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o+ 1 : NORWICH BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1919 ~THE GOSPEL OF LITTLE THINGS—THEIR RELATION TO IMPORTANT THINGS IN HUMA4 (Written Specially for Tle Bulletin) | impressive than a stree: fight in Tae-rlh«‘ blacksmith's ‘prentice, wWho was| We farmers are, most of us, engaged | socd enough “nubbins” for the hens to|ings, enough to make perhaps a hun-](‘aml inv 1 titches | 100 Where British soldiers shot down | filling time on a stormy day by pound- | in the” constant and pariicular busi- | exult over. jdred loaves of bread. over a thow: Ever since I‘\: took the rlrt -;\:(neq a few members of whai t deemed | ing out z xtra supply of horse-shoe | ness of trying to make little things There are a few of us farmers in| The same general thought applies to! Here we: in that aproa of fig leaves the historV] 3 mob, "The first volley fired in that | nails cons as he mado this par- irst the blade, then the car” | this neighborkiood, who never have all branches ot farm.work. As ncar | Same of the world has been a siory of LU | «pogton Massacre” of 1770 woke the | ticular one without noticing or caring ¢ « ames was not | t¥ouble in velling all seed-corn ias T can make out, farming consists [Of busi things. fledgeling which was to erow into such | for the- tiny-flaw in ths metal, that before the| we can spare at double.regular coru-lof about half hard labor- ‘and half |10 sell Not that erave historians have de-|an cagle as the standards of world- | PEThaps his ewn country’s whole futurs nd before the | prices, becanse we take trouble about|épyttering” And the “puttering” often | failed o at m.,m,l\ ehosen little things to re-|conquering Rome neves bore w\’dp]mlmaa uron that one little nail? planted, was the fitting | the little things of seed scl d »f them I on. Ourjcounts for more than the hard work.| What v e -om it. They have sought|triumph. Imersen . writes: of the ground. And before anyform |less prudent neighbors nave lsarned | Yoy it seeme strangelys difficult to| Probably tasre were hronicled the big things, as| That street fight below the old Bos- | “In the elder days of art of til was the selection 6f the | that they candepend upon our seed |make o whole lot of farmers see it.|Very likely Some of S ton State House was 2 mighty un- | Puilders wrought with pafient care| sced. not ouly to sprout, but to mature at|{ {incle Ike used to say that he cou]d‘oubl de of and beyor and here's the whole of my|important affair in the eves of the|EVery seen or unseen part: Do you expect to planc corn or|1east tolerabw corn, even when badlyip, [ ng a day off, ; 1 into a single clause— |roval governor of Massachusetts Bay| +or the:Gods see everywhere! Potatoes next spring? Then your next | €8lected after planting, the fei | PR : ving i+ berin small, and what Province. Navertheless right then and But our latter dayvs r spring work hegan last summer, when And doubie price for corn is worth 1d by working|ance Taet . . wolels beeunse of those | there was born fhe greatest power,|and puily and varmish. you were growing and sclecting the|a little trouble, isn't it? {like Satan every day and.all day. | most of rereiiop - . mgc;\i—ml:. moral or spxn_}‘ a1, that 1::» theic‘mluklrn z sul\t»\_rfu:;a; seed. ¢ Put what “gets my goat” is why! IHe w speaking figuratively, of|the farms were handie 3 % S »{world has ever seen. ust was the | multitude of sins: sins of g those lcHAPS WwhBEDGS 15 a » meant was explain- | “good management” bn Piz oaks from » acorns grow! st . 6 If you didn’t do your work right, ose chaps who buy it from me and t D! gemeng! Mrat the blade. then ths sxr, thén the m:h;’x t—pm:»‘ "A'! tha- came after nt-sz, sins” of shafi cor ey | then;” if vou allowed fhe crop to i‘;q ay the extra price, doa’: take that did. This was to take | more: there wa$ ¥pb 3 Sora 48 18 Al ;';“M .JL m',h logical “1 V‘"”r‘m“h' of g noz; “r“;n.'“flm p, sins of slot Wif come stunted from Iack of fortilizati n | little trouble for th c2s and s a day, at intervals, and |on a’ majority of the t . causc_Texing- | sins of g : w4 o tilage; it you m,ed to use good | their m i and quite at his ease| And, when the ins Hod years azo, | Bistoriga's pages. Yot ther sore onty| poorly he ean do It and maks it Dass Sogon. "0"_ 'If');ou"“:lr} -}:in;f o "l Eecte oy 1 o Ch T f\hoj\ o i f;’.:t“""{5;',’:3,:',',‘,';gfim\“_‘?”"‘f.”‘f1““iA “get away with It,” as the phrase 008, | winter, to suffer it s deteriorate | COuld raise it her it from their | when engaged in harder |seizure of sm . than ten | they misht rever tas teans 10T 11 perhaps the world is n> worse in | through lack of care;—then mot even | OWR are none of them, ST | vention of sm g L - fnd s e this respeet than it always has been. | (he wisest farming. nex: spring, will | S0.Tic : ] cep the loose ends | other. - v 8 :| Ever sine> men have had their eyes | But certai i “appreciably | insure a whelly desirabiz crop. LSl ! nsitol e NHc) g i ! open and their ! the most | anv better. book, Dr.| little thi ane Godules jafier thedlttle s ettt e e SR is a little thing to =0 out into|make o 1 ve | cause | agement, while from a stampy pole in preaching the of little| the work is od, now, | the corn-patch in earl- September, |all three. it 11y did es0: and select the ears which are row- inz on the hest stalks and them- es the carliest and besf formed. thing te trace them up them. safe from the weather | ndent to ripea their Aduring the dorment Tt is a litfle thing to se soil vou plan to plant Tt is a zeed-hed mellows the to see th: thin ossed in big think so. | -Especially e little leaks. nation'’? Not prices f as it was nineteen hundred vears ago! been thinking of ¥ '1e.\g1. = e A It nd han, nd the potency even ou ire. In this for littie thi the preciab; proved in 1 hundred yeor: and there, are evidences | minds appreciate the im- | the infinite mental from ap- little | {He had an oil las eac Iivent over it, ca bearing. and drawin all the exposed metal part work en a Imow ents them import rag over He was en I came : A year ago, from a corn pfl&ch of | | hardly r SIY th " said 1, “Goin’ to begin hay- worth which, at r wouldn he responded; han't use this- season,,. But a little oil 5 s than a year ago, a bearin’s, now,“keeps it*over He L 1 s ican. with two or three French w em to the |afternoon’s winter in better shape for next sum- Shalespeare 0) men to help him, started in = to zo over | little thing. mer’s work.” 5 & . i t to see if he n breal large, that He mows fifty or sixty acres, each and ‘has h4d this same ma- vea “It's gettin’ a Ht- old,” he remarked, “but at present ces of farm machinery, I guess it's aper to take care of and maks = 10 be thrown “Mo: form of v handing worl manufacturers ith a Little Wheat. raised fit to make t 1d new Looking after the liftle things, you see; the little rust: ‘that might eat d roughen if not weaken some o the C ourselve: Why, | know of farmers who bu ! all their butter. They don't keep even | jone cow. all their meat mine with a good all his sugar. be- doing more ndward if we I cad to eat during for mie s a reaper and other thine tehed or ¥ or . oven | mewer is still ‘ ing the meadow where it was used in ‘Julys ©,’And this last T i on his farm - the express pur- t mower and a and a few other ving mak ; Bonja were pite up | beets raised on ever there \was g time whetiwo Aiar moyw, separate from the|last farmer isn needed:. to Tl o n Ao i the thresher came, these|the shortage of -“‘Mn’-"mr i : e F A DG were thresied out first. | his own farm suppl sible % e y 1 producing but one o 4’,‘ o'to vielded almost two bushels of | first i O 1t took man and horse less| eleven IS S R P R o | o hours to rake them up and can't get sugar increased ole tio I i m in. With wheat at $2.40 1gh to go ’round ed, this is is, for | have done it. Tn f Longfel- was $4.30 for a time when should be calk- is that time. Ruth in t A recent have gleaned | hany county, might e Local Fa e b i tle more that even the horse iry f; e when the {rake skipped. But I don't think ar ten cow should be ‘ 1 r wheat-grower near me took : Armwike - as I5 a nail 2 small thing produced seven, rouble to save what the reaper m ru ¥ his is that ] 2 ohor senses e enou ed. Tve had 2if barrel ground from that bunch of scatter Toiland County. $400,766 ON HIGHWAYS WORK IN THREE COL nd which LARGE COAL POCKET BUILT 8Y JEWETT CITY MILL tle building in vear on aeg- ymond Ou- | Clifford C modern e rooms. ations in the over- the Ash- C was con- ve. The cost of ex- and building was position a rtitions, and Turner, Guy Underwood, J ack, John < orizinal pur- | Utanovich, | betcre of maintainig Peter J. Van Vyanik, Eimer studio. 5 1 h artistie, a notable Daniel Howar 5 i Wm, A. Weeden, | to buckets drop it butes the it. trestle. coal. Tt handling car of 50 run but in- ar P. 8 nian ‘lm\ Fra'fl( A \’\lllcox Lmn el Wil- uns, Brastt W. Williams, Walter Woodmansee, led into twe terior of the changed and mprovements. nond, Henry "Thom night ¢ microbe, shou thrash MeWilliame : T Torahan, Peter Harold 1d | etts, K Fits; him! ng Mor an. James T. be Morzan, Martin Rin T rrow, Edward H. P Riordo tobak. so, Roy Treadw RORP. WILLIAM A. WEEDEN SEAMAN JAMES J. NEVIN® CORPORAL IRVING E, BOGUE . PRIVATE JAMES H. PERRIN DOMINICK BARBER PRIVATE ERWIN & COHEN (IR« e IR 109 A '