Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-03
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE WHO SHALL
 DECIDE?
DECIDE?

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 DEC. Written Specially for The Bulletin. You all know Farmer Go-Easy and Farmer Worry-An- -the-Time. They both live in your town, l presumen A. least. I never found town yet Wnlcn didn't have 'em. most out of life for himself. At odd times I have even wondered which got the most out of the farm. The optimist is the fellow who ai- xvays expects the best-.and someliInes gets it. The pessinlist is the chap Wno siways looks for the worst-and some times gets it.
 Now and then, when I'm peculiarly hereticaI in feeling, go so far as to wonder whether it makes much differ ence with what he actually gets, whether he's the one thing or the other.
 Take last night, for an immediate in- Yesterday was horribly cold, up here on Hardscrabble. The wind blew Seenfy from the northwest. the clouds had the cold, steely glitter of winter, as they fairly flew across the nara sky; I had to be on the road all day and was so chilled at times that my fingers failed to feel the pencil when tried to jot a line in my order- book.
 If ever weather aspects promised a freeze. it was for last night. The mo- ment got home and unharnessed l began g. furious scramble to save the last tomatoes and peppers and melons and lima beans and squash, etc. worked till it was too dark to see what I was doing. and till my head felt like a beehive on a drunk ana my oach like a hospitals case. All the time kept worry worrying about the things I couldn't save. the things that would have to be left out to freeze.
 And there wasn't any freeze, after all; not even a hoar frost! During the night it turned warm and rained a Ht- tie. This morning, while sour, 1t IS not unseasonably cold. and there isn't a unpicked. They are really better off. outdoors. than those others which l tore my shirt to get into the cellar or under roof.
 My particular Go-Easy neighbor was digging potatoes yesterday and helping the dog get woodchucks out of the wall He gave up about as much time to one as the other. think. and didn't worry a durn bit about either-or any, thing else. He got down his cows and lmilked at the usual time and after sup per strolled to the village to, get a He didn't even spread a newspaper over his nice peppers. <-,~
 He's just exactly as well off, in that matter of peppers, etc., this morning, without any work and worry. as am. after hours of straining work and still more exhausting worry.
 Which of us was>the wiser?
 I'm blamed if I know!
 One worked hard according to his lights, and all for nothing, as it turn ed out. The other had faith as big as a bag of mustard seed, and came out quite as we'll off. It really looks. in works" by the ear and was indubita- bly, on top.
 But was this an exception? If the frost really had come. I should have saved something from 1t, while Friend Co., -Easy's garden would have been 3 total loss.
 ever. that "ifs'' don't count in the great game The point is that there wasn't any frost, wasn't any damage wasn't any need for hurry or worry.
 Next time. I should do the same thing over again that did last night and Neighbor Go-Easy would do the same he did. It might come out just opposite. that next time. Or it might exactly repeat this time.
 We should both follow our natura bents. As to that. there is little doubt What I'm wondering about is which is the wisest, in the long run and in tht end. D..
 
 The Nebraska experiment statior has been taking up the cudgels fol Farmer Go-Easy's side. in the matter of corn-suckers Everyone who ha. ever raised corn knows that many hills In addition to their proper number O. sar-bearing stalks, have a greater o, less number of small. short, unpro ductiye sprouts. known sometimes a 'tillers," sometimes as suckers"
 Nebraska grows a good deal of corr and the station started to find ou whether these suckers were a detri ment to the crop. I haven't spac here nor inclination to go over tn whole story of the Investigation Suf dce it to say that the decided conclu sion reached by the experimenters wa that the suckers not only did no harn put some actual good in using super duous plant food which otherwis would have nourished weeds, and tha the removal of them was not only url proftably expensive but usually de creased the crop when it was done,
 Now, that's an argument for Earme Go-Easy, if ever there was one. Davi Rankin. the Missouri corn-cattle kins who made millions by combining tn two into prime beef, seems to hay had exactly the opposite idea. Thoug he raised corn by the twenty thousan pcres he used every season, after became too big for his 4-mule. .4-ro1 rultivators to work to send his me Through to pull the weeds and tn suckers by hand. He thought thi
 Highly expensive form of hand-wor paid him. According to the Nebrask Station he must have been mistaken
 Down in the bottom of my agricul stra1 soul I can't help feeling mol confidence in Rankin's way than in th hation's-at least till the station ha
 made more millions by letting tt