The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-20
THE FARMERS CONVENTION.
Interesting Address by Professor
 Phelps-Other Closing Addresses.

lHlSIGSlliS AuulSse ny IIOl6SSul | Phelps--Other Closing Addresses.
 Bridgeport, Aug. 19.-The mid-winter
 agriculture held at the Atlantic hotel
 closed this evening. The final address
 was delivered by Miss Alice Freeman
 Palmer of Cambridge, Mass. Nearly all the farmers attending the opening
 of the convention still remained in the
 city this afternoon and attended the
 reading of papers
 One of the most interesting papers to- l day was that delivered by Professor c. S. Phelps of the Connecticut Agricul- | tural college. The subject was "Agri- cultural Lessons from the Pan-Ameri- can Exposition"
 The speaker said the holding of such great fairs as the Centennial, the South ern exposition, Worlds fair and the Pan American kept the people well in- formed of the industrial progress of the nation At the Pan American the agricultural lines of growth in the diff ferent parts of the country were shown. Said Professor Phelps: While the states of the Mississippi valley show ed a greater volume of products of the leading cereals, the eastern states excel in the variety and excellence of her
 vegetables and fruit display. Illinois
 displayed strikingly the success of it's
 corn and apple crop Minnesota, its
 wheat and Connecticut it's tobacco. The
 exhibit from Canada and Manitoba in
 e,,a In, +o chpurp6 tha nrpuinnacs
 to be a formidable rival of this coun-
 try in supplying the markets of the
 world.
 The speaker reviewed the dairy ex-
 hibit and dwelt upon the relative mer-
 it's of the various breeds of cows. He
 said: The test made at the PanAmer-
 ican showed clearly that no one breed contains all the best cows. When the
 fifty cows of the test are placed i'll the order of their profit for butter, it was seen out of the best ten three are Guernseys, three Ayrshires, two Jerseys and one Red Poll and one a Holstein. It is interesting also to show the great range in profit for butter within breed, by noting the positions in the entire herd of fifty, held by the best and poorest COW O. each breed.
 If we select the best and poorest cows on the basis of profit for butter we find that the best Guernsey ranked No 1 and the poorest No. 43; the best Jersey ranked No and the poorest No. 29. the best Hostein 6 and the poorest 8; the best Red Poll ranked ? and the poorest 40. These facts point to the con- clusion that there are good dairy cows In, pl ,,P load dino hraadS The test substantiated the conclusion al- ready reached by careful students of dairylng, that for butter production the Channel Island breed of cows are the most profitable while for the largest yield of milk the Holstein or Ayrshire breeds are to be preferred.
 The speaker declared that Connecti- cut had a fine exhibit at the Pan- American. Said he:iil'While Connectf- cut did not attemot to make man. moth exhibition of her field products, | she was able to show large variety ! of products. of excellent quality, No | one product attracted more attention than the tobacco exhibit: tobacco men | were pleased with the high quality of | the exhibit The tobacco grown under | the shade of cheese cloth attracted es- pecial attention. and was the only ex- hibit Of it's kind to be seen.'
 In the line of a suggestion to keep up interest in showing the products of the state Professor Phelns said: "The se- ection of one or more farmers iL each to assist In working up an in- -erest and in collecting exhibits would aid in keeping the matter of proper of all the products of ,ur state before the public" The speaker then reviewed in general what ,ir sen at tn a1- eardaiydythe vas seen at the exposition.
 A paper on Poultry as an Adjunct to he Farm" was read by pr. Cooper 5urtice biologist of the Rhode Island experiment. station, at Kingston, R. I. The speaker showed that poultry rais- ng could be made q successful indus ry in connection with the farm
 This afternoon Dr. w. o. Atwater nd Dr. H. w. Conn spoke upon the ubject of dairying at the Storrs' agri- ultural experiment station.