Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-30

at one end; and butts up against a granite mountain at the opposite ex- tremity. 1t has no shape. being neith- CT square nor round nor oblong, but bends around and in, and out, with more angles sands cornerds than a bur- dock has burrs. 1t Sis crossed by a crooked, swale and dotted with half a-dozen protrdding fedges of sthe un- derlying rock. Imagine if you please sorne~~ progressive North Stoningt to+sueh a. field and letting down the bars to admit his eleven-ton tractor to begin blowing for. potatoes! Also. if your capacity is greatS enough, inn agine him ctrItiVating the patch, after the petatoes have getg about foot high, with that same tractor,
 SkAfter that, assume you will also
 be able to imagine him taking his fam- fly to- church .of.a SundayFin a three-, seated canopy top, drawn, again, by the tractor at the rate oftperhaps three
 or. three and seven -nineteenths miles per hourit Y 'Fff
 By ally means let us bow down and | take off our hats and stand in the ditch 3&While the 4fwision of machine
 made farming passes by, as subnis-
 sivelyr asTif we were-:mere civilians on \ 2 German sidawa ak in the path sef a fpeag4ess. ePrussia1 y sGh-lieutena tclahkfng sabre and spurs.
 i But it isn't fpEbidden. uss neverthe- l less, to think what we please or, more
 accurately spsaking, what he have to. I the aNerage< <Conneosicuts farmer would
 get the ready cash, without mortgag l ing his farm for all it was worth to | buy such a .tractor} }ands the machinery
 necessary to. go with eit., ,~+- ~ I can't help wondering how much coal it would take to run 1t for a sea- son. and{ how much time sthe farmer lWould have .toAltal1e off to haul his tfuel.s 4 < 7. s4,- .- -s
 I can't help wondering just how, if he was -fgoings in--fort an absolutely
 horselesss farm,' he'd 4gets his winters
 and rocky mountain side with it, espe-
 cially when sthe.snow was drifted about
 nine feet in some places and the glar-
 ing sacclivities covered with glare ice
 in others. +' HIS f r. can't help wondering how many
 hundred dollars a. bushel, ,-his- potatoes
 would have cost him, when finally dug
 and delivered, and just where he could seli'thenfs so as to gatshis money back land fair;wages for himself-and req
 sonable allowance for depreciation
 and interest money, on his investment
 and his mortgage,
 ]. No doubt there ares here e~and there , exceptional fields in both -Gonnectieui ! and WfseofIsIhq which it would be aind POoSSADAC -IO nurses rDy s the aid of steam or gasoline driver : machinery In such rare cases it is
 likewise possible that. theI use of such
 tractors might even be found as cheaI ; or cheaper than f1orses.% But for the f most of us, especially those of US who a farm eastern farms. with tip-tilted N fields affd frequent ledges, forests E sUFs1nps. 'Aetc., mixed up in and with A them the use of somea sort of power 'a which we can efficiently steer around A stumps and negotiate steep banked t swales with, is rather essential.
 Isl sr aknews that II scouldn't any better cultivate my gardens with an eleven
 ton tractor than I cothd catch minnows s4l in% %n1y brook *with an e1even-ton an. 5 chor for a hook.
 l Anyway, who wants a "horseIes.
 Efarmn? Such a thing, iszas much oui } of perspective as a cowless dairy ol 2 a. catless kitchen. ..s~,-... .- 4 T One of the things farms are for ii 3 to raise stock, including cattle ana X sheep and horses and swine and poul | try,as Perhaps not all of them at tn, : same time andaon the same farm Bu s9 1t. is the farm on which such animals 3 are bred and must be. And most farm