Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-25
easlIy and things to call for eongral-

ca nnd things to call for congrat- ulations.
 Early in the spring the gardens were almost black with countless hordes of those pesky littae turnip flea beetles. There. were always either thirty nine or seven hundred and thirteenl never could count which-ready to chew the head of each devoted seed ling the instant it pricked through the SOW it and keep on sowing 1t in all cabbage-seed to get about 5000 plants; SOW 1t and keep on sowing it in all sorts of places and under all sorts of conditionss hoping to find some one
 which would cireumvent the beetles. Then, when it came time to trans plant the saved minority into the cab bage patch, we found that simply squirming with eut-worms You could hardly stick a dibble down anywhere without spearing one or two. We tried poisoned bait: no good. We dug em out one at a time, and smashed em. Might about as usefully have att tempted to carry away the sands of Watch Hili beach with a teaspoon and a child's toy cart. All we could do was to keep on setting and re-setting till we had tried the vermin out,-or fed 'em so fat they could eat no more. See what a chance was here for Silas the SorrowfuI?
 But we don't grow merely eabbaqes; we also raise corn and cucumbers and melons and a, few sQuashes. We'll haven't seen any evidence of single cutworm, yet. in three separate corn patches where they are usually more or less destructive. Chance No. 1 for Joyful John. Ordinarily it is a constant fight for three weeks to save cucumber and melon vines from the striped beetles. This year there hr hundred hills to endanger the growth of two little leaves Chance No, ?. for Joyful John. The. regular procedure 1 in the past has been for the stinking squash-bugs to appear, just as soon as the striped beetles had been con-
 auered, and require daily manipulating in order to save the vines from them. This season careful search has un- covered hardly 0 score of the bugs and only two or three deposits of eggs Wherein Joyful John finds still another opportunity to rejoice over his good i luck
 All the time, sorro~ful siIas is just as grumpy as ever He wants to do get no hay weather.'' Also the quack l is getting the best of him. and there ant no use cultivatin' when it rains aint no use cultivatin' when 1t rains the weeds" Also. his potatoes are l growing so rank that he's sure they'll ! be all tops and no tubers; and his oats are going to lodge; and his corn won't be good for nothin' but fodder, etc, etc.
 | There you have it. The same sea- I son.; the same sun; the same rain; l the same bugs; the same sort of dirt and the same sort of crops. Out of the | f sy.1 eryto stock a cold-storage warehouse 1 or enough consultations to call for a | Te Deum Laudamus and a Thanks | giving day at least once a week It mainly depends on what you really want-which you'lI take. John Ken l drick Bangs in sending out a Merry Christmas" once explained that he sent the wish, if that was what the recipient really wanted However, if ! the latter truly preferred a yellow out look to pink and rosy one, he didn't want his wish to stand in the way.
 For several years past we've been 1 this season there's been rain enough, anyway. The other evening two | ladies came up in their auto, after a | day of steady drenching rain in which l no peas had filled and it had been inn | possible to pick the usual supply. l ffAACll SAPAc4lCu l1Sl OIl account Ol l the rain couldn't let them have the half bushel each wanted, could spare 1 them but a peck apiece in order to I save enough for filling my standing 1 orders. one of them said, with a half sheer: T thought it was about time i for the farmers to begin to complain l over something" Lord bless you, i dear woman, said I, I'm not com
 ! plaining over, the rain; I'm delighted with it. If you won't complain be- | cause of a. temporary shortage of peas, l there won't be any complaints made 2 1 Naturally Id rather have had peas
 1 enough to call for all the money they wanted to spend on 'em But that l same rain was doing a couple of my
 l dry grass lots more money good than
 1 twice the loss from a reduced pick of
 | peas. Life that day wasn't all pie, to 1 be sure 1t wasn't all pickles, either
 Of eouroe there's the bitter in life as
 well as the sweet: there are rainy day,;