Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

G001UlM0lIUA ID ECVH0M
(written Specially for The Bulletin
friend who honors me by reading
these desultory talks and who Aatters
me quite as much By his occasional
11ssidence as by his usual Good boy,
John this friend tells me frankly
that he thinks l wasting time,
zeal and printers ink in preaching CO.
operation to farmers What's the
use7" he asks. You can't twist rope
of sand. you can't make oil and
water mix; you can't pick peacock
feathers OF barnyard hens: you can't
make a good plow-team with any num-
Der of off-horses-
"HcId on, right there says I; I've
seen spun glass that you could twist
into a rope or weave into a cloth. and
It vas melted out of sand: i m using
every year an emulsion made by
~hurnfng oil and soapy water together
TIL they do exactly mix: If the mill
merry people can't make peacock
plumes out of hens feathers its pc
cause the men who make the siberian
lynx out of American tom-cats have
lost their cunning: and you can tram a
horse to work on the nigh side as Wen
as the of side.-if you begin When
he's young enough
He came back at me:-Thats all
well enough to talk but you can
melt down a lot of farmers in cruel
bic as glass makers do sand nor can
YOU soak 'e1n for weeks in watts Of
chemicals as the feather fellows do
chick-a- biddy's quilts, nor can you
bride EN- and bit 'em and drive en-
with reins and whip as you can a
horse know yourself, ne went
on. that they're pigheaded, STUD
born lot: each one thinks he knows
more than any of his neighbors and
every consumed rnan-Jack of EN-. IS
liz cot in
nothing short of dynamite Will move
him You might as well preach to
lock of crows or argue with span
OF stake-y horses Each one IS 1So4 l
every man. and every mans hand Is
against hin-or he thinks it is He
going tostand all his life pitchfork IN
hand on his own particular ant-hll,
and the tines'll be into you sooner or
later il you try to get him OF IT, OF
10 get up on il with him"
~New, see here" I broke in. you're
Zoo durn sweeping in your statements
You don't mean that all the farmers IN
this town are numbskulls- I'm FARM
or and you're either exaggerat1ng now
or were lying last week, when you told
Mrs Farmer that you liked to talk TO
me because 1 could appreciate rea-
son You're q farmer yourself, ana a
pretty good one as they run: you GER
tzinly don't mean to label yourself a
X
here in this barnyard. that have ad-
r77itredly got some sense and some rea-
son and are more or less amenable to
argument Don't you suppose there
might be tWO'r three more scraped mp
in town II We should go over it with a
fne-tooth comb2
-Aw stop your kiddin'." said he,
rrinning little sheepishly, "of course
Exceptions be bowed" 1 retorted;
every mans an exception to some
rule or other: we haven't any Two
OF us lust the same number OF hairs on
our heads. but mighty few are abso-
lutely bald--You don't think much OF
Neighbor Sherman's way of farming,
DO Eou
And you think Hoskins is a sort of
contrary old crank don't you2'
You're putin it mild"
How much sugar do you use in
why. I dunno. never reckoned 1t
Don't you have standing order
with Packers delivery clerk to leave
you a ten-pound bag every week
Thar-s what your wife says
Then it's So what she says goes,
DO you know what you're paying?'
'-N-no. guess il varies some
she says you've had little at SIX
rents and a good deal at six-and a-half
ard some at seven. that II Il average
NJ least six-and- half
That settles it; she knows What
We drivin' at. anyway
Now listen TO me-" / says Hos
kins and Sherman and L each use
about 500 of sugar year, You seem
&c use about the same That Is we
Your use at least a ton year At So
cents for teu-pound bag we're paying
$3.50 a hundred or $3.50 a ton But we
can buy ton in New York at S3-l5
hundred less one per cent for cash, or
sID7 for the ton. That is a saving of
%e s--- IF rrz 81 apiece NON
Il 81 worth your saving VIII You
Join US and make the fourth TO buy
that TOM
Seven dollars, eh2 Why, dunno
how r7uch's the freight ?"
seventy cents apiece
Lets see. I'd have 10 pay out
You'd pay out s26-25. and you'd save
s5-25, which is something like twenty
per cent Gettin' anything like that in
terest on your other investments?
by George. / guess not Say, I'm
with you: I'll bring the money over
tonight. after chores When're you go
IN to sendZ
Nov there was vivid illustration
or the way in which farmers can at
least begin TO cooperate Four Of us
reizhbors. one crochety. and one con-
fzry. and one captious. and all four
as csntankerous as they make EN-
and we've actually started Cooper
alive Buying Association We're GO
ing to save money We re SoiAis 10 saw
frouble-there won't be this year, any
getting out of sugar before the de-
livery va zon IS due: we're going to
zppreciate more or less keenly, the
ADVANTAGE of joining hands for mutual
saIf-he1p over the customary pOtting |
NJ each other from behind our
r@ps-ate stumps 1t won't be very long
before some of the four will begin Won
6eriur why we can't combine in the
same way to buy our own cattle salt
and phosphates and our barn feeds
Perhaps new Rochdale association
nav lust have been born on the side
~ Podunk Mountain which our grand
children will see doing a many million
dollar business Who knows2
Thsre are farmers and farmers
There are Some SO stupid or so stub |