Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-09-25
ia. ADVICE THAT IS NOT WHAT IT. SEEMS

on an inverted sod about the middle
of March; protect them in a cold
frame till danger Of frost has passed.
and then transplant sod. young plants
and all into. the open garden
Z Now,~it would be just about as pos
sibles for meA to find a sod which l
could cut and invert, the middle of
March, as it would be for you to cut
ice ON the Thames river the middle
of August
Not long ago another wise man adj
vised celery growers to "blanch" their
plants by slipping an ordinary drain
tile over each one. This. he said,
would obviate the necessity of vexa-
tious Handling by compelling an up
the stems perfectly.
! was a little bit skeptical about the
practicality of this. but a more cred
uIous neighbor has been trying IT, this
fall. He has two rows about a hun
-dred feet long and began thing them
fdIly a month ago. The last / knew,
he had got nearly third of one row
in the tiles, and was putting In what
spare time he could find in building
supports alongside to keep the heavy
tiles from blowing over in high winds,
or tumbiing over when undermined
by . splurging thunder showers and
breaking hts plants down.
seft. -
Pve often heard it said that you
could always start up plenty of game.
in any old woods-if you hadn't any
gun. s
>. Most anybody can sit on my fence
in white flannel trousers and patent
leather shoes and a Panama hat, and
tell me how to do my work better and
easier. At least, most everyone thinks
he cam se~
No doubt, too they mean well by
their advice.
But, somehow. they do talk and
write an awful lot of tommyrots
There are a good many of US real
| farmers. who also get into the habit
of peddling our advice around a. trifle
| too freely and a good deal too cheap
| ~. We get accustomed to our own
| fields and our own crops and our own
| barns and our own ways and can't
! und erstand why other farmers on other
| f1eids don't do their work our way.
| It seems quite reasonable to us to as
sumo that our way is the right way.
/ And too many Of W. assume that there
| is and can be only one right way.
| That's where We are q. bit hasty.
Granting absolutely identical condi-
tions zon every side there must be
| some one system or method or device
| which will work better than any
other-will be the best under those
1
But conditions are never identical
No two farms just alike: nj
two crops are just alike; no two sea-
sons are just alike; no two farmer:
are just alike.
One mans meat is another mans
poison, according to an old saying.
If al farmer shotild live as long a:
Methusaleh, don't believe, he wotilC
/ ever be able to get on to all the Whim.
and erankinesses of his own farm Of
his own weather. "Summering and
wintering" one is only learning sitl
A BACss The very next farm may b,
i quite Another propositions Jones ha'
a drainage problem and Smith one il
irrigation. Browns farm runs natur
ally to hay and Whites to apples ant
Blacks to weeds. Robinson has t
[ fight ,quack grass and .Tomlinson Il
overrun with. ehickweed.s Babsol
can't grow corn without lime ant
Bobson can't raise any with it. Whel
I've found out, after years of exper
tment and many costly failures, wha
to do with and for the Hatch meadow
which is a leachy, gravelly, drought
susceptible field, my knowledge there