Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 20, 1917, Page 12

V(ritken Specially for The Bulletin.) € would seem as if right now was nn exceuom season :for some farmers to lay plans for their own agricultural salvation next summier. present, & whole lot of them are betwoen the upper and -the nether milistones_and are undergoing a pro- cess of squeezing andcrushing and grinding, not to say-exasperation and exacerbation, which -is "likely, before the long winter is over, to bring them very close to the condition of dusty dust. The worst of help it, now, or ture. it is that they can’t for the immediate fu- But most of them can help it for next season and mext winter, if they’ll only take thought in time and make intelligent plans. To keep stock, if one has to buy any considerable portion of his grain, etc. at present prices, is to work for noth- ing and pay 2 good round fine for the privilege of doing it. As I've said, a #ood many times I am not a stock- I_Keep one cow—a good little twenty-five or thirty hens—all ‘comb White Leghorns; and us- uau:r a pig or two. f 1 had to buy all that cow’s feed 1 eouldnt pay for it with her milk and butter, not if T get ten cents a quart for the milk and forty cents a pound for the butter, and sold it al If 1 had to buy all those chicie: Pations the egas they lay in a month | wouldn’t pay their feed bill for a week, not if 1 sold all the eggs at fifty cents a ?’cvzen cash and got my pay on the nail. If I had to buy all that the pig con- sumes I couldn't get my money back if 1 should -sell every Dound of the pork, and all the bristles, and his ears and front teeth, and char; myself with the hog manure at the rate of $4 a load. Doubtless a good many other farm- ers find themselves in much that same quandary. They have the stock can’t sell it satisfactorily; they've got to keep it. They have grown into the habit of buying at least their ground | and concentrated feeds, becansc, comparatively recent prices, they felt they could buy them cheapar than they could raise them. But the prices of such feeds which, until_the last year or so, have kept ‘within reaching distance of the ground, are now aeroplaning through the rarefled atmosphere, miles up and out of sight. Nor do_they show any sisns of vol- planing downwards. Their nosas are still tilted upward. © We've got to keep ~ most of our stock, for the present, even at a Qaily loss. But I don’t believe we nesd, ail of ‘us, face the hopeless prospect of another. year's continuance of that lass. If we have to continue buying fod- der, we shall have to continuc bear- ing’ loss, Wiy dot raise our own fodder? All of it? “But | can’t raise cottonseed meal.” complains one, Naturally not: Ia the latitude of Connecticut, anyway. Don't feed it, then. You ‘can raise buckwheat. And did Fou ever try buckwheat middlinzs? Years ago, when I had a small dairy and when I could buy cottonseed meal without having to mortgage my im- mortal soul to raise the price, I de- | liberately gave it up after compari- son in actual feeding tests for buck- wheat middlings, -which in my case praved cheaper, safer, and quite as ef- fective. T know of other farmers who are feeding them with satisfactory re. sults. Even If you don't think them guite as good, you can't help admit- ting that they’re a tolerable substi- tute. And vou can raise buckwheat, generally speaking, about as easily as any crop except hay So with almost every one of the concentrating foods whi¢h you've zot accustomed to buying but which now are depopulating your pocketbook. You may not be able to raise cxact equi- | valents for all of them, but, if your farm is anything like the ordinary tne, you can produce on it substity which, if -not entirely satisfacto will et carry you through. Labor, so high that you flinch at the thousght of among other things, trying to raise crops which require much of it. That’s what should set vou thinking of clovt I don’t doubt that alfalfa is' good, if you can raise it. but 'm referring now to common every-day clover—the kind father used to raise and the kind you've also raised. We farmers don’t half appreciate the food value of clover. It ean be and has been used successfully as the sole roughage for milk herds, in which case the supplementary grain ration can safely be reduccd to the mimymom. It can be ana has been used as the sole ration for working horses, with- at | out any grain at all, and with results better than were given by the common umothy-oat.s ration; producing equal h, equal spiritness, better look- ing coats and decidedly better health. Chickens will eat a lot of it—if given a chance, and who doesn’t know the proverbial happiness of “pigs in clover?” | Ordinary fertilizers are high and not up to standard? Well, lime isn't very expensive. On three acres out of four a judicious application of cheap iime wiil not only produce good crops of clover from seeding, but . will some- | times “bring it in,” as the saying goes. A neighbor of mine in the early spring of '16 topdressed an old mead- ow with lime. The grass on it had “run_ out” till it had ceased to be worth the labor of mowing. So. far as he knew, there was no clover in it. But in_the summer of '16 he cut a heavy burden of hay, mostly clover, on the whole six acres,—all except one corner which he hadn't time to lime. On that half an acre or so,—he got barety hay cnough to make one hay cock. The rest averaged better than two loads to the acre. And when I saw the fleld, in late October, there was a noble srowth of rowen on it, everywhere except the unlined corner, | which was so bare that the wind act- ually raised dust from it. This neighbor paid $250 a ton for his ground lime and the only labor cost was that of hauling and broad- casting it. Perhaps similar treatment would not bring equal results on your farm. You don’t know till you've tried. He didn’t. He owned up to me that he was as much surprised as pleased. “Don’t never prophesy unless ye know” said Josh Billings. Don’t ever say you “can’t” raise thjs, that or the other ferop till vou've' tried,—and tried the right way. ' If, after fair trials, you find _that your land simply won't grow clover, lime or no lime, maybe you can raise cats and cow-peas, or oats and soy- {beans, or fodder-corn and soy-beans. These require more labor ‘and there- fore more expense, due to high wages. Bat their nutritive content is so sreat, once raised, that they will enable the farmer who has a supply of them to dispense with a very considerable per- centage of his usual ground feeds. With the aid of modern tools and improved machinery the work of rai ing corn is a great deal less than it used to be. The labor involved needn’t cost anything like so much as some farmers figure Machine-raised corn, like any other crop, isn’'t apt to do quite as well as corn which is cod- dled and hand-worked and kissed to sleep, ev night. But most farms have on crops of corn can be grown without the hand-hoeing and individual-hill handlinz which used to be the rule— and which would still be advisable if one was aiming at a record. If such corn can't be grown at a less cost per bushel than feed-store prices then there's something wrong which needs to be hunted down and remedied. Be- side which. the stalks saved, they make a mighty valuable addition to the winter’s sup- ply of forage. If you have ter yet, as it silo, that may be bet- ill give you the needed grain food eccompanied by a “succu- lence” which is essential to proper feeding. old fashioned root crops? While silos are even more common in parts of Europe than in this coun- try thefe are other parts where the farmers raise and feed roots to an ex- tent which would make New England- ers open their eyes. There is some work involved in raising mangels and rutabagas, just as there is in raising anything—e cept the d——I1. But most farmers can lgrow them cheaper than they can buy | sluten meal or linseed meal or cotton- | Seed meal, jand vears ago, Daniel “Chemists or even wheat bran. Years Vebster wrote: tell us -that neither ruta- salt_hay are of much count as food for cattle, yet we have never had oxen thrive botter on any feed than on those two.” In a recent test by the Michigan Experiment Sta- tion where groups of cows were fed al- ternately on 20 pounds a day of sil- aze and 30 pounds of sliced roots, i addition to dry hay and the u c- pound - of-grain-to-four-pounds - of- milk the difference was ve slight in production. But such difference as was found, not only in each group but cow. Last season, owing to catchy weath- er and consequent reduction of avail- able time, the five rows of sugar beets in my upper garden were sadly ne- slected. They were horse-cultivated are natural plant foods i Blood, o Parmenter & Polsey Animal Fertilizers will enrich your soil and give you bo1:nt.lf."ulh_acrf‘2‘1‘)@:f becaufse they in co: Meat and high mfige:hemcd:m NET— They act quickly, feed the crop to abundant matur- ity and leave the soil in prime condition for next y?;shc:vplm c:lutfthemo po'aséxu ‘e have a brand for ev: a ke o o S B S Sl potash. It will solve your fertilizer p: PARMENTER & POLSEY FERTILIZER -*, e St S e T. H. Eldredge, Norwich. wn wlthont | with 10 inch ice of fine quality. j brought them fields where tolerable | if the corn is husked and | If vou haven't a silo, how about the | with each individual cow., was in favor of the root ration. averaging | seventenths of a pound per day, per n.nn"'- mfi:’?n—. mu, -o-u cultivating, a —y a s ., = rent wages, I sold four bunhh very. sahel, and have' left 1 frosar] ve - wenty- bunelt wh!cli have coit ice of the seed and the Rnon phrtocity well I Couldnt by an oq;-l value of foder for four that cost. The situation is about filht L..hor and ization and co-operati capacity to do so. We must olthdr curtail pro- duction or reduce luction-expense. The only visible available means to this latter end is to stop buyinz ex- travagant Hlinois corn and Dakota bran and South Carolina cottonseed, etc., and raise on our own farms sub- stitutes which will * measureably fill their places, at less cost per unit of feeding value. It is by no means certain that we can all do this. But it is, if not cer- tain, at least highly probable that many can. No one can be - stre whether he is able or not without Lmsmng a try at it. If he fails, he will be not worse off than he is now: —can’t well be: if he succeeds he will manifestly be better off. And now is the best time of the year, when other work is not press- ing, ‘to study up the whole situation and lay plans for a campaign to beat the grafters, if such a thing is possi- ble. THE FARMER. EAST HADDAM Sudden Death of Miss Hattie Martin— Wife of Capt. Timothy Warner Dies, as Result of Schock. Wiilie Lawton- of Chester called on friends in town Monday. Mrs. Wiliam Price of New York is spending a few days with her daugh- . E. E. Smith. . Gates is filling his ice house Condition Improved. Frederick Sisson, who has been crit- ically ill with pneumonia, is much im- proved and hopes are entertained for his recovery. ~Two nurses also are still on duty. Burial of Mrs. Martin. The body of Mrs. Edzar Martin was here for burial Sunday last. Wilbur J. Tracy and son, Jo- seph, spent Sunday with Mrs. Jen- nie Snuires Way, of Hartford. ; Richard Cleark is ill at the home of | his daughter, Mrs. A. D. Alexander. High Cost of Living. Potatoes are selling for $2 per bush- el. Esgs are 50 cents per dozen. Phelps has returned Mass. OBITUARY. Miss Hattie Martin. The community was shocked Friday morning to learn of the death of Miss Hattie Martin, aged 52. Since the death of her father -about five vears ago she had spent much_ time at the home of her sister, Mrs. Frank Chap- man, who lived near the old home. [ Miss Martin had been afflicted with a heavy cold but was out of doors each day until Thursday. Durin~ Th night she asked her sister, Mrs. man, who occupied the me room, for a drirk of water. This was given her and the family were not aware of | the change until they went to her bedside in the morning. This is the! second death that has occurred in that home within a week. - Miss Martin' funeral was held from Mrs. Chap- home Monday at 12, o'cloc] Gerhardt Wilson officiating. Bu- rial was in Mt. Parnassus cemetery, Mrs. Timothy Warner. Mrs. Warner, wife of Capt. Timothy Warner, died at ner home at the! Ferry, Monday last, the result of a shock which she recently sustained. HADDAM NECK Grange Installation Followed by Sup- per—Sclectman Frank House Recov- ering from liness. Mrs. from Capt. and Mrs. G. T. Sandin lx\L' left town for Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for a visit to Miss Carlson. Selectman Frank House is recover- ing from grip so as to be able to at- tend to his duties. | Mrs. Merrill Shepard has so far re- jcovered from her illness as to be able to resume her duties at the school. Mrs. Neilson has returned from a isit to Philadelphia, where she ha |been entertained by her daughter, Mrs. A. F. Jenks. There was installation of officers at the granze Friday evening. The usual supper followed the business meeting. Floating Ice in River, | Quantities of floating ice in the river s the New York boat from meking her usual trips. The icehouses are being filled rapid- Iy. Ten inch ice seems to be the pop- ular kind. Sunday at Congregational Church. At the Congregation2l church Sun- day, Jan. 21, morning sermon at 11; subject, Boosting. ~ Church school at 12.1 Christian Endeavor at 7 p. m., Deacon Selden, leader. Evangelistic service ‘at 7.45; theme,’ Indifference. Rev. W. Harrison Raymond is pastor. | Teddy Carlson has returned to New York after several weeks' visit to Cap- | tain Sandin’s. Friends of R. S. Bailey are pleased to hear of his improvement in health and his expected early return from St. wuke’s hospital, New York. CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED with local applications, as tkay cannot | reach the seat of the disease. Catarrn is a local disease, great.y Influerced by constitutoinal conditions, and in order TODAY AND TONIGHT N i “The Stronger Love” A“STORY OF MOUNTAIN FEUD WITH AN UNUSUAL ENDING PATHE WEEKLY RISTIE COMEDY bual.,.lo QP‘INION ’ MARGARET TURNBULL in the Best sky Style GREAT SECRET 4—-SHOWS TODAY—4 | VI’Th E A "'R'; At 130, 3.15, 6 and 815 “You are going to inquire what b is causing me to fade and shrivel and € a piteous, sympathy-inspiring ‘becom object—" the Woodlawn mait told him flatly.” “And 1 won't—not even u a chance to spring the rest nurse and fresh smelling salts to re- vive Tmogene. “It I try to sink down to rest in my special chair, Imogene shrieks, “Don’t sit on that embroidery, Henry!' Oh, if 1 do sit I wish I hadn’t, because the embroidery is chock-full of needles, points up. It is a lingerie nightgown ihat she is doing for her sister. ~ She sald she’ couldn’t afford to send the bottle of $3 perfume which Angeline is devoted to—so she bought five vards of 50 cent thin goods, paid 40 cents to get it stamped, expended 15 cents for embroidery floss, purchased four yards of 25 cent lace for edging and the ribon flubdoodles on it came to 90 cents. “At each of these modest purchases, strung along over the last month, she has looked at me triumphantly. Last night when 1 proved to her by flgures | that Angeline’s less-than-$3 gift had; cost ber $4.95, sh ad bysterics and said if that wasn’t just like a man and it would serve me right if I o home wives!” “Then, I'll have to tell you in cold blood,” sighed the man from e Park. “Because I will not be balked in my purpose—which is to unburden my soul. Imogene is making Christ- mas_presents!” “Yes?” said the Woodlawn stonily. ““They often do!™ ““Huh!"” sald the Hyde Park man. I suppose you haven’t any heart, have you? I'supposc your wife is buying all ber’s ready made—did it up in one day and got the agony over. I've heard of women like that! Wonderful crea- tures, wonderful! But they're rare. Imogene still trains with the other kind. I believe they assert that if you made your Christmas gifts not only is your personality and labor put into the article and therefore it is doubly appreciated by the recipient, but your expenditure is less. Imo gene. says she doesn’t feel justified, these hard times, in throwing away any hard earned money. That was how she reproved me when I suggest- ed sending her mother a $10 mahog- any fern stand that would just fit a vacant window. sROAUWAY VAUDEVILLE—~PHOTO-PLAYS THE BEST SHOW EVER OFFERED AT THIS THEATRE - WARREN & CONLEY IN THE SINGING AND DANCING SKIT “%N THE BOARDWALK" NICHOLS & CROIX E BR! J In the Comedy Offering i Gymnasts Supreme “The Spirit of Preparedness” in a P.rch and Rislay Novelty MAY MARSH and FIVE PART l HOSERT HARAON in N HE WHARF RA FEATURE HANZ & FRITZ IN A FUNNY CARTOON COMED man Shows 2:30, 7 and 8:45 Mat. 10c; Eve. 10c and 20c Fri, Sat. AUDITORIUM The Underworld of the West A COMEDY DRAMA PRESENTED BY THE ETHEL MAY SHOREY DRAMATIC PLAYERS Robert Edeson in Big Jim Garrity REe REELS #She - conciuded that she couldn’t afford new books at a dollar-thirty- fives for her old school friends—and the sun parlor is uninhabitable be- cause it is full of the taffeta silk and imported cretonne gift braid and silk- en cords out of which she is manufac- turing party bags and knitting bags for six women. I got as far as esti- mating that her raw material had come to $16.09 as against the $5.10 tite books would have stood her—but I| had to change the subject, because at | times Imogene is of a tempestuous nature and she has money enough in | th of | her possession for a ticket back home. | yarn and 35 cents’ worth of knitting| “But being a reasonable man the | necdles. By the time she had all the strain on me is something awful! I} sweater done, except one slecve, she!cannot bear to watch Imogene had run out of yarn and when flheideludmg herself—it will react on her | went to buy more all of that partic- { character:” vlar coler had been sold out. searched the town for two days and it costs a dollar to resole her shoes, tol pr,«‘,mac when what you say nothing of 40 cents care fare. S0 |wanted was a $5 pipe! Say! Yo she had.to buy a new outfit of yarn; idon't supose—you don’t suppose spending $4.50 for enough this ume,lwm io sk ane ahinee, o vol and began all over again, taking the! < certainlv hope so!” giowered the extra time from the course of morn- ' man from Hyde Park. “It would ing Jectures on current events, the | serve you just right!”—Exchange. ticket for the course being $10. | “Then she remembered that the col- 2 = lar and cuffs must be of white angora Cork Paper Suspended. ard while angora is classed with plati- | _OWing to the increase in num, turkeys., diamonds and potatoes (Production the Cork Free Press, Corl, these days. The angora wool tota'ed |has suspended Duh"m““g R < the up $2.25 She spent a dollar for pearl|Oficial organ of the All-for bu'tons to match. too. Counting inleagu B 1 | 3 half the lecture ticket. th mrkes | P Lot . anc or 7 ; g c owed $1850 that Tmocene e “‘Goodness, Henry!” Imogene said. “With you so hard up and everything * Why, mother doesn’t expect us to spend a lot on her and she knows all about how those stocks acted! You just leave it to me! I'll make mother something and she’ll like it lots bet- “So_she decided to knit her mother one of these sweaters that the women are nuts about this vear. She came home triumphantly h $4 worth of Bass-Cleff Concerts Friday, January 26th—Friday, May 25th Slater Hall s l § CHARLES HARRISON, Tenor— ssanary 0l0iStS | MiYRNA SHARLOW, Soprano— wer Associate members subscribe for tickets at special rate, and re- ts in advance. Selection of seats begins on January 20th. ip cards at Cranston’s or from active members. id the Woodlawn ma draw $20 worth of taoRS. ear. This is about onhe- s annual consumption. ranza Has Lasted Well. be admitted that as Mexi. , Carranza has lasted . — Washington Star. spent to econ: mize on her mcther's $10 present. “And no v-she is tearing her because she thinks she has made the Not Acting Like a Winner, They 1l Tom Lawson $200,000 that -ulation in the Sou 1 land. i onut of swenter three sizes too small, hav IR AR A - ing forgotten how h-r mo has tak- Regutating French Papers. » Sweden. looks to us from the holle: en on weizght. If any or~ inadvert-| Paul unier, deputy for tho for the erec | seen up that he v ot in Ch been for that much.—Houstor partment of the Abue, has ia the French chamber of depu: & ousewives! — Mothers! — Daughters! Here Is Your Ticket—Vote It Straight! Election day is today —every day—the Voting Booth is your Grocery ently mentions wool sweaters at our house these days it takes a trained t | Post. 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