Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-08

ment next spring. "-"Everybody says
this is the very finest and sweetest eel
cry | ever had; | must be sure to get
the same strain of seed from the same
scotsman, next year. THAT heavy
dosing with fish-scrap gave me simply
tremendous spinach and lettuce. but it
didn't seem to be worth much for on :
ions: Mem. for next year, more fish
scrap on the lettuce patch and some
thing with less nitrogen and more pot
ash on the onion bed" So it has gone.
We are all doing this sort of thing,
whether we raise garden truck, or corn
and potatoes. or oats and rye ana
buckwheat We have to- We are COM
PEELED to think Of 1911 in terms OF
1919. We are always reckoning in the
spring on the harvests of summer and
fall.
But the most of US fail to git thar"
with more than one foot at a time be-
cause. in our life work. single year
or a single rotation period in our field
crops isn't much to consider. 1t has
taken God unthinkable millions of
years TO get the hills and intervals
and lodges and swamps of your farm
into their present shape. He doubtless
could have done it in the fraction OF
a second-if He wanted to. But that
isn't His way. He has acted through
the almost infinitely slow processes of
gravitation and erosion and the other
evolutions of natural law. The farm
er who thinks he can find out in his
900 hours. all about what God has
been putting into one acre in 300, 600
nillenniums. has more gall than
Judgment It's a life work to find out
a part of what We ought to know about
the top six inches of that acre. The
sooner he begins, the more apt he will
be to get at least into his "A-B, abs"
before the time comes for him to crawl
under the green coverlet of the hill
side cemetery.
The trouble with most of us is that
we don't begin soon enough and don't
savait, IF youth only knew'-say
the French. of course youth never
knows-it never can know, for Ger
tain. But it can look ahead and try
to forecast the probable future, and
the more it does of this the nearer it
will come to discOunting that future.
OF course John Jacob Astor didn't
actually know. when he bought land
above Canal street at $50 an acre.
that he would be able to sell it at
$4,000 an acre before many years
But he had watched the movement Of
things: he had studied the tendency
of population and business: he looked
ahead; twenty thirty, fifty years
ahead, and put his hand and his hopes
on that future. His doing so made
him the richest man of his time and
erected his name into a synonym for
boundless wealth.
There's future for US farmers, us
of the on-coming generation. anyway.
We're passing through a pes iod of re-
adjustments political, ethical, social.
economic Eeadjustments. The time is
1i1V.r -. -
all greed and graft: when morality is
going to mean more than a veneer of
hypocrisy over a filing of corrup-
tom when business is going to be
something other than game Of
"heads-I-wint ails-y Ou-lose" When
that time comes the farmer isn't go
ing to be compelled to take five cents
a pound for the lamb which the butch
er sells at % and % cents; nor a dol
lar a barrel for the apples which the
fruit dealer sells at five or ten dollars.
He is not going to be compelled to
use worn out old plugs to drive to
church while the middleman skiddoos
over the horizon rim in his 5000 au-
tomobile. He isn't going to abe re-
quired to work hard fourteen hours a
day TO get the mere necessities of life
when economists are agreed that if
all men did useful work, less than half
those hours would supply all the de-
AAeliiuS VI SlNlilEdIlOi
The time is comma, and it's dawn
ing even now shows cheerily over the
eastern hills, when the farmers of the
land viii come into their own and
their lives become real living instead
of mere existing. It's the best time
that ever was for young men Wit
sane minds in sound bodies to get on
the band-wagon" which is moving to-
wards that destination. Perhaps nv
figure IS wrong: | should say the hest
time to hitch their hopes and their
aspirations and their vieor to that
band wagon and help to pull or push
it forward Instead of flocking from
the farms to the city. the young men
of the country. if they could be cot
to look into the future and see the
possibilities which it IS holding before
them, would turn back contentedly and
hopefully and helpfulIv to their an
building the smooth and level high
way on which the chariot of their
eventual success shall roll
It's life job. We must take it as
such. We are not day Iaborers. We
are called for all the years we have.
The sooner we begin the more and
better work we can do The longer
our outlook the surer> our success We
build not for the passing hour but
for the coming years. It's a work to
early and one to stick to.
1t calls not only for vigor but for
patience. Did you every think of
Gods patience? I don't mean merely
His patience with you and me. ''miser-
able sinners" but His patience with
the whole round world and the illim-
liable universe which is but the ema-
nation of His will-the patience be-
fore which "a thousand years are but
a yesterday when it is past ." The
farmer who possesses even a CLINT of
the divine foresight and even a grain