Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-08

I increased freight income in the flu ture.
 And it's mighty good business for the farmer because il enables him tI keep out of debt start with what l he can afford. and to work up from i little to more. as any sound business l ought to be worked up. In other words, it's simply novel adaptation of the cooperative spirit ! which is growing all through the more progressive parts of the country by leaps and bounds. Are we of the 1 east forever to lag at the tail-end of that movement?
 Our boards of trade offer big induce ments to build within their bishop rics. The idea is that the increased population incident upon an increa Sed amount of manufacturing will widen business along all lines. It is a wise and long sighted scheme. It shows true constructive statesmanship-as far it goes.
 But every city that exists or ever has existed has lived upon the coun- try outside. has lived from the coun try outside, and has been absolutely dependent upon that country outside. 4 city full of people must eat much tread and much meat and many po- tatoes and cabbages which it can't possibly produce within its own limits It has to buy them from out side farms.
 Therefore it is quite as important to any city that it should have an amply supplying cOmmisariat outside its walls as that it should have a big army of consumers within the gates. Indeed, it should have both.
 To increase our factories, enlarge our populations-and then have to buy our rations from a thousand miles away and pay huge sums for having them brought to us.-that is one-sided work
 To encourage n1anufa curing in every feasible way and. at the same time, to foster the farms and gardens spreading widely around the cities that would be tWo-handed and all- round management.
 # Connecticut, just as 1t is, were as we'll farmed throughout as little Den mark, for example. it could and would supply to all the cities of the state all the butter and all the eggs and ali the fowls and all the vegetables and ali the berries and all the temper ate zone fruits and all the forage and all the potatoes. corn and oats those cities consume, to say nothing of most of the pork and mutton and a considerable part of the beef
 Seems to me it would be more for the interests of the cities to make sure of such supplies from their inn mediate neighborhoods than even to greatly enlarge their own population. Seems to me it would be the mark of long headed business sagacity, whiIe fostering manufactures in all feasible ways to, at the same time, encourage by every practicable means the pro duedNity and prosperity of the sur rounding farm lands
 Civilization, no less than NaPoIeon's army travels on it's belly. It must be fed before it can march. The great soldier never allowed his troops to get far ahead of his supply trains. But we are more ca ger to increase the 1 the limits of production. As a result i we are having to haul our supplies from long distances at inordinate | cost
 To me it seems a simple truism, i mere axiom. that the nearer we can l come to making production and con balance each other with | r our own limits the higher will the 1 thermometer of general prosperity i rise. The true spirit of a common | wealth is not only each for all but | all for each,-which is a quite differ | mt thing, when you come to study it l put.
 Pm no political economist. nor 2 leep student into business problems | I'm just q plain farmer man. an1 Learly more certain than ever that I lon't know it all.
 But 1t seems to me as if this little 3emidji scheme which l have out ined might suggest possibilities and l 'racticalitfes to wiser heads than nine: might perhaps open fields of york for abler minds and more capa- ,Ie hands.
 Think it over. brethen.
 THE FARMER