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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17
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< 1.-THE FARMERS TALK (
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CULTIVATION AS NECESSARY AS FERTnIZATIoN

written Specially for The Bulletin)
The tillage question ranks in farm
Importance next to the manure prob
lem.
The more fertilizer or manure we put
on our fitedS-witain reason. of course
the more things grOw. Including
weeds. Nature is very impartial in the
distribution of her sub-sOu favors. She
seems Just as willing to foster weeds
as grains; jJIst as ready 10 feed their
greedy, little suckers as the rootlets
of useful plants. She seems quite as
well satisfied with ground mating
crop of pusley as with a basket-fll
one of onions or corn.
SGnetinaes think she's fonder of
Weeds than Of vegetables. You know
il often happens that the worst seape-
grace in the family is mothers boy"
actually loved more tenderly than his
deserving brothers, There's a good deal
Of the externally inexplicable feminine
about Old Lady Nature.
I notice that she doesn't produce cab
bages nor potatoes nor lettuce nor as
paragus on my gardens unless l fix
the soil up very cunninsly and fertilize
it very generously and cultivate it very
laboriously, and generally monkey with
II day in and day out. Even then she
often treats these friends Of mine quite
coldy and as if she didn't half like
EN-. But let her alone and she'll cover
those gardens with pigweed and pusley
and shepherds purse and a score of
other weeds that are Of no pse to man
or beast. She'll put her whole heart in
TO that sort of thing, and will do job
that plainly outclasses almost anything
We can cajole her into doing with our
crops
And the more manure we put upon or
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

OF course, as we've agreed, this
sends you to get out the old cultiva-
tor, first thing. But how shall you use
it? How often shall you use it? Shall
you depend on it alone? Are you going
to let the horse do it all. or are you
going to use your own flngers-and
brains, to polish up the job?
In these latter days, 1 find that
good many farmers rely wholly upon
the horse and the cultivator- teeth.
They go over" their corn once, or
twice, at the most leave the cultivator
at the end Of the last row, turn out the
horse and say: Let her go at that;
halnt got time to do no more"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

Mrs. Marguerite Springer, widow of
Warren Springer. a Chicago million
aire, will use the estate in forming
social community for the industrial ed
ucational betterment of the crowded
tenement section of Chicago.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

A Bill Carrying Special Approprisr
ton of $4,000 for the expenses Of
maintaining the militia at Lawrence
was reported yesterday by the Massa-
chusetts house ways and means com
mittee of the legislature.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

I'm talking this,now, because it seems
good time for you to figure out the
way you'll treat that acre Of corn
which I hope you're planning to plant
in The Bulletins corn contest This
farmer out in Missouri Rankin
was his name, and ne was worth near
~ $4,ee0.e09 when he died almost ev-
cry red cent of it made from raising
corn and feeding il to steers and hogs
this Missouri farmer wasn't trying TO
make record or win prize. He was
simply doing corn farming, in the way
be found most profitable
Enter your name in The Bulletin
corn contest. right now. and try a go
at the Rankin way-if you haven't a
better one of your own already cut and
driedt
THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

Of asparagus starts up in my onion
bed in another garden, I yank it out
instanteE les a mighty useful plant
where it belongs; it's a pesky weed
among my onions.
The point is, that when you work
hard to get patch of ground ready,
for corn, say--when you manure it and
pillow it and harrow it and mark it
and hill drop it and plant it and crow
string it and pay taxes on it, you want
returns for what you've done in corn
not in quackgrass nor in pigweed nor
in anything else in the whole veset-
able kingdom. It's corn you're work
ing for Yet. before you planted your
corn, nature had filed that soil full
of about forty-seven kinds of weed
seed. And the minute you've finished
your days work and gone to supper,
she sets herself to stealing as much
as she can of your manure, etc, and
steering it into something else than
your crop. Go out there when the corn
first pricks through the surface and
get down on your hands and knees
and squint over that ground, and you'll
find that there are just about forty
seven other things up beside the corn.
Leave the patch alone all summer, and
it'll yield you about as big crop of
each one of these forty seven weeds as
of that corn.
Then is the time you have to get out
your cultivator.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

The things you don't want are just
as ready to absorb the value of your
soil preparation and just as hungry for
YOUR manure as the plants you do
want Let EN- alone and they'll take
their full share-with a few spoonfuls
over, to insure good measure. As most
Of us find that We can't we'll do but one
thing at a time, so most soils can't
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

Sometimes this Missouri farmer rails
ed as much as 11S bushels OF corn
OF binary commercial measurement, Won
understand; not to be compared with
carefully dried and accurately weighed
corn in competition. He expected an
average of about So bushels to the acre
from all his fields. and every year. He
was 50 careful about saving every bit
Of needless labor expense that he had
special two row cultivaTors built for
him, extra big and heavy, each requir-
ing three mules to draw it. During
the growing season he had over hun
dred Of these tools all the time at
work. He chose Them because they
enabled fewer men to do the work and
he wanted to save all the wage outgo
he could.
Yet he found il worth his while. anx-
lols as he was TO avoid all uDneces-
sary labor cost, TO send his men
through his $4,000 acre fields and pun.
BY hand, the weeds which the cuItiva-
tors skipped.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

Two years ago there died in Mis-
souri, a farmer who was in the habit
OF raising about million bushels of
corn every year on about $4,000 acres
OF land If ever there was a man who
might be thought to have too much
land in corn to work it thoroughly, it
was this chap. I've just been reading
over his own account of the way in
which he used to handle his $4,000
acres The thing that impressed me
most forcibly, in the whole story, was
his way of cultivating. He was care
ful to get good seed. of course. He was
particular about blowing and manur-
ing-also of course, But it was after
all this preliminary preparation had
been completed and his corn planted
that his real work of making a good
crop developed. He narrowed his 49,
GOO acres thoroughly before the corn
ever came up; always once and usu-
ally twice. Then he began cultivating
as soon as he could. even if he had to
have something like plaster dropped at
intervals to show where the rows were.
He cultivated as often and as thor
oughly as possible. Never less than
tour or five times, ofteneF if we can.
Corn should be gone over with culti-
Vator at least once a week.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

produce more than one crop at time.
1t must be either a crop of plants or
crop Of weeds Is can't often be both
And it's up to Mr.. Farmer, in every
case, to say which it shall be.
Take this single case of corn, which
I've been referring to. Leave out Of
consideration, for this occasion, and
for the sake of keeping to one idea at
a time, all thought of tillage just for
the sake Of tillage. Think only at this
time of the need of destroying weeds
of keeping them from robbing your
crop of the food you've furnished for
its exclusive use.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

into our soils for the sake Of helping
cur plants the more cunningly she'll
swipe a big three quarters of it to feed
her blamed weeds-if wen let her.
That's where cultivation comes in.
Not that the only nor even the most
important function of tillage is weed
destruction; there is another service
In cultivation which is daily being
proved stilf more important. | mean
:he mulching and tightening and aera-
ti0n Of the soil But-as Kipling used
TO say-that's another story. There's
full opportunity for whole chapter
about the value Of tillage in keeping
weeds down.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17
delivered 70 ANY Part ea NOrwicA

.ae Ale that - acknowledged to be tina
best on the market HANLEY'S
PEERLESS. A telephone order win
receive promp. attention
o. !. AnsCChatcaS. 20 Franklin ST.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17
Dutch Art

There will be an Illustrated Lecture
on Dutch Art by Mr.. Charles H. Caffln
at Slater Hall Feb. rs and March s.
Tickets ready for sale at Geo. A.
Davis, Store Monday, Feb. 10, at a. m
feb17-27-2S
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

WHEN you want to. pur YauY bust-
ness before the public. there is no me-
aiIm better than rnrouGh the adgertia-
7E colunaRs Of The Bulletin.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

Then, when the corn got well up,
along in late July or early August, go
through the fields and pull out by
hand every weed that was left"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

Harold L. Wells. o. D.. ontometrist
Detective vision corrected by Ine prop
Or adjustment Vt lenses. Room ., Pat-
ssr.LaBgworthS Bloek Wssterly. X. b
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17
Never Risk Health and Clothes.

Mrs. NerdoyqsG5or- Good morning Anty Drudgel Can
ulend me cake of Fes-Naptha soap? When came
to do the wash this morning, found that did not
have any in the house. The grocer told me be was
sold out. He offered to send over some other kind
but think too much of my clothes and of my health
and hands to accept any substitute for FesNaptha
Anty Drudge are perfectly right, my dear. Never
risk those Just as good soaps Wait here a min
ute, and will get you cake of Fels-Naptha."
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

It's all right to ''bakc like mother used
to bake .
But don wash like mother used to
wash
That was the hard way Mother, her
self, doeSn' wash that way any more. She
has found better way, the Fcls-Naptha
way.
Instead Of boiling the clothes and
YEARLY rubbing them on the board, you
place them in cool or lukewarm water, soap
with Fels-Naptha, roll tightly and allow
them to soak about half an hour; rub light
ly, blue and then rinse.
Your hands don't crack and get red;
your clothes are saved from the wear of
boiling and hard rubbing; your family is
not driven frantic with steaming, wash day
smell and you save about half your time.
Not only this; but Fels-Naptha does
the work better than it can be done by
the old, boiling, hot water method.
Follow the directions on the red and
green WRAPPER.
Use any time of the year.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

IN pioneer days there was a saying
along the frontier that the only good
Injun was is~dead Injun.
I never hyas much acquainted with
the aborisjnes and am not qualified to
debate thai saying. But I'll make afr
davit, if NEED be. TO the fact that the
only good weed is a dead weed
Every decent New Eng land house
keeper hates dirt. But what is dirt {?
Just matter out of place. Sawdust in
the icehouse isn't dirt" It's the es
sential thing for keeping ice and is
worth more than yards Of piano Gov
ers would be. But sawdust in the par
Tor on the piano is dirt" because it
doesn't belong there
Similarly weed is Just a plant out
Of place. Ii may very well be that ev-
cry plant which grows has a purpose
all its own, This doesn't mean, in the
old rural saying, that every plant is
Tor some human use, if we only knew
what. It's just a little bit cheeky for
US men and women to assume that the
only pse in the universe for anything
Is a Use we may be able to make of it.
We aren't the whole thing, however
important we may seem 10 ourselves.
But practically considered, when we
are trying 10 raise a certain plant the
use OF which we do know and the fruit
OF which We can make serve us, any
other plant which comes up and tries
70 joste our protege out of its bed is
q weed
/ grow asparagus in one garden and
have TO fuss with H. day in and day
out, and year in and year out. to make
II TO its best. But when a stray shoot
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17
SIGN PAINTING

SIGN PAINTING
Reasonable in price, promptly done,
by ]. w. NIAILETT. 80 Market Street.
Telephone 1862
WHEE you want 10 put your busi-
ness before the public. there - no men
fIum better than through tne advertise
ING eolumns of The Balietin.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17
10 Cars More

We have just got the room this
week to take in ten cars for over
hauling and repaintins.
Better have it done now rather than
wait till later when the rush is on.
We do this work, all branches of it,
painting, trimming, etc, in Z first
class manner. our prices being consist
snt with good work.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

Use any time of the year.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04
BRIDGE BUILDING
TRUST ALLEGED
Floyd County Commissioners
Want Present Contract Law
Repealed by Legislature.

ROME GA, July 4.-The Floyd
county board of revenues and roads
has gone on record as favoring the re-
pealing the present state bridge law
whereby Georgia counties are required
to advertise bids and contract with
private concerns for the building of
bridges
The board alleges that there is a
bridge building trust and that the diff
ferent contracting concerns always ar
range which one is to be awarded the
contract before they put in their bids.
1t also claims the present measure was
adopted mainly through the efforts of
the bridge building trust" that the
county can build its own bridges
cheaper and that the law should be re-
pealed.
Chairman w NJ Cannon and Coun-
ty Clerk w r. Shaw have been named
as a committee to go to Atlanta and
meet with representatives of other
counties
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04
ATLANTA GEORGIAN NEWS LRsDAY, 4 1872
ST. SIMONS LID" TO
STAY ON TIGHT, SAY
OFFICIALS OF GLYNN

BRUNSWICK. GA, July efforts
made by the near beer dealers on ST.
Simons island to have the lid" re-
moved by petitioning the Glynn county
commissioners have been in vain The
dealers tried to convince the commits
sioners that by closing these refresh
ment stands" as they termed them,
much harm is done the island; that
people from interior points expect to
enjoy a cold bottle" when they visit
the resort, and that by closing these
saloons the island will lose its popular
ity
The commissioners lent deaf ear to
all entreaties and further instructed the
special officer placed on the island for
enforcing the prohibition law to en-
force it to the very letter 1t is a vio-
lation of the state law to sell beer in a
corporation of ,less than $500. and as
st. Simons has much smaller number
of inhabitants. the commissioners in
sist that by allowing this law to be VIC
lated they would be parties to the
crime.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04
WOMEN To AID Of
C|TY'S WORKERS
Petition Asks Council to Let the
Policemen Wear Cool Uni
forms in Hot Months.

Women Of the Atlanta Civic league
today petitioned the mayor and coun-
ell to grant the police and health and
sanitary department men the privilege
of wearing light weight Sicilian coats
during the summer months instead Of
the heavy weight, tight fitting uniform
coat now prescribed by the rules of the
departments.
we are sure that the heavy coats
now worn buttoned to the throat are
torture to the men compelled to wear
them and a handicap to excellent SER
vice as well as a menace to health,
says the petition.
Policemen complained to The Geor-
gian some time ago that the summer
uniforms purchased through contract
and paid for by the individual members
were as hot as overcoats, heavily pad
ded and unfit for summer wear The
petition of the women will be
given the hearty approval of the po-
liCemen.
The petition is signed by Mrs. Amel-
ia r. Woodall, Mrs. NJ L. McLendon,
Miss Katherine Koch. Mrs. Alice c.
Daniel and Mrs. A. G. Holmes, officers
Of the league
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04
BILL AIMED
At MRS. GRACE
Many Legislators See Effort to
Convict Woman. by Chang
ing Witness Law.

When Representative Harrell intro
duced in the house of representatives
his bill to permit a husband to testify
against his wife he stirred up a hor-
nets nest and is apt to have consid-
cradle buzzing about his head for the
rest of the session The house Is full
of sympathizers with Mrs Daisy Grace.
accused by her husband of shooting
him. and they Immediately considered
the bill an effort to convict the woman
by changing the law
Despite Representative Harrells in
sistence that he had no interest in the
Grace case and that his bill was mere
ly designed to correct what he believed
to be a serious error In the criminal
laws. he was made the target of sharp
questioning after the house had closed
its session. Joe Hill Hall. the Macon
statesman who also is a candidate for
governor is said to have been out
spoken in his opposition to the bill,
while Mr. Hardeman, Of Jefferson and
Thweatt Moore, of Butts, are among
those lined up against 1t.
Moore Doesn't Discuss Bill.
Another member remarked that the
bill had about as much chance of pass
age this season as a one legged man
in a marathon race. If it is not chloro-
formed in the committee it will be
smothered on the floor or die in a
dusty pigeon hole when the session
ends.
John w. Moore. Of counsel for Mrs.
Grace would not discuss the bill to-
day. or criticise Mr.. Harrell for it's
Introduction He remarked that a num-
Der of women had called him by tele-
phone yesterday afternoon immediate
ly after The Georgian published the
story of the proposed law, insisting
that the legislature seemed bent on
convicting woman even though 1t
refused women the right to practice
law, but he declined to discuss the eff
feet of the bill upon the chances of his
client if by any possibility it should
pass.
1t is promised that a sharp fight will
be made if the bill is reported back to
the house for passage. Several mem
bers have announced their intention OF
speaking against it, with open refer
ence to the Grace case
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04
Southern Woman in
Lead in Race for Club
Federation Presidency
Mrs Percy V. Pennypacker APP
parently Has Won Honor Mrs.
Sarah Plat Decker Ill,

SAN FRANCISCO, July 4.-The next
meeting place of the General Fedora
ton of Womens Clubs convention was
the principal topic of conversation to-
day among the delegates.
Tellers were still engaged in count
ing the ballots cast in the presidential
election and report was that Mrs Per
cy v Pennypacker the dimunitivs can
didate from Texas, was far in the lead
over Mrs. Philip Carpenter, of New
York
Much dissatisfaction is expressed to-
day because of the utter inadequacy of
the arrangements for conducting the
balloting for president Many women
stood in line for hours before being able
to cast their votes.
The condition of Mrs. Sarah Plat
Decker still is serious. Her Illness,
which was first reported as a threat
ened attack of typhoid fever, proved to
be intestinal congestion and infiamma
ton. An operation may become neces-
sary.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04
CARLTON SHOE co.
TO REMODEL STORE
AND ADD CLOTHING

A new front, new department and
a Encouragement throughout is the plan
of the Carlton Shoe Company, at sc
Whitehall street.
Carpenters are now at work. and
when their task is completed the Carl
ton Shoe Company will be one of the
largest concerns in the South, running
back from Whitehall street 1870 feet
With every convenience and with line
of goods known to the trade through
out the country.
Isaac Lipstine, the owner says he
will not be satisfied until he has the
most complete and up-to- date shoe and
clothing house in Atlanta. and to this
end several thousand dollars will be
expended in remodelling the store
A department new to the store. that
of clothing, will be added and high
class of goods only will be handled
Ladies' shoes will continue to be a
feature, and a department especially
arranged will be provided for this
trade
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04
GUS EDWARDS DRAWS
BIG CROWDS TO FORSYTH

For the first time In the history of local
theatrical record a regular theater is
making a success of continuous operation
the busy Forsyth. Not since the fla =
nous run Of the Bitou Musical Comedy
company at the Grand in 1902 has there
'oeen such success registered.
Gus Edwards and his Song Revue on
me second week of the engagement at
the Forsyth score Just as strong as on
me opening week. and with the popular
ADDITION of Jack Lamey, register a hit
tha' Is to be classed with the big ones of
me season. The offering is the closest
9hng to real musical comedy that has
neen offered in vaudeville. 1t consumes
nearly an hour and there is not dun
moment in all that time.
BRITT Wood, the unique comedian.
aquaring Accounts" a sketch that holds
interest. and Henry and Francis, com
cay oHerlng full of nonsense. help the
program to its position of worth.
or next week a strong combination of
l-saallners and features will be offered.
lanes thornton. the most famous of all
me nonologue stars in vaudeville. will
oe headliner that will be of conse-
quehce Isabelle Diamond and Frank
1drlef VIII he more than welcome and
hamund Hayes and company in vaude
EAAe funniest act, will help the enter
.a'Ang Martinetti and Sylvester the
tahous comedy gymnasts, and Rutan's
cong blrds are on the bill
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04
WASHINGTON WANTS
TO GET EXTENSION
OF CRIMSON RAILWAY

WASHINGTON. GA. July 4-The
following letter from the Washington
Chamber Of Commerce to the hackers
section is interested in the projected
extension of the road from Waynes-
boro, through Washington. to Ath-
ems:
This section is most needfu of rail
way improvement of any in the state
of Georgia. Here we have section of
country approximately so miles wide
and 80 miles long that is fed by paltry
eighteen mile branch road of the Geor-
gia railroad. The opportunities here
are very wonderful. and the people of
this section have. only begun now to
awaken to their chances.
we have offered the Crimson rail
road here in the city of Washington
s67,4oO, and propose to Increase that to
$1,000 before many days have passed,
to extend that road here. Thomson has
offered $4,000 and the intervening
country will doubtless give free right
of way through the entire distance.
Should this road go to Augusta, it is
possible that it will not be extended
farther, though we believe it's extension
to Augusta will not debar Washington
from enjoying its privileges at later
date, and we are not by any means
fighting Augusta; but we want the
Brinson railroad; we want it to come
direct. and we want il right off the
bat-now"