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Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-19
WHAT IS SUCCESSFUL FARMING !?

observations and the reasons he drew from them?
 The very first and chief reason he gave surprised me little at the time. But, as I think 1t ever, call- ing on my own observations to check up its validity, I'm not sure but he it. IL was this:
 They spend so much maxim a crop that there ain't noTprofit left in it"
 Now, don't say "Oh, fudge" or "oh, pish," or "Oh. peppycocki' Give the gray matter in your head a,chance to work it over before you dismiss it as absurd.
 A good many years ago. when was trying to find out what my farm would and could do, kept for several sea sons a careful account with every separate crop raised Corn, potatoes oats, buckwheat, hay, onions, cabbage, peas, beans. etc: against each one was charged up every item of expense and every hour of labor devoted to it, from manuring to marketing: and to each crop was credited the income it brought. Corn. for example, was charged with the manure spread on the land; with the value of the seed:
  or two horses, put on it: with the cost of fencing when necessary, and with a years interest on the value Of the land. Then it was credited with the market value of the shelled corn it produced. whether that corn was sold or fed out on the place, and with the value of all the stalks slowed away in the cow-barn. Tn order to be punctil- iously fair to my corn, even added the estimated value of the next years manure those stalks gave me About the same with every other crop. Two or three years of this gave me such a flood of light on my own farming problems that I completely revolutionized my plans and methods
 Here were some of the things I learned:-
 That my land wouldn't grow oats or buckwheat enough to pay the expense of growing them.
 That hay was the most profitable 1 crop, acre for acre, but that my pos sible hay acreage was so limited that it, alone, wouldn't maintain the farm
 That the next most profitable crops were those included in the general line of garden truck"
 That the prodigal use of commercial fertilizers would. generally. increase the product but, in no single case yer flied by my figures. did such use re- suit in an increase equal to the cost of the fertilizers.
 1 Up to that time we had been rais- | ing oats and buckwheat, as a matter
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of course, because other farmers did so and we had always done the same. We had taken it for granted that this was the correct thing. But we don't. any more. With the exception of q couple of wartime years when we tried to make the farm produce prac- ticaliy everything consumable on it. to save the oats, etc. we should otl- erwise have bought for people who couldn't possibly raise their own-with that exception. we have had neither crop on the farm for more than twen- ty years. And we save money by not raising them, even at present exorbi- tant grain prices.
 Also, up to that time, we had been
 buying more or less commercial fer
 tilizer. all we could afford to and
 sometimes a little more. But when we discovered that every dollar so spent
 returned less than sixty cents addi-
 t'onal crop, we shut off that outgo. We decided that we'd rather raise a
 hundred bushels of potatoes at cost
 of sixty dollars, than hundred and
 sixty bushels at a cost of two hundred
 dollars.
 For it must never be forgotten that, in successful farming, the question 1911 oOlClN iIO" illdHy OuSli0lS IO LI6 acre or how big pumpkins to the vine but how much profit from potatoes or pumpkins. If I can raise hundred bushels of corn on two acres so cheap ly as to make ten dollars on the crop, while you raise two hundred bushels
 on the same area, but at such cost that you lose ten dollars on it, which of us is the better off?
 Now. I believe in increased produc- ton. l believe in bigger and better crops. believe in making the old
 farm hump itself, and in trying to stimulate it to constantly larger out put.
 But I do NOT believe that the far 1 mer, of all men, should seek these de- sirable ends at personal loss to him self. Farming is just as much a bus mess as making shoes. The shoe
 manufacturer, when he can't sell his
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(Written Specially For The Bulletin.)
 Why does a farmer fail?
 In every rural community there will be found certain number of farmers who succeed in the sense that they come out ahead almost every year and put by a little something: a certain number who make q live of it" in the sense that they get enough to eat and to wear. such as it is: and certain number who fail even to make both ends meet.
 Now we've always maintained that there must be reason for everything under the sun-if only we have the gumption to find it out. Whats the reason these latter farmers fail under general conditions fairly comparable with those under which others suc- ceed7
 old Uncle Ike-he wasn't any rela- ton of mine, just everybody's uncle once said to me when we were talking over things that there were a. whole lot of reasons for farm failure. He had kept a neighborly eye on about all his fellow farmers for two generations and he had discovered seven separate and distinct reasons for specific fail- ures. That interested me. as you may lindS4Hti ana piOHlplly put lue seven down in my notebook.
 That notebook" please consider as a figure of speech. don't go round with reporter pad in one hand and pencil in the other. taking down notes of everything I see or hear. What really happened was, that night after the chores were done and I was seated by the lamp for look over the paper. ] jotted the seven heads down on the back of an old envelope and tucked it away in a pigeon-hole. This morning. rummaging for something else. I came across it. Uncle Ike has been under the sod for several years now. and the bit of torn paper sent my mind back to the days when I could see him and talk with him any time that I wanted to tramp a mile over the hills to his hospitable back-door step.
 I wonder if anybody else beside my self would be interested in his shrewd
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WESTMINSTER

The third consecutive Sunday of rain and deep m;d with similar conditions practically all the time between pre- vented church services on the 14th. Perhaps after all this trying weather there is reasonable ground for expect ing better things fo. Christmas Sun day and Christmas day.
 The midweek prayer circles at home aitars Wednesday. Dec. 24th. which Is Christmas eve, this year have the Christmas topic based on Luke, }: 25- 52.
 Christmas day is to be observed very recently and with the real Christmas spirit to a larger degree. Most of 7 the schools have special celebrations in connection with the close of the term, many including a Christmas tree today (F'riday). The exercises at Gayhead are to be in the afternoon, those in the Westminster Hill school In the evening Both teach CTS and pupils are hard at work and the results are bound to be fine. The Christmas doings at the church occur Christmas night and include , recitatiors songs, some special fea- lures not Ike those usual. and incIrd- ing a large Christmas plum pudding i-lpT (fG UT lIS StHOOI dIN those who help in the evenings work There will be the usual home cele- ',~otions throughout the town. There was tea rhe-s' meeting Non i'dav afternoon, with Insoector Garrisnr
 nres ding as substitute supervisor. H. 1 had automobile troubles in coming ant arrived late hv horse conveyance | Mrs. o,,is Raymond was a visitor a i Poeodale Sunday.
 Miss Edna Dole visited in Norwich I Sa+u~da'- last.
 Mss Fva I athror last vear ten c'oe1 at Westminster Hill and her sister Miss Mae Lathron, ana Mr ara Mrs James Appley were in Norwich satur- l day.
 The newly appointed supervisor O
 town schools to fill the vacanc,
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shoes for at least 3 little more than the labor, leather, etc.. have cost him, goes out of business, The farmer who persists in spending more to make a whacking crop than the crop will sell for, sooner or later goes "on the town" oi into the poor house.
 Said old Adam Gimbel, the famous merchant, One profit is enough, but be sure you get that one!"
 In my own case: the very land which won't produce paying crops of oats will, when properly en- treated, return good profit from sweet corn or green peas or cabbages or carrots or Sbeets, or onions, or to- matoes. or melons. That is to say. while the production of these and manuring and much more labor, the income from them is ordinarily great CT than even this increased outgo.
 On some parts of my gardens I spend at the rate of over s200 an acre year in manure and seeds and la bor, etc.
 And have grown crops on thus treated land which returned a net profit at the rate of over $500 per acre Of course, that rate is exceptional bul lneTe lSn vegetable SIra1n per mitted in the gardens which doesn't one year with another, return some profit. do not keep books in the or thodoX sense. But I still keep a sort of slap dash record of outgo and in-
 come and, when any particular cror ! shows up badly in this. it is discard ed. My present blacklist includes some dozen or more varieties. car grow them. Oh. yes, and I can lose money most every year in doing so
 Not for Joseph, if he knows it! Moreover, it is Joseph's business tt
 know it. and to act accordingly. Tha | is, if he aims to win any sort of suc- cess at farming or any of it's cognate | lines
 have a neighbor who is very hard working man economical in hi 1 personal habits. and fairly shrewd a
 horse-trade or the marketing of hi'
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crops. Yet he constantly complains that he can't make any money. can't even earn his own salt. He has been bitten by the 'fbig production bug. His one ambition is to raise bigger crops to the acre than any of the rest of us During two recent years he de- voted something like s250 worth of la Dor to the clearing, fitting and crop ping of scant acre of land on which to raise onions. Then he put on it over $100 worth of seed and labor the following year, $350 in all. And he sod the onion crop for $2SS. The next year he tried carrots which grew so rank and ''sprangly and pethy that he couldn't sell them at all. This last year it was put into cabbage which developed magnificent specimens of club-root and practically no heads.
 Perhaps in the course of time-or eternity-something may be discov- cred which will return a profit from that acre. But that sort of thing isn't successful farming. It's throwing money away on chauce-a purely speculative chance.
 The average farmer has neither the capital nor the labor to devote to that sort of speculation. A bird in the hand is worth a whole flock in the | bushes.
 l It all comes back to Uncle Ike's ex- planation that some farmers fail be- cause they spend so much maxim a crop that there ain't no profit left fl | it.
 It ought to be as clear as the mul- | tiplication table that successful farm. | ing means and must always mean profitable. farming. Not so much rais- ing the biggest pumpkin in the county as making the most money off the pumpkin crop. Or any other crop. | Successful farm management is tha which, by hook or crook, brings in a 1 fair profit from farm operations That's some puzzle, at times. But it's never solved by spending more none, on crop than there's any reasonable chance of that crops, returning.
 THE FARMER.
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caused by the death of William H.
 Bliss. is MT. Grier. lately of the Mid
 dleseX farm bureau. Schools in town are closing today
 (Friday) for two weeks vacation. Mr and Mrs. Mann I'age are expect ed for the Christmas holidays. Morris French has his home with IF.
 G. Crawford, to which place he has recently moved
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-19

Godine gave New London back his health his job and his wages.
 COULD THERE BE A BETTER GIFT
 Fred Smith who works the coal wagon in New London and lives the R. F. D.. said:
 T had such a pain in my back that could not work hadn't been able to do thing for week because back was lame The doctors called it lumbago. but whatever it was it weakened wasn't able to cent and that's pretty bad these times. felt just couldn't lay around any longer when I heard of zoldine got bottle to try it. andbefore that first bot tie was gone was back the job again and feeling fine. want to say right here that Goldine is good enough for when it will that am glad to ommend it.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-19
FRED SMITH

suffering a
  
  Pharmacy, Norwich is by G. G. Engler Norwich also by ]. F. F. A. T H. !C Montvle Lebanon
  Pom Scotland Thompson If dealer GoIDI in  G. Goldine e
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17
COLLEGE COURSES

Farrell, which creates child welfare
commission to have supervision over all
dependent children committed to child
caring institutions The commission is
to serve without compensation. Depend
ent children can be committed only To
institutions which have the approval
of the commission. The commission will
also supervise the placing Of ehildron
in private homes and see that they arc
properly fed, clothed and educated The
bill cmbodies the recommendation Of
DR.. w II. Slingerland Of the Russell
Sage Foundation, who made an investi
CATION in this state.
Bill 165 Passed.
Senate bill 155, by Dimick, was pass
ed. II provides that cities and towns
may foreclose liens upon property fol
sewer or street Improvement the samr
as mortgages on real estate are closed
Tho city or town may be & bidder q,
q foreclosure sale and may buy in the
property.
The senate passed senate bill 100
which rearranges the Judicial districts
which include Clatsop, Columbia, Wash
ington, Tilamook, Polk and Yamhil
counties. Clatsop Is made & separat,
district while Tillamook county 40 piac
ed with Polk and Yamhill counties il
the twelfth district. mo H,vu Juugc,
are to be appointed.
Other bills have been passed ny til,
senate as follows:
S. b. 271, by Eberhard- Requiring
the filing Of initiative charters with the
supreme court librarian.
s. b. $50, by Patterson Repeating
section 29l3, L. o. L., relating TO blank
forms furnished county clerke by the
secretary Of state,
S. b. 272, by Patterson Providing
for stock to run at large in certain por
tions Of Yamhill county.
s. b. 256, by Mtner-Making It a
crime to permit water from irrigation
bitches to flow upon or waste upon
county roads or public highways.
s. b. 206, by Shanks--Re Relating Ia
liens on farm crops.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

the boys at the penitentiary who are
staying there for an indefinite period
will present 'The Midnight Cabaret -.
Friday evening will witness the close of
the thirtieth legislative assembly which
will be worth while. And then to close
the week, members of Company NJ will
give dance at the armory, Saturday
night. And for those who are inclined
to the more serious things of life, there
is the address to be given Tuesday
evening at 6;30 O'Clock at the First
Methodist church by Edgar B. Piper,
managing editor of the Oregonian. He
will speok on 'War Glimpses.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17
HAUsERs OPEN NEW STORE

Paul Hauser, of Salem, and Lloyd
Hauser, of Eugene, owners of the Hau-
ser Brothers sporting goods store here,
are ON their way to San Francisco on a
10 days business trip.
The Hauser brothers, who are oper-
ating stores in Albany, Eugene and Sa'
lem, have just opened a new store at
Corvallis. Their first store was started
in Salem about 16 years ago, then in
1911 thev opened the store in Albany,
which is in charge of John Neely. In
1916 another store was opened by them
in Eugene, which Lloyd Hauser is oper-
ating, the one at Salem being under
the management of Paul nauseI.
e Ralph SCHNEIDER will have charge of
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

the new store at Corvallis. Mr.. Schind.
Ter, who has just been released from
military service, is Salem man and
was an employe of the Hauser Brothers
before entering the armys-Eugene Reg.
lister.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Manager Chapman of the CONNER
eial Club has just received another lot
Of folders from the department Of ag-
riculture, dealing with loganberry cul
ture. This is the most valuable lit
erature ever put out on this subject,
and every man who is interested in the,
industry should secure one.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

This week will be one of festivity
will probably be called for night ses-
will probable be called for night ses-
sions in order to finish its business
by IL o'clock Friday night. On Thurs
day and Friday evenings of the week,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

It is never too late to join the Elks
lodge, A. N Gilbert, for many years
prominent in the politics of the state,
will be initiated into the lodge at the
Thursday meeting of this week. Mr..
Gilbert is one of the pioneers of Salem,
having arrived here in the fall of 1866
after serving four years in the Civil
war. Later he became interested in
politics, served as postmaster and later
as warden of the state penitentiary,
under Governor Lord.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

WOMEN WANTED TO SEW FOR
THE RED CROSS EVERY AFTER
NOON, 1880 AT THE POSTOFFTCE
tt
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

The Pomeroy & Wallace jewolry
stock, which has been in process of re-
duction by auction during the past
week. has finally been turned over to
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Picture frames, best and cheapest at
Buren, s Furniture store, 179 North
Commercial street
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

the statute of limitation shall be deem
ed to commence only from the discov-
cry of the fraud
H. b. 275, by Weeks-Requiring the
county assessor to obtain data as to
the acreage devoted, in a commercial
way, to the growth of horticultural
and agricultural products of all kinds,
and keep such information on file in
his office.
H. b. 1877, by Martin-Giving the
insurance commissioner authority to in
vestigate insurance agencies
H. b. 1874, by Manufacturing to
insurance policies.
H. B. 2S4, by Misunderstanding
for the apportionment of school mon
cys when schools have been closed by
endemic
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Artificial teeth, have expert plate
man, with over 35 years experience,
at my office. DR.. u. x. Beechler, dem
tist, 502 U. s. Nat Bank bldg. If
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Paper now, new wall decorations just
in. Buren's Furniture store, 179 N.
Com. st
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All Around Town

Seattle parties, who win ship the re-
mainder of the goods to that city.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Dance at Moose hall Tuesday night
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Columbia river smelts in any guam
tity. Fits Market. TT
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Among other cases coming before the
police court recently was that of Harry
Baxter, age Is, who was taken in by
Officer Dunlap on the charge of smok-
ing cigarettes-the first arrest made
under the Varney ordinance. Another
case was that of Jesse Halsell, colored,
who was arrested by Officer Thompson
for disorderly conduct and the use of
profane language. He was given a fine
of 500. James ingalls, was brought in
by Officer White Saturday night, eharg-
ed with drunkenness, and given a fine
of $5,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Tonight in the High School auditor
ium will occur the final 'Estunt" of
Fathers and Sons week. There is no
admission fee and an urgent invita-
tion is extended to both fathers and
sons. A good speaker has been secured
for the occasion, and after the address
there will be an informal, glad hand
'sopen house,. The address is scheduled
to begin at 1880.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Baby chicks. 544 State St. Phone 400
~
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Masquerade dance, Chemawa Friday
Feb 23. Free silver cups will be given
ava yas prizes. Cups are new on dis
play in Hauser Bros. Window.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

= w Special meeting of Pacific
e lodge No. 80, A. F. & A. NJ,
IA this evening. Work in the M.
IN M. degree. Visiting brethren
ASIW welcome.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Best line wall paper in salem. Bur
ems Furniture store, 179 North Com
mercial St.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Dance at Moose hall Tuesday night.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

We luy liberty bonds. 314 Masonic
bldg. tt
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Members of tn, legislature who come

Members of tn, legislature who come
from the eastern part of the state
where it is claimed the sun shines $50
days in the year have been given a
fine sample of web-fooot country since
the legislature has been in session. Dur
ing the January sessions, beginning
with Monday January l3, there was IA
days in which the precipitation was con
siderable. And with February there has
already been IA days Of rain off and
on and the guess is good for several
more this week. So far this month, there
has been only three days in which
there has been no record of rainfall.
But last February it was just as rainy.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

A beat very suggestive of Noah's
ark is moored at the foot of Trade
street. 1t has almost the proper pro
portions of the original ark only small
ler. In this instance however, the boat
is one that was brought from Portland
to be sold here. 1t was originally used
in Portland as river warehouse. By
the way speaking of Noah's ark, ac-
cording to the most reliable authorities
on ancient history, the original ark if
placed on State street would extend
from the corner of the Ladd & Bush
bank east to the Buisick grovery ad-
joining the Royale cafeteria, and the
height would be that of the average
two story buildings along the street.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

We buy liberty bonds. S14 Masonic
Jldg. tt
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Meg and 10 and Beth and Amy and
Laurie too, yes they'll all be here in
"Little Women" which comes to the
Oregon Sunday. TT
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

w. II Grabenhorst & Go report the
sale of six room modern house on
North Goth street from Max Gehlhar
to a party by the name of Arnold,
consideration $l400. Also the transfer
Of a lot on South Commercial street
from G. A. Wallace to U. f. Neider-
riser, consideration 800.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

Among the recently returned soldier
boys arc three Axley brothers, Rollo,
Seth and Earl, who are now visiting
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j, f..
Axley. They have been connected with
the aviation service.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-17

X Feb. IS = $10,00O,OOO road \
X bonding bill special order in !
X House, $3.50 a. m. !
X Feb. Is Address of Edgar B.
X Piper before Six O'Clock Club \
X of M. E. Church.
X Feb. 20-21-Minstrel show at !
X penitentiary. !
X Feb. 21--Legislature adjourns 4
X Feb. 22-Company NJ dance \
X at armory. \
X Feb. "a. - Annual Cherrian \
X banquet at Hotel Marion. i
X March 30.-Turn clock for \
X ward one hour, 2 O'Clock a. m. !
X X X X X X x X X X X X X \
Salem bread is freshest and best. II
"'The best" Is all you can do wher
death comes. Call Webb & Clough Co
Phone 100. Il
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Dance Chemawa Tuesday Feb. 1S.