Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

is sown or a single plant set, tho whole plan of the gardens has been Worked out. Now this helpa tn about seventeen
 Ways. It not only takes into consid- eration the localities where the pro- posed crops will probably do best but it suggests st once the different sort and amount of maturing which they will require
 want more nitrogen than anything else on spinach and lettuce and celery. Long before mauurirg times the spin ach and lettuce and celery beds are marked out On them go extra QJIaD- titles of hen manure, sheep manure or nitrate. The tomato hatch calls for more phoSphates. Very we'll l know where to leave the nitrogenOus man ures off and put the phosphatic man ures on. Cabbage calls for an extra amount of potash: peas and beans for g light dressing and corn for a heavy one, etc, etc,
 This sort Of planning also greatly helps in the seasonal cultivation. Suit able crops can be so plotted that they will systenaa4ize and make easier house work.
 Now, in gardening it isn't necessary for me to look ahead much more than 8 single year. because garden crops usually swing round and round on about the same circumscribed area 1 There is no such thing as fixed and universal rotation, such as Is usually practiced with farm crops involving larger areas. At least, there is no such thing in practice. whatever there might or should be in theory. l don't see why, If planning and forethought saVs work and expense and worry in a garden, they shouldn't l on a farm. Onlys on the faTTns they must take into consideration series ! of years. rather than 8 series of ' months. With bigger areas involved and longer periods in the full course, the plans must cover longer spaces of ! time.
 have ons nei1hbor who Is actually working on this idea. He isn't a, the oretical farmer, by long shot. He 1 isn't any sort of fancy farmer He ! has earned his farm by hard work and 1 is making his living off it by hard work. 1 don't think he makes maps 1 or keeps books. But he has a mighty rood head on his shoulders. It's both 1 long and well filled.
 Talking with him, the other day, about his farming problems. he casu- l ally referred to what he was g~ing to ] do with a certain back slsture. 1 Why, said l. that will take more ] than one year, considering the other work you have to do."
 Sure. he responded. "I can't ex- } pect to finish it up under i've years, 5 at least. But, if it takes ten, 1t will
 be worth the doing"
 That remark woke up my. curiosity, l and l talked with him for an hour about his plans, not merely for 1915, | but for '16 and IT and other years 1 farther on. I found that he had, tuck ! ed away in his head, a fairly well ma
 tured scheme for his farm. covering 1 a period of more than ten years. He l was going to do this thing. this year; ] that other thing, next year: still an ] other thing the year after, or as soon as he could get to it His plan wasn { l a hard and fast one: q Medes-and- 1 Persian law which couldn't be 1 changed, no matter what happened in 1 the meantime; but d thoroughly i thouSht-Out scheme along which he 1 was to work for the betterment of the ] farm and the improvement of its pro- ductiVity during a course of years. He i could vary it. if changing conditions ] demanded. But the point is that he had the plan and. when favorable op- portuntties for work came along, he didn't have to waste time thinking ur l what he'd better do, that day. He l knew, beforehand exactly what he wanted to do with every leisure hour that came to him.
 two OF three acres. By digging a ditch l two or three acres. By diging a ditch not over eight rods long and less than l six feet deep at the worst place, he ] can drain it. And he reckons that it will produce potatoes for years with out need Of ulanuring, when once got | into shape.
 In another place he has a quagrnire l that can't be drained. He has the 1 plan fully developed for turning 1t into a. duck-pond. just as soon as he 1 gets through with the other things
 that come ahead of it.
 One slope which gives every prom 1 ise of being a, fine place for apples, he
 is setting out to trees. in the expecta- tion of having an orchard there, ten ox ] fifteen years hence.
 One hill too rocky for blowing and
 1 hardly worth while as pasture, Is
 coming into white pines. He Is going
 to save and protect them. because he
 thinks they will make merchantabIe
 1 lumber in fifteen or twenty years, and
 will pay him more than any other uss
 ] he could put the ledge to.