Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

But was he or was he not a wastrel. last Spring?
 Farmer Blank, just west of me, has finished having. He had to hire help and wages scared him. He was charg- ed s8 day for the same help he used to pay s4 day for. Going through his fields with him, yesterday, on a different errand, ] noticed one meadow with certainly a fair load of good hay Wing in punches here and there. In another big acre of good grass stood uncut. I asked why: Got all I need 1t for enough to pay cost of cuttin'; burn it over bimeby when it gets dry enough"
 There was enough wasting on two properly entreated, will give milk, Milk, properly managed, will yield :ream and butter. There is a ready sale for all three.
 Farmer Blank is very. very far from being a spendthrift. Indeed, he is re- puted to be almost a miser with his pennies.
 But is he or is he not a wastrel in his having
 have heard of biq dairyr1sn who Is selling a part of his skim milk at thirteen cents a hundred pounds and throwing the rest away. Each hun fred pounds would make about ff- teen pounds of cottage cheese. The iood experts tell us, after analysis and actual feeding experiment, that a pound of this cheese, which can be eaten as freely as meat. is worth, for food, quite as much a pound of any meat. And it sells for at least thirteen cents a pound, as against thirteen cents a hundred pounds for the milk.
 Seems to be something wasteful here, eh?
 The particular John Farmer who is writing this last spring put in two small patches of marrow beans. They were duly cultivated, etc. But one of them is a bit out of the way, and was not watched daily. Result, the wood chucks got into it and practically ruined it.
 Now beans, under present demand and at present prices, are too expen- sive a ration to feed wild woodchucks On.
 "Mea cuipa, mea culpa"i It was my fault, and I played the wa strePs part
 What special form of dunn foolish ness have YOU done, this season, to earn you a share in the derogatory title?
 Through no fault of ours but be- cause of the monstrous and inhuman barbarity of a Prussianized Germany we and all the other really free peo- pies of the world are engaged in a 0efenSe our own independence and our own liberties. We are fighting the most gigantic. the most thoroughly organ ized and the most unscrupulous mili- tary despotism which ever sought to bring the whole world under it's mer- ciless heel.
 We are fighting to win. because, if we don't win, we will necessarily fall under the domination of a junkerdom which will make short work of public liberty and individual freedom To win, we shall have to spend enor- mously. We cannot have that with which to spend unless we save it. At the present time and in the ex- isting emergency. every kernel of grain, every ounce of food, every pen ny wasted or lost or neglected is robbery of civilization-a treason to against our own children, whose fu- ture is now endangered as never be- fore.
 Economy, thrift, saving of wastes these must be our watchwords and our rule of life.
 I read of big hotels which are ask ing their patrons to go without meat, one day in the week. Tt is for the soldiers" I read of others which are peanut butter whenever possible. We farmers can save much along similar lines. We can substi- ute cottage cheese and fish and beans and similar products for some of our meat. We can su bstitute corn meal for flour in many cases, and raise our own corn to make the meal of.
 When I was boy half the bread of this whole countryside was rye n -injun', made from home grown rye and homegrown corn. With wheat flour at $15 or S16 a barrel, return to the brown bread of our sires and our own childhood is not hardship A
 l say nothing about the conserva- tion of waste fruits, etc. by canning, for the land is full of canning ex- perts and every week, almost, brings it's canning "demonstrator" to even rural neighborhoods.
 But there are wastes in the fields and barns of practically all of us