Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 22, 1916, Page 12

SPRING OPENING SLOWLY—AGRICULTURE SET BACK Written Speeially for The Bulletin. Here it s, well past the middle of and practically no farm work has yet been fairly started. How could it_have been while the been alternating snow- vith hurricanes and only bleak, she spring months g days of wintry col ground. But th t hav In the woods all back of me the snow | yet lies in d nd swirled expan: The mountains in © B Is yourtheatre !’fi *"'a(lfif dug my parsnips out. e frozen in too_deep, n in at all. When d off them there 1 of frost in the ere Dburied under ‘Duddie of soft, -leg deep mud, in which s but a spoon was of me are still white, or small south- their rocky a over the : level lands till T have three separate ponds in as many meadows. The very garden plots which were plowed last fali are yet mud. It would be impossible to put them into decent condition with any tools till they have * somewhat. Even if they could , the dirt is still so cold and at’ it would be vegetable in- fanticide to put any seeds or baby seedlings into it. Yes, here it is, past the 20th of April. Last spring at this time I had peas and onions up, lettuce and spinach breaking the rows, parsnips, beets, carrots, etc., sown, and the early po- tato ground all ready for the seed. Much zood it did me! Things were got in so early that they had to wait on the siow season after they came up, instead of coming up to meet it on its arrival. And let me tell you that it isn't good medicine for even the earliest sort of garden truck to have it forced up hove ground by a precociously early season, and then compelled to wait weeks in the cold and wet for winter's st backlash to shiffle away, before it can make a real start at livi If seeds can be planted in good warm soil and germinated quickly and kept growing rapidly and rankly from the thout any setbacks, they'll or- produce thrifty and productive plants. But if those same seeds are nursed | into premat v a week or so0 of May h, and then, before th ance to an- chor their snow sau freezing wind storms cold ground and of sunshine through to hearten them minute or two— above and not a slimpse the sullen clouds will be sorry they were ever The plants they might have produced will shrink and stunt, and a long time when decent ives for them {0 ket back where | f ey ouzht to be. If, indeed, they ever ich is n a1 | don’t wonder that fars talking it the wea ring_what it m can’t help thinkini shouldn’t they talk are al- er. Con- to_them. they T which he ation. It algebraic For it is not only an unknown and unknowable quantity, but we can't e at it with a whether to mult: it or divide wi h I's a wild clephant harncssed to a the onl: v than seven cs and a oy It's a I.we bit strange to some that, sin k and have for a Se= Gulken 5o nch and const about it, we don’t come real- now more about it. unfortunately to he of don't know y practical s the daily weather and it actually ccond defuge all that day, the night an his sort of ex- 5, no doubt, to the 1 3ut it much help. the who | whether he can culti- vate his potatoes Thursda; As | think I've said before, repeated and careful tests for months at a time of the government's weal tions have the count. own that, in my part of they are right just about half the time, and wrong just about e time. Which isn't anything like as high an e of correctness as any individ- ke for himself, by a n of the sky and the h-worms and the night be- some few ‘other tnt fore. As for the vai her prophets” of unofficial noisiness it can perhaps be said that they “hit it right” just abolt as often as the sovernment's weather bureau does—and no oftener, Only when they do by some mysteri- ous chance happen to strike a_bull’s eye you can hear ‘em cackle for the next ter yvears. It's when they miss the mark entirely that they keep as still as frogs under a foot of ice in January. Let them tell it and youw'd think that Solomon and Ezekiel and Jeremiah and all the rest were boys at prophecy beside them. But just keep steady track of their prognostica- tions for a vear, yourself, check ’em up on your own shingle, and youwll find that they are simply guessers who like all Yankees can giess right part of the time—and part of the time only. Which doesn’t do vou, as a working farmer, any good at all, unless you can yourself guess when they're going to be right and when wrong. They tell the story of how a certain almanac, more than a century ago, leaped into sudden fame and brought its publisher unexpected wealth be- cause of a printer's blunder. In those days the almanac makers used to in- sert weather predictions for a year in advance in the space to the right of the days of cach month. One such marked a prophecy of snow to be in- serted_after a certain date in Janu- ary. This wasn't such a wild chance 0 take. But the printer, by some mis- take (nserted it after a corresponding date in July. And it actvally did snow on that July date!—a freak so remarkable and The Housewife who invests a single dollar in Home Furnish- ings without first coming to this money-saving centre has not taught her dollars to have more cents. REFRIGERATORS—We have a line of the best Re- frigerators made, and our prices are lower than those of others for inferior goods. . OIL STOVES—None better made—the kind we sell— no smoke, no smell. 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