Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-06

i which would do ten acres day on any sort of decent blowing. and sell off a lot of the horses and blows, etc. Broth CT Westinghouse, who has the biggest farm, agreed to buy the tractor and
 do all the blowing for the district at
 regular acre rates. (Inasmuch as some of the land is so steep and ledgy that it simply cannot be tractorized. Broth
 CTS Smith and Henry agreed to keep
 each one horse which would supply a team for blowing such difficult lands.
 They are both very small farmers and really couldn't afforl to do more.) Brother Sherman agreed to supply the seed drill and planters, for corn and potatoes, seeding and planting for us all, likewise at regular acre rates.
 Farmerette Lawton, who has fine reaper and. binder, agreed to do the | harvesting, and to furnish a corn cut | ter, if that were found desirable.
 Farmerette Amory undertook to get an
 up-t o-date potato digger and dig the 1 districts potatoes.
 ! Brother Hayner undertook the gaso- i line engine part of the job, furnishing power for running thresher, saving
 wood, grinding grain, etc. Brother ! John Farmer undertook to double his auto trucking capacity, so that he 1 could do all the necessary hauling for 1 the district. Brother Maclaren took as his part the purchase and mainte-
 nance of a grinding outfit. And 1 Brother Adamson, who has a good water power and an old, disused saw
 mill, undertook to refurnish the old | plant and see that the bunch of us l get our lumber sawed as we want it,
 and when we want it-Within reason
 able limits, of course.
 l Brother Higgins, who has the best head and the canniest calculation of us all, was formally and officially ap- pointed district agent, to look after ! the sale of our surplus products, and 1 to see to the buying of our farm and 1 barn and house sunnlies, at lowest
 wholesale prices. Wherever he saw
 chance to get better price for oui l hay or potatoes or corn or oats by
 punching them into one shipment thar
 we could get for them, selling in smal
 separate lots, he was to put the chance up to us. Wherever he saw a1 1 opportunity to save something in oul feed or fertilizer or grocery bills by buying for the bunch in wholesale lots he was, again, to put the chance III to us His job was to keep posted
 and to keep us posted as to marke opportunities, on both sides O thu
 house, buying or selling. As we al have telephones, this is a simpler tasl
 than if we didn't He was not em powered to commit us, as a, bunch. t
 any sale or purchase, but to keep IL
 in constant touch with market condi
 tions and opportunities. As everyon
 else was to be paid regular rates fo
 his community work, it was agrees
 that Brother Maclaren, whenever h
 made us extra money by Shrewd sellin
 or saved us money by prudent buying should have onc-quarter of the amour made or saved. as his commission. That was what happened, in my da dream. I wonder if it or anything lik
 it ever will happen, anywhere, in ac tual fact?
 , I wonder if in all New Englan . there is school district with so man
 tis nine farmers and two farmerette
 in it, who can all submerge their per , sonal whins and individual idiosyncra l cies for the sake of better things? f I wonder if the time will ever com when so many as eleven farmers i F any one community will see that tn f l rifesent necessity of maintaining whole outfit of costly tools, etc, O f each separate farm is a wasteful praC I tice, ten times more costly than eve the most confscatory taxation? wonder when isolated farmers vii as a whole. come to see that neighbor ly co-operation is vastly better tha . hostile competition?
 I wonder when they will rediscove ' what the weary king Ecclesiast say 7 three thousand years ago, that " ! three-fold cord is not easily broken
 Perhaps you think it can take it ol | in wondering. Eh?
 i THE FARMER.