Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-03

phrase It mustn't be a side issue It must be the main thing. It mustn't be a matter for ',e.lore-time. to be hur- ried through then, in the scant in terya1 between supper and dark, but a subject for all day attention and thought. It mustn't be a matter to be ignored if other more pressing bus mess calls for care and Work.S It must be the thing for which everything else tlshall take second place, if something has to.
 In other words, if a farmer is going ] into stock he must make stock his l hobby; he must devote himself with his whole attention" to stock he must learn his stock till he knows 1t from each particular horn to each par ticular hoof; he must nurse it and feed f it and hunof it and pet it; he must watch it day by day as a cat watch l es her kittens
 That is. he must scoddle' it.
 
 about stock 10 be worth the telling.
 But this mans talk strikes me as rather sensible. on general principles. anyway.
 Didn't you ever notice that the man or woman who has extra good results 1 from poultry is usually one who has a natural liking for fowls and, there fore, spends a lot of time and fuss on them?
 Won't every experienced poultry man tell you that small hocks always do better. proportionately, than large
 And don't he explain. if pressed for a reason, that it's because one can tgive closer attention and better care l to twenty hens than to twenty hun dred?
 I have a neighbor who keeps from l,5O0 to 2,0O0 White Leghorns. He is successful with them, too. But he be- 4 gan with only a dozen, and increased only as he was able to give the same direct personal attention to fifty
 sliat he gave to twelve; then to a hum dred; and so on. He tells me,-and believe hirn--that he knows each in dividual hen in his numerous houses; knows her so he can pick her oild when she is feeding with hundreds oi others out in the orchard run. ! They are divided into pens, not sole Il ly by count, but for reasons connected with their characteristics.
 You see, I like 'emp. he remarked to me, once. T like to be around Il among them and to handle them. Wher tl I'm called away to other farm work I'm all the time thinking about 'em."
 That man. you see, is born .'hen- man.. He takes to them, as a duel .l takes to water or as the sparks f1s upward. It's natural and easy ana pleasant for him to feed them alaG fuss over them and acoddIe" them Therefore he does it: therefore, too he succeeds with them. He has tried, as side issues, genera farming and berry culture and vege 1 table growing, each one in turn, with out much profit from any. His hem are his mainstay and the chief sourc, not only of his profits but of his pleas 2 ure.
 This particular John Farmer who i now talking has also had his exper1 ences. He has tried general farming : and found that it was not his line ? He has tried dairying and found tha II gave him some manure over an
 above expense, but nothing more. H : has tried sheep and found,--under tn
 prices prevailing from two to tel years baclthat he had to pay fo the privilege of keeping them Am
 then he tried what he wanted to fror
 the first and was afraid of, | e truck
 raising.
 And he probably discovered that thi z was what he was built for He didn' g really care for stock; he didn't at a; D like hens. he lacked zealousy inferes n in general farm crops But gardenin
 got right under his vest ! Just because he did take to it s
 instinctively, he was afraid of it a . hrsti afraid that 1t was an insidiou temptation to sloth and not really t full mans sized job. He's got over a i tlsat, now
 That western stock raiser succeed ' In spite of tlse high cost of feed an
 the man1p pulata0ns of market specQ