Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-27

fwritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 One of the ways in which the far
 nfer can beat a part Of the high cost Of living is by having @ garden
 When say "by having garden"
 really mean by taking care of a gar den and raising things on it.
 A good many farmers already have and all their lives have had what they
 call "a garden.
 A few farmers already have and
 have always had a real garden. Such
 may skimp the rest of this and turn
 right over to the baseball news and
 Marriages and Deaths" I'm not talk
 ing to them nor at them.
 Eve seen a good many farm gar
 dens which were so called only by
 courtesy. Often little patches of
 grow farm crops on and too poor to
 produce anything much beyond scur- vy-grass and pussley. Generally neg
 lected until all the farm work is done Flowed some day late in the spring
 when there happens to he half an hour
 left after the corn and oats and po-
 tato grounds have been attended to. Fertilized with a basket or two of yard manure-if the woman of the house has taken trouble to get it and scatter it oni Sown with any old seeds which happen to have been left over from last year, or that can be bought out of travelling seed-case at the store.
 And then left to the tender mercies of the early and the latter rains, and the cut-worms, and the black flea bee ties, and the striped hugs. and the 'tstink-bugs1' and the seventeen diff ferent kinds of predaceons beetles. and the twice seventeen kinds of blight and n1ildew and fungi, and the seven
 times seventeen varieties of choA- ing weeds.
 Unless, again, the woman of the family takes her sun-bonnet and her old gloves and the patent weeder she and does. a little sporadic scratching and weed-pulling in an amateurish and -get-down-o on -n1y-knees be cAuse-my -skirt-is-so-H tight sort of way.
 H that's the kind of garden you sport, dearly beloved reader, let me whisper in your ear that the one req son why it doesn't pay and isn't worth the trouble, is because you don't take more trouble and meke it pay.
 There Is nothing worth having in this woodworking, nothing. nothing which doesn't cost its real value in work or worry or trouble or some other intangible but very real coin. You can't get something for nothing dishonestly. Money isn't the only nor the chief price which is paid. Indeed, money has to be bought. the same as other. things (And, speaking incl e higher price than it is worth.) Ev- erything has to be paid for. sooner or later. either with money or with la fDor and sweat. Even when thing is paid for with money, the money had first to be paid for in abor or sweat or some less worthy coinage. 1
 if garden is worth while at all. sk - %L- --l,sT will pay for itself. If it isn't worth 1 while 1t had better be given over to sorreI and chickweed and pussley and | the hens. sonal experience and such observation | as is possible to me, is that no equal i area of any farm is capable of pro | dticils so much, of earning so much. | health and the physical comfort of the 1 family, and of saving so much need i less out-go as the farm garden-if it | is inteiiigentiy planned and industri- 1 cusly cared for.
 My own gardens are in a locality 1 which Is fully two weeks later in the 1 spring than Norwich, and is also sub l 5ect to earlier fall frosts: Yet we i expect. as a matter of course, to have from them 9 steady succession of sue | culent fresh vegetables. frem the time | when we can begin digging parsnips l and salsify and cutting dandelions or 1oP<NA d6u us III lIiC Ilil the WlI1- ter freezing puts an end to the last outdoor turnips and cabbages and Brussels Sprouts, etc. Moreover, taey furnish us with such vegetables for winter. storage as potatoes and cab pages and onions and beets and rlita bagas and celery and squashes and carrots and beans, while the over pro auction of summer is represented cn cellar shelves by cans of preserved tomatoes and baby bectS and sweet corn and string beans and asparagusi as well as berries and fruits.
 What is the sense Of the fsrnsr spending his scanty income buying when he can have a wider variety of better goods at lesser cost from his oHn soil2
 Answer me thatt
 Even the suburbanFte and the city 1Weiler, if he have . back yard. can | 10 much to reduce his IT.. c. L. by udtcious use of that same back yard 1 An contemplating New England seeds nan has gotten up and is d:stribut- showing what may be done by 'in- 1 ensiye farming'-which is about the l tame thing as sensible gardening-on 1 ! plot D by 60 feet. This plan shows nches apart, and fourteen rows of arger plants twentv-four inches l tpart, making twentyseven rows in all 1 md occupying forty seven feet. can | nay be raised, on an average abou. | our bushels of peas. about five bush Is of beans, three of potatoes three f beetss two of oHions, two of tur- lips and two of parsnips. with five or ix1 hundred cucumbers, ten dozen of | Weet corn, over hundred punches of eighty punches of small Ii
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