence rails under an open shed and forage for themselves in the barn- yard. Bill Snooks, be it understood, is “jest farmin Judgjng from what Ive heard him say about the business, he is not in love with it, and does not consider it very highly. He's farming because he has to, not because he wants to; because he'd rather farm it than starve to death. In his circumstances and under his limitations of opportunity these seem to be about the only choices open to him. Therefore, he has to be sure that there’s enough pork in the barrel and enough potatoes in the cellar and cnough flour on hand to carry them through the winter, before he can even think of painting his house, to say nothing of barn and henhouse. Also—and this is really quite worth thinking over a bit—he has to know his business and attend to it day and night, weekdays and Sundays, summer and winter, live with it and live in it become a part of it and make it a part of himself, in order to get such a grip ;)n it that he can measureably control it. For he’s got measureably to control it if it is to maintain him and his family. Bill doesn’t take much stock in farm- ers’ bulletins nor agricultural colleges nor “new-fangled” ideas and ma- chines. He isn’t afraid to work, and his experience of life leads him to the conviction that it's only through work and that of the stubbornest and dog- gedest kind that a farmer can get a living off a small New England farm. He looks with unconcealed contempt on all attempts to get around this, which he has settled in his own mind is the First Law of New England farming. He hasn't a lazy bone in his body; his creed denounces laziness as the one unpardonable sin for a farm- er; he regards with instinctive suspi- cion any suggestion that he is taking things too hard or making them too hard. He has by a long life led along these lines become himself hard and some- what narrow and a little stubborn and more than a little opinionated. He has small sympathy for weakness in| others, having so completely conquered it in himself; he has no tolerance fot “slackness” in attention to farm work, having so thoroughly learned the les- son that only unremitting care for the smallest details can possibly carry him through the year. Neighbor Majoribanks looks down on Bill with something of amusement and something of contempt and a trifle of irritation, at times. “He's a hard worker, all right,” says Majoribanks, “but he's such a blank bigot!” And Eill, though he is glad to sell his better dressed necighbor eggs and butter and so keeps on tolerable terms with him, also looks down on him with a good deal of irritation and a tre- mendous contempt. “Calls himself a farmer” snort Bill, the other day,—"“But he doesn’t’ 1 interjected, ‘he calls himself an agriculturist.” Bill gave no heed to the proposed amendment. “Calls bhimself a farmer, he does, and he didn’t even know that his hens hadn't any teeth, till Tom Heddick"—a half- defective walf lad, the stupid but good- natured butt of his fellows,—"“told him s0.” “By gum” added Bill, “T'll bet he don't know, yet, whether his regis- tered Jarseys have got teeth all round or not.” Sometimes when the two meet with a bunch of listeners to egg them on, the outcome beats the old-time “de- bating society” all hollow. Major Majoribanks is too well-bred a gentleman to become either insolent or supercllious, and Snooks is oo keenly interested in the retention of Majoribanks as a butter-and-egg cus- tomer to offend him. ‘What there is in books about agri- culture Majoribanks knows, though he is a trifle “short” in his capacity for giving it practical application. Snooks, on the other hand, doesn’t know or desire to know the difference between a “balanced ration” and the ration his cows want and eat up clean. But he’s “long” on practical knowl- edge. So they have it back and forth, hamer and tongs. And the rest of us sit by and chuckle impartially when- ever either one makes a telling point. For they both do make strong points, occasionally. For instance: “Here you have three cows,” says Majoribanks to Snooks one evening, “and you're making about ten pounds of butter a week,—mighty good butter it is, too, because I'm taking all I can get of it,—but it's bringing you in only thirty-two cents ap ound, because that's all the market will allow you for it. That's because youre dairying in the old way. There’s Mrs. Jones, up in Canada, who is making it the new way and getting a dollar a pound for all she can possibly put up. You're losing seventy cents a pound, just be- cause you won't go in for modern methods and improved devices”. ‘Well, that looked like “one on Bill", and we all laughed at him, as in duty bound. But he wasn’t phased. “Wa’ll,” he remarked slowly, after a minute, “it’s true that I a'nt gettin® but ten pounds a week and a'nt gettin® but thirty-two cents for it. But ten pounds a week is better'n goin’ with- out no butter at all: and takin’ in $3.20 a week for it is better'n payin’ out $3.20 a week to get it. And that's what some Mrs. Jones's sort of agri- cultoorists is o-doin’”. ‘Which, we all agreed, Bill, this time”. Oh, this debate between “agricul ture” and “farming” isn't all one- aided, by any manner of means. There’s something to be sald on both sides and by adherents of both schools. But here I've got to the lmit of my weekly space, without even mak- ‘was “one for ing a_ start on the profound reflec- tions I was go!ng to set forth on the valle of a possible combination of the two! They'll have to wait till next week! THE FARMER. FORMER GOVERNNTENT CLERK HELD IN $5,000 BAIL Cn a Charge of Using the Mail Attempt to Defraud. s in an New York, April 7.—David A. Scott. a former government clerk, was In dicted by federal grand jury here today and held in $5.000 bail for plead- ing on a charge of using the mails in an attempt to defraud. According to the indictment Scott devised a novel scheme of offering for sale to western land companies cer- tificates of additional rights to give lands which had been granted to sol- diers in 187 and which never had been taken up. The indictment charges that Scott extracted the claims covering existing rights from the general land office In Washington and afterwards executed forged assignments of them, under several aliases, which he offered for sale to the land companies. HEAVY RAIN AND WIND STORM AT NEW ORLEANS Two Persons Killed and Houses Blown Down in Northern Outskirts. New Orleans, La., April 7.—Two per- sons were killed, several others injured and a number of houses were blown down in the Gentilly sub-division, on the northern outskirts of the city, dur-~ ing a heavy rain and wind storm early today. 11,849 MEN SOUGHT ENLISTMENT; ONLY 2879 ACCEPTED. Since Recruiting Began for the 20,000 Additional Men for Army. ‘Washington, April partment announced today that up to noon last Wednesday 11,849 men had sought enlistment and 2,879 had been accepted since recruiting began March 16 for the 20,000 additional men au- thorized by congress because of the Mexican situation. During the last week's recruiting 629 were accepted. U. S. NOT GIVEN USE OF MEXICAN RAILROADS. Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations So Declares. Queretaro, Mex., April 7—The Mex-| fcan government has not given the American government permission to use Mexican railways for any purpose whatever, said General Candido Agui- lar, Mexican minister of foreign rela- tions, after a meeting of the Carranza cabinet today. Every Woman Wants —The war de-| INVESTIGATING AN ALLEGED FRAUDULENT PASSPORT To Find if German Consul at Baltimore Was Connected With It ‘Washingtcn, April 7.—An investiga- tion of the alleged connection of Carl Luderitz, German consul at Baltimore, with the issue of an American pass- port fraudulently ot Horst Von der Goltz, a confessed German spy, under the name of Bridgman Taylor, has ex tended, the department of justice an- nounced today, to others in Consul Lu- deritz’s office. One of the things the | church, wired today from New York |hil: federal grand jury may determine is whether a had to do with the iss port knew that Taylor was Goltz. cing a gift of $40,000 from an wn donor In the New York d another of $1¢ ymous giver 0,000 endowment » asked t ry wh he pas Von des ENDOWMENT FUND FOR RETIRED M. E. MINISTERS. | $40,000 from Unknown Donor in New York East Conference. | | | | | Perhas will be a |-\:u..1 scrap in the North Sea of which | Chicago, April Dr. J. B. Hingley, | London and Derlin will tell (dh» e 5 = ‘|story. 1 is to be feare secretary of the board of conference | TOTRL TUL T2 o8 N e oF the claimants of the Methodist ‘-omx“,r battling squadrons is anni- pringfield Republican. clc———|——]s[————Jc]lc———la[————]c SUITS $18.50 194 Main Street, ©On One " Rack DRESSES $5.00 8ilk Poplin THE PLACE THAT SAVES AND SERVES ‘That our Cash System DOES BENEFIT YOU, we will offer for today, PRE-EASTER SPEC- IALS, in Suits, Coats, Dresses and Waists. Which we would not be able to do under the charge system. COMPARE THESE VALUES, not omit- ting materials and workmanship. COATS $5.98, $9.50 and $12.75 WAISTS $2.98 & Georgetto and Crepe-de-Chine of Extra Heavy Quality YOUR PATRONAGE DESERVES Wauregan Block