Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-31

thing in life to find two men, even among a million, who look quite alike. We all have noses and mouths and eyes, and they're all set at about the same general angle. But there are minute yet unmistakable differences in them or in their relations to each other which enables us to tell Bill Jones from Tom Robinson, the minute we set eyes on him.
 Don't you know that, mentally, we are all just as individual as we are fla cially and physically?
 Each one of us is different from all the rest of us, in face and figure. That ia please to note, each one of us is exceptional in some points Ot looks.
 Each one of us is, likewise different from all the rest of us in mental makeup. That is, note again. each one of us is exceptional in some point of mind.
 Now, let's carry that idea out to a reasonable and sensible conclusion. If you're hiring men to dig a ditch and there comes along two applicants for the job, one a pallid-c checked, thin armed, spindle-legged weakling and the other a brawny blacksmith of a chap, you'll hire the last. You'll eith CT let the little fellow gO or you'll set him to shoOing chickens out of the garden or some similar job which he can do. You'll see at a glance that the big chap is exceptionally fitted to make the ditch dirt fly while the oth- CT one is exceptionally unfit for that sort of job. Likewise, if one of the hired men has a natural taste for ma chinery it is he whom you will leave in charge of the new gasoline engine, when you go away; not the clumsy hand who can't blow half a day in sand-bank without breaking the blow. 
 What I'm getting at is that no two of us are exactly alike in our tastes and our capacities, in our likes and our dislikes. any more than in our ly unfit, mentally as well as physical ly, for all kinds of work. He's mighty rare man who can do anything or everything and do it wall. At the same time. he's mighty rare man who can't do some one thing better than the average of his felIows.-if he only knows what that one thing is.
 Now do you begin to see what I'm trying to express?
 We talk of farming" as if it was like bookkeeping or horse shoeing, all and always one kind of work. It isn't The word covers a variety of occupa- tions as wide as the world and as diverse as the needs and possibilities of the five continents.
 One man raises potatoes up in Maine. He's a farmer"
 Another man raises kumquats in Florida. He's a farmer"
 One man breeds horses and an ether grows cabbages. Both are farmers"
 j. H. Hale raises peaches by the tfain-load. and Clark of Higganum tons to the acre. Both farmers |" you'u observe.
 One man keeps sheep and another tends hens. Both farmers
 One man to whom anything that grows along the brook is just a weed makes money keeping a dairy and sell ing butter. Another. who couldn't tell milch COW from a heifer, turns meadow into a marsh and takes $2o,os0 a year worth of water -cress off it. Both farmers"
 When a man goes in to buy suit of clothes, he takes some pains to get a suit that fits him. He doesn't try to clothe a thirty six leg with twenty eight inch trousers. nor to button a thirty two inch coat across a forty two inch chest.
 When a man chooses an occupation hfe-work, he would do we'll to se- lect one which fits him and which he will fit.
 Lots of young fellows think they are
 
 they mean by "farming?" That's an- other question.
 w H. Campbell thought he was not calculated to make a farmer And he wasn't meant for a Vermont farm CT But he has been the most phe- nomenally successful Dakota dry-Iands farmer yet discovered. It took good many years of testing out in railroad machine shops and butter-tub fac tories before he found his real place But when he found if, he filled it. His hrst years of work were failures, be- cause fC had mistaken his calling Though he didn't think so at the time he was cut out for farmer,-for a grain-growing farmer on the wide, semi-arid plains of the great westAnd when he got there and had put his exceptional talents to their proper use he was an exceptional success.
 Over and over we hear Of cases where farms have been sold because they wouldn't return their owners a living. which same farms in the new owners hands have developed into fine properties. Almost invariably the explanation is that the new owner has given up the particular kind and method of farming previously carried on and struck out on some new line suggested by his own peculiar ca pacity. He has not kept on doing what every one else does. as every one else does it. but has has gone in for the thing which he, individually, has found he can do just a little better than the crowd.
 lt seems to me here is the broad rule which should govern Us farmers in our choice Of work:-First find out what particular sort of farming, among the thousand sorts which offer Is the one for which we are best fitted; the one which we can do not easiest, but best; the one in which we can take