Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-22

CWrntsn Specially For The BuIetfn-l
 Once in a wkzHs almost every farmer gets an -ob5ect-lssson- -set bsfore him by sl6 scbeostsacher Nature. right on bis Ovn farm. ... -.-
 I've got one. this summer. out back Df the bzrn. ITS the best little patch ~ e~-n in thras counties Not only am n perEonaIly. wiling to testify to this but can bring distnterested witnesses from all three counties, to corroecrate Ese.
 Let me tsu y0a- about. tt Perhaps uora. one of tho many eastern Connec- tcut farmers who think they can't raise corn any more may find suggeseson ID the story. years corn-yeECw flint coEn--has been a .tandby- crop on this little farm up in fhs hfus. A few years ago the crop, which had always. been a profitable one fs- uss seemed to show decline. IT rrsw and made ears. But somehow 1t didn't do as we'll as it had been dolng- Al about that same time was drifting Into sweet corn. and rather hastily as- vuu,ed thzt the deterioration of the field com was due to my own neglect, due to absorption In sweet corn development
 AN rate. uAper a IGW ycHH8 T sS'o ID ths attempt to- raise -feld-corn- For perhaps a dozen seasons there wasn't half an acre of it on the ranch did not suppose ! should. ever try 1t again Certainly I had no thought of 1t last r,-4nE when. under the rather perempt- u-v orders Of Nessrss old Age and Ill Health. found myself compelled to abandon my gardens, restrict my activl- Hes to a patch not much bigger than labIs cloth. and generally haul In my Aorns
 Rut I have and am stin able to care Cor few hens. Hitherto the wastes tr0rn the gardens have made up the bulk Of thea4l living. When I reflected that, herezfte there would be no such wastes and should have to secure their fodder turl other sources. the prospect of fresh sExs and occasional chicken-pies began tn fade. Qf course. I could afford to buy western grain. fl only I could get it at p1mcVhere- near the price western farm CTS receive for it. But I could not af- ford 10 buy t when, in addition to a fair price for the corn etc, I had also to pay excrhitant freight charges, and grain brokers percentages, and whole Ealers' commissions and retailers prof iis. and. various other tolls along the way. ! vas beginning to plan a giving up of my small hennery when 8 kindly disposed neiEhbor to whom I had spoken sf my uuandary. offered to help me fit Q patch for field corn
 Such a patch would afford me more than half Of the grain I should need and determined to try 1t and see if l couldn't afford 10 buy the small quanti- Hes Of other cereals needful to give my Riddles a ssrisGaetory ration. -'-@ E
 That nlghN as I was thinking 1t over [ began t7 wonder whether the recent de- cadence Of the crop. which I have al ready referred to. was due to the soi and the climate. or whether it might moi nave been caused by some wrong treat ulent on my own part reflected tha uaree generations behind me had raised mighty good corn on these fields. thougl Ehsv knew nothing Of ,'Ecientifc farm nr- or the much bozsted modern meth sdsr of agriculture As small boy. had helped plant and cultivate and har sesf that corn. ! could clearly remem Der most of what the old folks did ant pretty nearly all about the way they di' h And so said -to myself. Just fo uae snort of the thing, I'll revert. IT torzst all about the new ideas in fertili rstion and cultivation. etc, and do thi E-iuE the way my dad and my granddal sid fifty to a hundred years ago. IT bee f the old-fashi0ned corn they use Co Frovv, owed any or It's lustiness am r-oDpaze to old-fsshioned treatment" foresav sbat I should be able to car tor but a small area so chose bit o lhe old garden, back of the barn; per haps half an sers an told, My neighbo lrew out and spread on 1t thirteen two Aorss loads of mixed COW, horse and ho manure. Then he plowed 1t under, blow hg as deep as the -plow could be driver The rest Of the work believed coul so myself, and have thus far done. A sf it. as nearly as I couldt along th Hnes which were followed by local corn Erowerg half a century ago.
 hadn't the "A" drag which they, use
 h tha old tines and so was forced H-s a modem harrow. But I remember sd very well how. sparing they used he of labor in this operation, and cor