Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-01

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 There is no doubt about it,-this is . big country. A big country with a of different people, too. That's the in tersstfng thing about em. While there are no Chinese walls be- tween the states to separate them. and no very marked unlikeness is seen be- tween the people on opposite sides of the imaginary boundary line, it is still true that there is difference. It be- comes more evident as one takes long CT trips into the interior and studies the types When first went to Bos- ton from York state, the people there used to smile at my sbrogue." could not understand it at the outset. I was perfectly sure that I hadn't any such thing as a ''brogue' about me, and that talked as good and as clear English as anybody from Beacon street. But speech which the beam eaters heard. unlike the speech of Bostonian born. At last I found out that, when was going to the other end of the city, I took a "hor-rse-car-r", while the na- tfves always preferred to go by "hohse- cah-"
 Thafs a small difference, to be sure. but it was only two hundred miles from my birthplace. where the air was Iuik or g. TOunOly sBOuUucQ~ lO 3oOS- ton, whence the east wind had long blown all the ITS" away. When you come to go two thousand miles far ther off the unlikenesses are more numerous and more marked.
 I've been thinking especially of them since looked over a bunch of western farm papers, the other day, and noted what different things seemed to inter est western farmers. It was not only that the articles in the body of the p2per had a different tone, but the ad- vertisements were of an unlike char acter. One Dakota paper gave up several columns to a serious discus sion of whe ther it was worth while or not to save the manure from the stock. Another, in Iowa, advised against the general practice If letting all the corn might be enough fodder gained by saving them to pay the extra labor. Imagin a New England farmer hav- ing to be told that manure and corn. stalks were worth saving! The ad- vertisements included 8 good many tools and contrivances that I could only guess the use for, as well as a good many that were clearly meant to farm whole counties at . time, and must have cost to run about as much as the whole annual tax of a good many New England towns.
 WOF0 W0T0 PtCt0T0S VT hEHSbt0H VU- uinos by the dozen,-all of different makes and each one, of course, ''the very best,"-drawing behind them Rangs of from six to twelve blows each, many with 8 train of harrows behind the plews to harrow as they went along. and seed af the same tarne. One traction engine with two or three men, according to the plains, would blow. harrow and seed from twenty to forty acres day. Of wheat, naturally. It wasn't supposed to be an onion drill, and it wouldn't plant corn. For that thsre was another machine, also drawn by a traction engine. which marked and dropped and covered, in hills or drills as desired. at almost any unim- eginable number of acres per day. the advertising columns, by any means. They were ofton photographs illus trating the text of an article describ- ing MT. Somebody's way of farming his ranch" in 2 designated county One little thing was strikinEly notice doing business in Norwich or Hart ford, or of his farming in Woodstock or Lebanon, these western farmers are never of any particular town, but al ways this, that or the other county. That's about the smallest division of the lands surface which they seem able to bother with. suppose some of them have several towns in their farms and it wouldn't do to say they belonged to any particular one.
 There was . aood deal about irriSa- tion, toe. Talk about your sprinkling pots and your garden hose. Their reservoirs are fn1arl seas apparently navigab1e by steambcats, and their ''ditches" are roaring rivers. Why, in one article describing and picturfng scenes on somebody's 140. 900 acre ranch the Thames was photographed as pouging out 9G the reservoir, while in one picture men were turning the shetucket into an alfalfa field; in an other they were directing the Yantic steeT1ng the ouiuebaug into "corn- oatcA" of several thousand acres The motor boat in wkich they went along xf1o canals was w1sible in a corner of the photograph, nosed into the grassy bank. There wAs another small detail which observed in these pictures, too. St was the fact that all these men wore rubber boots cenafng mp to their hips, and used hoes with handles I should thin1 about nins feet long. Fancy younDu1f going aooalt all day. next hot Julx. with . pa1r Of close rubber boots on. hoefnG m76 Win l1ces a half longer than you are! don't beIievs ninety in che shade is any cooler out there than here, nor that rubber hip boots are any more comfortable in midsummer, nor that the mad is any cleaner or more delicateiy scented.
 Probably ti,srs are. soms farmsrs in Connecticut who look with envy on fhese western chaps and wish they, Ax.<~ xI1 <u~