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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12
MANSFIELD

Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Conant vert
taken by surprise Saturday evening
when their friends hung them a very
pretty June box. The evening Was
spent in music and games, after which
Mrs. Conant served a dainty lunch
which was enjoyed by all.
Children's Day will be observed at
Gurleyville Sunday, Jne 18th.
George Phillips and son Donald, and
Harry Hanks of Hartford, were recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Hanks
Of Hanks Hill.
Mrs. Otis Conant of GurIeyvi11e has
been entertaining her sister for some
time.
Mrs. I. D. Phelps of West Upton,
Mass, has been visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Fuller, of Mansfield
Four Corners; also her brother
Charles ]. Fuller of Hanks Hill.
Miss Minnie Fuller has returned,
after spending two weeks in Newport,
r. I.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12
new LONDON NEEDS JITNEY LAW
Considered Time That the Growing Nuisance Was Abated
DIR. Black Remains Health Oficers-Either VIII Make
Acceptable Mayor.

The unregulated jitney service in
New London is not meeting with gen
eral public approval and it is evident
that restriction of some sort must be
put upon the business in the interest
OF public convenience and safety.
Aside from the unfair competition
with the trolley lines that have done
so much in the upbuilding of the city
along it's lines, the jitneys are per-
mitted to violate all police rules gov
erning the propulsion of automobiles
and seem to be in a class by them
selves and enjoying unusual privileges
and to the public detriment. 1t is of
common occurrence for a. long line of
jitneys to take position in front of
State street stores between Main and
Bank streets and really interfere with
the business of these stores. Automo-
bile parties are barred from shopping
in that section as it is impossible to
drive to the front of these stores. In
consequence stores in the same line
of business in other sections get the
business that is intended for the stores
that are blocked by the jitneys. The
expreSSmen have been driven from
their ancient stand on the parade as
it was alleged that the wagons inter
fered with public traffic, but the jit-
neys are allowed to interfere with
traffic and store business as well and
on a larger scale than did the ex-
pressmen, and without police molesta-
ton.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12
ToIIand County
MANSFIELD CENTER
Willing Workers Hold Annual Picnic
Tho Weeks Visitors.

Mrs. E. P. Aver returned Saturday
after two weeks visit with her father
Mr. Wilford of Branford.
Mrs. Albert James sister, Mrs. Car
ter and her daughter Miss Marguerite
are visiting her for this month.
Mrs John Durham Is visiting her
daughter in Springfield, Mass.
Annual Picnic.
The Willing Workers enjoyed their
annual picnic at the home of Mrs,
Stephen Rose and Mrs. Herbert Chap
peIl, Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Florence Oiin and friends, Mr.,
and Mrs. Schofe1d and son, motored
from Montville to attend church here
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Brooks left
Tuesday for their home in Dayton,
Ohio, after visiting at the home of
DR.. and Mrs. Sumner, parents of Mrs.
Brooks.
Mrs. W. D. Chamberlin will remain
a few weeks longer.
Miss Alma Josephson spent the
week in Windham and Danielson.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

this Saturday evening. The prize
speaking contest is to be a feature of
much interest.
The 9Th, 7th and 9Th grade pupils
from the several schools had their
contest in geography of Connecticut
The result will be announced at the
exercises this Saturday evening.
Elmer NJ. Macfarlane is the latest
recruit in the army of car owners
There are forty machines owned in
town and it was only a few years ago
when the first one made its appear
anca.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

Alderman Cook called the atten-
ton of the court of common council to
the jitney nuisance and of the ueces-
sity for abatement, but some members
who probably viewed the matter from
a political slant were not enthusiast
tic in support of any proposition that
would inconvenience in the least the
jitneymen. The council did, however,
consent to refer the matter to the DO
lice committee with the request that
there be investigation of conditions
and report made to the next meeting
of the council g. month hence. The
State police were called to New Lon
don to help enforce the laws concern
ing the operation Of automobiles last
summer, when there were not half as
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

to use his own words. to produce
hundred dollar crop on S4O-an-acre
land than to produce a $40-dollar crop
on $200-an-acre land. Especially when
times as much to work the hilly, stony,
New E ngland patch as the level,
loamy, horizon-wi Illinois prairie.
1t is quite probable that some New
England farmers have been and are
throwing away money by injudicious
misuse of costly fertilizers. 1t is fully
as probable that many more are losing
money by their refusal to resort to
those same fertilizers where they are
needed. I don't take much stock in
the specially selected cases of excep-
tional results advertised and photo
graphed in the fertilizer catalogues.
They are always exceptions, picked
out and promenaded before US because
they are such.
But few New England farmers can
get from their own stock or from their
neighbors all the farm manureS their
lands demand. They must supplement
this lack from other sources.
One great difference between the
two classes of manure is that it doesn't
take much knowledge to spread the
stuff from the barnyard, while, in the
use of commercial fertilizers, the far
mer who expects to make any profit
O0L u Ll1S11lJ VI SN0n ~ get LIS LlOIlCy
back must know beforehand what his
land wants, and in what proportions
and quantities, and must measure mis-
fertilizer applications by this, checked
always by the girth Of his pocket
book.
Any man with dung fork and g.
pair of healthy arms can put on his
land a dollar ton Of barnyard manure,
and it will generally do about the
same things for the soil, year after
year and crop after crop.
But it takes knowledge and study
and skill and whole lot of "gump-
ton" to put on a $50 tons Of fertil-
izer, so as to get $S1 worth of good
from it.
Whether it will pay any farmer to
use it, or how much it will pay" him
to use it is rather intimate question
between the farmer and his farm. They
must thrash it out between themselves
if they expect any worth while solu-
ton.
But it's not good judgment for Bill
Smith to denounce and eschew all use
of commercial fertilizers because Tom
Jones has lost money by using them
ignorantly OF recklessIy.
Bill had better ask his own farm
what it thinks about them. and wait
the answer humbly and meekly and
with a spirit emptied of prejudice and
anxious to know the truth, rather than
merely to prove his own superior wis
dom.
THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

would break out just Ike burn. The skin
would scale up and peel off. She was fretful
and scratched.
ST was given two kinds of ointment and
/ also used others all without success.
saw an advertisement of Cuticura Soap and
Ointment in the paper and sent for a free
sample. When I had used these with a
large cake Of Cuticura Soap and some Cuti-
cma Ointment baby's face and head were
we'll" (Signed) Mrs. Claude Cox. October
16. 1914.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

DR.. Hopkins reteI1s the old story of
the boy who found a drunken man Iy-
Ing on the sidewalk and called through
the saloon door to the barkeeper that
his sign had fallen down. The in
timation suggested Is that New Eng
land agriculture is the sign which
has fallen down in plain sight of west
ern farmers and should be propped up
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

1t is time this nuisance was abated
and that the jtneys be assigned to
some stand removed from the most
active business centre of the city.
These jitneys ought not to be permit
ted to interfere with the business of
the merchants of State Street, or with
those of any other street, for that mat
ter. A stand has been established for
the expressmen, why not stand for
the jitneys?
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

getting worse. At the
edges of her hair and behind
her ears seemed to itch and
burn awfully. She would
wake up out of her sleep
and cry and rub her face
until it would bleed. At
times 1t seemed to go in
under the skin, then if
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

So 1t would seem, after all, as If DR..
Hopkins crusade against Eastern ways
of farming and Eastern use of fertil-
1zers comes to about this: that cereal
growing is decreasing in the East:
that the use of commercial fertilizers
is not maintaining it; and that they
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

For another thing: former New Eng
land farmers used to raise regularly
families of from six to a dozen children
most of whom stayed on the farm If
not the home farm, then some other.
Nowadays the New England family
which has more than one boy to it's
credit is an exception. And he is
brought up with careful care for the
purpose and with the expectation that
he won't be a farmer, but Will be pres
ident Of the United States,-or book
keeper in a department store, or some
other job where he won't have to dirty
his hands or wear old clothes!
''Race-suicide'', Doctor, plays a big
ger part in New England farm aband-
onment than commercial fertilizers.
DR.. Hopkins admits that in RAISING
crops with high acre values such as
most vegetables, as distinguished from
cereals, produce, commercial fertilizers
are of value His real objection to
them in Illinois, then, seems to be that
they won't pay because Illinois lands
are largely devoted to crops of low
acre value. This, 1t would appear to
me, is matter for apology rather than
for boast
Other things being equal, it certain
ly requires more money and mind
science and sense, brain and Drawn,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12
fine RASH ON
BABY'S CHEEK
Itched and Burned kwfuTly Behind
Ears. Was Fretful and Scratched.
Used Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment. Baby's Face and Head Well,

Frankfort, Me.-"When my little baby
girl was two months old her cheeks began to
break out in a little fina rash and Lot
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12
Sample Each Free by Mail

With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Adj
dress postcard ''Cuticura, Dept. T, Bos-
tom, Sold throughout the world.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

CWritten Specially for The Bul1etin.)
DR.. Hopkins of the Illinois Agricul-
tura1 college recently gave the farmers
of his state q sermon on the handling
of their land. This may not seem q
likely subject to interest the farmers
of Connecticut. But when I add that
the main idea he insisted on was that
the very first thing an Illinois farmer
must bear in mind was that he was
NOT to treat his soil as New England
soil has been treated,-then, think,
some of us will prick up our ears a
little.
DR.. Hopkins says he has been in
forty eiqht states, usually upon invi-
tation to secure or to impart some in
formation concerning soils, soil prob
lens, and rational methods of soil i'm
provement." Thus he optnes that he
has at least had opportunity to &C
quire a somewhat definite knowledge
OF many soils in many states" Then
he declares that in his Judgment there
is no better opportunity in American
agriculture for the investment of
money and mind, of science and sense,
of brain and Drawn, than in the farm
lands of Southern Illinois"
Immediately after which he adds
that there are few better opportuni-
ties in the United States to lose money
than in the attempt to profit from con-
tinuiug to wear OUT those same lands.
the land is handled. and his very first
assertion is that It must never for one
minute be treated as eastern farmers
have been in the habit of treating
theirs.
This certainly interests US. II we
are being held up by the highest far
ming authorities of one Of the best
farming states as horrible examples
of how not to do it, we ought at least
to sit up and take notice.
DR.. Hopkins talk was long one and
it is quite impossible to do more than
summarize his argument, in doing
which some of it's force and vigor
must needs be lost But 1t runs some
thing like this:
Ten million acres, once cIassed as
improved farm land in New England,
New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
yania, now recorded as agriculturally
abandoned, show that something was
wrong with the methods of those who
had to abandon them. During the last
thirty years the decrease in area of
Improved farm land in New England
has been equal to the acreage of the
ten largest counties in Illinois.
In that same thirty years New Eng
land wheat acreage has decreased from
$4,000 acres to 1888. I'm taking Dr.
Hopkins figures in all these cases.
The area of abandoned land is more
than twelve times the acreage of all
cereal crops grown in New England"
There are five counties in Illinois any
one of which produces more bushels of
cereal crops than the combined total
cereals of the six New England States
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

shouldn't be used where they don't
pay. All of which most OF US would
cheerfully subscribe to.
But it does seem to me as if DR..
Hopkins was "way Off in ascribing
the decrease in acreage Of improved
farm land in New England to the in
judicious use Of commercial fertili-
zers.
There are about thirty-nine other
reasons which the sober minded stu
dent of the sorry problem needs to
consider.
DR.. Hopkins speaks rather contemp-
tuously of our little patches of land.
Well, dear Doctor, that's the way the
Lord made most New England farms,
in patches" We haven't an prair-
les across which man might ploW one
straight level fuTrow for fifty miles
without stopping, if he didn't bring up
against somebody's line fence. It's a
pretty big field for New England,
where one can plow fifty rods in a
straight line. There are more where
so yards is the limit. I have some land
where the ploWman can't go fifty feet
without turning out to go round a
mountain or to dodge a swamp-hoIe or
to avoid a brook.
It costs a good deal more to fit and
seed an acre where some OF the work
has to be done by hand and where no
tool bigger than a common one-fur-
row ploW can be used, than it does an
acre which a traction engine and a
n-gang pillow with harrows and drill
hitched on behind can fit and seed in
an hour.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

II there Is any contest for the NOM
ination in the republican party Mr..
Bonds chief opponent is liable to be
Capt Ernest E. Rogers, who is a
receptive candidate, and has made
declaration of his principles provided
he is called upon to accept the nomi-
nation. Mr.. Rogers has had expert
ence as alderman in the court of COM
mon council. having served two full
terms, and Mr.. Bond is at present a
member of the aldermanic body, serv-
ing his first year. Mr.. Rogers is "a
thorough business man, of most ex-
cellent character, and a true republt-
can. He was for many years connect
ed with the Brainerd and Armstrong
company and is now engaged in the
feed and grain business on a large
scale. He is of good mayoralty tim
ber If it is Bond, or Rogers, New
London will have an acceptable mayor.
Almost any democrat can have the
nomination for the asking.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

| AASS
| to do and how not to do it.
! And what do you suppose DR.. Hop
| kins puts forward as the chief char
acteristic of Eastern farming and the
main source of Eastern farm abandon
| ment?
The use of commercial mixed fer
| tf1izers, If you please. Listen;
Through lack of fundamental
| knowledge, the farmer Of the East has
mercial fertilizer, and ten million acres
once classed as improved farm land,
but now abandoned. represent the
sign for Illinois farmers to look upon
before adopting the fertilizer system
now so extensively advertised in the
commercial fertilizer interests, es-
pecially Eastern fertilizer manufac-
turers, after having sucked the life
blood out Of Eastern agriculture, now
seek new worlds to conquer, attracted
by the agricultural earnings Of the
corn-belt."
Pretty plain talk, Ell? Comes fairly
straight from the shoulder, doesn't it.?
Sounds as If he meant it?
Admitting the assertions that New
England produces larger acre-yieldS Of
corn and wheat than Illinois, he sets
against them the fact that the area
decreased from 746,12S acres to 468,617
acres in thirty years. He points out
that what little cereals are still grown
in New England are often grown in
small patches ON what are really mar
ket gardens, and often merely to pro-
the yield per acre on such small, high
ly fertiized, intensively cultivated
patches ought to be high. But the
patches are always small and there
are mighty few of them. Once more
let me quote:
IF wheat can be grown with profit
by use of mixed fertilizer in New Eng
land, then why has the New England
wheat acreage decreased from 73,003
acres to only 1888 acres in thirty
years? The area of abandoned land is
more than twelve times the acreage of
all cereal crops grown in New England.
Why does not the Boston fertilizer
manufacturer restore these abandoned
lands, and thus multiply cereal pro-
duction in New England by twelve in
stead of permitting this enormous
shripkage at his own door?
He quotes the 1910 census figures as
showing that in that year there were
only 186,95S acres in all New England
devoted to corn and wheat, while $685.
SAL acres were devoted to potatoes and
truck growing. That is, more than
twice as much land as was in market
garden crops as in cereals. And now
for my last quotation
The vegetable crops have, of course
high acre value, and mixed fertilizers
are used with profit for such crops.
Furthermore, such use of commercial
fertilizers is and always has been ap-
proved and recommended by US and by
practically everybody, wherever the
supply of farm manure is limited
So IL would seera after all &c ~ r-
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12
FARMING IN NEW ENGLAND AND ILLINOIS
ten Specially for The BuIletin.) aga

again solely as an example Of what moi
to do and how not to do it.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

ton to be the next mayor of the city
of New London. Mr.. Bond is a ma
tive of this city, an officer of the New
London Ship and Engine company. an
alderman Of the city, prominent in
Elkdom, a leading member OF the
Thames club, and among the, local So
ciety leaders, is a good all around
young man, and socially and f1nanci-
ally and mentally equipped for the
responsible and honorable office. He
has not yet declared his political or
business platform of his candidacy.
and will probably stand on q platform
Of his own construction.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

This certainly interests US. II we
are being held up by the highest far
ming authorities of one of the best
farming states as horrible examples
Of how not to do it, we ought at least
to sit up and take notice.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

The genial Harry Bond, just at pres
ent the prince of entertainers and bus
lily engaged along that line, in con-
nection with his arrangements to
marry during the present month, wants
his friends to not lose sight of the fact
that he is a. candidate for the nomina-
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

many automobiles here as at the pres
ent time. but no move in that direc-
ton has been made as yet to help
Ftraighten out the existing conditions.
In the meantime, the city fathers
ought to do just a little something to
relieve the dangerous condition of the
jitney section of State street which is
so congested that human life is en-
dangered. Other vehicles, too, as well
as jttneys have some right in the pub
lie highways, that the jitney operators
should be compelled to respect.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-12

shouldn't be used where they don't
pay. All of which most OF US would
cheerfully subscribe to.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-26

ute please-lets have a look at it, And
then. scarcely waiting for the horse to
answer to the reins and come to stand
still. he put his hand on the side of the
vehicle. vaulted over the wheel and was
out in the road in twinkling.
After plunging into the woods and re-
manning invisible for the fraction of a
minute Cleek emerged suddenly i'll a
calmer mood and. striking out over the
marshy ground at a walking pace, re-
turned to the trap and climbed back into
it at once.
"A very interesting old place that, Mr..
Mollison. and instructive he said. as he
struck a match and lit a cigarette. Our
friend the duck-killer, has altered his
tactics. but he will finish those unfor-
tunate birds yet If the old lady doesn' I
take them indoors
Dear me, You don't mean to say.
sir, that you think he contemplates re-
turning to make a raid upon them
again.
He has returned and made raids upon
them a good many times since that first
visit. Mr.. Mollison, I assure you"
But, my dear Mr. Cleek. surely you
are mistaken-surely you are. can
positively affirm that not a solitary bird
has been butchered since that first
night
To be sure. He has gone off the
'butchery' tack now and he is starving
them to death. Old Mrs. LasswaGe
feeds them of mashed potato mixed
with cornmeal, and they don't get the
third of it. The beggar's hungry and
he's stealing their food. Also. he is
desperate and he is inventive. Desper-
ate, because he ventures out on his
raids in the daylight, now-in the
early morning when the birds are fed:
and inventive because he steals the
food with a sort of scoop net made out
of old wire netting lined with a yei-
low-spotted. red cotton handkerchief
and fastened by a leather bootlace to
the bent branch of a chestnut tree"
MY dear Mr.. cleek! why. how in
the name of all that is miraculous"-
Nothing miraculous about II, Mr..
Mollison," interposed Cleek. Now
drive on IL you please. for I am deep
ly interested in meeting David Lass
wade's wife Just as soon as II is pos
sible to do So"
It was possible to do so inside Of the
next fifteen minutes as he found. when
The Washington herald., 1915-09-26

find that other trifes-a wooden soldier.
toy lamb, something Of that sort-was
also taken; and when a thief in the
night came down to the point Of steal
ing a baby's toys-H'm. yes, to be sure +"
To be sure Mr.. Cleek? To be sure
of what?"
That 1t is about time we started to
have a look at those scarlet cubes which
still remain scarlet. Mr.. Mollison," he
replied. as he pushed back his chair and
rose.
That's the elder Mrs Lasswade's
house." said the curate, pointing with his
whip
"Oh, Is it," said Cleek looking over
at it with extreme interest, his quick
eye taking in the pond and the squashy
state Of the earth. due to the under
ground spring which fed it. the low wall
of the kitchen garden. the wire netting
Of the inclosure for the fowls. and the
close proximity of the dark, thick-crowd-
ing. gloomy-looking woods. Stop a min