Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30

advertise is fact proved by ss per
 cent. of all our big business concerns
 of our country and we have numerous
 examples of farmer developing a
 highly profitable as a result of an ex-
 hibit at a county fair One of the best
 Of these is a man in Maine who has
 developed large seed corn business
 as result of an exhibit several years
 ago in his IocaI faIr There IS always
 products and the county fair shows
 what your product is worth in com : psirison with others
 It is not always the man who wins that gets the most benefit either for the ones that are beaten are stimulated to raise better crops next year which in the end bring much profit to a large number.
 Bring in stock, fruit, vegetables. grains and the like. and let the county know what you are doing
 Also encourage the boys and girls to exhibit as this gets them interested in better and more farming for inc 1exr decade will witness a tremen- dous demand for progressive and effi- cient farmers.
 Observations Around the County.
 Taken from observations around the county It would seem that the sofu- tion or S-4 of the farmers troubles with his land lies in three things. in sufficient tlllage, lack of humus in soil and lack Of lime.
 On every hand we hear the wall of i the farmer Why does not my land produce what 1t did in the year when ] was a boy? Our old barn used to ] be hlled to overfiowing with hay. Our
 land would raise twice what it does
 etc" I At the outset we will confess that
 nvn i~~~1 l 4r.- i trouble the farmer today than there
 were 50 or .75g years ago. But taking the examples of many of the Euro pean countries whose land has been
 titled many decades more than ours
 here in the United States and whose
 crops per acre today are twice and
 three times as great, and also ex-
 ampleS of many of our own progress sive farmers. the only conclusion is
 that the trouble is with the tiller and not with the tiled < The principle of blowing in green l manure crop is a lost art in many sections of our New England states
 and before we can get back the old
 time efficiency of our farms it must be | brought back.
 i CTS and grandfathers raised is this. In those days every farmer had sew ] eral too many cows, everyone had a l bunch of young stock coming along, ! two or three pair of oxen with young 1 steers coming were kept, a number of ] pigs and generally few sheep made the number of live stock on each farm much greater than it is now. The farmer had more manure to blow in. i He raised more grain and plowed in i the stubble which is a great humus maker. His young stock kept in the i pasture all summer made manure enough to keep that in good shape and 1 so unconsciouSly he was an efficient i farmer. Also at that time practically i no coal was burnt and great quan- 1 titles of wood ashes were yearly spread on to the land. Canada wood
 ashes were very cheap and bought in great quantities. These gave the lime content.
 1 Also the titled area was smaller which made frequent blowing neces- sary. As time went on. the farmer i with the just desire to own more acres :, of titled land spent winters and spare time in clearing up these lands. These 1 rich with the leaf and animal mold oi l many years yielded large amounts oi
 hay and crops that pleased the old
 tim farmer and now is the lost ambi-
 ton of the present day farmer. But ] what was the result. More land ne- i eessitated more manure. consequently l plication every year and also it was now titled once in every six years ,or more where 1t used to be turned over once in three or four.
 Also the beef and sheep industry travelled westward and we became
 general farmers with title or no live . stock. Coal began to be available te
 country use and the demand for Can ada wood ashes so exceeded the sup