Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

written Specially for The BuIIetin.)
If you can't save anything on a
regular salary of $50 month, don't
think about farming-it would be no
use whatever for you to do So
I quote the above from a letter writ
ten by a practical farmer Of a western
state to his nome paper Perhaps 1t
viii set you thinking-it has me- The
idea is quite different from that which
a good many writers on country sub
Jects put forth. 1t has the weight of a
real farmers real experience behind It
Too many OF the finely written articles
in the agricultural papers are backed
rather by hope and Imagination than
by solid facts Moreover. as [ think
have said once or twice before, too many
which are based on actual experience
are based on unusual experience
When q farmer who takes farm pa
per regularly and reads every week
about the doings Of his brother farm
srs happens to raise a phenomenal
crop he is apt TO send a line about it
- his paper This is natural Common
occurrences are not news The big
EesJ thing that happens in the world
any day is the sunrise Yet the news
papers don't feature the event every
morning and give it flash head and
double loaded type. It's the regular
thing you see, and therefore not inter
eSting as news" Likewise when you
raise a common. every season crop of
potatoes the fact is not news But
when You raise eight hundred bushels
10 the acre and sell them for a dollar
e buSheI in the field-wily. that's worth
sending to the papers. And you prob
ably send It. You don't mention the
other facts your rye didn't head and
Your oats lodged and rotted and your
beans rusted and the cutworms got
Your corn But you send out for all
the world TO admire what a big profit
YOU made in potatoes
Other farmers read it and shake their
heads obviously, while their inner souls
grow envious- Would-be farmers read
n and rea son that what you have done
they can do They think they can COM
Pei every time the luck which has
fallen to you. Editors all over the coun-
try clip your item and republish it.
as showing what crops Connecticut
farmers can raise. White handed clerks
and bookkeepers in city offices and tir-
ed Workmsn in city shops read it. and
others like IL and begin to banker after
the easy work and big pay of farming.
4 good many give UP something better
than thirty dollars a month because
tney can't live on IT and start out to
make more money on a farm. Once in
q while One OF these succeeds. But too
many times the result is v@retchedness
the lifelong misery which follows on
the heels Of a stupendous mistake.
The other day The papers ehronicIed
the shipment Of hfty-hVe tons of
broom corn from Missouri at the f. O.
b. price Of 1925 a ton This is the
highest price paid since the civil war
It means q big profit to the broom
corn growers as well as to the broom
merchants Shall we all, therefore go
into broom-corn raising this season
Common sense Forbid A farmer in
Texas reports so per cent. profit In
sixty days on q hog-feeding expert
Inent- He lives in the rice belt and
bought rough rice at S1.5o per sack of
ks2 pounds to feed them with. They
liked il. grew fat on it, and he made
the profit stated Perhaps others could
do as weII-IF they could buy rice at
less than a cent a pound. But how