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Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10


 we believe about thing that counts, but what the thing IS-
 But don't forget one important fact; science is knowledge. not prejudice nor whim nor suspicion nor guesswork nor merely faith In what somebody else tell us. The trouble with some books and with some practical farmers Is that they .kuow" too many things which aren't so. If you're going to town, it's better to know the one road which leads to town than seven roads which end in the swamp. One way to learn the right road Is to study 1t up on the map. Another way is to walk or drive over 1t. Either way will teach you the road and, when once you know it-,why you know it. and thats enough But. do have a sorter, kinder feelin' that the man who learns 1t by going over it will know. just leetle more about where the ruts and the gtumps are than the fellow who learns it from a map. -.-
 sf THE FARMER
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MT. HOPE

Mrs Frank Larrow recently attend ed Camp Meeting at Danielson. for a few days.
 Mrs. Stella Shumway, who has been visiting Mrs. Albee for a week, re- turned Sunday to her duties in Chap lin.
 MT. and Mrs. A1bee entertained MT. and Mrs. Ralph Church. MT. and Mrs. Walter Church, Miss Lillian Hall and Jesse Lee. Monday, July 9th.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter Church of West Hartford are spending July at Mrs. Jennie Bacon's.
 Dr. F. A Young of New York has joined his family at the Young's home stead.
 MT. and Mrs B. E. Packer, Misses
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10
BOLTON
Profits of SIS From Danee-New Pastor for Congregational Church

The dance given by the members of the Bolton Hall Association in the hall last Saturday evening was largely attended and a profit of eighteen dol lars made Music was furnished by Lyman's orchestra of Columbia Fred erick S. Doane was prompter
 Michael Sheridan has moved his family from South Manchester to their farm in town.
 MT. and Mrs. William Legate of Hartford and Mrs. Louise Kellar of Chicago. spent the first of the week as guests of MT. and Mrs. Elmer J. Fin ley.
 Mrs. Louise Jewett and son of Hartford are visiting at Samuel M Alvord's.
 Miss Mabel Casazza of New York Is spending a flaw weeks at Andrew B. Maneggia's.
 New Pastor.
 Rev. William Bessehievre of wor- cester, Mass. is soon to move into the local parsonage, having been engaged to preach at the Congregational church.
 John Livingstone of Waterbury is at Charles N. Loomis'
 Mrs. H. W. Howell of Marion was calling on Bolton friends the first of the week. Mrs. Howell was a former resident of this place.
 Mrs Elmer Ellsworth Grumman of Naugatuck was a recent guest of Mrs. Louise A. Carpenter.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES

Mir. and Mrs. Lyman Squires spent a part of the week with their son, Walter, in Hartford
 Andrew Amidan and family of Ab- ington spent Monday with MT. Am idan's parents.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Brink, Miss Helen Hutchinson and Ralph Hut crimson of Bristol, spent the Fourth at the White homestead.
 Dr. F. B. Converse and family motored Sunday to West Warren, where they were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Moor.
 William Converse and family and Ed Carpenter and family spent Sun day in Warrenville.
 Miss Abbie Amidon, teacher in the Gilbert home, Winstead, has returned to her home here for the summer.
 Robert Amidan of Holland, spent the weekend as the guest of his parents, MT. and Mrs. G. Amidan-
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OBITUARY.
Miss Ella curtiss

Miss Ella Curtiss who was taken Ill suddenly Monday and soon became unconscious, remained so until her death which occurred Thursday morn ing. She was 45 years of age and Is survived by three brothers and a mar ried sister, Mrs. William Fries of this place. Burial will be in the Wirliman- tio cemetery. Miss Curtiss had been in the employ of Mrs. Mary R. Yeo- mans as helper and caretaker for twenty years. She was very efficfent and will be greatly anissed.
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Ysssi. I most sartainiy do.


 So do you, suspect. But # isn't at Ill impossible that your understanding If what Is meant by scientific farm hg' may be different from my under Dtanding of what 1t means. So, before you begin sneering at me as a ''doctrin- hire" or 'theorist," and before be- gin denouncing you as an old fagy and ! stick -in-the-mud, let's agree on a definition, if we can. Pm willing to take Webster; are you7 Very well. then, here goes: Science. according to the veracious and wise Noah of dfc- honary fame, is 'sKnowledge-the com prehension and understanding of truth br facts-truth observation-disclosures, specifically. knowledge only arranged md referred to general truths and principles" etc. scientific farming p !hen, would seem to be simply farming according to knowledge duly arranged Ind referred to general truths and principles.
 There,s an awful fok of nonpvcocL
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WHAT SCIENTIFIC FARMING IS

talked about scientific farming by gen. tlemen from town and college and the offices of railroad presidents-gentle- men who couldn't tell bull thistle from asCanada thistle, or a Shropshire wether from 8 Southdown eve until they had examined them microscopi- cally and tested their blood corpuseles. And there's another awful lot of poppy cock talked about 1t by horny handed old farmers who seem to think it's all fog and moonshine, when. in actual fact, they are themselves truly scien- tif1c farmers of the best type.
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question as to what one's interlocutor believes. It seems to be one Of the favorite forms Of farmers, at grange meetings and institutes and wherever they get together in punches. Do you believe in subsoi1ing r' Do you be- neve in level cultivation of potatoesf r Do you believe in keeping your straw berries in hiIls7" 'Do you believe in a five or a three-year rotation for grass?" These were some of the Ques- tions which heard fired off at the speakers in one short session of the last Farmers Institute I attended
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 make sure of this Knowledge, and the stoop- -ehouldered professor or the bespectacled graduate might have dis, covered 1t with his litmus and his test tubes in two hours. But know it, now, as well as he does-and Just a little better think Anyway. we both have the same knowledge, and I'm just as scientific in applying my knowledge as he would be in applying his.
 It makes no difference, in effect, how you know; just to know is science and to act according to knowledge on a farm Is "scientific farming,v no matter what you call it Call a calfss tail a leg, and how many legs would the calf have?'' once asked MT. Lincoln of a deputation who wanted him to do some thing impossible by proclamation. Why. i've. of course, MT. President" responded the spokesman ~No," said Mir Lincoln. gently shaking his head, ''the calf d have just four legs. Call ing a tail leg wouldn't make 1t one" It's not what we call a thing nor what
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

Don't get the idea that all science is confined between the covers of books and admit that there is a lot of it in such quarters and think the farmer wherever he may find 1t, Is sacrificing his own interests for a baseless preju- dice. But there is also a lot of it in the accumulated wisdom of practical experience. There are a whole bunch Of us shaggy-haired baggy-kneed old hayseeds who have wider and deeper and more exact knowledge of our farms and our crops than any attainaIb1e books can give us. That knowledge is science. and when we act according to 1t we are farming according to science the best science possible for us. Do you suppose. after living with my Will bur meadow for twenty years don't know that it's ''seur' without buying a book of 1itmus paper end testing it2 It may have taken me several years to
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EAST WELLINGTON

Frank Burr and family of WaureRan spent the Fourth with Mrs. Burrs parents. Mr. and Mira. George Rounds.
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(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 'sDo you believe in scientific farm ing?" asks one friendly inquirer. Be- fore answer his question will you per- init me a few brief remarks about the verb in that phrase?
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

Rachel and Helen Packer, and Mir. Adams called on Mrs. Bacon, Sunday afternoon
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There's all the difference in the world between scientific farming and so- called 'sbook-farming" The one is farming by and according to knowledge, while the other is farming by guess and some other fellows guess, at that. I'm not a bit inclined to laugh at the make $40,000 a year off 4.000 hens on Four Acres of land," and starts out to get rich keeping hens, with the book in one hand and a brooder thermometer in the other. I don't feel so much like laughing at him as like weeping over him. He thinks he's being scientific, but he isn't; he's just being silly. On the other hand, there's Old Hoskins: think he would get mad enough to fight if you called him a scientific farmer, he so hates the name. Yet that's just what the old man is, good part of the time.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10
Holland County
MANSFIELD CENTER

Old Time Fourth of July Celebration
 Delights The TownspeoPie-$9o For Library Benefft-FamiIy Gatherings.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

He's terribly "sot" in his notions, and some of those notions are exceed ingly queer. But he can raise mighty good corn. A few years ago I Saw him turning over new piece of sward for corn and got to talking with him about patch. and he didn't know how t would turn out. But he'd noticed where the woodchucks had thrown out dirt that it was about the same all over the piece, exceptin' one leetle corner, down by the swamp and it was jest about tn eSame sort O dirt as that on the old Hatch lot. He'd found by experience that if you put on a good top dressin' of stable manure on that Hatch lot after hayin' and got a good. thick turf from it, then by turnin' that turf under, kinder shal- low, next spring and putin a good handful of clear hen-manure about two inches one side of every hill, before you planted your corn, sos t you could cover up seed and manure at the same time-he'd found by experience that if you did this on the Hatch lot, you got dunn good corn bout every time. Wall, sir, this patch seems to be mighty near the same sort of dirt and it lies about the same to the sun and he didn't see why t shouldn't bear jest about as good corn. And it did. Which was another triumph for scientific farm ing.' For if ever a farm problem was approached in a more truly scientific spirit than Old Hoskius approached this pasture lot, I haven't heard of it. He was applying the general principles derived from his accurate and exact knowledge of the Hatch lot to the de- velopement of a crop on the similar sidehill lot. He wasn't acting 'by guess and by gosh;" he was following strictly scientific lines, doing a. job of scientific farming, in scientific way. But I didn't tell him so. He hates the very mention of scientific farming so bitterly that, if he had suspected him. self of falling into it or into the same county with it he would have stopped his blowing and never touched the field with a tool again.
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As if what Bill Smith 'beIieves" about these practical problems is of any real importance to Tom Jones! Of course it Is possible that Jones may have a distant and indirect interest in the psychological workings of Smiths insides. But what he has Q real in terest in Is not Smiths faith but his words. Bill may believe or dtsbelieve In thirty-nine or forty-nine separate propositions. The thing that interests Jones. practically, is not what he be- lieves or disbelieves, but what he does. Does he raise extra fancy gilt-edged A No. One potatoes and sell 'em at ten cents bushel above the market-p price :? Then Jones is. or ought to be, nightly interested in knowing just how he does it. Perhaps Smith may believe in planting his potatoes at the full of the moon, or on the ebb of the tide. or in rows made by red-headed man, driving white horse behind a green marker. But what does he DO to his potatoes: How deep does he blow; how much fertilizer does he apply; what sort: how deep does he plant; how does he cultivate; how does he dig and grade? These and similar questions, always considering what sort of soil he has to work on and with these are of real interest and real importance to Jones.
 Of coursey we all have our beiiefe. The man who has them may have reason for them and may not. He may be courteously willing to satisfy Another's curiosity concerning them, or he may resent 1t as offensive meddae- someness. But, when it comes to barming methods, 1t isn't what he be- heves but what he accomplishes that we're all properly interested in and may often learn from. And. also of course. where mans belief Is founded pn his experience of success, what he believes certainly has an indirect bearing on the question of how he achieves that success. Probably the question is based on this somewhat roundabout ratiocination in a good many cases.
 Now, having thus expressed my opinion that neither my 'belief' nor my other mans "belief'' about dis puted farming principles is of much practical importance to others besides lust ourselves, I'm perfectly willing to knswer my inquirePs good d-natured DO you believe in scientific farming?'
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WHEN YOU WANT to put your bus mess before the public. there Is no medium better than through the ad- vertasang Columns of The Bulletin
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

There's an awful lot of poppyoool
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we believe about a thing that counts but what the thing 1S-
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John Hawley Larned arrived from the south last week. He will spend his vacation in town. returning to the Asheyille school in September.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-24
TREASURY League IS
ORGANIZED FOR 1915
W. c. Deane Reelected President Of
Circuit-lnterstate Withdraws.
Franchise Is Open.

Another amateur baseball league fell
in line last night when the directors ana
managers OF the Treasury League met
at the Vim Sporting Goods Company. in
G street. and elected officers for the
season. w. c. Deane. of the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing. who successfully
piloted the circuit last summer, was
unanimously reelected as president.
while f. C. Walker was chosen vice
president and A. B. Evans named as the
secretary and treasurer for the 1915 cam
paign.
The circuit started last season as a
closed league. and later being admitted
to the local association. 1t is planned by
the managers to change the name of the
the clubs in the league
Seven of the eight teams in the circuit
were represented last night and have
taken out franchises in the league this
season. T. R. Williams represented the
Bureau of Engraving team, r. j. Stiles
the Treasury Club, \. B. Evans the
Library Of Congress. E. c. Walker the
Civil Service. II. X. Jamison the Navy
Department, NJ. J. Thompson the Ma
Of Commerce. Interstate was not present
and will not put a club in the circuit thI,
season.
The Treasury club. which won the title
in Section c last season. and which was
for the District championship.
was presented with a handsome team
trophy last night. donated by the Vim
Sporting Goods Company. The next
meeting Of the league will be held Ola
March II. when the final business for the
season will be completed. Any depart
mental team desiring to enter the circuit
should address Secretary Evans, Library
of Congress.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-24
KILONIS IS CONFIDENT
HE CAN BEAT TURNER
Greek Demon Meets the Champion in
Finish Wrestling Match at
Gayety Tonight.

That there will be plenty Of action
at the Gayety Theater tonight when
Champion Joe Turner meets John Kilo-
mis-. the Greek Demon. in a finish
wrestling match. was evidenced by a
statement from kilonis last evening.
Il expect to beat Turner. know his
style. and since I met him two years
ago l have learned q whole lot about
the game and he will find that I can
crawl out Of many holds he uses to
pin the shoulders of his opponents to
the mat" said kilonis.
Turner has a surprise in store for
him. Just mark my words. He may
get me. but you can bet he will know
he has been in q real match before it
is all over. I think / can beat him. -
the Greek adds.
Turner is just as confident he can
beat the demon who is the pride of the
Washington Greeks. but states that the
match will be q hard-fought one.
Manager Peck starts tonight his first
wrestling match Of the year. which will
follow the regular show. Mr.. Peck
plans to stage these contests weekly
until the season closes.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-24
,I[JAREz MAY NOT BE
Scene OF Big fight
johnson Must Be Assured Protection
Before He Will Enter Mexico.
Havana Likely Place.

Ell Paso, Tex, Feb. 23.-Dcspite the
statements of Jack Curley, the promoter,
and those interested with him that the
fight will surely take place, there is a
growing conviction that the champion
ship battle between Jack Johnson and
Jess Willard will not be fought at Juarez
The reason is plain: Jack johnson Is
efraid to come to Mexico. He does not
want to be returned to the United States
to answer the white slavery and fugitive
from justice charges holding over him.
He believes he will be convicted again
and face a term in Jail. This would
eliminate him from the pugilistic map.
whether champion or not.
The fact that Johnson limited that
Havana would be 4 good place for the
title bout to be decided bears out this
contention. The big black knows he Is
safe in Cuba and he knows he may not
be so in Mexico. especially in Juarez
with only a bridge separating him from
that country and the United States.
The announcement by Curley that the
fight may have to be postponed is taken
by those on the outside to mean that the
promoter is rather dubious about pull
ing off the big go. He insists that II
the fight is postponed 1t will only be for
a week or so. FL Paso wants the fight
The people here want to see bout for
the world s title. But now can they see
one if the champion will not be here to
step into the ring. And between the
lines in Johnson's dispatches to Curley
can be seen the fact the big smoke is
afraid to place his liberty in jeopardy.
Willard is anxious to fight the cham
pion. He believes he will bring back the
title to the white race. He has hopes of
the bout being pulled off in Juarez. buy
if it cannot be done, he will go TO Ha-
vana or any other place to fight John
son
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-24
By JOHN A. DUGAN.

Come on fellers. take a slant at the
first box-score of the season.
Yep! they played a ball game at
Georgetown yesterday. the varsity
slipping over a to defeat against
the reserves.
Ideal weather. excellent ground con-
ditions and the swat of the old bat
against the pill brought OH the entire
colle-e when it was noised about that
Coach O'Reilly had planned to stage a
game of ball.
To be sure only Ave innings was play
ed, but that was enough. for you must
remember il was the first game of the
season and e glance at the calendar
shows that yesterday was February
Although Z few of the major league
stars are already in the training camps
and the big nike South is to be made
by the various teams this week, II was
town, to put two mines into action for
the first time.
The Hilltoppers have been on the
field for the past week. but this was
the first real action. and the contest
was remarkably well-played for an
early season AFFAIR. The indoor work
which the squad has been holding since
January Is showed the results of faith
full training by their fielding ability
and in smacking the old pill on the
nose.
Pitchers in Good Form.
Both twirlers used good judgement. and
although they were serving up nothing
but the "old smoke exhibited brilliant
control and deserve credit for their pro-
formances. Hegarty. issued one free
pass, this coming in the fourth inning
after two were out and when Dillon stop
ped Rays hot liner and relayed 1t to
Campbell, Nork who had been issued the
pass died on the initial sack.
Heggarty made four of the reserves
wave the old Willow" while Finnegan
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-24
JUAREZ RESULTS.

FIRST RACE-Selling; threyear-olds and up
ward; mile. Florence Kripp. Ito CMolesworthl.
4 to ]. to S. 4 to S. won; Bonnie's Buek. lOe
Mott. even. to .. second: Avocado. s. Bean
son). 4 to ]. third. Time, !: 20. Wheat Air Line
F1ossic. California Jack. Mole Cad, Mapdadero
Rey. and Ceos also ran.
SECOND RACE-Three- yearolds and upward: five
and onehaf furiongs. Minnie F. los louder.
Is to l. to l. TO 2. won Ancestors. los CHenry).
to l. to 5. second: Doc Allen, los tSman to
> third. Time. 1885. Elsie Green. Tempest.
Jake Argent. Ann Tilly. Fenona, Bat Master
son, Winifrcd d. Visible. and orbs Smile also
ran.
THIRD RACE-One mile Thomas Hare IS
Nfulharel. 8 to J. even. l to z won; volsday los
tRicel. to J. TO 5. second: Lady Mint lob
(Iott to /. third. Time, lA0 Is. Marie Cog
hill. Greenhrae, Sugar LmR G. ". Knnon.
swede Sam, Lady Young. Lchish, Finland, and
Black Mate also ran.
FOURTH RACE-Seven furinnss. Mimodoso. %
Guard. s to S. 2 to S. out, won; Florencs Rob
erts. 80 IT. Henry, to s. out. second: Injury.
Ill (SmalD. out. third Time. rs. Belle Of
Bryn Maur and Chameuse also ran
FIFTH RACE-Ffve and onehalf furionea Ida
Pinack. g tBezanson). % to l. to l. 5 to l.
won; Kenneth. 10 (Rice), 2 to l. even. second;
Eek Davis LIZ CMolesworth) 2 to !, third Time,
los IS. Pajaroita. Silver Tone. Yubs, Saffanor
Eye White. Ruvoco, Wild Irish. Senator james.
and Marta Mac also ran
SIXTH RACE-One mile, First Star, IL Caoef-
mani. to !. to !. even, won: Augustus Hein1e.
100 Mott. to ], even. second: Orbiculation. loe
GENTRY. to !. third. Time. 1A0 Cordie +,
Kisa. Kick. Transparent. Flying. and Blue Beard
also ran
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-24
mails Grab Another Young Sohpaw Twer Boxing and Racing
BangN SwaH Away Goes the Old Pill,
Here's the First Game of Season, Fans

no one out he caught one Of Finnegan's
shoots on the nose and planted II well out
of Berandina's reach. After two relays
Of the horsehide the reserves managed
to stop the big varsity catcher at the
hot corner. but not for long as Campbell
sent Whitaker home with nicely placed
single through the right side Of the in
field.
Campbell moved to second while Devlin
and Cass were getting Dillon at first
base. and he scored later when Pauxtis
playing short for the reserves made the
only error of the contest on a hard drive
by Giacomo through the midway sack.
Heggarty allowed the Reserves but
three hits. these coming in the second
and fourth inning. With two down in
the second Cronln singled and stole sec
on on the second ball pitched to Paux-
tbs. when Heggarty took a long wind-up.
Pauxtis planted a fast one through Dill
lon. but Sanderson held Cronin at third
with a fast relay. Devlin proved an easy
out from Cusack to Campbell. This was
the only time the Reserves threatened
during the game In the fourth. with one
down Irwin smacked the old hide just
out Of Dillon's reach. but died on first.
as Finnegan and Cass proved easy outs
After Coach John O'Reilly had chased
most Of the players Of the Varsity and
the Reserve teams to the gym, the re-
mainder Of the candidates were given
short workouts Of three innings each.
Brennan. Breslin, Harry Kelly and Beat
ty performed on the mound while Weems
and Pass did the receiving
Kelly's work while on the firing line
was the best Of the afternoon, while
weems showed up in a creditable manner
behind the bat.
Forty-five athletes were tried out dur
ing the afternoon. prominent among the
scrubs being Barron at first base. Dono
van at short field. Cavanaugh at second
base, and Connolly, Corcoran. and Nash
in the outfield. Capt. Jim Tormey
the practice from the bench as
he only left the Georgetown Hospital yes
terday, where ne has been confined with
an injury received in the Gallaudet
game a few weeks ago.