Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-15

same industry and the same skill and the same fore sight for similar hours could earn more than $1.47 day.
 How much more would he have to spend 2Eh? W
 The farmer can, at least, raise his own potatoes and turnips and apptes and cabbages and onions and beans and other long keeping vegetables for winter use.
 How 9nueh would he have to pay for them if he didn't raise them If he had to buy them daily or bi-5 weekly from the dealers2 s3
 He can supply himself with all the milk and cream and butter the fam fly consumes.
 He can have absolutely fresh eggs from his own hennery nine or ten months of the year, and in these days of cheap water-glass, can preserve required for a cost of perhaps half-a- cent a dozen. Even these will be bat-a ter for all purposes than the average of those he could buy.
 If he is working for wages and scrimps his family to single quart of milk a day, and single pound of but ter and a single dozen of eggs per week. his years bill for just these items will run up to $45 or $50. When the outlay for all the other farm rais- ed supplies is added, it won't need any
 sort of figuring or averaging" to make it clear that the farmer will be at least as well off at a years end in the point of money as the man wno earns larger wages and has to spe Id them for all these things to support his family.
 But doesn't the farmer have to work to raise these home consumed pro- ducts? you asked and isn't time money? and oughtn't he to charge against them wages for the time spent in producing them? Not at all, for l his wage of $1.47 includes payment for the time spent on these as well as other products. They're all Jumped in the computation. Assuming the cen sus. basis of computation as correct, it actually includes wages to the farmer 1 for raising his own supplies. Instead of working in a shop for Stickem, Smitem and Co.,, and having to turn l cabbageS and the like. he is getting | them for nothing and being paid,-dt the rate of $1.47 a day-for raising | them.
 Furthermore, the farmer who is
 really on his job can supply his own | table with all the green vegetables it | needs from his own garden between l May and November. Perhaps he may
 think that a little asparagus and a
 few green peas and string beans and 1 fresh sweet corn may not amount to
 much. Let him go without them a year, or, worse yet, buy them at rul- l ing market prices, and he'll find they l amount to a good deal. Not only | does he save much money over what | he would have to spend for them, but | he gets them fresh, sweet. tender and matured according to his own taste. | Is there any comparison between the | stem -ripened, naturally -colored. juic- | ily~ sweet tomatoes you're picking off your own vines and the green picked, | lInn3tnT9llW PRd6Pnp6 willy faCfnlaSc
 things that have previously been
 brought you from Virginia or Florida
 or Texas?
 We'll pass oyer the stock taIkee- | taikee about the farmers fresh air | and pure water. etc. Of course he
 has better air than that of the cities l to breathe and better water to drink
 if he's had sense enough to protect
 his supply from contamination. And
 ne doesn't have to pay water-rates, | either. But let that go.
 | Consider, however, just a minute,
 the farmers independence and con-
 parative liberty 5of action. It's all l nonsense to talk of any man being ab- | solutely s:fis own master" The far | n1er isn't his own master, I don't care | what you say. He is. in a measure,
 servant to his cows and valet to his | horses. He is slave to the weather
 and bond servant to the seasons. He must do his work, not when he wants | to but when he can. He is hedged I about and circumscribed by scofes of limitations which bound his freedom
 of action on many sides and con- stantly letter his steps.
 I But,-again that t'but'i-while his wage earning brother in Stickem and
 Smitem's shop is held to rigid hours l and an infiexible routine, made and
 changed solely by the wishes or in
 terests of Stickem and Smitem, con stantly exposed to either favoritism o1 | spite, always under the sway of hU-
 man and therefore imperfect rules always liable to the accidents of hu
 man and therefore imperfect machin- ery,-the farmer, on the other hand
 though compelled to act in difference tC
 and in accordance with outside laws knows that those laws are absolutely