Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-10

the minds of some farmers There are hundreds and thousands who will read Dr. Sheldons brave words with either sneers or uAeonceaied irritation. What does he knew about actual, dpwn-in-the- furrow farming ?' they will ask. Has he had to worry forty or fifty leads of eorn-stalk manure out of g haif-frozen barnyard every spring? Has he had to
 weed endless rows of onions, shelterless under a blazing sun, his head enveloped in a. swarm of buzzing. biting. prieking gnats and mfdges? What sort of imag- | nation would it take to make poisoning
 potato bugs seem. 3 work "of dignity and power FT'-And so on and on.
 1 Nor Is there lacking excuse for just
 this sort of answer. It simply Rill not i do for Dr. Sheldon or anybody else to
 minimize the hard and cruel facts which
 foundation this widespread feeling.
 Doubtless there will be more in other
 vacations to welcome his thought than
 Ter has not put the really sordid and
 drudsiag character of much farm work
 one-haf as strongly as We old farmers know it might truthfully be put.
 I I sometimes wonder if my lady,
 dressing for the reception or the opera, lwouid thrust that royal rose in her cor sage So nonchalantly if she could look ' mo It's heart ana see the icaChSOme
 worm which was harboring there.
 1 It is tlsc farmers prerosative ts sex and think ef that worn-to see it more ieieariy than he sees the crimson petals Ito think of it more constantly than he thinks of the aroma of the flower.
 l. It is not 70 be wondered at, nor mus
 the be too harshly blamed if. in many eases, the hard and cruel and repulsivt
 mature of his calling more impresses it i self upon him than it's other phases.
 are not all built to the same pattern
 There are differences mental as vel ? as physical into which we are. born Some of us can't help seeing she dari tside of things. There are just as man. Jere.niahs in the country as in the town Perhaps there are more. It seems SC at times. Gonsidering all things, I 10 I one dc not wonder that when a farne
 is born With a natural blue streak, i Y should develop into blue-blsck in cours ! Of time
 :, Moreover, one is eenpeiIed to be : licFe, as his acquaintance with his fel ! sews+ #ideas and natures. that there ar . a censidera Die number who haven't an Imagination to cultivate. Sydney smit once said that you couldn't make som sceteanen see ] je%e if you fired it 2 tsaeEa out of cannon. Why, Nj ! Smith" said his Scotch landtady, ho- could you fire joke out of cannon l happen te know tive farmers t neither ore Of whom, as both hay ; frankly said to me- has an October sur 3 set piilowed in clouds of glory upon ii , western hills any meaning whatever, e, eept as 1t may bear the promise of
 fair day tomorrow to dig potatoes { . husk corn.
 : A primrose by the rivers bzin1 <. :. 4 yellow primrose was to him, : And 1t was nothing nlore" d It isn't even, so much as that : some of us. To marty it simply su,
 tgests a mess of cowsIip greens for SUI - Ter.
 s Even Dr. Sheldon would admit, pro }. ably. that 1t is somewhat difficult g cultivate non-eAistent faculty. , Furthermore, coming back to the III
 jority, to the ordinary farmers wI : have aa ordinary supply of inaginatio
 1t must he said that they stand t, t close to the machinery for their inlae ! nations te be given 9 fair chance. sS ? man $ hero to his valet" said u