Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-29
HIGR PRICES NEED NOT BOTHER FARMERS

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 Written Specially for the Bulletin.
 It's all right enough, no doubt, for the Iuckless people who have to live in city flats or tenements to protest against CT howl about the high cost Of living.
 They have to buy all they consume and are the legitimate prey or the middlemsn and the toll-takers.
 As rule they have not even a gar den. If exceptionally favored in the possession of a bit of land, it is usual ly the barren sCrapingS or dumpln2S left over after building operations and about as fit for raising things as tirdar heap. Moreover, it isn't apt to be much bigger than mans size pocket handkerchief. The most in tensive" cultivation possible won't make q hundred sQuarJ feet produce absolutely all the vegetable and fruit half $. dozen hungry humans need in the course of q year.
 Beyond all which lies the fact that the average city dwcLIer doesn't know how to mako 8 garden and hasn't time to take care of one. if he has it.
 He doesn't know soil; he doesn't know seeds. he isn't posted on Gools he doesn't understand the relation be- tween nitrogen and lettuce or between phosphorus and tomatoes CT between potash and cab5ages.
 He takes his ideas about seeds from tle seed catalogues and his ideas about tools from the agricultural sup ply dealers.
 Which ts positively all that need be Fdid aoOut rhCs1 two items,
 He likes cucHmbars. say. Therefore he plan.s cucumber hills CVc- na-t his available ground, though it Hay be and usually is soil of q sort which can't he 5E -ft117 1ef7,rl lllilirtl grow cUcum6ers under any cirCuIn- stances. Hell plant beans in a sCg'gy muck where uO sclf-TCSpc bean v7o uId ever grow more than two inches out of the GiIt. OF set celery on q dry gravel ridge and expect it jo STOW Jcn- der and sICcuICnt and r-tty stalks.
 While there are shining exceptions, the average back garden of the city dweIler who is so lucky as to have one is not a source cf supply to the kitchen which opens on 1t. And, as has been intimated very few have any E1Tden al all or any riaue for one.
 Therefore they have to buy all their vegetables and fruits and green truck. generally And they have to pay for
 The, not only pay for it, but they pay the railroads or stCamboats or Iruckmen for haCI.ng it from the dis taEt gardens where i, was grown. they pay tn" commission mar for handling it m bulk; they pay r.-e Tc- taller foI passing jt out tC them, in Guiding their full share of his rent and his horse bills or gasoline bills and his telephone biIls and his bO5kzccp- CTS salary and his bad dc3t&."
 When they pass oyer their dollar Cor farm or garden truck t2ey usually get jus1 about "5 tontS' worth of -rlrl[ for tt- handling costs I've mentioned, and th" various 'p"ofi-s' which C-1-- handler. in passing f along. takes saduI0us care 70 rake into hig own pocket be fore he lets go cf t.
 Under such ojrov"1st=roos, it is no wonder that paying oils in these days of high prices is much like having his teeth ruIIrd for t-e average city coTerUCr ! don't wonder that he @TumDles and Srowls or that he wants constantly increasing wages to meet the tax Of constantly rising prices. 
 Why 9 farmer, living o1 q rooray ard 5oil-varied farm. out in the wide country. knowing dirt and mauures and 15eC55 and tools, understanding from long experience Wha- the north side of the Hatch lot and the south W est tlll OL |ft i4l l-l=lll iit9 t-Iltt the upper slope of the spring meadow want to g-ow or can Drofitably be made to ErCTn .-w'lT such a farmer should have t. worry over high prices is more than l can see.
 # he doesn't feel like paying the Feddler's prices for cab0ases and cu- Curlners and beets and onions, etc., why on earth doesn't he raise his own ca.bbagcs and cu-unbers and oects and onions, etc, same as he does his CWn potatoes
 If he doesn't feel like paying out rageOus and eXOrDitant charges for his horse and COW feed, to the enrichment Of western grain growers and in-be- tween grain handlers, why doesn't he grow his own horse and COW feeds, same as his own hay?
 If he can't grow them as cheaply as he can buy them, then he has no call tC kick If he can grow them more cheaply than he can buy them-as nine farmers out of ten can-then ne has no right 70 kicE anybody but him self. If he's throwing away money In buying things he could raise on his own farm for less money because he is too shiftless or too imprOvident or too intelligent to make profitable use of his own opportunities, he has only himself to blame or find fault with.
 There is no better grain food for hcrses than oats and corn, either sep