Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-09

stores To get to them in deep win- ter snows is something of task. Past experience had shown the far1neS and his. capable wife that their comfort upon getting ready for it, beforehand and having within reach an adequate store of necessities. They are both old fashioned in the sense of believing that "a little too much is better than not quits enough; that "forewarned is forearmed: that sturdy seif-help is better than timid dependence on oth- who help themselves
 Now. just compare their situation with that of the ordinary city teneA always live from hand to mouth. He can't lay in winters supply of meats and groceries or vegetables be- cause, for one thing, he seldom has money enough to buy them at any one time and, for another thing, because he has no place to store and keep them, if he could get them.
 He has no ground to raise them and no time to care for them, growing if he had the land. He rnust buy his 1y varying but always high prices, and trust to the corner grocer for having what he needs and being will ing to trust him for it, in the inter VdlS DctWecA pay -Ody s.
 There is no question that living in the city has its advantages. Any one who lives there knows it, and we who can't live there would be foolish to deny it.
 But I want to ask you if a conssn- plation of that farmhouse cellar which I have partly described and catalogued does not suggest that iiv- ing in the country. on backwoods farm off on a cross-road among the hills, has also some advantages.
 l doubt if that farmer of whom am talking gets anything like as much money in the course tho year as even a day laborer steadily employed in tho harder and more hours to the day.
 But the taxes he pays in li/u of rent are 8 mere bagatelle in comparison. kerosene is. cheaper than gas or cleo heard of: and he is as independent of the corner grocery as he Is of the boche kaiser!
 He gets less money than he would perhaps a third or even ., half less. He actually needs very much lesl-- perhaps not a quarter as much -for actual living expenses:
 If put. to it by exceptional oircum- stances he and his family could live the whole winter tf1rough-live whole somely and healthfully-on tho stored up supplies of his own cellar and pan - try without having. to spend single cent. In actual practice, their cheap accumulation of the Rrosser supplies saves them so much money that they are able. even in winter, to command some imported luxuries such as the tenement dweller can't afford, because he has to pay out all his money. for potatoes and cabbages
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 Farming is hard, lli-paid tso far as money.ig concernedl, and lonescsne
 Is life in the city tenement always bubblins ecstacy7
 The city weri<sr ,is hsttsr paid than the farmer. gets more money per day or where wgsk is te % esr edvaneas et an.n. wages if it costs him from four to ten times as much t6 live--merely to live from hand to mouth?
 One thing is surs. There has got to be a reversal Of the country to city drift. Independence-i e-iovine men and women have got to come back to the farms and win their living from the balancc will swing still mora disas- trousiy towards food shortage. pndf famine, prices.
 Government regulations may a,ievi- can't cure a diseass by suppressing a symptom.
 Aren't thers any mon and women among the city tenefnenth who con zee or be made to sec that the man who earns a dollar . day and has to spend only fifty cents is about ,steer million times richer than the man who earns two dollars . day and. has to spend ever!- last rcd cent Of 1t just to live?
 THE FARMER