Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-15
A FARMERS TALK TO FARMERS
Farm Restrictions and Farm ResourcesWhat Cannot be Accomplished in One Way May be in Another-A Swiss uIl Team-Dog and Buck Tower for Churning A Buck that rotected Chestnut Grove.

Newfoundland had been trained to the work and saved a good} many weary hours to the housewife in the course of q year. Something happened to Nero-Tve forgotten just what, now and the dairyman had to return to hand-power He had a heavy buck sheep in his flock, and the idea struck hdm that something might he done with old Aries. At least il was worth trying. l don't remember how he broke MT. Buck in but he did it, and from that time on for a series of years this buck and his successors churned the cream regularly Undoubtedly electric power would have been handler, prob ably a small steam engine would have been better. But electric power hadn't been harnessed those days, and my Deighbor didn't know how to run a steam engine,eve if he had owned one. So he utilized the waste power in his big sheep. If might not have been the best form of power in the universe but Tit did the work.
 Some years ago ! had a peculiarly intelligent and powerful buck at the head of my little flock. We called him Baby" because he was such q tiny. weak little thing when he came it the expense of his mothers life. He had tn be brought up by hand, 'on the bot tie" and this process WOnted him to human companionship and seemed to give him an insight into some human ways of looking at things. He grew to be as big and dangerous looking an snimal as l ever saM, of his kind, and it used to seem q ridiculous misnomer 10 call the big. bullying chap Baby" But that was his name, and he held it to the last. He and I were great chums. He was always the first to see me and come bounding to me, follow ing, like dog, as far as fences would permit He recognized his position as head and guardian of the flock. from the first when he was put among them, and woe betide the over-playful calf which undertook to take jocose liber- ties with any member of his charge. And if a stranger entered the pasture he would watch that fellow mighty close. Generally. he would walk up to him. sniff a little at him, strike that forefoot two or three times on the grounc-and then actually seem to grin as the visitor took a bee-line for the
 [ had no use for him running a ehurn, but I have small grove of chestnut trees which fol. years the boys of the village had pillased every fall. It oc- cured to me one autumn day as the burrs were beginning to open, that Baby might serve as discoura ger Of chestnut stealing. So l threw down trees. and from that time on had no nutters in my grove. I actually saw no invasion and repulse, but l suspect that there must have been a few en- 6a boys. once. when l was waiting at the village postoffice for the mail to open, a certain small boy began a converse ton with me which he led diplomatic ally around to the subject of sheep and bucks.
 Say. have you got a buct?" he final ly asked.
 I thought began to see light, and answered that had, and n mighty ugly one, too. 'Tisn't safe to get near him" went on unless you know just how to get away if he starts for you. or are big enough to catch him and hold him"
 "GoIiy" said the small boy, T guess it would take a grown man to do that"
 Yes" I answered, It's mans job"
 Whereupon the small boy edged away. don't know. but suspicion that he had had experience with Baby" and was anxious for inside information as to just how far it was safe to negoti- ate with him.
 Now, this might not have been espe- cially money making work for buck to do-keeping boys away from ones chestnuts-but it was something prac- teal and something a little out Of the ordinary use of bucks. I felt quite eIated over my ability to get this sort Of service out of the beast. And had some of my own chestnuts to roast that season.
 I've read of some farmer who had fallen heir to an old automobile, jack ing it up in his bornyard and using it to saw his winters wood. Also, in recent farm paper, was cut of some body actually blowing with one. When they get real cheap so l can afford l one-say about two dollars and a half | -I shall extpriment along these or similar lines. If you're going to have an automobile, or big buck. or q triple of registered bulls why not get l all the use out Of 'em that you can 7 | From the most unlikely quarters we can sometimes secure esrVice that | counts for economy And. even if some ! of our city friends do think us farmers | ''stfngly old hunks" we must bear the | charge calmly. remembering that our incomes are seldom great enough 10 | prevent the necessity Of constant econ | omizing in even the smallest details. | Most of us can hope to thrive not so | much through enlarging our incomes | as through reducing our outgoes. Ev- | cry little thing which does that helps.
 THE FARMER.