Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 30, 1920, Page 9

NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, JULY 30: 1920 rained on from one to eleven times after cutting. t's been the sort of season Wwhich piays ducks and drakes with all one's theories and most ‘of one’s experiences. 1 don't know what the rain gauges have to re- port, nor do T care. One doesw’t have to look af the weather bureau's report to know whether the sun has risem or not. Nor does a working farmer have te rely on rain gauges to tell him when he is soaked to the skin and his soil poach-y mud for weeks on end. Never before, in my time, has there been such an excess of siop and such a lack of summer warmth on my half acre. Such semi-tropical garden crops as tomatoes and Lima beans show it most plainly. They are simply sick—scik for sunlight and heat which they are not getting in even wonted measure. We are saving somé remmants and driblets. such as escape the worst of it. But ali the rules of the game have had to be abandoned. There are no rules any more this year. Some things go by con- traries and some by default. Everything has to be done on the jump and without semblance of orderly procedure. It is catch-as-catch-can, with double the usual amount of worlk for each operation, and much less than the usual return. he would admit was that there were dif- ferent kinds of “good” weather. 1 wish he had been trving to raise vegetables in my gardens since last Aprii, or trying to “hay it” sinee last Monday! I should really like to hear him en- large on his text a little after those ex- periences. "It T were a frog probably it would have seemed quite jolly to me. And it is not unlikely that the angleworms have found earth burrowing unusually easy. It has also done womders for quack-grass and pussiey and pigweed Earlier in the season I thought the continued wet and cold was going to help the pastures anyway, till the shortening up of my cows’ milk-yield led to a closer investigation. Then I discovered that, stead of stimulating the growth of pas- ture grasses, it had nurtured a simply phenomenal eruption of wild thyme, dog- daisies and wild ecarrots, whiech were riot- ing luxuriantly and actually smothering out the useful ‘:mrl nutritious forage. itten Specially for The Bulletin.) parrots people are! actually rain yesterday. It v and cold and sour and epressing day to me; an im- the haymakers; a dis- the corn and oats; a = day 1o the potatoes. birds, sat huddled up in airly radiated discourage- r so much as a “chee- Everything mast be dome when it can be, almost never When or as it should be. Only once have we had a week of real summery temperatare. And the whole vegetable world having been started with its roots in the mud amd the top inch of soil soaking Wwith water, that week, which dried out the top inch, did almost as much damage as a month of July drouth would have done in an ordinary season. Ac- cording ‘5 theory, ome can combat a drouth by keeping the cultivators going £o as to create a “dust mulch” on the surface, thereby conserving the moisture lower dowr. But when all the roots of all your plants are in that top inch, in- duced to stay there by the plentiful soak- ings it has had, the dustier the mulch Yyou make of that said top ineh, the worse off are the poor roots. We soon found that didn’t work at all, at all one-half of my customers truck with a perfunctory 1 thought the first one was joking. But e I tried to my own, back takes e never g the jocular. and said hing equal- duck anyway? and that ange from drizzle and ying pan may han the fire, 1 Not a single one of my erops is up to the average. Green peas have done the best of any, but they were three weeks iate. Aspafagus was the poorest vield in twenty years; spinach went to seed before + classing it as | it had time to make leaves; lettuce ran No; T had | up to stalks before it would head: string conclusion that | beans waited till after their usual bear- ng time before deciding to blossom; sweet corn just stood still in sheer des- peration. waiting vainly for a bit of sun and warmth to set it growing; early po- tatoes found their hills of mud no place In fact, I can’t think of amy #heory of farming which has been worth drawing to this season. They've all had to be flung into the discard. There hasn't been a trump among them. Instead of looking over the crops of a bright summer morn- ing and saying: “Well, what's the right thing to do today?’ we've waded out through the wet grass and sticky mud, squinted at the doubtful sky, peered at the suffering plants. wandered back to seek vainly for information from the fo deveiop tubers in: cucumbers ~and | Wibbly-wobbly barometer and the JigEy- me and squashes just marked time|JoZgly weather glass, and then said in T don’t kuow what sort of weather all | Sy i “avancing, and 8o on and so on, | desperation: “What in thunder can we do he farms of The Bul-| g no ot that will be of any use?’ wring this neck o woods it | Even thehay crop, which seemed to L We've ali | promise better than usual, turned out a ist who de- | deceivi sham—all stalks and no bottom, had been and|and I don’t know of a load being barned weather AN |in my neighborhood until it had been ‘Whatever wae the conclusion, it didn’t | amount to much, for the rain was prac- tically certain to drive us in before noen. Frog farming is the only sort 1 ever heard of which can be conducted in the bad ! Goédyear Mileage =and Tires . for Small Cars A well built tire yields much more mileage for each dollar of cost than a tire purposely made to be offered " at a sensationally low price; buy the tire, not the price. Built to deliver exceptional mileage at exceedingly low cost, Goodyear Tires, of the 30 x 3-, 30 x 3% and 31 x 4-inck sizes, save inconvenience, disappointment and money. Their value results from the appli- cation of Goodyear experience, ess and care to their manu- facture in the world’s largest tire water in this latitude. And that is not in wy line. Heing a rather Hayseed practioal minded old . I have wondered much, while standing in the barn door wateh ing he rain come gown, where really- truly “scientific farming” would come in, such a time. The more I think about it, the more fixed I become in my conviction that tliere is no such thing as a “science of agriculture.” A famous sclentist dnce put a great truth in a homely form when he remarked that astronomers could caiculate the or- bits of Jupiter and Pelaris, but no human being could ever caleulate the orbit of a fiy. See the point? Science can deduce “laws" which gov- ern the moNegagpts of reasonably regular occurrences. ut what science thus far developed can -caleulate the conduct of bugs and bacteria, of droughts and del- uges? There probably is a “law” which governs them, but nobody has ever® yet got near enough to it to sprinkle salt on its tail. So far as we are concerned in practical farm working, there is apparent ho more sequence or system such mat- ters than in the aimless flight of a fiy. None of us any longer attempt to tell what the fly is going to do next.. We wait till it lights and then wat” it, if we can. Buf we can’t “swat” the me- teorology Gt the universe, even when it lights on us with forty million fly power. There is an art of farming. See dic- jonary for difference between “art” and “science.” It Would take a mighty smart man about thirtéeen ordinary human I to learn that art alone. And general sci- ence may and oftén Joes enable us to turn new lights on farming roblems. We farmers would be wasteful of opportunity and unmindful of responsibility if we neg- lected any source of information or re- fused any promising offer of assistance But the longer I live and work on the farm, the more skeptical T become of the existence of an: ‘'science of agricuiture.” Or of any “orbit” for the flight of a fiy. It's an srt, as has Been said. It must be learned as every other art i€ learned; partly from teachers, partly from oooks. but chiefly from practice. No artist or artisan, learning art or trade, will disdain or refuse the help of teachers or of books or ienore old established rules. at least during his apprenticeship. Nor can the farmer afford to. But if he ties hintel? up to such things and attempts to limit himself by them; it hé tries to formulate the unknown or map out the undiscovered. he is inviting trouble. He might as well try to grade a motor highway over a fogbank or pre- dict the orbit of that beforementioned fly. It is barely possible that, in some future of vastly increased knowledge, some su- perman by the aid of comic sections and differential calculus and various other mathematical profundities may be able to predict beforehand where the fiy will light and how it'll get there. But at present it can’t be did. Similarly, it i barely possible that some future sunerman may sometime de- velop out of the beggarly elements at hand a real science of farming. But thus far it hasn’t been done. 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The Famous Elvita Remedies sold at all first-class drug stores.—Adv. CLARK'S FALLS | About 4 o'clock Saturday morning light- ning struck the chapel. The bolt, which | seemed to have struck in the peak in, front, entered the building, splintering a| rafter badly, then ran down into the wood | room. tearing 'off plastering, also tearing | clapboards off around a window near the door. Tt also broke a pane of glass a large hole in the ground under window. -Cassius Collins, who w: in_the house nearest the chapel, out of the window and saw flas| splinters fiying in every direction Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Babeoc erly visited the forme: Mrs. Henry ¥, Babcock, Mr. and Mrs. erly visited Mr. M Maine, Sunday. Bradford Perrin of Boston is stayi for a few days in rooms here of brother-in-law, George Brown of West- erly, who was here over Sunday Postmaster had fine dahliad for several vears. looked anit | of West- Mr. and All Young Men— 16 to 80 would be more comfortable on hot summer days in a Keej Summer Swit. Light in weight—smart in styls—correct in failoring. Kee) MACPHERSON'S “FOR QUALITY” trade-mark name—it is the hall mark of quality in fashion and fabric. The local Keep-Kool dealer has styles for men and young men of every age and build—and in every fashionakle color ranging frem light washable Be sure your Summer Suit dark effects. know you have the best. J. C. MACPHERSON QUALITY CORNER is more than patterns to rich bears the Keep-Kool label—then you'll ~. Opposite Chelsea Savings Bunk some already in bloom. He has m other beautiful flowers, including clim roses i Barber’s hall. where the meet- zround, nothing in the barn Was Mr. and Mrs. . Frank Palmer. also Mr. | R it e h‘“w\ faiine | Among the contents was a ndarly and Mrs. Allan Maine and son Robert| ™% ¥ 3 3 | Stoningion | team Wwagon belonging to Mr. Ve Were at Aflantic Beach last Friday and | SPirits wers on hand, one company of four aller i this place, Fred Schultz is helping Jesse enjoyed the day with other eifiployes of | from four miles away: but a postone- 5 v at the | mond with his work. the Line and Twine company | ment was deemed adv The meeting held: a Otto near —— |is now planned for evenine. £0. ‘Tuesc ——= A | Au at 7.30, and the topic will be | s e ASHFORD | i e e e U 7| Children Ory The big storm of Saturda: the Ashford Welfare associ v last made it | good roads, farm product impossible to hold ‘the evening meeting of | tries. This is a public meeting for all in- tion as p]:m-} tere Rev. William Fryling with his family will take the month of August for a va- cation, spending the time at Atlantic Beach, R. L. Mrs. Austin Copperthweight and dren of Watertown, Cona., are vi with Mrs. Copperthweight's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Atwood. Mrs. Robert Bethell is organist at the church while Miss Gardner is absent. . Mrs. B. B. Kingsbury of Elizabeth, N. J.._is visiting her sister, Mrs. C. A. Wood. Mr. Kibby spent the week end with Norwich friends. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Maynard are mov- ing into the house recently bought by Mrs. Thomas Hughes Miss Dorothy Welles of North Scitu- ate, R. T, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Fred Kies. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wignoll are enter- taining Mrs. Thomas Kirkham, Miss Lot- tie Kirkham and Miss Elizabeth Sparling of New Bedford, Mass. Miss Jennic Raymond is Canada for July. Mr. and Mrs. E. Avery are entertain- ing Mr. Avery's grandfather and his visiting in { housekeeper of Whitinsville; Mass. The Wauregan company is having its tenements painted again. fvery few vears each house is repainted, which ac- counts in no small measure for the clean- liness and neatness of the village. factory devoted to these sizes. If you own a Ford, Chevrolet, Dort, Maxwell or other car taking these ‘ izes, go to your nearest Service | Station for Geodyear Tires—fovr the ‘ real worth and endurarnc: that Cood- | year builds into the., Goodyear Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubes cost ne i I sffhf”d’$23g)' more than the price you arc asked to pay 5 = e for tubes of less merit—why risk costly 1 k ontper: casings when such sure protec- Cors Fabei, 32129 tion s available? 30x 3l size $4§9_ 1 1 WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF GOODYEAR TIRES, HEAVY TOURIST . TUBES AND ACCESSORIES GOODYEAR SOLID AND PNEUMATIC TRUCK TIRE DISTRIBUTORS FOR NEW LONDON COUNTY NewLondon THE A. C. SWAN CO. Norwich GOODYEAR PASSENGER CAR AND PNEUMATIC TRUCK TIRES AND SERVICE Mrs. Thomas Hughes has bought the property formerly owned by Louis Mes- sier, situated in West Wauregan. A number of berry pickers are going | from here to Oneco to pick as there seems | to be an overabundance of large berries | in_that locality. The storm of Satérday afternoon blew limbs from some of the trees here, one faliing across the road and trolley track in front of the mill, causing some delay i traffic. LAKE The Brotherhdod camy, who . enjoyed ten days here, have returned to their New York. Daniel Marra visited her son at ackus hospital Tuesday and found xm as comfortable as could be expected after an operation on his ankle. Gilbert and Grant Denison of Norwieh are visiting their grandparents, Mr. awd Mrs. Eililah Lathrop. Miss Lois V. Latimer of Nerwich is a guest at Camp Konjocketry. Miss Althea Lewis of Norwich and J. F. Moulton are at Hill Top. " Miss Fthel Champlin of Hartford is vis- iting her mother, Mrs. Ella Champlin. Miss Jeanette Schuorr and Clarence Walker of Brooklyn, N. Y., réturred home after visiting Miss Schnorr’s sister, Mrs. Norman D. Boynton. Mr. and Mrs. Leo The Lesen are at Oak Tree house. Mr. and Mrs. Earl De Wolt of Seot road and Mr. Aliern retwmed h‘;:: Thursday, Mr. De Wolf and Mr. Aherm completed haying at the Lake House farm. A commumity service at the M. E. church Sunday was well attended. M. and Mrs. Adam CHop have returned to Brooklyn after two weeks’ stay. Mr. and Mrs. Merton Johnson and sem of Norwich and Mrs. Fitch Jolinson are at Idle Hour esttage for several daye. Baird Tire and Supply Co. 337 Main Street PHONE 1600 Norwich, Conn. o paralyzed the electric and new indus- | ton lighting | was gason strug e home of by lightnin, auri Saturday’s storm and burned te FOR FLETCHER'S THREE DAYS from town. s s 0 THREE CHANGES of trains. LR INCLUDING A ride. e g ON A dinky little. P NARROW GAUGE line, ¢ s o - THEN FORTY miles mors, s s s IN A flivver. « RO TILL THE country 6ad. * s PETERED OUT, and stopped, o v o _THEN BY, cance. . THROUGH wooded stieama, v 8 e 8 TILE FINALLY, at the igke, ® e o v 1 MET auy guide -~ .. AND WE made camp, & e e ® THE GUIDE was native - . @ A CHILD of the wilderness. - —— e @ WISE IN wood lors, — e o e AND THE craft of camps: > .. BUT, ABLE neithiet, - e s TO WRITE nor read. LA BUT, WHEN at night. * e BY THE camp fire. LA THERE IN the heart. LA = OF THE “forest primeval” ¢ e o AND A hupdred miles. - e o @ FROM HAUNTS 0f inen. ) 1 GAVE him one "OF. MY) cigaréttes, HE LIT #, drew deop. o & SMILED AND eaid. + s . “THEY. SATISFYX™ . Mmess 3 mething in theirmildsmeoth. that goes right to the spot. Choice tobaccos; Turkish and Domestic=a blend that literally can’t be copied—a glassine wrapper for their extra protection. * On every count, Chesterfields “‘satigfy.* U1