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TREES 
October 28, 102 
Seething is a good word for it, too. The 
whole question here seems to be this: 
1 low far is it wise for a school hoard of 
the town to go. even if giving better ser¬ 
vice to the children, without first getting 
the backing of n majority of the district, 
especially of the parents? A thing may 
be best for the people, blit if they don’t 
think it is best and don’t want it. isn't 
it well to lake more time and try to show 
and persuade them it is best before it is 
put over onto them? 
The District Meeting,— Should the 
old New England district meeting he 
knocked in the head quite so ruthlessly? 
Fur years and years the people have hail 
charge of their district affairs, and espe¬ 
cially their sehoolhouse. and to close the 
school without a meeting of any kind, or 
chance for open discussion, causes some¬ 
thing of a jolt. Yes. they did have a 
meeting the other night in one district 
where the school had already been closed, 
and a real meeting it was, lasting, from 
what the Parson has heard, till pretty 
near daylight the next morning. They 
said the supervisor, who lives in the next 
town, got home around six o’clock in the 
morning. The other night this town 
elected town officers and every man 
elected apparently stands for a complete 
reversal of the present policy of the town ; 
that is, for keeping open the back schools 
and not. transporting the children. This 
town had begun this Full to do what would 
seem to lie a most commendable thing; 
send a 1ms out, far out, to gather up 
children to go to the high school in the 
next town. It has two line big busses, 
carrying children in all directions; one of 
the busses is said to cover 70 miles a day. 
It will, however, be interesting to see 
what will be done now. 
Saw a Cow. —The Parson heard about 
a soldier from India who went to the 
Great War. He saw the sights of Lou¬ 
don and Paris, the great Parliamentary 
buildings, and Notre Dame and all the 
rest, and he w*'nt up into Belgium, and 
saw a hit of Holland before he went back. 
And when be got hack home he was asked 
what he saw. and he answered: “I saw 
a cow.” lie had seen the great beautiful 
big cows of Belgium and Holland, and 
they were in marked contrast to the little 
runts of India. “We must get cows like 
that here,” lie said. People today want 
to see. The poultry men go to sye the 
poultry plaids. The dairymen take their 
cars and go to see the big dairies. People 
who are thinking of joining the Christian 
churches are looking around to see a 
demonstration of the Christian religion. 
They know that religion is a life, not a 
creed, and they want to see demonstra¬ 
tion of that kind of life. They want to 
see it in the minister’s family, and they 
want to see it in the deacon’s family, and 
they wanr to see it in the warden's 
family. When the native Indian saw 
that big cow he wanted one right away. 
When the sixty-odd millions who are not 
connected with any church in this coun¬ 
try see the sixty-odd wln> do go to church 
and the way they live, do they want that 
kind of life? 
A New Mist. The Parson has heard 
of a nett mist. We have long heard of 
the pessimist. He throws cold water on 
everything and discourages all new un¬ 
dertakings. He says “It can’t be done.” 
Then of course there is the optimist, lie 
says the idea is great—wonderful. It 
can be done. lie knows it can be done; 
there isn’t any doubt about it. Then 
comes the new mist—the peptoinist. lie 
utters no shouts of approval. lie heaves 
no sighs of dismay, lie simply pulls off 
his coat and rolls up his sleeves and 
jumps right into the job. He has the 
pen. He is the peptoinist. 
Men in Ciivkch. —Mow many men 
have you that come to church? If you 
have very few it may be tin* very reason 
why more don’t come. There was a man 
who set out to attend every church in 
Boston. When he got all around he de¬ 
clared lie had been to every church but 
one. The people of this church felt 
slighted. They sent a delegation to ask 
him why he did not try their church, 
lie said he was sorry, but lie couldn't. 
Tie was subject to fits, and he couldn’t 
go to church where there wasn't enough 
men to carry him out! 
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be lucky to get around $1.50 for choice 
certified seed in Vermont this Fall. 
The Blight. —These men seem to 
think that it was a great thing to get 
the tops light off the ground as soon as 
the blight hit the piece. In this way late 
blight is robbed of much of its terror. If 
you dig potatoes at that time lie sure to 
suu them well on both sides. The Par- 
sou will have quite a. supply of seconds 
of this certified seed sent down for his 
use and for many of the people down 
county. Using them for one year does 
not seem to affect the size, lu fact, a 
whole smallish round potato seems to 
make about as fine a seed as you can get. 
The Corn, — The Parson and boys 
never had such a yield of corn as this 
year. We had only a small piece, hut 
the number of baskets got was something 
astonishing. The Parson would not ven¬ 
ture to tell how many, and we have not 
yet found time exactly to measure the 
ground. The corn was tremendously 
stout, and we were wise in thinning to 
only three or four in a hill. Where grain 
is wanted, and not silage, three is enough 
in a hill—better than four. It certainly 
pays to have the land rieh for corn, and 
especially to give it plenty of phosphorus. 
■Goose Eggs. Sit rushed info the house 
tremendously excited yesterday and an¬ 
nounced the discovery of a goose nest. 
Sure enough, there was n beautiful nest 
right under otir nose, with nine great 
eggs in it. This is the first time we 
have ever had a goose lay in the Fall, 
tin inquiry the Parson finds that others 
have had them lay in the Fall. One 
woman thinks they will not lay as early 
in the Spring if they lay in the Fall. 
She has a goose that seems to be making 
a nest to start in on her second Fall 
hatch of eggs. The Parson thinks such 
a goose is a mighty good one to keep 
over, and it will he interesting to see how 
well she does next Spring. How dread¬ 
fully noisy the geese are this time of 
year! Are all geese that way? They 
start up and holler and flap their wings 
and away they go. They have a regular 
pow-wow over nothing. Perhaps it is 
because of the Fall and their wild rest¬ 
less instinct of migrating stirring within 
them. When the Parson turns in hungry 
after midnight from a down county party 
and they begin this performance he cer¬ 
tainly Inis wild feelings stir within him. 
We will have enough gpese to sell to buy 
the equivalent of a pig in dressed pork. 
How much cheaper and wiser, if you have 
a suitable place, to raise 10 geese than 
to raise a pig and feed it grain three 
times a day. 
No .SCHOOL for Him.—L ike all younger 
children. Little Ta has talked a good deal 
about going to school with the older ones. 
It would be a great day for him when he 
could go. But Thursday. Clossie came 
home with a great hole in his stocking 
and a great scratch or cut in his knee, 
and the whole all covered with blood, 
where a boy had tripped him up when 
running in tag. Ta took this in and said 
nothing. Friday we got a ’phone that 
Sit had fallen and broken her glasses 
and cut her eyelid and had better come 
right home, so the Parson went after her. 
Little Ta heard the conversation. “Whose 
sister is hurt?” he said. “Ours is.” And 
bless his little heart, he hurst into tpar.?. 
He does love Sit so. But he chippered 
up and dried his tears to ask if he could 
go along, too. Of course the front seat is 
first choice with the children, hut when 
we went to get into the ear lie steered 
right for the rear door. “I'll sit in hack 
and Sit sit in front with you.” Now. 
wasn’t that sweet of him? And to think 
that lie should have thought that out in 
his little mind. But the best nf all was 
when Sit got home and her mother was 
fixing up her eye—it proved to he nothing 
serious—Ta stood there looking at it all. 
“Mammo,” he says. “I don’t ever want to 
go to that school.” 
The (’or.NTRV Tragedv. —Just as we 
were ready to sit down to the table the 
other Sunday morning, prior to all going 
off for the day. the ’phone rang to ask the 
Parson to go immediately up to the second 
house ab'ive, where a man had just ended 
his own life by shooting. A couple had 
just recently bought this place and only 
moved on to it the Thursday before. This 
was a man over 50 years old. who had 
lived on a farm as a hoy. but recently lmd 
been living in the city. At this age he 
started to go to farming again. He 
bought the plr.ee without tools or stock or 
furniture. The Parson knows only hear¬ 
say as to the price paid and refrains from 
expressing his opinion of the deal. Suf¬ 
fice to say that he really wonders that 
suicide isn't the end of more of these un¬ 
speakable tragedies of the soil. The Par¬ 
son reports this for the consideration of 
any who may be thinking of selling their 
farms to city folks, and suggests once 
more that the principle of the Golden 
Rule is a most excellent one on which to 
base any kind of a trade whatever. 
The Country School.- The Parson 
has just been reading the report of the 
“Committee of 21.” as found in The 
Rural New-Yorker. It seemed to have 
some most excellent points, A nearby, 
strictly rural town, is just passing 
through a most exciting experience. The 
local paper speaks of this town as “seeth¬ 
ing” with strife over its school matters. 
A Record. —The Parson was down 
county yesterday, and a woman down 
there has certainly made a record in 
raising chickens. They bought 11>— day- 
old Ancouas. One was dead on arrival 
and one was crippled, and they killed it. 
Not another one died; they raised 190. 
1 suppose it was all explained in one 
statement: “I lived in the henhouse,” 
she said. Every time they were fed every 
single dish used was washed absolutely 
clean—just as clean as though you wore 
going to eat from them yourself. They 
were fed five times a day. Well, it was 
a job. of course, but probably it was 
what largely accounted for such an as¬ 
tonishing record. They were about half 
pullets, and the daughter had just 
brought iu 31 eggs from them the day 
the Parson was there—October 9. These 
people have kept very accurate account 
of every cent, and they will have an in- 
icresting report, at the end of the year. 
Talking to Babies, —Mrs. Parson is 
a great hand to talk and siug to her 
babies. She would be always visiting 
with them when they were but tiny in¬ 
fants on her lap. When she wasn't talk¬ 
ing to them she would be singing to them. 
"When they came along older and she 
wanted to prepare them for anything she 
began long before talking about it. Per¬ 
haps they were going to church. There 
would he much talking it over. How 
they were not going to talk out loud. 
1 low they were going to be good and not 
cry. Boys who are always called bad, 
how can they be anything else? If we 
Could only realize how much stronger 
praise is than scolding. But little Ta 
certainly had a hard test yesterday. The 
Parson and Mrs. Parson and some com¬ 
pany were going down comity. At first 
it was decided Ta was to stay at home. 
This was talked up. He asked why he 
couldn't go. How easy to shout, “No 
matter why; you can t go, and that ends 
it !" But Monnno always tells him why 
it doesn't seem best for him to go. lie 
is never lied to, either. Nothing distresses 
the Parson so as to hear people lie to 
their little children. They get their pay, 
of course, by their children growing up 
liars to them and everybody else. So 
Ta was to stay at home. But suddenly 
at the dinner table it was remembered 
that Shelley would not be at home as 
early as we had expected. So Ta would 
have to go with us. He certainly was 
pleased. But before we got up from the 
table in walked Shelley. Then it was 
decided he wouldn’t go. Well, he was 
the sweetest thing. lie was out by the 
shed getting him a stick when we got 
into the car. Ilis Mommo went and 
hugged him and kissed him goodby. It 
had been talked over how he wasn’t go¬ 
ing to cry and bow he was going to be 
Mommo’s sweet boy. His little lip quiv¬ 
ered (be is most five now), but lie never 
said a word or made a cry. Never a 
care, uever a trouble, never a sorry; you 
just want to eat him up all day long. 
Potato Blight. —It would seem to 
the Parson that he had learned much 
more about potato blight this year than 
he ever did before in all his life. In the 
first place, he believes it is bad to have 
potatoes so rieh and so rank that the 
vines do not dry out after a rain, but 
keep damp aud moldy along the ground. 
Such vines are a veritable invitation to 
the blight to come and to thrive. Then 
again, wlieu the first sight of the late 
blight appears and the potatoes are 
pretty wall grown, the Parson would go 
right in and pull the vines, standing with 
a foot each side of the vine so as to keep 
the potatoes in the ground. Then cart 
all pulled tops off the field. But if you 
want to dig the potatoes right away, dig 
them when there is a bright sun. and if 
possible go along and sort of turn them 
over so that the son will bit all sides, 
then put them away. The sun will kill 
any blight that may be ou the potato, 
provided, of course, it has not actually 
begun to decay. Of course never leave a 
potato long in the hot sun; it will rot 
sure. The Parson fully believes the 
potato crop about here was utterly 
doomed. But there came on a long, hot 
dry spell, and it seemed to kill that blight 
and prevent its going into the ground, 
and the ground was very dry, too. But. 
of course you cannot always count on a 
dry spol] coming on. Suck spraying as 
the farmers did around here with rather 
inexpensive apparatus did not seern to 
do a particle of good. 
Vermont Seed. — Since writing the 
above the Parson’s brother, with a neigh¬ 
bor. has stopped here for overnight on 
their way back from Long Island, where 
they had been to sell seed potatoes. The 
way Orange County. Vermont, has gone 
into seed potatoes in the last few years 
is something astonishing. One man had 
101 aicres this year. To be sure. 20 acres 
were so flooded that lie had to harrow 
them up. but that left him $1 acres. The 
neighbor who was here expected to dig 
5.000 bushels. This seed has been twice 
certified by the Government inspectors, 
and has again to pass a car inspection. 
These men found that Long Island was 
not hollering overload for seed. They 
are getting around 50 cents a bushel for 
potatoes that cost them $1 a bushel to 
raise, ami no one could blame them for 
not being over-enthusiastic. They will 
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