Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-06
Farmers Reunion.

| We are in receipt of the following com munication from MT. Hart of Cornwall. regarding the place of holding the rean- lon of this year. Cannot Litchfeld Le as hospdtable as any other place in the coun- ty. It IS certainly the most convenient place of meeting?
 The question of cheap feed in this milk producing section is a most important one and any light on the question will make the meeting profitable as well as pleasant.
 MR. EDITOR It is proposed that the next meeting of the Farmers Reunion be held at such place as shall first offer the best accommodations to those who may wish to attend that meeting. Two meet ings have already been held in Litchfeld and it is found that the time of one day is to short for the amount of business that is expected to come before the meet ing next to be held, and it has been sug- gested that some of the towns little re- mote from Litchfeld would be glad to in., vite the farmers to meet withsthem and hold the meeting, both in the afternoon and evening and remain through the night with them: The Farmers club, of North Cornwall, last winter, held a meet 1 ing of this kind and felt well paid for what they did in the lively time and good cheer of those who attended. A number of the towns of the county have organ ized farmers clubs auxiliary to this which it is hoped and expected will be fully rep resented at the reunion. Will Washing ton, or Watertown, or New Milford, CT Winstsd, or Salisbury, or Falls Village. 1 invite the Reunion to meet with them. 1 It is believed that either of them would feel we'll paid for their trouble in doing so. Other towns need not wait for them but forward their invitations through the county papers.
 Mir. Editor: We are in receipt of 8 con- munication from R. W. Gunnison, secre- tary of Grange 261, Fairfax, Linn Co, Iowa. Have written to him in relation to the subject of sending their wheat and corn direct from the producer to the con- sumer. Much of the flour now used in Cornwall is made at Colds mills from wheat brought by the car load from the west, from which the best flour we have ever had in this town is made. As soon as suitable arrangements can be made with some of the Oranges west, it is believed that the best of wheat flour can be made at least two dollars per Dbl. less than now; also our corn which can now be bought of the producers a. IS cents per bushel in Illinois, should not, even with the freights at present ruling so high, be over sixty cents per bushel. A part of the business of the next meeting will be to seeif some arrangement cannot be made by which the milk producer can get his feed for much less price than at present. Some of our milk producers in West Corn wall got their bran for nineteen dollars per ton, while some of the milk-men on the Harlem paid as high as twenty weight. There is no reason why we should not get our bran at twenty dollars per ton by the aid of cooperation. AS soon as an ar- engagement can be made for system of cooperation on all the lines of railroad running through Litchfeld county it is believed that thousands of dollars may be saved annually to the producers of milk.
 The time has came when every town in the county should organize farmers club to be held in the coming winter at least twice month. The farmers club of North Cornwall will no doubt be reor- ganized next week. and be ready for. the discussion of any subject of interest to the farmer. T. l.. Hart
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