Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-04
MY QUARTER ACRE PATCH OF CORN

Write. Specially For TAo Eulat:n) --r-aner tcIiu: sou something strl- uy Hftis cprr-pa-cn. last summer. ? was ju.. 30 promising prospect then. -.o'- t .s n c.,4rrd ap proposition. and g seems fr me That .ts story miEAt have -H-. .rec~-s-- 'r tG1 way of suggestion, Fol ~-.-z hesidss myself
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 s-1- Da-s..el raa aaKness ru5 a veto -- f--rar- --7' work. -ss .pFiug, l was -s.l-- -a--ei i0 know iJs- what to do vr rres Whom oaa has Worked. man l- .rF '- -5Afy-9ye years on end. and ---- = zar- o-. su lderly. from aeeus- -11-a a~...i.,-. R,'~ a.t to get lorc rcsope 7r a. - -s.. and the co7r and the
 s-i sla ri2 !" care fOr. And ! a.--~a. itcl- g.sree-. atout as h.g as -fa. e.o.s. Bris ies-, mo- matter how -le~ ! --i@l- -f.1ys. would occupy only srIH f9 -r. long summer days. ''H.i 1-' r. telsrah.e to sit in abso- H- farE enE trlalie fny thua1hs th- r-s ----- ! 7r~s '-Crv suro that ? e7-i---
 ~@ f-ri5.d tc play" with a small -H----cte. '.aE a dozen loads If ma rr-r .e--- a' --utii9 and. a supply ot e--r >+--o--. TWO hoes. ard aa extra .i.-ki1- stoo, ,ii.r ! couli take out td -ta Fs.t saI a'- town on if [ got firetl ga w play. 2 Kindly retenho~ robbed a' r- d-- and a naIl to get out -.a r-c-"r~ e01 r-ozv th- ground. The -s rrrr7 to dl. myself. is ! felt -r. a- ' Was able. T. would at ge E..- from rlsstinE out. And fre ..Sr h-3 great sympathy witl .H- s...- --s fa~laer- who remarked b., =l much rstiaer wear oat than - .-. F.~ wav.[ itere ay any gTcai . lad 10 sant or tho job.
 Tniak,zs it over. ny mind ran bach -.-e ioa@ -.ztg-Gre years trail t5 the day +tra 7 i~. "a small boy [ vas intro iIrr5 H-~s.ag world by b4ing ss- 4--- '.----1u-l fer ths corn fa- -7se- and -l=r S-lller were 10 plant oh A5E hated -a- t4ski The scent 0 .Ec ws---e s.ts me: the feel os th, i--l. eT revoked nls; the ba'e of th, r'... .... ir l-~ crooked elbow mad v.-s--- .a ly t-0i=- skin: the ends 0 us 1--- s-n~l=d from tAe ammonis "a-ea .rsy z,1 through t,le sDidermi al. -r. -.ls our of commission temuor -
 Ws- w.;h s5nla amusement and no '.tt salless- too that I reflected hoy was nov planning, as a relief. a repeti ron of the very sort of work which -iNty-hve years before. had been tortur 70 mr
 The more I dvsit on if, and the nor Z recalled of t.i= details of that oid time 'se more ] began to wonder what wouli fappen # should ''revert''-go back l. -isr old-fa- toned ways. forget all abou 7eodr-r --a1s ani ueth3ds- do thing -a 7ay father and .rrandfa .her useC ,n . taeni The thought fascinai ed me '7 uy own management of the-soil, Tv ways been given ta experimenting 7iVaya ready Go try out anything nev Ttich cfer-d hope sf Beitg Detter. T completely reverse Inyseif-go back { he ances-ra, and primevs.-that ce7 ainly would he au adventure Of anothe sort
 decided to try lt.----- -
 What did those e4d fsrmers do rs,A hey wanted to raise corn? Well, tn --st tilg was to nhanura heavily. I ha Q eozen loads ot nianurey-tand a. hand 0.t Of land back Of the barn Of about gaArtsr of an acre. I had ths wlael io-ea loads spread on that.
 Next they plowed aeep. Sc We pt ar plow down to the last notch, doi,, -eht inches at least. The cid chaps ha 70 req. h2rrows. They depended on t Irags.' and did just as lIttls with ths' as they could. | have no "A drag lef go I loosened ID Hts. siAenae" to doir no le7st .t could and went oyer II Tatch just once. enough to lexef off tl urTcw T!dZes for the marker Marke is the old style in three-by three fe -seeA1, Then, taking. my tinsa and us4E