Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-16
HENRY FORD IN HIS NEW ROLE!

r "f o. b." at the consumers back door.
 Another machine to take nitrogen out
 of the air at cost of, say, $4.S7sA Al
 ton, and potash and phosphoric acid
 out of rain water at a cost of fifteen
 cents hundred will solve the fertiliz- CT problem. A device to prevent its raining more. than six days week
 during planting time, and an instaNa-
 tion of underground steam pipes to dry out the mud would be essential,
 this spring, also.
 But, having all these, with admit ted financial genius and equally ad mitted good luck, why shouldn't he be able to teach his grandmother how to suck eggs and farmers how to. get rich quick off ten acres and a ma- chine shop? Seriously speaking, if there's any one man in America who can blaze a new trail of economical and profitable farming, it ought to be Mir. Ford. If he can invent machines which will do the wo:S- "A one quarter the cost of horse and haNd work; if he can fix it so that farmers without capital can buy 'em ''on tick: if he can demon stratc how May deluges can be turned 10 profit and July droughts to gain: ! if he can show how bugs and slugs and worms and birds and rodents and blight and rot and scab and scale can | be made to contribute wealth: if he i can make it clear in practice how the farmer may pay $2,00 a bushel for 1 seed potatoes and sell the crop for ten l cents q peck at 8 good proflt-why, we'll all rise up and cali him blessed.
 And the coYun1ers Imagination ] fails to fc~nse4 the height and depth and bread.@ Of their gratitude. They might even got together and give him | outright 1919 hiTver with self-start- l CT, dcnountable rims. one-nan top
 and oil-can thrown in!
 ' Isn't it a curous thing, when you 1 stop and reflect upon it, that no one | of the ten million actual farmers Of 1 the United States has ever yet been 1 able to make a silver whistle out of ! a sow's tail, while scores and scores | if not hundreds and thousands of their 1 self-appointcd critics and mentors ! know just exactly how 1t can be done I Icdcsd. it seems inevitable that, the | less one has ever done of farming the
 better ho thinks he knows how it
 ought 10 be done.
 /! The old n,ytEroloses had a tale how , youC~ Phactort son of the suns chari- 1 ctee,'. one day usurped his slow old : fathers Dlacc and undertook to drive , tie flaming prb across the sky. His i llraccustoned hands soon lost control the sur pli.Ase1 downward and came so nea- 'ecttil.g the world on fire that love had n hurl thunderbolt at ph;, +on a;s| durp him in the Pc to save anything out of the wreck. Now Herr Ford isn't in that class He ia,.'t really iu any class. He is } clase. all by himself. He has done things, big things. in a big way. Tc ' be si,rt tiley haven't been in the farn7i inc way as yet. But you never ' can tell. T. won't do to limit the op- J orati-ins of sAnil3 by precedents drawn from hun-dru-a happenings. It may be he is the new Moses appointed tt lead us farmers through the Red Ses ' and acfcsa tic Slough of Despont
 and o1. - the Deiecta ble Moun. l! taif,r whore little pigs run round, ready r9aGrel-s. and cheer!ly calling,
 "CeG1e ca mel" i. *
 t nav be so. Also. it may be tha w' shali catch 1arils when the heav ems nil. Let u7 grasp the tail featll
 :, CTS i7f any hope which flies across tn, und-yi1g mud Of this Mer-ie Month O
 May, and Derchance some one, sorn' time may help us to dry land and t gates of The Way Out If MT. Fort has anything iu his. collection of roc , egg whie:, viii hatch out such a mar l vel. 1af's hane he will set his iilcuba
 tor going right smart.
 !, But. dear. dear, it's weary waitir! l these sunless. drenching days Dur . irg the last full week we of this par : ticular Dismal Swamp have manage, l to plov- and harrow just three-oua
 ters Of an acre for potatoes tha should have been planted three week ago. The rest of the week it woul, ! have needed a hydroplane to draw tn : pioW and fire engine to pump GU , the fiirrcv last made before statt:al Q new ono.
 { Quack grass is growing finely S , are chicsweed and shepherd S purse 5 and dandeiions. and sorrel. .Beets an carrots and lettuce and radishes an onions are doing their young best , hut with q sort of desperation yellow l ing their unhappy shoots. Asparagu
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