Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-26
El ~1,uE{G,s| {G,s| @ m 1.-THE FARMERS TALk) 4 A TO FARMERS &y
ALEssoN FOR THOSE WHO TAKE HEED.
(written Specially for The Bulletin.)
TOFAPMERS

r. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Mean. ugly tasks are inevitable and indispensable to every business, trade or profession
 The habit of lodging disagreeable duty lands yo in the discard by the shortest known route to failure" No worker should ever get the mo- tion that work is play" "A man is not a man until he makes himself do with a smile whatever he hates most
 Only a soft head inclines towards a soft snap
 -'F'eelings are the most faithless, cruel and unreasonable tyrants that a person can obey
 These are nuggets of golden truth which l dig out of a recent article by
 Efficiency Expert Purinton in The In
 dependent. They are more than mere truth: they are horse sense {Perhaps
 called horse sense" because it has
 become alarmingly scarce in hu-
 man beingst)
 It is getting so these days that the
 average worker seems to look upon his Ntask as punishment and a hardship. rather than as an opportunity This IS
 true to such an extent in the ranks of
 employed labor that it has become
 something more than distressing
 symptom. It has swollen into a ma
 tiona1 menace.
 But you and l are farmers and have small influence and less authority in ia ctories and shops and mines We
 may find ample occupation in casting out the beams from our own eyes, be- fore attempting to extract the notes from others.
 Is it true that the accursed poison has got into our veins, tooo Are we srneared with tar from the same stick? Are we. any of us, inchnins to the soft snap" rather than the mean, ugly task ?" Are we slaves to our feelings? Are we given to lodging iSnp instead of smiling when compelled to do what we hate?
 I'm sure that I don't know about you, dear reader Perhaps you might take day. and find out for yourself about yourself.
 But here are some things I've seen and heard in my goings in and com ings out among my ne1ghbors:
 have seen a field which used to contain plump ten acres of the finest sort of meadow reduced to 8 scant seven acres of moving by encroaching fence hedgerows. by the cIogging of a drain which used to keep one moist corner tinable, and by the unremoved debris of q porta ble sawmill which was allowed to occupy another corner, of recent winter.
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 The fence hedgerows are left because they can't be tnown with machine and 1t is in the owners words, "too
  The drain IS left ciogged because it Is thirty rods long and gain in the own CTS words. we might have to dig up the hull length before we found the trouble" As to the slabs and strips and sawdust and other waste of the mill again in the owners language, Oh leave 'em alone; they'll rot in times who never mended his 1eaky cabin ] roof because. as he explained, 1T kyant | do it when it rains, and when it don't | rain whats de use?
 know of a barn whose roof is as | full of holes poultry netting whose ridge is broken backed" and sagging l the center whose side walls l are propped up with old rains and beams, leaning at all sorts of angles, | because. when it's filled with hay the 1 hay holds it up, and when it isn't the i owner had rather go fishing than re- pair 1t.
 ed to them, beca use the owner. a i ugly and venonnous, simply because l neither one will mend his half till the l other one has mended his.
 I know of a farm which used to boast | eighty acres of good pasture which l now hasn't enough pasturage to keep l one COW alive. simply because the owner preferred fox hunting to bush cutting and occasional blowing. Sew 1 acres have reverted to brush | Ia nd and five acres to miring swamp.
 know a wood1ot which is a perfect l tangIe. of fallen trees. Some have l fallen from old age; some have been blown, down in gales; few have been nverthrown by lightning. There they lie and others are annually being add 1 Q dto them, because the owner, a feelings" governed city woman. can't find the heart to let choppers into her noble woods"
 As if in justification of her super strained feelings" hardly mile away know a recently cut-over hillside on