Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-25

Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 I've. been .reading,s [withtn tasa ..last few days, a number. of storiesn illus trating the wide gulf of .1nisunder- standing which seems to ssparate. the people of some Of Y tfYarlarger Critics from the farmers of the country.
 One New York city woman is quoted as having actually figureda -<<ttrfEtss tss ,-sas milk costs, her IS cents aSaaaTf, Snd as she has heard of a COW which gave 30 quarts of milk a day. and as she had also heard that Tots. of farmers" keep 40 cows,~ therefore and eCAing4K K-the pirate of; a farmer made $ pro profit fftts of $7S,S4o a year, which she considered perfectly scandalous."
 You see, she didn't know-or care that the farmer got only seven cents of her IS, the other Il going to the per- fectly honest and wholly. admirable CD znidd dlernen- of-h awn city.
 She didn't know-or care-that a COW which may v~nerbaps -agive 90 quarts of milk a day when flesh gives less and less each week thereafter until at last she dries" and gives none; at all for; "a g1oft Imany weeks. And that a COW which averageSaa as high as 10 quarts a day 9or- the whole 1 36o of the year is well above the or ldinary.
 | She didn't, know-1of casreTthat the | dairy farmer has to pay out at least 90 cents of every dddlagY be- takes In just for feed and wages. and that the l little left usually fails pitiably to give him any decent return paanr iTTafs invest ment or for his own work
 1 She didn't know-or care-anythine Eabout it, except that she used to gel milk at seven cents quart and now | +.@, ,.;. ..I.. l the greedy and profiteering and swim ding farmer solely responsible. She knew it was the farmer who was wholly to blame, for hadn't the city milkman who delivered to her told hei l so? K -..
 That same New York city woman used to pay Is or IS centssfor yard ot fgingham,a the same which she will be | charged 75 cents yard for now. An6 1 that is simply typical .af the:increases in all her wearing apparel prices. Art the farmers to blame for that, too She and her fellow naggers might jus I as sensibly say so. 7'.
 I have a number of summer visitor! from the city anon g. my -custSaners. | i I had thought it worth while to do so I.might have kept a record of. the vari T ous cases in which some -6f tHem hav' shown as complete ignorance of farm conditions as, that shown -by thu Il Gotham person to whose COW arith metic I haTe referred. That recort would have been long one,.r and ful of instances calculated to make { II farmer swear or, snigger. aceerding |, I the way their ridicu1otfsness strucl him.
 recall a single case at this writing irkfY Sf ,-1,s1 Il, One such hauled up ller@auto at tn, lane gate and, when l had obeEe1 in somewhat imperious honk of her hor, and had reached the side: of her cal demanded with noticeable asperity
 1 had any new potatoes:ss, E. had. am
 so answered. Whereupon she leane
 back in her luxuriously uphoIsteret seat with a faint sigh, and said: "Ol
 dear, I'm so glad to find somebod who's got something. None, of :$th
 farmers ans.whc,e around 6nnLlingaI5s ' have got any new potatoes yet, ain
 they're all trying to make me believ
 thar it's the weather that hinder
 them. They're always sniveliing be
 cause it's so wet or so dry or so hot o 50 r"i3. thai the stuff won: rgso ,s.,
 don't believe word of it.''LS :. : .=. i It had been cold. backward season Potatoes, like most other crops,yrha il been retarded. l had that spring start le ed a bushel or two of potato seed i
 sand, so that at planting time the had finely developed green sf5rolfts..s B I @ lucky chance, l had chosenssssam 1 unusually dry and 'leachy'' soil fn
 them. This just fitted the wet,r sou
 season which eventuafrd:H KS a reSu
 of these two things, one involving
 good deal of extra work and butter
 in planting and the other sinvolviT
 simply bit of luck, l had akfew earl potatoes fit to dig before others ha attained to- the size ofmaHale ,s=zs
 My customer. at that time a pssfes
 stranger to me, asked the price ef
 peck. I told her. Her eyes fafri
 bulged out of their sockets. Why
 she gasped, T can buy Berniidas i
 the city for that To which I respol1d
 ed, somewhat testify. that my potatos
 were naturally better than any. Bel
 muda potato ever was; that they wei
 fresher from the dirt by at least fori might; that they had cost a lot of .extl
 wcrk in forcin" them forWa "l; th: by her own admission, they were il
 only native new potatoes to be had | the whole countryside:- and that, if tcouldn't get pay for extra work al Unusual luck, there was no use in dt ing extra work or having unusual luc
 1 guess she must have been expec ing big party of guests, for sf
 finally took q bushel-at four times Il tprice of a peck-aud = buZzed O. lDoubtless, from that time to this,