Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-11

WE6TeWltudls lOe pay. 1n6 pest IS never too good", is one of their com mon sayings. You've got to invest money before you can have it make more moneyi, is another Both are true standing by themselves and as simple statements of condition It is also true that white duck clothes are comfortable and desirable in summer time. But the, farmer who wears them blowing the swamp. or wedding onions, or getting out manure, or following the cultiyator through the dust on a hot day across the drought baked corn field has need to consider, before hand, how much he can afford to pay the laundress. It truly is difficult to conceive of a barn too good or too convenient to house valuable pure-bred dairy cows. But the farmer who has such cows must first consider whether their production yields profits big enough to pay for all possible and ex- pensive modern barn refinements. There is no doubt that machinery helps a whole lot in farm work. But the farmer who eontemplates buying a costly and intricate mechanism be- cause it will enable him to do cer- tain thing in less time. must first stop and reckon up the money value of the time saved, and the money cost Of the purchase and care of the machine. It's a good investment if 1t enables him to put dollar more in his pocket. after. paying interest on the cost of the machine, and all expense or run ming it, and charging off a fair amount for yearly deterioration. Otherwise. it's not a good investment, and he'd better keep on the old way.
 A good many of our critics think we old farmers are a set of stingy hunks, who cling to our pennies as drowning men are said to cling to straws. We're frequently charged with being too all-fired mean to spend a cent in order to get a dime. One of the constant complaints of the young CT set is that we're afraid to take chances and plunge" a little when the temptation seems to them very strong. We're all alleged to be "o1d forgies" and behind the times: moss backs and "stick the-7 muds''. etc. etc. and so forth.
 There's basis for the charges, too. Some of us are pretty stubborn and "sot" old creatures. We've climbed up and down the old barn ladder so long that we've got used to it and the proposition to put in an escalator strikes us as dunn foolishness. We don't hesitate to say so.
 Why, that boy whom. a few years ago, we had to carry over the brook because he couldn't jump it and was oIi d40 IO SAe1y oIiOllc Ou tA6 lI6 OIA0T side, whose little brooches we had to button for him because he didn't know how-he's already trying to tell us that we don't know how to run the old farm we made pay for itself be- fore he was born! Con-sarn his inn pudence! Does he think he can teach his grandmother how to suck eggs?
 Don't we, many of us, feel that way now and then2 Eh? Be honest with yourself, now2
 We think the youngsters are heady and bumptioGs; we are irritated by their conceit and sorry for the lack of experience.
 They think we're antiquated and un- able to see the better ways which modern science is opening before the agricultural world. They are even more impatient over our conservation than we are over their precipitancy and recklessness.
 They, also. happen to have more apologists and defenders than we do.
 That's why, just now, Pm inclined to stand up a little for the old 'uns They're getting, seems to me, a little more than their fair share of slang whanging. They aren't absolute fools even though sixty-year old eyes may not be quite as keen as at twenty
 If it were only possible to hitch old experience and youthful enterprise to- gether in double harness, what team they would makei
 Since. however, that seems impossi- ble, isn't it within the bounds of prac- ticality to devise some working agree ment by which, if they won't pull true together. they may, at least be kept from pulling against each other?
 That's a real problem in every fam fly where there are young fellows growing up.
 want, today, to suggest to the new generation that it be little easy with us old chaps This dairyman of whom have written was, and still is. a young man. He had practically every