Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-28


 that they are exceptions and ought to be treated exceptionally. Will you please tell me why? Will you tell me why any human being who is honest ly earning his own living should pay the slightest heed to them,-except, perhaps, to sweep them out of the road when the way is wanted for useful traffic?
 Above all, why should any human being with common sense enough to keep him out of the cistern think that farm work offers an asylum for them? It is reported that, when that first carload of the city's rag tag and bobtail reached Fonda N. Y, a few farmers were on hand to look them over. These farmers must have been men of lively imaginations and san guine dispositions, in whom hope rose beamingly above the warnings of ex- perlence. But they were there, a few of them, anxious for almost anything that had two hands and walked on legs. The current rate of wages whereabouts is S25 a month and board for experienced farm laborers. There wasn't an experienced farm workman in the carload, and the least any one Of them wanted was $40 month and board. Two or three of the farmers, after much bargaining, made ar engagements with as many of the peiA tS- ASIt . was SOIiiG nope express ed that few more might haul in their horns little. and accept wages the farmers could afford to pay, after fuller consideration. But it now looks as if many of them would have to be railroaded back to their beloved sIums again, at the states expense.
 That part of the state is great dairying region. Though the men had declared, when applying for the free ride, that they knew all about farm work. 1t was found on arrival that not half of them had ever rnilked a cow- or indeed ever seen one, except in pictures.
 Yet they demanded almost double the wages paid to capable dairy help CTS.
 The veraS latest report of the director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment station states as an as certained and proven fact, that while the dairy products of New York ex- ceed in value any other agricultural product they are undoubtedly pro- dUced either on very small margin (of profiD, or at a loss.'' Tn other words, the business is not a renumer- atIve one, even at current rates of wages How. then, is it to be ex- pected that the farmers shall largely increase the amount paid for this most important item of their dairying cut go! Director Jordan, elsewhere in his report pointedly says that consumers aren't now, paying enough for their milk to make the production of milk really worth while, even under pre- vailing careless and somewhat in different methods" The only way any milk farmers are making profits is by slurring over all they dare of the health boards requirements, the main opportunity for cheapening produc- tion" being 'to omit part of the labor and care necessary to the production of clean, sanitary article"
 Great stroke of StatesmanShip, wasn't it, to send into a country of dairymen in this condition, carload of greenhorns whose first demand was for a scale of wages that would send every dairy which hired them straight to bankruptcy??
 have great deal of sympathy for the man who is out of work. and wants work: the man who is willing and ca ger to earn his own living h,5t