Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
ATTENTION 10 DETAILS SPELLS SUCCESS


 (WrItten Specially for The Bullstin.)
 The superintendent of d big textile factory told me ones. many years ago. that If his miHs made D profit Of one uiztesnth of a,cent per yard bn the cloth they turned out, they considered it doing very we'll
 'sWhy,r said another successful man. ufaoturer to me. at another time. we do . business running close to seven make a little something out of it only by figuring our expenses down to quarters of cent.y
 For thousAnds Of years, bricklayers have stopped down, picked UP brick, turned 1t over ip the hand to see which planted it in the mortar Within i've years ono big contractor has more than doubled the number of bricks his masono can lAy in . wall daily. sim ply by having the bricks. put on platform % they won't have to stoop, and placed in order right side ups and right end to. 70. thsy won't have to toss them over after GraspinS them. The bricklayers dsn't have to work so hard, they lay more bricks and get better pay, and the contractor makes msrs money. A mighty good thing for everybody. you'll agree. It all comes from what Is nowadays styled scientific. management Which means, between you and me. just eom- mon sense applied to small details.
 Now, we farmsrs. as n rule, are SO top p-lcftically independent. and so overloaded with wealth that we don't have to look after small details. We are above them. Or they are beneath cs. Whichever way you put it. the fact fs that most of us don't see them or try to look after them We ignore them. "Oh, let 1t %, 'twont pay to bother with" How many times have you heard that phrase or one like un- to 1t?
 It's true that we're sharp enough after the pennies and would be after the half pence, if we had such a coin. But that is because our fathers and xrAndfAAherS wore brought up on Poor Richards Almanac" and Knew its shrewd proyerbfal economies by to thsir dAscsndAnts by example if not in open precept. We were brought up in an atmosphere composed of lay err on laysrs Of proverbs about mon 4y saving. Some of us have been made careful of our small change; some of CTS; and some of tiS have been fairly driven by our s'nateral contrayriness'' into reckless wastefulness by that same Poor Richard"
 But when it comes to real farm eoonomies-to the saving of farm wastes--to the complete utilization of our land-to the full use of our are simply reckless spendthrifts. We are, some of us, so down on the very word scientific" that we can't and won't see when the letters really spell common sonee." Moreover. the most of us have % much land that we have "a ~IxyxA manure, mighty thin to cover it. We have 90 much that we aren't compelled to make the most of any part of it We get something eff it," one year after another. and let it go at that.
 When it osmss to selling eur butter and our eggs we're precious keen aftel the extra half -cent pound or dozen old Man Hoskins will dicker ant ehAfRer and go from store to store ant take half day to get six cents more for his twelve pounds of butter. Bu he won't rive one minutes thought nor one hours work towards increas ing his semi-week1y get of butter from twelve to twenty pounds. Som. years ago he was complaining abou the hardness of the times and how h. wasn't getting enough butter from hi three cows to pay his store bills neighbor asked what he was feeding Timothy hay and corn meal-thre, quarts on it twioe day to every on, nv the dunn critters was the re sponse. By dint of much chafYing ant the final offering of a bet. the neigh bor induced Hoskins to let him fee, the cows month. First, he cut ou the clear timothy7-the "horse hay, and substituted some mixed with clo yer and red-top and blue grass, etc from the other end Of the bay. Thel he ordered several bags of buckwhea middlings, dragged out the old hay cutter and hunted up. a water pail. H figured out a milk and butter ration for cows of the Hoskins' sizes, many pounds of hay. SO many o buckwheAt middlinss, so many of mea and so many of ground oats H. weighed out the day's ration of ha, and divided it into three parts, GU up one part each morning and night put on half the grain ration with little water, mixed 1t up. and gave i