Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-25

, ing machine and go back to the old scythe would be a poor farmer as well note this, the moving machine is a country Improvement, developed for country service, and not city fad grafted awkwardfy on country condi- tions. The city man with a front yard" six feet by nineteen doesn't buy a moving; machine and a horse rake and self binding reaper to care for l it. It would be simple idiocy for him to import these vastly useful country tools into the city where they do not belong. They would be out of place ances. But any ohservant man in the country sees too many cases all around him, where country people are abandoning the simple and seernly customs and cOnveniences of the coun- try for city systems or suggestions or devices, all more or less incon grtlOus and out -of-cfaracter. It's too bad. A farm is not park. A meadow is not lawn. An orchard is not an ar horetnn1 4 potato patch is not 2 arboretums are all right in city or it's suburbs, where real farms and real meadows and real orchards would be out of place. Yet have heard of an old farm house which once stood in 2 garden Of old-fashioned holfyhocks and tiker-M lilies and fire piiiks and early potatoes and lettuce and asparagus and so forth, with a surrounding of fruit trees, apples and pears and cher ries and plums. That poor house has now been *renodelled till 1t is an eruption of gabFes and 'loggias" and towers and dormers. The hollyhoclxs and fire-pinlxs have been dug out and the potatoes and cabbages relegated to poorer land, which is, however, out Of sight. The fruit trees have been %@I ~sr 1<I xrrf{1 imported shrubs and trim foliage plants in ordered borders, with a few young naples and elms, which the new city bred owner remembers are allow ed in the city as shade trees.
 Nor ie that tfe worst of 1t. All oyer the neighborhood real farmers are be- Ing infected with the contagion from this country show place. They are spading olrt the roots of the stately old perennials which fit the rural at annuais and teflder exotics such as IS Mir. City Man has. They are growing :tssaIilet. of the sturdy and beautiful and useful apple tres which are the natural shade trees of the farm, and ungratefuliy are making firewoods out of the friendly booghs that used to fill the cellar with aromatic and whole some fruit. Instead they are going to set out nAgnolias and, deutztas and purple fringe trees, such as MT. City Mans high salaried gardener from abroad has scattered over his lawn.
 Oh. yes. we're getting quite "citi- fed in the country-in a sort of ape like. ,parfoty way We're copyinx and emuiattn, and some of us are mak- ing quite passable fmitations; The other day l took a city friend to a ctaracteristic country gathering. His verdict was that he saw very little diff ference between the people there and in the city, either in dress or speech or manner. suppose. he thought this 1t for one But, was it ? Stop and think that over bit. rather like to see a pair of sturdy farm horses, big necked ana big footed, with somewhat shaggy hides as Nature made lem, taking a around q square of stearny April sWard. They, belong with the picture of the gray upturned soil, and the less ching area of green, and the pasture slopes beyond with forested hills c1os- i4g up the distance, But I should laugh right out loud to see that same team in that same harness with that same driyeEs in the same blue overalls driYfug dQWp Broadway abead of a pia1o- -Varnished carriage with Mr,, and Mrs Dives. as passengers. It would Rs just as ludicr9t,s to bring up fr9nn " two minute records and put them behind my blow. Things belong where they belong. That which is useful and necessary in :. it's place becomes a blamed nuisance out of it's place
 City dsvsIopment along city lines is or should be. the end of city residents. Country development along country lines is or should be the end of coun- try people, Some things for our good we may learn from the city. Some things for their good city dwelIers might learn of us. But when either one of us sets out to initiate and copy the other, merely for the sake of doing as, that. other. does, then we cease to act reasonably, and lower ourselves to the level of the initiative ape or the repeating parrot.
 Ths way 10 make country life better Is to make 1t more consonant with the country order: not to attempt a slavfsh following of the city.
 You cant make white pine into a peach tree by any sort of pruning or training All you can do is to spoil what might otherwise have been good pine.
 THE FARMER.
 MuIs Is in His Heyday.
 Do not waste any sympathy on the poor mule. He is neither a has-been nor candidate for that class. He. like the horse, is not suffering any