Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 15, 1916, Page 17

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND FARMING AS A BUSINESS ‘Written Specially for The Bulletin. ‘While the dlcrnm definitions of “agriculture” and “farming” are very much alike, there is a e of differ- ence, and that shade is highly signifl- cant. Webster defines ‘“agriculture as “the art or science of cultivating the ground.” He defines “farming” as “the business of cultivating land.” Observe? One is an “art or science; the other is a “business.” That's just about what we common critters have always suspected when we have heard the Majoribankses talk- ing about their agricuiture and the Bill Snookses talking about their farming. ahead and behind and above and below and all around, that we stand any chance of avoiding those wrong things and wrong times. Short-sighted at- tention to only one nearby interest, to the lgnoring of larger interests that happen to be farther away, is—well, it is short-sightedness, to say nothing harsher. What's the use, as we grow older, of buying spectacles to ald our physical eye-weakness if we spend all our lives ‘actually encouraging and fostering business short-sightedness? Major Majoribanks is “engaged in agricultural pursuits.” That is, he has a fine barn and a selected herd of pedi- greed cows and concrete stables and improved stanchions and manure-pits and manure_spreaders, etc. And then he hires somebody else to fill the barns and feed the cows and | clean the stables and draw out the manure, “Wheretore, he buys grain to feed them and butter to feed himself. Most of us are in the Bill Snooks class. We are cultivating our land as a business, hardly as an art or science. As a rule, we are not very intimate with either art or science, nor at all handy in using their lingo. We are after potatoes or corn or hay or oats or cabbages or calves or 'most any- thing that we can sell for a dollar more than it costs us. We want that doliar. Most of us would be exceedingly #lad if we could make it Two Dollars instead of just One. Or even Three. Bill Snooks’ barn has a tight roof— and that's the only complimentary thing that can be sald about it. It is | old and it is battered and the cow- stalls are made of old slabs and the manure is thrown out into a heap and | put on the fields in the spring when it thaws out enough to be handied. But_Bill fe and milks his cows himself and cleans their stables and spreads his own fields with the manure from his own wagon and with his own And right there comes in a question: D'ye s'pose we could, perhaps, make it ‘Two or even Three if we were a little bit more “agriculturists” and no less “farmers?” Heaven forbid that I should only and “right out in meetin'” say one word against the paramount pre-eminence of business! To do so would be perilous- Iy close to irreverence towards our national shibboleth. But, treading softly and speaking low in the presence of the supreme fetish, may it not be hinted, neverthe- less, that perhaps a little wider and longer outlook than just for the single dollar which we see in our dirt might, 20w and then, reveal the lurking places >f other dollars? fork in his own hands. he Wherefor ells corn and butter to the Majoribankses and other neigh- boring “agricuiturists. But—suppose Bill Snooks had as good a barn and as high bred cows and as good a manure pit and as good a spreader (I don’t say “as expensive” | but “as good”) and as good other facilities as _Majoribanks and then, | with these advantages, added to them | his own personal labor and technical Small things, near by, somotimes serve to hide bigger things a_little and lifelong experience—isn't it Tarther away. An old-fashioned pen. | possible, isn't it probable that he would 2y which is less than an inch across,|De able to produce even more corn and £ held close before the eve, will hide the sun which is over 800,000 milee in diameter. A muddied roadway rut in which one's carriage wheel jounces more as well as hetter butter? | Wouldn't he be an even better | “farmer” if he could take a leaf or two | from the books of the mere “agricul- seems bigger, at the moment, than the | turist?” faint seam along the distant mountain- _ b W, side, which may be, nevertheless, a| Bill Snooks will say that h afford all Majoribank That's another question. can’t and perhaps h can't. He doesn” the | “fancy frills,”” anyway. t's no reason why he should sneer at real conveniences and improvement: That 1 may be a one-legged man gives me | no cause for sneering at men with two| | legs. Rather, such a condition should lead to envy deep-cut gorge with veins of outcrop-. pi ore. “Sometimes it pays a_farmer better to sit on the fence and whittie than 0 do anything else,” runs an old say- ng in my part of the country. In sther words, it's better to do nothing than to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. But s only by taking long looks my two-pronged neigh- LEXIBLE,buoyant tires of utmost comfort— protected by Goodyear cord construction from most of the danger of stone- bruise and blow-out. ‘Their pronounced riding ease, their great mileage, and their freedom from trouble are so satisfactory that sales are mounting up and up. Necessarily higher priced; but by reason of their special advantages, full-value tires, like all Goodyears. Goodyear No-Hook Cord Tiree are fortified against:— Risn-cutting- -By our No- Rim-Cut feature. Blow-cuts—By our On- Cure. Puncture and Skidding— By our Double-Thick All-Weather and Ribb- ed Treads. Insecurity—Byour Multi- ELimes T Wi boost the business of farming. That's neatly and effectively put. When the farmers of America wed all that scientific agricuiture can teach them to their own mastery of the prac- tical business of farming, theyll be ‘more successful than they are. ‘When they hitch science and prac- tice together they’ll have something a good deal better than any one-horse team. = One long step will be taken in that direction when both sides stop sneer- ing at each othér and begin to appre- clate the primary fact that each could learn some mighty useful things of the other, if he were a little more humbl€ and less opinionated. “Truth 1s invariable”, said the wise Autocrat of Breakfast Table, “but the Brown-ate of'truth always differs somewhat from the SmithZate of truth.” It's only by melting the two- “ates” together that you get the real thing. Why is it that Germany, hemmed in by more numerous armies and de- prived of almost all help from the outside world, is yet able to put up such a tfht? Simply and solely be- cause she has been for forty years and is now applying all that science can teach to the horribly practical business of war. Does she want ni- trogen for her bombs and mines and torpedoes, nitrogen which she is for- bidden to obtain from the Chilian nitre beds? Then she sets her scien- tists to the task of extracting it from the air, which no blockade or embar- g0 can deprive her of. Does she want alcohol in manufacturing while short of grain to make it from? She gets don in kid ‘patent- Iut;:ry ::; foll rules in books or blindly imitating experiments in les. tube, showing probable needs of their eofl. because we may not wholly ap the barbering of the helper's What 0dds to us the source if the as- sistance be real and efficient? E\h lt-sl‘rl in {.udr‘eom— fought against Sisera. I don’t profess to know how much they may have had to do with the result, but Sisera got licked and had a tent-plA driven through his head. If I'd been Barak, I migh not have thought of asking the stars to take any hand in the scrim- mage, but I certainly shouldn‘t have refused to let them fight with me in their courses against an enemy with either 900 chariots of iron or 9,000,000 potato-bugs! The aim of the business farmer is success at his business of farming. He certainly can get some help to- wards “that sesult from_the boost- ings offered by science. Why, in the name of common sense, should he sneer at a would-be friend, or refuse the assistance of a would-be helper? THE FARMER. LETTERS FROM TWO STATES Tolland County : MERROW Armstrong Farm Sold—Passing of the Viginia Reel Fence—Farmers Or- ganize to Protect Game and Fish. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moriarty and ughter have returned from a ngthy visit in Hartford. Mrs, Bert C. Hallock and children have returned from visiting in Hart- ford. Miss Rose Latham spent the week. end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Latham. Miss Mazie Klimer spent a day in antic this week. Henry M. Whiting and son have returned from a week’s visit with the former's sister, Mrs. L. P. Church, orwich. big motor truck got stuck in the mud several times between Mansfield Depot and Merrow last Friday. called on George Merrow's foreman to them out with horses. It several hours before they got heavy truck back on good road. The state road between South Will- derrow has been patched el in several places. Tae is in need of a heavy P rock. Buys Another Farm. George Merrow of Hartford recently purchase ong farm ad- poining his large fruit farm. Mr. Mer- row has had his men fencing the new- 1y acquired preperty the past week. the Herbert Allen has returned to the Merrow farm for the summer. : was in Providence Virginia Reel Fence. The old style Virginia reel fence y which has stood the test for many | e Ashaway years are being cut into stove wood | Tuesday They | the Hillandz was | WEEKAPAUG Ocean View W. C. T. U. Meets—Test- ing of Cows at Hillandale Farm. The Ocean View W. C. T. U. met at the home of its president, Mrs. E. E. Browning, Wednesday afternoon, with a good number in attendance. A new garage is being erected at one of the ccttages on the Hillandale farm. Surprised on Birthday. A number of the young people gave » surprise party to Raymond Fendle- ton, Wednesday evening, it being his ifteenth birthday. Music and games were enjoved and refreshments were served during the evening. Mrs. H. A. Macomber and Mrs. G. T. Collins spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rathbone. Testing Cows. | the cows as to the quality and quan- ilk en by each cow during ty of Browning, who is at- in Providence, s e spring vacation at her "HOPKINTON Accident at Woolen M Live Alli- gators Brought from Florida. were cmitted in the First t church Sunday, on ac- and fencing replaced by wire. e, and most Weniel Augustine recently pur-|3f (0 Reip were lald off for the day. chased a automobile for mountain eV belt was put in place and op- climbing. 2 Farmers Organize. A number of the farmers this last fall met at the home of E. H. Haskell | and decided to form an organization of farmers, to protect the game and fish in this vicinity. The members posted their land as the Mansfield Game Pre- serve and did well in protecting the game this last hunting season. A num- ber of the members built sheltered places and fed the® birds this past winter, thereby protecting from ' the severo winter a large number of the erations were resumed Wednesday. Charles I. Biake, of High street, Ashaway, i3 confined to his home with |a cevere attack of rheumatism. To Work for Ciay Company. The Italians, who have been employ- ed in the Barringion brick works, re- cently burned, are expected to come to work for the Ashaway Clay company. Charles P. Eccleston has returned home from a two weeks' trip to Flori- da bringing with him three small live alligators. birds that would not have survived otherwise. RICHMOND The success of the Mansfleld Game — Preserve members has been looked up- | Visitor from Wyoming Taken Seri- on by a few local sportsmen and st friends from Hartford and South Will- Y ington, as a means of better hunting for them, providing they could buy the hunting and fishing rights for them- selves as told in last week’s Bulletin. Warning Signs Posted. The achlevement of the Hartford club is noticed by the newly posted signs reading as follows: —Trespassing on these premises for the purpose of fishing or hunting forbidden by law and_violators will be prosecuted ac- cordingly. The Mansfield Fish and Game club. ~Legally posted. A number of the farmers have join- ed the second club, owing to the rev- enue received. The members of _the other club the Mansfleld Game Pre- serve, pay out a small sum of money toward the protection of the game. The farmer will not get any satisfaction in trying to protect from the city sports- men and not_hunters, the quail and other game birds which are a benefit to his crops, until there is a closed season for a few years made by the legislature. Washington County, R. . ROCKVILLE Weodland Does Damage — Men Serve Chowder Supp: A forest fire south of Ulysses Gardi- ner's, on the Hope Valley road, Tues- day morning, burned over considerable ground before being subdued. A. 8. Babcock arrived home Tues- day morning from a three weeks’ trip to Bermuda. George L. Barber of Waltham, Mass., was a guest of his sister, Mrs. Emory C. Kenyon, recently. ‘Wildwood_ circle met with Mrs. Jared G. Barber Thursday of last Week. Men Serve Supper. A chowder supper was served Sat- urday night by the men, for the ben- efit of the patish house fund. Mrs. George R. Collins of Westerly, was the guest of relatives here Satur- Miss Annie Stillman of Providence, was the guest of friends here over Sunday. Nearly 100 of Towa’s 900 dangerous rallroad grade crossings will be made < Mrs. Edwin Smith and Marie De- 4ol were visitors in Providence, Tues- lay. William Moore of Willow Valler Sas been assisting George G. Palmer in farm work. Ralph and Philip Moore were at Slocum the first of the week, John W. Smith is working for Sam- uel Reynolds. JosehpDunn and R. H. Moore were in Wickford the first of the week. Mr. and Ms. John Beverly of Wyom- ing came for a visit to the home of Amy S. Weaver. A short time after their arrival Mr. Beverly was taken very ill. At the present he is reported :mn\}ewha.tl b;ner. % Most of the roads have atly im- proved in the last few da‘;:, as the frost is out of the ground. NORTH STERLING Richard Fortune was called to Wor- cester, Friday, to attend the funeral of a relative. George C. Spooner caught a string of ten trout one day recently. Some have began to put in early Peas. funeral of his father last week Thursday. An unusually large number of wild ge;se are passing over here this spring. Mrs, Abby Hillery of Rockland, is ;Ifltlng former neighbors and friends ere. ‘There has been a few forest fires. The peep frogs are late this spring. WILLINGTON Mrs. Brown went Thursday to New York for a visit. Miss Alice W. Pratt spent Sunday in Boston with Miss Edna Bubgee. There were nineteen at~ Sunday school including the pastor and superintendent, Miss Co d and the Amidon young people and the faithful Parker children from the four corners. There was no church service. Rev. Mr. Parker's second son, Addi- son, has been suffering from appen- dicitis, during the week, but is now ‘Worcester better. Miss Pratt arranged an excellent program for the grange Friday eve- A man from Kingston college Is at le farm this week testing Frank O. Plummer attended the| Ken; ' T | 0 B Wi viereir T MR An exceptional car —built to meet an exacting demand The six cylinder motor— in its perfected state—is the ‘s answer to the demand of the automobile enthusiast —mmflyouv!m. The perfected six up nndplu:moothx And our only Overland finality lous motor performance. ‘The Overland Sixisa roomy, luxurious, seven passen- er car with a motor :(!g'nmuunl ty. But the price is only $1145—much lower than any other car of its size and class. Such a low price for such a superlative car is possible only because the Ovle’rfihnd Six is part of a huge production. 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