Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 13, 1922, Page 6

green, i} o+ seen! The Oak and Beech and Chestrut then deplored their shabbiness, * And ail, ' their dress. “For fashien-plates we'll take the flowers” the rustling Maple said, “And like the Tulip I'll be clothed in sple red!” Beech replied; i} “The Marigold my checie shall be"—the C}?‘gstagt spoke L with pride. The sturdy Oak toek time to think—*1 hate such glaring es; : The G‘ill'lyflower so dark and rich, I for my medel cheose.” So every tree in all the grove, except tbe Hemlack sad, According to its wish ere long in brilliant dress was clad. And here they stand through all the soft and bright Octo- ber days; They wished to be like flowers—indeed, they look like huge bouquets! AUTUMN FASHIONS The Maple owned that she was tired of always w&@fln‘gi is ‘1 She knew that she had grown, of late; ten shabby to be except the Hemlock sad, were wild to change | “The cheerful Sunflower suits me‘ best,” the -Hghtsome id gold and (Written Specizglly For The Bulletin.) Pean Dayenport of the Illinois College of Agricuitute and Experiment Statioh ways, ip effect, that the big question of the age is whether farmers are so going o farm it as to make their lands con- stantly richer, or se- g8 to finally de- plete them of all existent fertility. If the former, them we can look for- ward to a steadily brightening future. If the latter, then we shall all eventual- 1v starve to death, because the soils we baye worn out won't any longed produce. Dean Davenport, it may be said, is guite a chap. Born and bred on a Mich- igan farm, he went through the Michi- gan Agricutursl college, and, since 1905, has begn dean of the Ilinois institution. He has just pesigned therefrom, in order to go back to the old Michigan farm on which he was born and take up, in the maturity of hig mental and physical pow- ers, the task of a practical farmer. On his resignation, Farm and PFireside, the well-knawn farm magazine, asked him what he considered the most important A itural prablem which confronts us. gnewer is sn article in the Qctober Farm and Fireside wherein he thus states the problem as he sees it: ible so to operate the land all yield profitable crops and at the same time increase instead of decregse its stores of fertility, or must bumanity exist at the expemse of the natural supply of fertility as it does of coal, for example? Are we as & people simply going through a brief geologic period, only to become extinct like species that have gone before, as soon as we ourselves have destroyed the conditions of our own existence, by working out the stuff of which food is made? Or may we hope for perpetual productivity 2’ Dean Davenport makes no attempt to conceal the fact that he is somewhat pessimistic in his view of the problem and his expectation of the outcome. He eompares the average farmer's ‘methods with those of the coal miners and the timber exploiters, who are rapidly and prodigally” destroying in our own cen- tury the stores which nature spent ages in accummulating. While he admits that a few of the better farmers are 50 handling their farms as to leave them better year after year, he asserts that the average farmer is “mining the land as effectually to exhaustion as we are working out our coal mines and as we have destroyed our great forests.” “Mining” ‘he land, not “farming” it is the charge, you observe. Robbing it, notfostering Suckin, dry and leaving only a shell. Forever drawing at the tap without as persistently filling the reservoir. Mr. Davenport admits that there is little use asking an average farmer to incur additional expense for it Norwich Market Growers’ Association “Within the past ten years modern science has discovered the reasons why certain foods are so efficacious in main- taining health and strength, correcting physical ailments, and encouraging growth. VEGETABLES have been found to be among the most valyable food materials known to the human race. Vegetable products provide a succulence, bulk and supply of VITAMINS which excel in health preducing properties.”—Mass. Agri. College. Local gardeners are this week bringing to _your table, Spinach, Cabbage, Head and Curly Lettuce, Chinese or Celery Cabbage, Parsley, Fancy Celery, Caulifiower, Beets, Carrots and Turnips. Have some of the above tasty green foods at each meal, and notice how much bet- ter you feel. EAT MORE VEGETABLES! ee Is ome thing mnwg;mwlv true than any Now, it there Is = ?-b&l u can’t take anvthing from thin ithout lessening that something. %&hfqfl draw water from 2 barrely t day after day umless you keep ”?figh’%fin:g} Tunning in at the bun You q,;t draw daily checks against &prig deposit and expect to have m 1 honored, uness you keep up &h@{ posit by adequate renewals. U G MBS Both with the materials needed for g Hon and work-output. "g&”m@w crops, every pound of al h containg sométhing which was orig- ly in the dirt, forever from any spil Without rulning it, unless you put back elements your crops have taken out. It you try any of these things you or vour heirs and assigns will ' certainly m up, sooner or later, against that of undeniable proposition ~that you can't take something from nothing. No doubt. Dean Davenport is right in gsserting that a vast number of so-called farmers are trying to do just that thing. Perhaps the proportion is bigger in the west than in the gast. But it's too big everywhere. It would be too big if there was but one farmer In a township do- ing it. And 'yet, there Is baraly sufficignt rea- son fo despair utterly, bad as the out- 1ok is, and short-sighted as the average man may be. Sometimes the sulky child who will not yield to appeals or exps- tuolations has beeh known to see a new light after a suflicient.spanking. "Th world may come to perilously short commons, sometime, if present practices. continue, but it won't let it- self starve to death without trying al- most anything to avoid it. “What ye diggin’ for?” asked the pass- er of the small boy. ““Woodchuck,” breathlessly responded the lad. “Don’t expect to do ye?” “Got to; we're out o' meat!” Get them hungry enough and even Sir Lelcester Dediock and Lady Clara Vere de Vere would dig out potatoes with their own manicured fingers, rather than starve to death. When the world as a whole gets pushed up to the starvation lipe it will use both its brains and its hands to dig its way back again. It's too bad, though, that any such desperate state should have to be reached. Reflecting thus on Dean Davenport's rather lugubrious progmostications, I cant’ help turning my mind's eye towards that five acre field on Storrs hill where Prof. Esten .is demonstrating the ca- pabilities of The New Agriculture. When one considers what he has done with that unpromising bit of abandoned pasture, what he is now doing with it, and what any other farmer anywhere can do with ,similarly worn-out ~dirt, one is con- { vinced that there are simply tremendous possibilities ahead of the farming world. get him with that hoe. He has shown that the - everywhere present bacteria, which have been for untold ages working in an aimless and desultory way to transform the crude can be organized and brigaded into dis- ciplined allies. * Their hit-or-miss labors can be girected into straight-aimed lines of productive work. They can bs 50 aligned that their scattering and inef- fective fire shall become a sweeping vol ley. They can be so controlled as to draw from the practically inexhausible stores of air and earth at least all the nitro- gen and potash which farm crops must have, but can't forage for themselves. Really, 1t isn’t so much a problem of the land as it is a problem of human in- telligence. We don’'t know all or the half of what will sometime be known about the recuperative and reparative forces of nature. But we know enough even now, to turn almost any worn-out New England brush land into a laugh- ing garden of fertile productivity—if we'll only use the knowledge at our mand. There are millions of acres in China where reckless forest cutting and ig- norant soil mismanagement have chang- ed the landscape to bleak and seeming- Iy hopeless desert. On the other hand, there are millions of acres in Furope which have been cropped for two thous- and vears and are still producing bet- ter yields than our much boasted virgin soils of the west. It isn’t the land nor the climate which is responsibie for these differences, but the care which has been given the land. In other words, it is the human touch which is vital. Energy, industry, thrift, all thése count for much. Intelligence, open-eyed and open-minded, counts for more. If the human race ever starves it will not “be the land's fauit, but the race's own. It will be hecause we haven't had intelligence enopgh or interest enough in our first business to find out its whys gnd whereiores. It will be because we spend our lives robbing the good dirt, instead of managing and nourishing it, Just @t present things don’t look as cheerful as they might. Too many land- owners gre mining their land rather than farming it. Too many are listless and discouraged gnd suky, Too many are timid about trying out new ideas. Too many are dreaming of some easy way instead of considering first the right way. But there i a leaven working in the lump, even now. Give it time, and watch it with hope. The dough may not be as hopeess as it ooks. -~ com- THE FARMER. CHAPLIN Charles Gallup, the contractor - and builder, with a foree of men, is building the mew store at Clark's Corner. The estate of the late Charles E. Ross of South Chaplin, is to be settled by Mrs. Lee Lyon, of Phaenixyille, a cous- jin, who was named as executrix in the {will Mr. Ross executed a few days be- fdre he dled. | The pelitical pot in town i§ warming up for the republican caucus to be held at the town hall Monday evening at 8 o'clock to nomihate a candidate tor representative, judge of probate and jus- tices of the peace. There are several candidatés pi the field for representative and a larger caucus than usual is antici- pated. Chaplin 1s p-ulnfi through a number of changes this fall and has ldst sev- eral of the old residents. * Mr, and Mrs. George B. Howard sold their place in the Center and have gene to Quinebaug, Frank W. Martin sold his farm to Stephen Sokel and moved his family to North Windham. Mr. Martin's farm was one of the argest and mest productive in town and had been the home of five generations of Martins. Mr. Martin had for a ong time been a teacher of the young -men's cass in the Sunday school. Justin B. Holt died last spring and now -Mrs. Holt has closed her home and gome to live with her sister, Mrs. Randall Jones in Andover. BOLTCN NOTCH Mrs. Mary Brownell is visiting her sis- ter, Mrs. Sarah Hale, in Springfield. Mrs./ Mingie Howard returned Monday from QJew York where she was the guest of her daughter, Sadie Howar Mrs. Bessie Clark from Southold, N. ¥., and her sister, Jennie Dawvis, of New London have heen guests of Marvin How- ard the past week. W. H. Rice was in New York to at- tend the: warld ‘series haseball games. Miss Charlotte Dalinger of Hariford, elements of original soils into plant foods, | Let the famous | stars entertain you every night Opera: The music treasures from immortal composers, sung by great artists, such as Ponselle, Hackett and Straceiari. The works of Verdi, Wagner, Gounod and the other immortal composers— are available, The Grafonola brings all the best music righttoyourown home. 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