Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-08

(Wriften Specially for The Bulletin,
 I s'pose there'lI be many of you who
 won't want to hear another wore
 about corn for year.
 Good Lord, is this talkative farmer daft over corn?" seem to hear some of you say.
 Well, p'raps I am- A fellow never gan know his own cranknesses SC well ELS the other fellow knows them
 They used to talk about the three Rs": I'm fairly grounded in them and have now gone back up the alpha bet to the three C's-Corn. Co-opera- uon, and Cornmon-sense. I've some how got the idea into my thick head that a combination of those three C's would work wonders for the farmer man
 As for you who are tirsd of corn talk just now, why probably you can remember when, as small chaps, you were very tired of, taking hot old composition teas It didn't smell good: it didn't taste good; and gee whizZle, how it burned and choked, But when Mother had got you wrapped up in fannels and your feet in a pail of hot wafer, and had listened to your uT1SupI5reSSlole cough a min ute, she disappeared Into the pantry and shortly afterwards appeared with boWa-not a, mice genteel little cup, but a big hon1ely vulgar bowl full of the steaming, stdnging, horrible stuff.
 Yes, you've got to take it all No, shall not set it down and let you take it when you get ready: you're going to drink it right up while I can see you-S Now, there's no use snivel- ling about it. the sooner you swallow it the sooner it will be over" T know it isn't very pleasant but you've got to take it, because it's good for what aifS yOu-
 And you took it And it was good for what allied you And next day your cold had all gone and you were able to go out sliding with the other boys the old hill back of the school house.
 Similarly, likewise, and accordin sly, I'm going to talk corn again for about ten minutes whether you like it or not, because it's good for what ails you.
 If you farmers of this. my larger audience, are any like those who make up my immediate personal neighbors, you may not have cold in the head, but there's quite a few of you who'ye got fog on the brain Cold, Shiyery, damp stif1ing fog Like me- you're getting on in years Like me, you've been living all by your lenesomes and getting crotchefty- Like me, you've driven your old farm wagon for so many years along the same route that you've worn a deep rut, and it's like pulling teeth to get out of it. And all the while the fog of o1d-fogyism has been thickening in your brains,- as know it has in mine
 Now iF can write little, short composition that will blow away even one whin of that. fog for. both of us and all of us, I'm going to try and do | it I don't care whether you like the | dose or not, whether you approve of I my style of medicine or not; 1 don't | even care whether it makes you mad | .r not It's good for what ails you
 
 One reason why a whole lot of us Connecticut farmers don't grow more | corn is because we used to raise it | and found that it didn't pay"
 Which wasn't after all, so very sur prising Considering the way in which ! we went at it.
 We found that the ssseedin' 9 was | getting thin some field So we drew | on a little manure. plowed CT up, and planted corn regardless of the char l acter Of the soil We took the first l seed that came handy; some out of the corn-bin if the rats had eaten up the l seed-corn-as they usually did. We half plowed the field and about quarter narrowed it. We sometimes had to step over two or three rows to ind enough loose dirt to cover the seed We dropped Then we 'splowed out" between the rows. tore up the half -otted turfs and destroyed half the young rootiets from the corn. We went over it's about twice and then 1
  | result we onetimes got enough to pay us days wages. Oftener we did, ,'t So, because the crop wouldn't do 1 we'll in spite of our carelessness and neglect and disregard of natural laws 1 ves condemned it;-re1egated it to the leap Of has -beens'' Now, all this was good many years lgo. Some water has run under some sridges since then and the world has l rot quite a bit forwarder on it's jour- l ( icy to Somewhere. Several things | laye been made clear which weren't { lear or, at least, weren't deeply con- f idered in the old days. To begin with, 1 t has been made manifest that some and is naturally fitted for corn, i. e., l ontains in itself the needed elements, 2 or corn production, while other land | aeks one or more of these elements 9 nd won't answer till they are supplied has also been found that corn seed
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