Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-25

trifes But there are some things too big to be taken up on the point of a pen knife and studied with a magni- fying glass. They demand a longer outlook and a wider vision. ' ou can get a good deal better idea of Norwich from ''Lanman's Chair" or Transferable HiIl' than from a window on Little Water street One reason why so many of us farmers get narrow in our views, and set in our ways, and bigoted in our opinions, and discouraged in our work is that we don't now and then. get off the place and on to some height from which we can see, not only our own farms in their entirety but also other farms and other farmers.
 When we are being beaten and pulled by the devils of drought and frost. there is at least some consola- tion in knowing that they haven't picked us out as sole victims, but that others are sqllirming under the same narrowing.
 I remember one day last summer Hank and I had been straining our backs and wearing the ends off our fingers fussing with our celery, handling" it, hoeing it, Juggling water to it without much seeming advan- tage. It certainly wasn't doing well, and l. for one, was growing awful blue. l had to take one of those trips I've mentioned, and I kept a sharp watch out both sides of the road, go- ing and coming back, to see what luck the other fellow was having.
 Hank, says l. next day, as we be- gan bringing water again, did you ever see poorer celery than this, at this time O the year?'
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 Well, 1 have" says I: saw it yesterday. I passed four celery patch es: in three of them more than half the plants were dead, and the others hadn't grown an inch since setting. nd there wasn't a plant in the other piece big enough yet to earth up. This patch of ours is twice as good as any in the twenty-five miles I cov- cred, yesterday; nd we're goin' to bring two extra. buckets of water, to- night, just as a token of apprecia- tion.''
 But for that little trip I should have kept on getting bIuer and bluer, till indigo would have shown white against my feelings. Very likely I might have "chucked up" the whole thing as a hopeless failure, had not being worse off than my neighbors and competitors. I was really playing in better luck than any of them.
 As it was, I took fresh heart plucked up new courage, and am now saving a little something from the wreckags.
 The other day l read letter from an old subscriber to a way out-west newspaper. He had spent thirty Live years at dairying and grain raising in Minnesota, he wrote, and regard l, --IE full" He had now moved to New ! ork state, where he had bought a fine 260 acre farm, with thirty head of stock and full equipment of tools for "only $6.500." Then he went on:
 There are a great many advan- tages in New York that the farmers of the West do not have. We have the fine macadan roads that were in a recent issue. They are equal to railroad tracks for the farm CT. Also we are in the center of good dairy country. for which New York is famous Grains of all kinds are raised in this section, as well as a large amount of fruit and potatoes, and above all we are surrounded on all sides by large cities, which afford a high market price for everything raised"
 At the very time this eastern mov- ing Minnesotan was writing his letter. telling of New York states superior farming advantages, no doubt there were hundreds of farmers in New Y ork state wishing they could move to Minnesota. They felt keenly their existing local drawbacks, but didn't appreciate advantages, simply because they didn't take broad enough over look of the situation. It needed a man who had spent thirty-f five years farming in Minnesota to understand how much better off the farmers of New York state really were-if they could only see it.
 What he says of better roads and markets certainly applies to New England as fairly as to New ' ork.
 Perhaps if we chronic stay -at- homes, did 9 little more roaming with 1 our eyes and ears open, we might be 1 more contented,-an more usefGl,-at 1 home.
 THE FARMER.
 Must Take Her Medicine. John E. Redmond's head is on straight | Ulster will have to take her medicine. | Rochester Herald.
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