Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-19

ritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 Recording to our own personal ex- ,eriences this has been about the sorst season ever for farmers.
 According to the crop reports Of the department of agriculture and various other expert reporters this has been the very best season ever. There you have it: take your choice
 The crops actually known about are those we see with our own eyes or hear of directly from witnesses.
 The crops which the experts report on are the crops of the entire country, from Maine to Texas and from Florida to Oregon: the data for their conclu- sions being furnished by local report CTS in the various states
 Of course the territory they cover ig immense, compared with the re- stricted area we can know about per- sona1ly.
 If their information is accurate and their conclusions correct, then we New England farmers must assume that we have been particularly chosen for punishment. If their information is accurate and their conclusions correct, practically all the rest of the agri- cultural population has been snug eIed up to natures bosom the past season, and only we have been given to gaze on her cold shoulder.
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 if their information is accurate and their conclusions correct,-for my souf,s sake l simply must keep that "if' standing, ,--thep we can temper our personal disappointrnents by grat- uiations on the phenomenal successes of our fellow farmers elsewhere It may require little effort for us to do this whole -heartedlE but the practice win be an excellent thing for our characters.
 For instance, the department sx- ports report that every indication of present conditions point to a corn crop of 16,000,000 bushels, which is 415.- 000,o0 bushels more than last year. According to the same authority, the spring wheat crop will be 330,000, 900 bushels. compared with 190.0oo,o00. last year. I'M
 The total wheat yield, including both spring and winter varieties, will be 720.000,000 bushels against 621. 1000, 900 last year.
 Oats are going to produce 1.4t7. .Ooo.- 900 bushels against s22,0o0,-0c0 last year.
 Potatoes are put down for total yield of ,401.000,000 bushels against 2s2,0o0,000 last year.
 Barley, buckwheat, tobacco, rice and apples are all likewise asserted to be giving bigger crops this year than last, preceding ten years. Only flax, in these reports, drops few bushels be- biBd last years record.
 One Chicago advertising agency notes that western farmers are in- vestfng in unusually large amounts of harvesting machinery, and buying ati- tomobiles "in unprecedented numbers" " Well, when farmers buy automobiles it must truly be that they are getting much moneyr-either from crops of mortgages The automobile manu- lecturers aren't giving away their ma ckines,-as yet
 Personally, hope the rosy prognos- tications of the crop experts will turf out o. K. I hope the other farmers have done as will as claimed | ion'' want to see all the rest of the world nursing chilblains, just because hap. pen to be Ion my uppers." st
 Nor do you, either
 lt may seem a little curious to you as 1t does to me, that wherever we car see crop with our own eyes or heal of one direct from the owner, it is t, be a trife "off,s while all the rest O the crops of all the rest of the countr, are veritable freaks of fecundity.
 It has even been hinted that certain powerful political and financial in terests are very anxious to mak things out just a little better than col, facts warrant, for the sake of affectin, the coming elections.
 We won't be undply suspicious. how ever Let's accept Secretary Wilson dictum that the crops are the heavies on record af
 Please note, right there, that th consuming population of the countr, ts also the greatest on record. It 1 getting greater every year and ever day There are several million nor mouths to feed with this years crop than with last years. Each succeed ing years production has got to b larger than the preceding years. t keep up with the demand. Otherwis somebody must go unfed. One thin which the crop reporters don't tell u