Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 6, 1916, Page 12

Your theatre : should show them. ANY, FARMER CAN GROW ALFAL- FA. ‘Alfdlfa is the greatest stuff in the world and can be. grown in every state in New Englang by every farmer who is willing to ffllow the proper: meth- ods,” says John P. Nelson, the New Jersey alfalfa’ man, who has been srowin‘ the crop in_that state since loam soil of reasonable fertil- ny and good drainage is recommend- ed by Mr. Nelson, who advides that it be plowed deep, that lime be used if the seoil is sour, that the seed or soil be inoculated, and that 1,000 pounds of fertilizer be applied at time of seed- ing and Xat the same amount be ap- plied annually as a 'top dressing to give the crop a quicK start and enable it to make the best stand and the greatest yields per acre, or if manure is available, spread at the rate of three to five tons per car with the manure spreader and in addition ap- ply 600 pounds of fertilizer per acre. ——— Rheumatic Pain Stopped The drawing of muscles, the sore- ness, stiffness and agonizing pain of Rheumatism quickly yield to Sloan’s Liniment. - It stimulates circulation to the painful part. Just apply as directed to the sore spots. In a short time the pain gives way to a tingling sensation of comfort and warmth. Here's proof—“T have had wonderful relief since I used your Liniment on knee. To think one application gave me relief. Sorry I haven't space to tell you the history. Thanking you for what your remedy has done for me.”—James S. Ferguson, Phi’ada, Pa. Soan’s Liniment Kills pain. 25c. at Druggists. Avoid Spring Colds Sudden changes, high winds, shift- Ing geasons cause colds and grippe, and these spring colds are annoyipg and dangerous and are likely to turn into a chroni¢ summer cough. In such cages take a treatment of Dr. King's New Discovery, a plearant Laxative Tar Syrup. It soothes the cough, checks the cold and helps break up an attack of grippe. It's already pre- wed. no mixing or fussing. Just ur druggist _a_ bottlé of -Dr. _ With Mae Marsh and R. Harron &Mm 2 Reel Keystone With M. Swain e e . CONGERT ORCHESTRA (Written Spectally for The Bulletin.) One of the commonest queries from farmers,—especially younger and less enced ones, is ‘How can I raise” this, that or the other crop. Such inquiries are addressed to ev- ery farm paper in the land, at -least once a day, and quite often to in- dividual farmers who are known to have made something of a success at the crop questioned about. To ask for that sort of help in that sort of way seems the most natural and reasonable thing in the world. I want to raise potatoes, say. I have never grown any, except the few for home use, and have never had specially good luck with those few. Now I am planning to put in a goodly acreage and I want to treat the crop S0 as to get my money back and some profit. What more natural than that T should go to one of the meighbors who has made money growing pota- toes for market and ask him what 1 should do to make a good crop Or, what more natural than that I should write to my favorite farm paper for the same information, hoping that some of its readers who had won out would steer me into the same success e has achieved? And yet, if the situation were re- versed and I were the old potato grower appealed to and you were the tyro asking information, I should hestitate long before I made you any answer at all. If I knew that you were, to begin with, a careful man, careful to weigh or measure things— not guess at them,—if I knew that you were a steady worker, not inclined to drop important farm-work and take a half-day off because the fish were bit- ing, or because you wanted to go to town, or because there were visitors at the house and you'd rather talk than work;—especially if 1 knew that you had actually tried hard to get the knack before appealing to any one for help,—why, then I might answer you. But, if I did, it wouldn't be to tell you what to do or what not to do. Common sense and experience forbid! I might suggest to you | various schemes as worth your thinking over and, perhaps, trying, if they appealed to you. I might, indeed, go so far as to tell you what I had done and what methods seemed most effective and productive, with me. But, if T did that, the telling would be accompanied with a vigorous warn- that you were not to go back and tempt, on your level intervale land of alluvial origin, the same system which I had found most useful on my gravel loam hillsides. Or vice versa. 1 should warn you that what met my case might not hit yours at all; that one soil’s meat may often be another soil's poison; that the dressings which are right for my field may not apply to yours any more than five-foot Shorty Blake's pants would fit sixfoot Long John. | should try to enforce upon you with all my power of expression- the idea that there is mo pamacea which cures all agricuitural ills, and no uni- versal rules which meet every agricul- tural question. That you must know what the dis- ease is before you give medicine. That you must fit your treatment to the immediate case in hand. That you must choose your soil and your seed and your fertilizers and your. methods of planting and hilling and cultivating to meet your own special ~conditions and needs,—not mine nor any one else's.In other words, that you have got to work out your own salvation in your own way, just as truly as yowll go to the devil in your own way, if you see fit to choose that direction. 'm moved to these thoughts, this morning, because I've just been read- ing in one of the very best farm pa: Ders published in the United States an appeal to the editor from a man who wants to plant a little patch of pota- toes on land now in rye. The editor answers right off the bat: “Do not put lime where you are to plant po- tatoes. That is the first ‘Dor’t’ . in potato culture. * * = it ‘to spare drop a large handful of good chicken manure on top of each potafo hill and work it into the soil.” { Now this particular- editor has a farm of his own, whereon he experi- ments and tries out mnew or old schemes. He " isn't in the habit of ‘going it blind”. He first tests out, on his own land with his own work, those ideas which occur or are sug- gested to him. All of which shows that he means to be serupulously ea.re ful in his advice and impeccably hi | 8t in giving it. I haven't the s ~doubt the ad THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS TO HARD AND FAST RULES 8Y WINCHELL SNITH AND VICTOR MAPES.. mammmm PRICES—Lower Floor | $1.50. Balcony $1.50, $1.00, 75c. Gallery 500 orable a situation to get the dirt's di- Tect answer as you are, yourself. “Other mer’s failures will never sdve you”, said the old Sunday-school hymn. Nor will other men’s successes ever make you rich. Considering how diverse are the conditions of farming, how different are soils, how umlike are men, how ing and capricious are seasons, farming is the very last vocation. in the world for even exerts to grow dogmatic about. THE FARMER. Washington County, R. I. HOPKINTON School Reports™Ordered Printed — Committee ©on Memorial Day Exer- cises. 'Named. The school committee held its monthly meeting with the clerk at Hope Valley, Monday morning, with all the members present. The annual reports of the committee, superin- tendent, principals of the two high schools, and the critic teacher in the training school, were read and the clerk directed to have 400 copies printed for distribution among the tax payers ‘at the annual financial town meeting, May 25th. One bill for fuel was ordered paid to the amount of $15. exposure and precisely the same cli- mate and seasonal conditions. The practical difficulty is that there isn’t in the whole length and breadth of the continent another farm entire- iy like the editor's in all these re- specls. There aren’t any two just alike, anywhere. Of course a mere line fence doesn't change the soil either side of it, and, no doubt, there are farms where a few acres of A's land south side the line fence are about the same as B’s north side that fence. But even in the case of such adjoining farms the likeness isn’t apt to be maintained for many Tods. A’s gravel loam will slope down through sandy loam and diluvium to a mucky swamp, while B's gravel loam wil rise through alluvial mat ter washed down from the foot-hills til it reaches the ledges themselves. Memorial Day Committee. The monthly session of the town council was held in_ the town hall Monday _afternoon. Albert S. Wood and Harold R. Cran- Memorial day exercises. David J. N lor and George W. Kenyon designated as suitable persons to cause to be interred deceased, indigent, hon- orably discharged soldiers. sailors and merines. Bills were ordered paid to the amount of $i22.28. Probate Court Business. Albert E. Palmer was appointed ad- ministrator on the estate of Sarah E. Benneit, deceased, and Elmer E. Ken- yon, appraiser. Eidred F. Collings was appointed administrator on the estate of Martin V. B. Hyde, deceased, and Gardiner B. Keyon, appraiser. : Alice A. Matteson, guardian of the | person and estate of Ralph W. Matte- son, all of Groton, Conn., was grant- ed permission to sell the right of her ward in real estate located in Hopkin- ton. The will of Mary Grace Stillman, deceased, and ‘the first and final ac- count of Julia A. Vincent, adminis- tratrix on the estate of Roxy P. Ken- yon, deceased, were referred to June 5th next, with order of notice. A petition for the appointment of a guardian of the person and estate of Eliza Frances Stillman, a person of full age, was referred.to June b5th nest, with order of notice and citation. The inventory of the estate of Ly- dia_J. Crandall deceased, was received and ordered recordel A claim of Ezekiel S. Boss., admin- istrator of the estate of Stephen R. Boss, against the said estate, was al- lowed by the court. Successful Entert; Saturday evening the gave the drama ““Mrs. in an excellent manner, and Tuesday evening the children pre- sented “Tom Thumb's Wedding,” both to large audiences- in Ashaway hall. A fine May breakfast was served Monday morning by the ladies in the parish house, Ashaway. William S. Mellen, of Chicago, was Nay: Take two farms a mile apart and they may not have a single square rod of soil in common. Their expos- vres will be different. Their past history will be different. They will need quite different management if they are to be made profitable. For the farmer on one to imitate, the methods of the farmer on the oth- er invites disaster. He must find out by himself and for himself and acre by acre what his land wants, what it will do naturall and what it can be made to do b; either coaxing-or dri To as some other farmer is useless. To ap- peal to an agricuitural collese or a farm paper is a waste of time. There’s only one that can answer the ques- ticn and only one to whom it should be put. That is the dirt itself. It will always answer if properly asked and answer with absolute hon- esty. If you have gumption enough to put the question right and wisdom enough to read the answer when it is given, you'll know something, in course of time. If you feel a little modest about both these qualities, some professors in some agricultural colleges and some farm editors can often give you sug- gestive ‘“pointers” about just what to ask and how to ask it. They may al- so help you to translate the answer If, when it comes, it is all Greek to you. ments. young people ugby’s Board- But it’s up to YOU, every time, to put the question and take down the answer. The farm editor to whom T have re- ferred is very flat-footed in' his asser- tion that lime must never be put on potato land. It is, he says, the very first “Don’t” in potato culture. With- out doubt he is right—as to his own If you havel with his family over Sunday. Repairs are in progress at Bethel mill and tenements. RICHMOND farm, perhaps as to others resembling it in some degree. Last year, for reasons which apply solely and restrictedly to less than one acre of my gardens, I heavily limed the patch and planted it td potatoes, all of early varieties. It gave me the earliest eatable| Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Grinnell of Ex- tubers of any potato-patch in the|eter, were recent callers in this vi- biggest vield at final digging which I| cinity. Mr. and Mps. Jobn Beverly have re- turned to Amy Weaver's from South Kingston. Everett Moore and son Ralph, have been trimming trees for Samuel Rey- rolds. Newman Clarke and family of Bdge- wood made a trip by automobile to this place recently. ‘Mr. and Mrs. James Kennedy have moved to the Alexander Smith farm. Mrs. Amy A. Austin of Arcadia, was a recent caller on friends here. Very few fishermen are about vet, as the streams are so high there is little chance of getting many trout. Notwithstanding the late spring some have peas already up and leok- ing good. WEEKAPAUG e Mrs, G. H. Noves has been suffering the past week with muscular rheuma- tism. ‘Mrs.. Lydia Burdick, who has spent the winter with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rathbone, returned Sunday to her home in Westerly. Lloyd Looflow, who has worked on the Hillandale farm for the past yéar has joined the Life Saving Service on Biock Island. ‘Hobart Ayers of Pittsburgh has been a guest of S. M. Young and family. S. M. Gladwin of Hartford, and have had in fifteen years, and the crop was fauitlessly clear of scab, grubwork and rot. My neighbor who planted potatces just over the fence but did not lime the land, had a poor crop with many rotten ones and they were norribly grub-eaten. In fact, this one patch of mine is the only patch I heard of in my neighborhood ‘which wasn’t more or less hurt by rot, last season. Did the lime do all this good? 1 don’'t say so, but I do say that it didn’t hurt those particular, potatoes on that particular potato-patch! On the other hand, the editor ad- vises the use of hen manure. Again I accept, without a_ single question, the truth that it works well on his pota- toes. But it is ruin to mine. I have tested it wet seasons and dry, on low- lands and uplands, and I never yet have failed to have it respond with a rank growth of tops and of weeds and a measly yield -of small, mis-shaped and scabby potatoes. And there you have it The editor finds ‘lime harmful and icken man- ure heipful on his potatoes. I find chicken manure poison and lime good medicine on mine. What about yours? ‘That’s just what you're to find ont for yourself, and neither the editor nor I have any authority or license from yvour dirt to answer for it. It will talk back for itself in more or David J. Naylor,! dall were appointed a comrnjtle? on | were ““If I were a rich man, I’d buy ‘Experience’ and sce that it was given m every city and town of our beloved country.”” —Rev. Thomas Gregory thrilled me; it held me cap- tive to my emotions, un- willing to escape if T could, enthralled at what I saw.”” —q::aldine Farrar | “Passion New Yofl. OI‘ The Famous New York-Boston Expenence Organization That Pla; 9 Months and Made New Theatrical History in Boston This Year By Months at the Shubert Theatre, Boston | Opera House and Ye Wilbur Thutre, Norwich With Its Notable Cast of 82 Players—10 Brilliant Scenes. _‘_ AUDIETORIUWE Next Week A ROMANGE OF NORWICH Local Photo-Play With a Local Cast all Taken in icrwich and Vicinity Yoty PAULINE FREDERICK 7o Tuesday -\ Arthur Jones’ LYDIA GILMORE vicent Serrano. . Feture. LUKE LUGS LUGGAGE Pathe Comedy PLAYLAND KIDDIES Musical Com: ALICE ALLISON CHAS. DEIGHAN Equilibrist Denman Thompson’s CLD HOMESTEAD PARAMOUNT FEATURE | 3-SHOWS~—3..2.30, 7, 845 Pricec—Mat,, 10¢,,, Eve., 100 and 20c Donald O. Dunn of Boston Institute of Technology, are guests at the Macom- a few days. Mrs. C. A. Looflow and son Donald, and Mrs. Stewart, were guests in +this vicinity Tuesda; Today =COLONIAL = e __ UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT 3 Parts—BILL PETER’S KID—3 Parts. . Vitagr THE KING OF THE WIRES. . TRree-part Edison Drama A DISCIPLE OE PLATO. ... . . .... . . Vitagraph Comedy —A—' e e sk Emtertaimment Extraordinary _’I‘oday dman, in Westerly, Mon- | Robert N. end here. Smithers spent the week- with his family at their cottage Harry Noyes is confined to the Frag s e THE SWISS BELL RINGERS USQUEP AUGH ; 4 will give one of the kest entertainments of ‘the season, at Trimity Methodist Mr. and Mrs Orader have moved Church, on Wednesday, May 10, 1916. They always play to crowded houses. - They\are -not only artists With the bells, but also play twenty-four other instruments, including the harp. Seating capacity limited. Come early. Doors open at §, concert will commence at 8 o'elock P. M. to Narragansett Pier. Earle Peck has gone to Providence to work. Mrs. Richard Breston and children of West Kingston, visited relatives iy e N SRS SRR L e Tickets on sale at the Bookstore of George A. Davis. Sunda Eben SI f Exeter Hill, was a Solier heie TRy home after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Mrs. John Briggs returned home |Johu Ely of Mt. Parnassus. Tuesday, after a few days’ visit with relatives at Wakefield. Mrs. Hattie Potter is teaching in Exeter and boarding with her sister, Sarah Franklin. Dr. 2and Mrs. J. Bruce Crook visited the former’s parents at Red Gables, Hahburg, Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. A. W. Chaffee, Mrs. W. E. Reynolds, Mrs. Walter M. Gillette and Mrs. C. D. Kenyon was a caller at|Mrs. W. W. Gates attended a meeting Hope Valiley, Tuesday. of the Middlesex Hospital Aid recently. Mrs. Fannie Bicknell is visiting rel- | ~ W. C. T. U. Meeting. atives at Hamilton. Mrs. Hattie Holgate is visiting rela- A meeting of East Haddam W. C. T. tives at 'Wyoming. U. was held at the Methodist church Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Webster Jr., of|at 3 p. m. on Thursday. The speaker Nerth Easton, Mass, spent Friday|was Mrs. Augusta Brigham, of Malden, Mass., State W. C. T. U. organizer, night and Saturday at the home of Mrs. Webster’s parents, Dr. and Mrs.|and an interesting speaker and worker. At the meeting of the Grange Kenyon. ‘Wednesday ewemng the subject was “Shakespear: Sunday Schoel Institute. There will be & Sunday School Insti- tute in Dist. No. 5, which ARose0’PlymouthTown 1S TO BE GIVEN BY The Academy Dramatic Club on Friday and Saturday, . May 5th and 6th 8 o'clock at SLATER HALL A supper of delicious salads, baked beans, pickles, cakes, jelly and tea was served. S . Morgan & Smith moved their well machine to Hadlyme and are driving a well for' a New: York man who has purchased the Elijah Comltock prop- ROCKVILLE Burial of George H. Chester—Canon- . <, A includes | erty. chet Oeratives Working in Line|Noodus, Easi Hadadm, and Hadlyme,| Shad fishermen were all on duty as Walk. at the Hadlyme Congregational church | May was usiered iv. Thcre 1s an un- Sunday, May: 7th; afternoon at 2.30 | usually large number of nets in the The body of George H. Chester,|o'clock and evening at 7. o'elock. river this season and their catch wvery Mrs. M. L. Smith has been entertam- | satisfactory: - ing her bmthe'r. Harry Adams, of Hartford. To Present Pennant. Fr Fifeldnin ty Fouvalegcing. At the meeting of ‘the Middlesex Birthday Gathering. County Baseball league, held at River The Good Cheer club met with Mrs. | Side Inn, East Haddam, this evening,- Chas. Smith Jast , afterncon and | the presentation of the pennant to the evening, it being her birthday. ~ All | East Hampton club, the leagus winners carried thimbles and engaged in a good | of 1915. who died last week at his home in Providence, was brought here Satur- day for burial in the Rockville ceme- ‘tery. The Loyal Workers met Thursday evening of last week with Mrs. J. P. Greene. -After the business meeting refreshments were served. Tomie SC ey Shich yerh rroan out of work by the burning of the line walks at Canonchet, are now_ em- ployed in the line walk of the Yawso Line and Twine Co., in this village. EAST HADDAM Sunday School ‘Institute to be Held Tomorrow—County Baseball League Pennant to be Presented This Eve- , ming. Mrs, Marshall Gates afid little daugh- ter, Mildred, of Hartford, are ing a week at Mrs. Gates’ former home in this place. Merton H. Lee and family came from Westyille by automobile Sunday and spent the day at J. H. Lee's. Miss May Countryman is the guest of friends in North Branford. Mrs. Richard Gladwin has returned e TOSETIENEWANDWONDWULUNEOF - EYE COMF ~ Indirect Li less outspoken ways if you stick the right sort of pins into it in the right places. ‘Other men, with wide experience of many kinds of soil or many = farms, may have exceedingly ~useful and helpful suggestions to offer you as to ‘what quuuons you shall ask 2z now them. Such men, i‘fn makes you is un ‘often able mw.mmhumwm