Litchfield enquirer., 1880-12-02

VentlOn Is 10 De neQ at New Britain on the
18th, 18th, and 18th of December. 1t opens
with an address by E. H. Hyde, followed by
lecture ON agriculture in schools by Prof Nor
throp. On Wednesday afternoon there is a
lecture on rational farm life, by Prof Atwater,
and Sec. Gold speaks on 1.-THE Farmers
Club. In the evening Prof. Cressey lectures
on what the farmer should learn and unlearn
Of, veterinary science. On Thursday Prof
Beal lectures on schools of Agriculture Dr.
Steutevant, on Agricultural education and
Prof johnson, on, practical agricultural ed
ucation.s On Friday Prof Brewer lectures on
Agricultural Societies and Exhibitions; ]. NJ.
Hubbard, on the farmers self education and
J. B, Olcott, on the Agricultural Press.
u After each lecture the subject will be open
for discussion and questions. A Question
box" is one of the features OF the occasion
An exhibition of fruits and grains will be
held, and opportunity given to test fruits and
exchange scions. Articles for exhibition may
be SEM by express at the expense of the
Board in care of the Secretary at New Brit.
ain,
The Housatonic Nsugatuck, Conn Wes-
tern. aud N. Y. & N E. Railroads, will give
free rcturr tickets to those who have paid one
full fare
The Headquarters of the Board will be at
the Humphrey House. The following ques.
tons are sent to fruit growers by P. M. Au-
CUR, Pomologist, of Middle6eld, CT:
What results can you report in the produc-
ton and sale of the various fruits this wear?
What methods have you or others in your
vicinity tried to utilize and save the apple
crop, especially windfal apples?
Please give your experience with the diff
ferent Fruit Dryers, Parers, Corers, Slicers,
Syrup and Jelly Evaporaters; also, the cost
and practicability of canning, or using fruit
preserving liquids or compounds.
What success have you had 10 resisting the
Yellows in the Peach, Blight in the Pear,
Black-knot on the Cherry, Plum, and Ounce,
and the Mildew on the Grape? Also, In con.
quering the Curculio, the common Apple
Worm. the Apple Maggot, the Currant Worm,
the Tree Borers of the several kinds, and ali
other fruit and tree depredators
Please inform in reference to any new fruits
Of promise. and, if you can, send specimens
with name and history to winter meeting at
New Britain. n @ -
To what extent can fruit be used as an ar
ticle OF daily food, safely and economically?
What is the sanitary value of the different
species OF fruits. az determined by use in the
sick-room or in hospitals?
Russian politics are more of an enigma than
eyer. Is the imperial family divided against
itself on the question of legitimating the
Cars children by the wife he has recently
m FRIED and what are the NihiIists doing? are
the latest queries. DULY last week Nihilism
had been tried, convicted, sentenced and
packed of to Siberia and now it is claimed
that it is nearer inal triumph than ever
The press of Russia 10 90 closely muzzled that
il can give us but little Information. and the
goesips of snch acountry are proverbially unre-
liable ira 49, 1855
The opinion generally expressed by those
competent to Judge is that Mr.. Dawes will be
his own successor in the U. s. Senate from
Massachusetts. Gov. Long is his most promi-
nent rival; but, in the conservative old Bay
Ososcs pooSScctouf VI suCu du OtIlG6 ID nine
points in the law. Mr. Dawes is not great
man, his friends concede that, but he Is e,n.
phatically a ''safe" man. and that is what the
business men now so influential in politics,
specially favor. Mr.. Dawes has had won
derfully long and important legislative career,
though the part he has taken in the Senate by
no means equals in prominence that he so long
played In the House. -
The papers of last week are full of Lord
Beaconsfeld's new novel s'Endymion." The
story has to do with English politics. ''Endy-
mion' being apparently Disraeli himself
The scene begins about the time of the first
Reform bill and reaches till about the Crimean
War. Portraits OF Golden, Louis Napoleon,
Palmerston, and others, are to be recognized it
is said, though one is often purposely con.
founded with another in very puzzling way.
The fact that the work is byso noted man
gives it an enormous sale at the outset though
the general impression seems to be that its
literary merits are not of very high order. :
The Connecticut River was frozen oyer at
Northampton, Thanksgiving day; thing
that has mos happened before for 20 years
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