Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-19
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 It's the tendency of old farmers to get into ruts. We may have struck out new roads. once we've travelled them, To, these many years till they are now old roads and rutty. We have made the ruts ourselves and our old wheels roll smoother in them. We tend 10 a fondness for them. Why bother making new tracks when the old ones will "do?"
 part of farmerdom, -oh, don't fuss; it'll do" Is there evidence of lost mo- ton in the moving machine? Oh, well there's only an acre or two to cut; it'll "do" Does a fence need repair? We're in a hurry about other things; stick in a piece of brush; perhaps it'll "do' Is our potato patch full of weeds in the rows and among the hills? We're short-handed; run through it once with the cuItivator: thatll have to do
 We old farmers drift into this state sf mind and this habit of work. Per haps a new tool might be better. But the old one will do" Perhaps the new methods may have much to commend them. But our old methods will 'do'' So we stick to the old machines and the old ways. And the youngsters, when they get together. poke no end of fun at us as "old fogies"
 cont want 10 QSr into mat naplt or that class It never was clear to me why a man - farmer or president, - should stop learning when he got to be twenty one, -or thirty-one, or ninety y-one, for that matter. If the world doesn't know more now, than it did ten years ago. then it's a stupider world than men with brains ought to associate with. If it isn't better, now, than it was a hundred years ago. then it's rotten CT shell than a cold storage egg of the vintage of 1909! If it isn't all the time finding out new ways to do new things. or better ways to do old things. then the sooner 1t tumbles into the sun and makes a few minutes fire to warm up Venus and Mars the better!
 But, say, some of these new-faneIed fancies of new-fangled farming do, after all, make even my progressive soul blink a little. I am not dairy farmer. l tried it once, in small way, and found that the mere pleasure of the cows society didn't adequately re- ward me for the money and time l lost on them. Since then, I've been con- tent with just one or two-enough to furnish us with what milk and cream and butter we want. and occasionally help out a cow-less neighbor. The other day I got hold of a leaflet giving in brief form a summary of what the sanitary authorities of one city in New York state consider perfect dairying: T. is too long for me to quote in full, and many of its items are such as we should all agree with. But I want to cull out a few, and ask what you think of some of them.
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 One is that every milch COW must be tuberculin tested every year.
 Another is that she must have a stable, as light as a well-lighted living room with not less than four square feet of light from either east, south or west. for each cow.
 Another is that hair about the ud- ders must be kept clipped.
 Another is that the whole COW must be well brushed and. if necessary, washed, every day; that the udder must be thoroughly brushed at least thirty minutes before milking and washed just before milking leaving