Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07


 local freight train No. 777.. His left
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 about it once or twice before this But I have raised and am this year raiS- ing corn on the same patch which has
 been in corn for eighteen or twenty
 consecutive years. It is good corn, productive in ears and large in stalk. In the case of this particular field, ex-
 perience has shown me that all it needed was to be kept mellow enough for the AveryWhere-reaching corn roots to push their way easily: to be sep- piled with ample hHmus: and to be given al adequate "starter" or tonic of nitrogen. Phosphates and potash 1c seems to have plenty of, naturally. My particular method is to keep the soil permeable by deep blowing: to SUD- ply hurnus by annually tuning under
 the very largest amount of strawy manure which the blow can be made to cover: to provide nitrogen by drop ping a good handful of hen-manure at each hill: to sweeten up and make available the whole thing by a top rowed in: to keep the weeds down by frequen, horse-cultivations in the earliest stages of growth, till the corn gets fairly going. A>ser that, it will smother them out, itself.
 Now, Fn no genius. Nor did I start in as an expert. I found tl11s patch of ground, which wasn't particularly good land, in itself, but was handy and naturally mellow. It didn't grow very good hay. It wouldn't y1eI ! over sixty bushels of potatoes to thes acre. It wasn't worth while for oats. But a study of it's texture, and an analysis of it's composition which got my .ex- pertinent station to make for me, led me to believe that it could be made into corn land. So I wen. at it. The resultS are satisfactory. to me, at least ing to make me rich. But it has pro- duced eighteen or twenty. crops of good corn in as many consecutive years with, on the whole, less trouble and at less labor-cost than any other cornpatch I've had. Nor am so self conceiteI as to think that I have done anything which any other farmer can't do,-if he's only willing to take tfx1 trouble and be at the pains to do it.
 In preparing and treating the land, followed nobodys line but worked put that which using my best Judgment md experience and getting all the out side information I could, finally seem sd the most promising, modifying it rom tin1e to time. as actual practice showed was deSira ble. It was just he application of plain, simple. every lay, everybody-haS-i common sense o my particular problem
 don't say or mean Stat identical methods would do the job for you But. do say that you can find out for methods which will do the ob for you, if you go at it with de- erminatfon to succeed, and with ut CT disregard for all the yapring critics If the neighborhood who will slobber vou over with their assertions that ,ou "can't" do this and "can'f' do hat.
 You don't know what you "ean,t" | To. or what you can do till you've l rfed |
 Nor. can you really try. if you put | our brains to sleep and send your l judgment out visiting and tie one arm | ehind your back before you begin. Connecticut. Perhaps Bill Smith can't | aise it, try how he will. Good gra- | ious! ' don't know whether he can | r not. He does or can find out. But, ven if fe can't, with the best inten- F ions and the keenest shre wdness and ne fullest industry, that doesn't prove nat Pom Jones and Sam Brown and.l otham Jenks can't. As a matter of ersonal opinion. I firmly keiieve that aey cal That three out of every 1ey no: only can, but that they can 0 so, year after year, on the same md and with constantly improvi1ig ofl,' too Also at a good, fair, pro
 The last cracked corn I bouqh+ for " chickens cost me $4.75 a hundred. l nd the blamed birds prorrotly began 1 cutting and stopped laying! I shall !, we my own, weather permitting. ithin a few weeks, and shall buy no ts ore at that price Or anything like There's something wrong about the rner or the farm which can't at t ast produce their own corn needs at . less cost than that |! My only present regret is that, in $ cad of putting in just about enough I r my own next winters supply, last ring, I hadn't planted ten times as | any acres to sell. With corn at SAYS or s3 or even less [ r bushel a farmer had much better ' II it than buy it.
 Those of you who are lucky enouqh f
 have ,orn ripening, now, might we'll f nsider the advisability of saving n ore seed than usual and planning ( a lar ger planting next spring. q Perhaps some haIf-aWake neighbor fl sy get his eyes wide open by that . ne, too. and want to buy little seed n put himself into the thrifty class. I V Anyway, it will be a hand thing to | n ve an extra stock on hand EJ
 THE FARMER TT