Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-15

1Hc4tsntS on Hour ana IeeQS eoul0 Re Ter 6uced to their pre-war rate, there is no doubt that four and feeds could be sod for much less than now. It was the ,fatuous action of the last administration in discriminating against the canals and forcing the traffic over to the railroads which has been directly responsible fer this item of unnecessary expenses auong others.
 According to B report fFsm ohio, farm labor in that state is going to be Hien- tier and cheaper, this season. Scores of letters' are said to have been received by the state agricultural department from former farm employees, new out of work in industrial centers. We aren't afraid time wages" is an extract from one let ter sent by two young men of g and 23 years, respectively.
 Let us hope that other farmers, in other states than Ohio will be able, this year to hire labor for less wages than the entire value of thccfarm output Phosphofie acid is one of the most valuable, not ito say indispensable fert:li- ] Ezers used. In the average farmers mind , 1t rather overSalances all the ether elc- nents of complete fertilizer Tneus- ands ot farmers still cal all commercial fertilizers "phosphates," though phos-  < Or three per cent. of tho total weight | The phosphates which arc chiefly used come from vast ldeposits of peculiar
 rock found it1 Florida and some other southern states. This rock is crushed and treated with sulphuric acid. The , rock itself is cheap. but the aeid costs money and, worse yet, is wasteful / A { rock which contains as much as g per
 cent of plsosphoric acid. raw, yields only IS per cent, or less when treated with acid
 1 The bureau of soils at Washington has i been experimenting ip the hope of dis
 covering some cheaper and less wasteful way of making the phosphate available The bureau has fo1nd at last, that sfae;t- ! ing with crude oil as fuel results in doub- lsag the percentage of phesDherie acil saved and in reducing the cost from g
 per cent. Of the value of the product to l l5 per cent.
 I This has yet to be tried out, comrsaer- cfaliy. Hut If it, can he made to work, i practically. farmer will be able to get l ae much rnanuriai value in half a ton of phosphate as he now gets in ton, and will have to pay freight on but half as ! much inert filling"
 Tho departments of agriculture reports that, ii1 last years 9Fice-tumhle, the far ners of the country lost more than all their previous gains from wartime prices Last January. for instance, the average price on the farm of meat cattle was s4.sf less than the price of the yea,
 before we went te war.
 As to corn the drop of 1920 mot only wiped out all the gain of the preceding
 three years. but perce2tibiy exceeded it. l Put that in your pipe Mir. and Mrs l City Consumer, and smoke iti ,.,e-4;~ 1 In 1918 beef growers sent te market 15,1a0.090 animals which. slaughtered yieIded T,590, ,0oe,090 pounds of beef. Las tyear they sent only 12.10e,0eQ animal. Iwh.eh yielded 5000, COG pounds ot tbecf We exported I39,eae,aa0 pounds is E1sis; 1s4.eoa.ooe pounds last year. Ter Iyears age the, average annual consutnp ton Of beef was 7S pounds per head O
 our population. Last year it was 5t lpound:
 1 If this thing keeph on long enough, ", ssiall all be living OF turnips and arti sehckes, and wondering over the deterio iratioa of the race!
 The U. $. deRartneRt of asricultar, earnestly warns srass-seed buyer iaaa;nst so-caIled s''eIeyef-and- timothy
 mixtures, except after great care hal
 been used in learning the exact proper
 tion Of the mixtures While the claim
 made that the different seeds occur in tn proper proportiens for seeding, frequent Y there is not more than five or six pc cent of eI5ver present-aot enough to b.
 of any value m the er0p.' IH sSfen ease
 buyers really get only timothy, but "a, donble timothy price.
 widely circulated Aatherity on gar ieening says that the same kind of vege : Itables shoyld never be planted twice il succAssior in the same place This i ] correct as 9 general rule. It has it's ex captions, however. One exception is il i. the case of onions. In my part of tn ' country it is universally agreed that on
 lions do better if continuously planted d the same bed, Personally I have na, , good crops for twenty-five caaseeatiy } years on the same sHaall patch. I don' know the reason for thiA But the fac lis sn established ona.
 eaa'k grow pstatoes tive years run lining on the same land without scab. No
 Ieabhages two years running withou
 elub-foot. But I have grown good sweet
 corn for over twenty years on the sam
 land. And last year I had fine cro
 tbf early beess from a plot which ha
 Ibeen regularly used as a beet-bed fo
 mora than fifty years, to my knowledge.
 It went de t0 be tee degnaasie aAou
 II farm or garden rules. They are alrnos
 aii subject to modification or even nulli
 hcatiep by special local and seasonal con . Gitions. The treatment of crop, mean
 Ing thereby fertilization. cultivation, etc
 sonettmss quite reversss any genera
 irule.