Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-25


 I sometimes think that one little word of three letters contains 8 com lplete explanation of the makeup of a successful farmer. That word is
 wHYZ
 You've read or heard of the famous ''hoy from Missouri He got his fame from his incessant demand to be shown No matter what task he was set to. he only said Show me- and when he had been shown went at it with both vigor and intelligence
 The farmer is all the time confronted by diverse problems and puzzles of Natures devising. In the main and reckoning by ages she maintains a pretty fair average. but from day to day she certainly does wobble- Her course seems mighty crooked to the fellow who has only three or four months in a year to hope any help from her. The fac. that an average for ten years shows May 10th as the date of the last killing frost, didn't help OUT tomatoes and beans any last summer when ice made haE-an-inch thick June 14th- Ii wasn't the toma- toes Of ten years ago that we were depending on but those in bud or flower that frozen 14th of June, 1912. Sc, iu scores of other ways
 One year our corn does well. another year it fizxies- Why One year the potatoes fairly roll out of the ground before our digging forks. big, smooth, clean-skinned. another year they come like pulling teeth,-and mighty few of them Why2 One year we pull fine crop of beautiful onions another year. seemingly as propitious and with what we think as good care of The patch. they are haH stiff -necks'' and the other half undersize- Why2
 Now, there are whole lot of things which nobody knows about the work ings and methods of Nature There are q good many that nobody seems able even to get on the track of. But there are quite q few things that we do know,-or can find out if we try hard enough
 The other day, in an idle moment, picked up the puzzle page, of a mag azine- One of the enigmas yielded prompt solution One of them made me scratch my head. but I finally got it. The third was a sticker- I twist ed it all about: I picked it to pieces stood it on its head l peered into it from what seemed every possible angie No light; not even a giimmer. Every time l eouIa- get Q step or two into II l came up against dead wall began to think that there must have been some mistake in printing Ii, and that il was insolubIe in it's existing form At last took d pencil and paper and began approaching it. as the BulgaTians are attacking Adrianople, by 9 series of parallels and traverses. don't know how many hours I wasted
  chanced to get one leg in the front door of it The rest was easy ,-as easy as rolling off 8 log"
 But nc puzzle maker who works for the amusement of the children ever put up so many and so blind puzzles as I we farmers are faced by, from one years end to another. Some of them have never yet been solved by any body and aren't going to be by us. Some of them aren't even fully stated. We don't know everything. yet, and we are not likely to in your time or mine 1
 But that's no earthly reason why we shouldn't find out what can, learn what we are able to; discover as many Why's" as we are allowed ] to- We can't plo& the cliffs of Lan- tern Hill: but that's no reason why i we shouldn't ploW any of the level, l deep -soi1ed fields elsewhere. We may | not be able to find out why a killing ] frost comes the middle of June1 but | that's no reason why we shouldn't ask ! why the corn and the potatoes and i the onions did so well one year and | so poorly another