Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-02-26
TO THE EDITOR
Opposed to Daylight Saving.

Opposed to Daylight Saving.
Mr.. Editor: I wish to make a reply
tr y gentleman from Gfeton who
sighed the letter Farmer Ne. B." that
appeared in The Bulletin Feb. 81.
AS | read the letter l couldn't help
but wonder, little, just what sort OF
a man he was and in my narrow
minded way | have come to the con-.
cIusion that he, no doubt, is one oil |
Crot0n's respected citizens living iii |
his own little well painted house, with |
q little lawn kept closely clipped By |
tis lawn mower. [Hefe's where he |
gets his knowledge on hay right |
from natures own hands,, His fur !
Their agricultural insight lie pFobnbiy !
obtained by attending the Gfetgh |
grange. So much for character read |
ing.
Brother tillers of the soil, are you
willing that such a man Should eail
himself a farmer?
1 want to turn little daylight onto
some parts Of his letter: lie says ut
has always been our experience that
there need be no lost time on farm
Wonder how he happened to think
that dip. it is so original Evidently
there has never been a time when he
has seen lots of things that needed to
be done and yet one has not felt like
paying out good cash to hire someone
else to Go it and one was too busy to
10 it oneself. If he had ever hired
many men to hay it he would have
found out that men hired by the day
to work on hay very seldom like to
mix their work.
Next, he says, CAS- for haying 1t is
a very small rart of farming anywat."
| Do you know dear reader that that
statement has made me see all kinds
oE things, Doth red and green in col
or! 1t is the one which makes me
SO sure he is no farmer at all! In
making it he shows he has fo concep-
| ton whatever of the tons upon tons
/ Of hay that is eaten by the dairy cows
alone, in the state of Connecticut in
a years time:
| As for getting in hay the same day
1t is cut, | knew a man that had that
for one of his hobbies. But, he used
to say, wait until the dew is off the
grass before you start the mower"
Continuing with the Groton mans
letter, he writes, 1.-THE latter part of
| the afternoon offers chance for ;,
great saving of hay" Just so, If the
clocks are set up an hour and the far
mer is working by the clocks where
will he be at this glorious time in the
latter part of the afternoon? Can this
gentlemen that takes the liberty to
sign himself as farmer (Which /
hereby protest against his d0tng) an
swer the question? 1 can answer IT.,
hell be i'll the barn niilkihg But /
wish to say that no real farmer will
stop his haying and go into the barn
when the sun is up there shining, so
nice and bright! That's one of the
hardships he has to bear and the poor
cows bear, in silence, too. Dear read
er of the city, when COW that Is Civ
ing large amount of milk is MIXED
early in the morning and late at night.
that cow has TO bear pain, caused by
the pressure of the milk iii her udder,
1t also has tendency to dry her off,
therefore less milk-higher prices for
you.
In ending his letter our Groton
) friend goes out Of his way and brings
in the prohibition bill AMI womail's
suffrage. l strenuously object to his
mixing them up with any such meas
ure as the daylight saving law.
We here at home on our little farm
follow the practice, in the summer
!, months CT turning the COWS back 1Ip-
OH the range at night. In this way
, We have no ventilation problems anu
the COWS are kept a great deal cleaner
1t is not unusual for us to be zip al
4.30 but last summer with the clocks
set ahead it vas $50 before 1t. was
light enough, for one to find the cows
unless one happened to run into 4
, COW. Sometimes one had to wande,
) round the old pasture three times be-
: fore this occurred.
, [ remember one morning In June
!, the 21st, I think, I got up at 4.3n
,, which as has been said before was
only $50. Il had been UP more thar
! half of the night before owing to !:
: neighbor's house burning DOWN. This
: morning that mention took eFos.
, cut through the cornfield on my way
: afser the cows. It was so dark that
, couldn't tell where the hills Of cort
We're except as | stepped upon them
q Only the other day they were talking
! OF appropriatifg one million dollars t;
q light the corn borer There is a ques
Z ton in my mind. which would do tn,
: most harm, in a cornf1eld the bore
= or a person walking through befor,
l | daylight
When we were thrashing oats tn,
| latter part of August we had to Civ
this practice up and keep the cows fl
the barn and milk by lantern light
: told one of the men hired by the da,
u that we MIXED by lantern light Thu
$ morning and he said, "We1l, that's go
:, Ing some, milking by lantern light Ii
!, the morning in the month Of August!
One reads in the papers from tim
! tc time about how the rural district
Il are being depopulated. The boys ar
not staying on the farms. etc. Moth
ing will help to depepulate the rtra
towns like setting the clocks up a
= hour.
n There is also a rural social problem
= If there is any thing going on in tow
: the farmer must stop work and lcav
y the field when the sun is way up. Be
cause whatever is going on begins o.