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October 4, 1924 
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picture on canvas, but it would not buy a 
loaf of bread or a tin of sardines. To ob¬ 
tain these I must dig, and dig hard. I 
want a few acres of good tillable land, 
not over five acres, that will produce good 
things to eat on a minimum of labor cost, 
and I will make scenery that will make 
an artist turn green with envy. A plot 
with a row or two each of peas, beans, 
carrots, turnips, tomatoes, etc., well tend¬ 
ed, free from pesky weeds, a few fruit 
trees scattered about, and some flowers 
in the nooks and corners—that’s scenery 
that appeals to me. The other stuff is 
sentiment. j. c. berrang. 
Pastoral Parson and His 
Country Folks 
Part II 
The Race.—The R. N.-Y. speaks of 
the race between Jack Frost and the corn 
crop.. Well, last night, September 11, it 
looked as though Jack was going to win 
out. Frosts were reported in three towns 
of the State the night before and at 10 
o’clock in the evening here the ther¬ 
mometer stood at 40. The wind had that 
icy feeling all day that means a frost at 
night. The Parson covered up the ger¬ 
aniums and took a long look at the other 
flowers by the bright light of the harvest 
moon. We have enjoyed the flowers so 
much this Summer. But this morning 
when I looked for the glitter of the sun 
on the bright frost, lo, there was no sun 
shining; it was all cloudy and warm as 
a day in haying. Jack certainly got 
what Clossie would call a dirty spill 
around some curve last night. With a 
warm south wind today he ought to be 
out of the running for a full week, and 
that will mean everything for the corn. 
With time to ripen, we shall have one 
of the very best yields of corn we have 
ever had here. 
An Auto Trip. —Some relatives of 
Mrs. Parson’s had a son studying at the 
Marine Laboratory School at Woods 
Hole, Mass. The son was taken sick and 
his mother and sister sent for. As soon 
as the son was able, the Parson and Shel¬ 
ley took the old big car and went on for 
them to come here for a stay. It is about 
170 miles there. About two miles this 
side of Willimantic we pulled up at a 
farmhouse and had a chat with the man 
by the fence. His case is typical of an 
immense number of farmers in Connec¬ 
ticut, only he rented his place instead of 
buying—fortunately for him. His wife 
was in the hospital “every day or two,” 
while they lived in New York. They have 
been out here six years, and now she is 
never sick any more but. and here comes 
the sad end of it, he cannot make a living 
any longer and pay the $14 a month rent. 
He wants to find work back in New York 
and leave her there. But how can he? 
She cannot stay out there, with no other 
neighbor in sight this Winter. The Par¬ 
son visited another family in this same 
fix the other day. They can't live in the 
great crowded city, and they cannot make 
a living in the country, and there you 
have it. We passed through Willimantic 
and from there went to Providence. The 
view of the city as you enter it from the 
west is certainly wonderful. From the 
square in the very heart of the city you 
can go up a street as steep as the roof of 
a house and come right to Brown Univer¬ 
sity. We drove around this for a while. 
It is beautiful there with what seems to 
be a quaint old “meeting house” in the 
center. This college dates back on this 
present site to 1770. It seems to have 
sort of an alumni fence, with a class sec¬ 
tion and class date between the posts. A 
majority of its officials and its president 
must always be Baptists. A big sign by 
the tennis courts said: “No playing on 
Sunday.” This reminds the Parson of 
his conversation in a Y. M. C. A. State 
camp the other day. He was to talk to 
the boys that evening. “Thank goodness 
another Sunday gone by,” said one of the 
leaders. “You know we do not play 
games or ball or tennis on Sunday, and 
it’s a terribly hard day for the leaders.” 
Then the Parson talked with some of the 
boys. “We all hate Sundays here. Nothin’ 
doin’ but sit round all day, and go to 
church.” When these boys get grown 
up and their own bosses, the Parson won¬ 
ders how often they will go to church. 
Fall River. —From Providence you go 
to Fall River and from there to New Bed¬ 
ford. Fall River is one of the cities of 
New England that has suffered so much 
by the removing of the spinning industry 
to the South. It is reported that the 
city has asked permission to borrow a 
half million above its debt limit to keep 
its poor from starving. Had these mills 
been brought up to date and new and im¬ 
proved machinery installed and high- 
priced textiles produced there might have 
been some hope for them. As it is, the 
outlook is undoubtedly very bad. Along 
here you begin to see signs that say : “All 
points along the Cape.” So you go along 
up to Wareham and see the great Mar¬ 
coni wireless station, the largest in the 
world, and then across the canal and 
then down through Falmouth to Woods 
Hole on the Cape. 
Putting Up Ice, —We shall have quite 
a lot of ice left over this year. It was 
so easy to cut it right off our own pond 
back of the house that we put up a lot. 
How nice it is to have plenty of ice. Now 
is the time, if you have not had ice, to 
think about getting ready a place for it. 
It is hardly fair to expect city board¬ 
ers to come back year after year when 
you will not put up ice for them. It 
costs nothing in most places but a little 
work, and that work comes at a time of 
year when most likely you are not doing 
anything but the chores. How nice to 
have ice cream on the farm, and why not 
have it a great deal? How it helps the 
women folks about dessert. Just make 
up some ice cream. Children are won¬ 
derfully willing to turn a freezer. The 
hotter it is the better the “licking” of 
the plunger will be. Be sure to give them 
a big cone all round for freezing. When 
you buy a freezer get one big enough 
so as to make up a good lot at a time. 
It is little or no more work to make two 
gallons than one. You do not have to 
make a freezer full if you don't want to. 
Rig up a heavy balance wheel on the 
freezer—it will not be half the work to 
turn it. Ice cream counts for so much 
with the city people, and is such a fine 
healthy food for all, and costs the farmer 
less than most of the food he eats, for he 
has, as a rule, milk going to the hens or 
pigs, and he has the eggs and the ice. 
Eight cents will sweeten a whole gallon. 
Never bother to cook it. A pound of 
sugar and four beaten eggs to the gallon 
is the Parson’s rule. Put in what cream 
you have (and if you don’t have any' 
make it just the same) and the rest of 
milk. An ice shaver has been the great¬ 
est boon this year, what a lot of work it 
has saved! We got an iron one from 
the_ city ice man. To be sure it cost 
$3.50, hut it was the best money the Par¬ 
son ever spent. The Parson has to go 
six miles to get sawdust while the do\yn 
county folks have tons and tons of it all 
around them, going to waste. The Par¬ 
son is going to put a lot of fine stone and 
gravel into the bottom of his ice-house 
for a floor under the ice. He is con¬ 
vinced that it is the best, as it affords 
such perfect drainage. That part of the 
ice which had fresh new sawdust this 
year kept much better than that with 
sawdust that had been in use for some 
10 years. This sawdust is far too old 
and rotten and fine, and will be discarded 
for fresh. Some ice we put in was only 
five inches thick and it is coming out 
just about as thick as it went in. It is 
a great deal better, though, to have it 
about, eight or nine inches thick. That is 
just right to keep and handle. I guess 
Closson has sold four or five dollars 
worth to people who come after it. He 
has the money for getting it out for them. 
Stolen Things. —It certainly worries 
you to have things stolen. The other 
night a battery was in the back of the 
little Ford truck, and an almost new 
shoe was leaning up against the rear 
wheel. Sunday morning both were gone 
and we have never recovered them. They 
were worth about $35. We have never 
locked up things, and it seems dreadful 
to have to. From what I read, I do not 
believe there is anything the danger of 
having things stolen in “heathen” China 
as there is here in New England. Every¬ 
one knows you cannot leave a car a min¬ 
ute beside the road without having it 
stripped. This happened the other day 
to a man who just went to the nearest 
house to telephone a garage for help. In 
another case, from an overturned car, 
with blood on the windshield showing 
what trouble the people were in, two 
grips were stolen before the man could 
hurry back from getting his wife to a 
farmhouse. One cannot help wondering 
sometimes what we are coming to. 
Apple Sauce. —'We have had a great 
time putting up apple sauce. We have 
a great place to can over by the brook, 
and the city company has been a tremen¬ 
dous help in getting the apples ready. We 
use a parer of course. Yesterday we put 
up 38 quarts from three bushels in the 
afternoon, but one has to hustle right 
along to do it. We have put up 148 
quarts of apple sauce. This will keep the 
folks happy for a while. 
rev. geo. b. gilbert. 
Line Fence of Barbed Wire 
I have a farm with barbed wire line 
fence. I am ordered by the neighbor to 
put up another wire fence. The upper 
side of the fence has been made 50 years 
and is nailed to trees. The trees have 
grown over the wire 3 in. and it is very 
steep. Can they compel me to move it 
after it has stood so long? It is by the 
side of a patch of woods, but his unruly 
cows have caused him to order the fence 
removed. One man told me that as it had 
stood so many years he did not think they 
could compel me to move it. I really want 
to do right. m. a. c. 
The length of time a barbed wire fence 
has been standing on the line would not 
relieve you from damages which the ad¬ 
joining owner might suffer if his cattle 
are injured thereby. One may build a 
barbed wire fence on the line with the 
consent of the adjoining owner. If that 
consent is not obtained he may still build 
the fence of barbed wire, but it shall be 
built of at least four strands of barbed 
wire with a sufficient bar of wood at the 
top and no posts shall be further apart 
than 14 ft. This fence shall be substan¬ 
tially built and reasonably sufficient for 
holding the particular kind or class of 
animals usually pastured on either side of 
the fence, but any person building such a 
fence without the consent of the owner 
of the adjoining property is liable for 
any damages occasioned by reason of such 
fence. N. T. 
