Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-17

Dwight T. Coates, formerly of Wes-
 Arly, is owner of the White Rock farm, located in North Middleboro, Mass, which comprises eighty acres. A Acorrespondent of the Middleboro Ga- zette. of this week, has a two column letter on MT Coates and his farm, ffom which these excerpts are taken: Ik Is a1weu balanced farm. A gravel hill was noted. which MT. Coates terms as his gold mine, 2,0e0 loads having bken sold to the town for road pur- ppses during the year. *~* MT. Coates is a genial, sunny appearing man, who, It. seems, must have par taken of the Fountain of Perpetual Youth. for he has outlfved the old sfyle limit of age, three score and ten. Being temperate in all things is a that one reason for being 50 hale and h3arty Is that he never drank @ glass pf liquor or used tobacco in any form. Being temperate on all things is a doctrine he lives up to each day. In- stead of going around with a face yard long. he says. 1T get fun out of farming" Before purchasing the place which he named White Rock farm. in r4cognition of his old home town, Wes- ter1y, MT. Coates was superintendent of the. Connecticut Industrial school at. Middletown, his wife,. a sister of ing the matrQn. No man can hold a job as farmer connected with state Institutions without practicing up-to- date methods, and new ideas were tried odt by MT. Coates. He told me that because his father did thus and so. it the same method. He said, T am not afraid to try out new ways of farm ing"
 No hired man seems to be- needed oh the farm, for the animals are all carefully trained by the proprietor to respond to his kind treatment and be- come cheerful helpers. Jerry, a large year old Ayrshire and Devon bull, pumps the water. saws the wood, cuts up the corn fodder, grinds the green bdne for the hens, and so on. Six teen years ago there was a rickety windmill doing feeble service and MT. Coates resolved to have more effective power. He procured a tread mill. such as was formerly used in the old fash toned 'threshing machine. He put up some shafting and belted on the big balance wheel on the side of the tread mill. When all was in readiness Jerry was led into the arena, and a more tfckled bull you never saw. He was ed to be in love with the job. As Jerry was led into the power pen a breeching with chain attached was slipped Hp behind him and he was se- curely tied in front by the rope at- tached to the ring in his nose. MT. Coates said: "All right. Jerry, go ahead: and the wheels began to move. full to overfowing.
 Tn the meantime Mir. Coates was busy with milking the family cow, feedin~ the chickens, and doing the necessary chores. On a rainy day. said Mir, Coates. instead of moping around and having the blues, have some CT. j Jerry, with his measured tread, saws one cord of wood an hour, and feels as gay as a lark in springtime This is no fairy tale, but has been in vogue on this farm for sixteen years, with a number of different bulls. and Coates does the having on the farm without the aid of hired man. A two horse mower cuts the grass. g. horse rake does the raldng and a large wagon that will hold ton is used to transport the hay to the barn. The art of loading hay alone is got ten down to a science by MT. Coates He takes a small ladder with him to the field. and has to tread the load only twice to get a ton of hay loaded in good shape. When the load is driven into the big barn, the horses are unhitched and the bay mare is hitched to the hay fork and Is told to go ahead to a certain stone out in the yard. When she reaches that point Mfr. Coates sings out "All right" and the mare turns around. comes back into the barn. takes a nasty bite from the hay mow, then another big fork of hay is .hoisted to the rnow. That horse can unload more hay than two hired men,
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 The superior, court for Washington county, Judge Chester w. Barrows, re- stunned session in Westerly Friday morning. Henry E. Gavitt, who was in the employ of the Adams Express company, at Narragansett, and arrest ed for embezzlement, was brought into court for sentence. Assistant Attorney General Phillips explained that through the money order system, the company
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