Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-28

CTritten Specially For The Bulletin.)
 Someone with a taste for ancient Greek has dug out of the writings of the historian Xenophon who flourish cd about 4eO years before Christ, the following hunk of agricultural wis dom.
 The art of agriculture is extreme ly profitable 10 those who understand it but .t brings great trouble and misery on those who undertake it without knowledge
 Let's see. 1919 A .. plus 400 B. C. corucs 70 about 23l9 years ago that this vas written.
 lt wasn't more than nine years ago th.t ono Of Americas best known frUi- producers remarked with much emphasis: "Of ali horned cattle in an orcha-i deliver me from city-bred he'T."
 Thus we ar~ led Co observe that Solou0n's head was working accu- r1-siv when he laid down the proposi- lor .-st there IS no rev thing under tte sun
 What i= done now has been done by those 7' clden time. what is said now 1as hrrn said pefOrc-pprhaps 2310 wars Hr.0re. The modern fruit kings ejaculation is but a repetition in dip pant words of the idea solcmnly set forth r old Ncuorhor.
 That tccs Is sin ply that success in 'lfr rr tf dependent upon knowing how.
 it a ,lr "Nvru how which counts: r0t industry alone. nor strength alone, l0r .rr-Zy alone. nor economy alone. -or -rl, 'rr alone. No. even the Com,im..,r ct an these with the ad- 5.iov oi cheerful willingness and ar a .## F,s -l, '.r1F how or -uccass will forever -rw.'r -s unatt-iDahlo .s tl.e pot gold 'h0 rairlCw's end.
 And of from city and town au ! rl''sgr .r-le constant lines of men and l'.-v Evovlau-who seem 70 think CT ''e~ ~lu "uara good" at almost
 phase of farming with fifteen
 nstr'-c for lo3 haf an a r'- l..
 2. '.. ''H days. when Lhe commerce rr rrs world was borne over all the s.rr- r~as i1 square -ricCcd sailing sa.r-. if to0l, sailors traired to the .-1 mc1t of winds and waters and
 s. ropes to work them. Thr Erasria1 un board in an equatorial '"~res. was not ori- Of no uee h7 vas -rIovoEsi,. i- the way. Ie might 10. strong and he might be willing brt .- didn't know the ropes and was Iiq- ..- -o 6o ilTetriev1nlt damag" bv ru"1i'ir- with them
 ' hose days. no man whose cole aiming had been that Of an ctfic, or
 -'--. or factory or a shop or --I-s would have dreamed Of corsid- .. himself it to navigate cliDnc-
 'r 1roes ths ocean. nor even Cf ...-- .-r full work cr ar A. F. befora '-. -'.rt. IT, in an overTeening s,ft. .r-r Go lad undertaken it. he would very soon have found himself .r-ee.' H~ Inc real sailors and class
 .-- what he was, ]. e.. a useless
 l .gboar.'
 Now the successful management os
 Nav +rg.7ud farm is every wilt as ..'."g'f sE technical. and as -eDcnG- one r- 'arriog knowledge and farm Ing sSi. as tho successful manage --e-t of 2 clipper snip in mid-orean .= feDrrdeu- c1 nautical knowledge and nautical skill
 Mind YOU it is thc successful man -remon-' Of such farm that [ spoa. n. Amos. anybody can handle a hood. Ser % fashion. Almost anybody ran WosE a farm-after a fashion. But -n ar lr profits with th tool and Co .rhi"-" Iccess with the farm are diff '.fHHt propositions T. may not hclp H farmer much 70 read Greek or fo understand logarithms. for these forms r. know i0dSe seldom bear practically Nr hts problems. But he must be able -0 -170 the sky and the windF and .aa signs Of the season. And he must understand tho nature and capacities c. r!s dirt. Furthermore. he must have thLs krowledro so -aturating his wEo'e being that fis use and exercise U.. become almost inStincfivc-a sort 1f second nature.
 When Sailor Jack on Shore-loava .lr0t a horse f0 ride abo1rt on, he was -lyev ono whose taii had been bohbcd 7F extra mort. Jack was not an tieut ..-scru3r at inc best and bIe '1l'les- steCd soon found it out and .,--n fn prance and go sideways. .l0 imminent danger cf ether people in Tho street. Tho policeman stopped '.In and stcrulv derns ndcd what he ugIr- rg trying Co ride a horse when .S couldn't guide it Blow your gtC retorted Jack. how dye expcct any skipper 10 steer a true course Hhcu tae bloody beast has lost his -iood- rudder 2"
 sSeause man knows how to steer ship with l rudder at it's stern he .s not nr' cssarilv ekil,ful at guiding T ,7'ies- horse with the bit in his other -ad
 Eecausc a man is a good workman h!s painfully learned trade he is, Eot necessarily good farm hand.
 Every man to his trade' says the