The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-23
GREENS FAkMS TALK OF SCIENTIFIC
 FARMING
How to Make the Wood Lo' Pay = Renovating Appl Orchards-Poultry.

The 49th anrfua1 convention of the Greens Farms Farmers Club was held yesterday in the parlors of the village church. and regardless of the inclem- ent weather and the horrible condi- tion of the roads. drew an audience which filled the Sunday school room with men and women from all parts of the town and neiehboring village
 Not far from 100 teams and automo
 piles were housed under the sheds ac . joining the church. Prominent among those present were Postmaster Gou-- den of Norwalk, MT. Farnum of New Haven, who has recently made a visit to the southern shore of Maryland; MT. Blant of New Haven. Rev. MT. Stray CT, Rev. Kenneth Mackenzie of Vest port, George P. Jennings, Dennis Tenn of Milford. Burr Hill of Greenfield Hill. B. S. Bulkley of Mill Hill. Ager Beach of Tashua. J. Frank E.wood, MT. Foster of Hocanum Hill farms. N. H. Sherwood of the Greenfield Hill Country Club, Joseph Adams. and q large number from Fairfield. A com mittee of ladies. including Mrs. Ed ward J. Taylor and Miss Mary Burr. provided bountiful dinner which was served at 12:30 and much enjoyed. At 2 o'clock the literary exercises began with an address by w. Hoyt Weber, of New York, Yale graduate fores- ter, who has had much experience in
 his profession in this State. Pennsyl- vania and the middle west. His topic was "The~ Farm Wood Lot''. and
 he spoke highly of Clifford Pinchot, saying there was no forestry in this country 12 years ago. but now the peo- pie have been aroused to it's import ance. He alluded to the controversy in progress in Washington, and asked
 6n n
 pay. He said that in 35 years there
 will be a timber famine in this coun- try if the trees are not conserved. The forests must be kept up and they must show a distinct profit. If forestry
 will not make wood lot pay then it
 will not pay for farmers to practice
 forestry. Everything should f'e done
 in a scientific manner. This hasn't
 been done before beca use there has not
 been much profit in the wood lot. The
 forests must be protected from fires,
 since fire makes the ground acid, and
 prevents the reproduction of trees. The forest system in Connecticut is a good one. but there must be cooperation among farmers. Trees, as the chestnut, must be protected from disease. Keep in touch with the State experiment sta tion at New Haven for the latest in- formation and the best methods. Con- trol the wood lot and do not grow
 
 sections of a farm as are good for nothing better. Keep track of the wood lot and do not give the wood away to the lumber man. Thin out the wolf trees.
 George A. Drew of Congers Farm, Greenwich, gave a very interesting and instructive address on the "Ren-
 ovating of an Old Orchard He told l the audience his personal experience and explained how he pruned down l old trees. and renewed them until they came into good bearing condition. He | took an optimistic view of the future l of growing apples in this State and said the farmers are holding up their heads Orchards can be made very profitable. but heretofore they have been the last to receive intelligent at- tention. He spoke of the poor busi- ness methods of the eastern~ farmers and said that while they may be hon. | est in dealing with each other. it was | often otherwise when they sold to the l public. He told of a New York mer- l chant who had to buy one dozen bar
 rels of Baldwin apples before he could l get one good barrel to fill order
 He thought the western fruit grower 1 had seen his best days. The scale and the coddling moth has to be | fought in the West the same as in the | East. MT. Drew divided his subject | into four heads-pruning, spraying
 cultivating and thinning of the fruit | He told how each of these th;ngs
 should be done and recommended cer-
 tain mixtures for destroying the scale He thought it better to buy raw chem icals than any fertalizers. His paper
 provoked a good deal of discussion. As Rev. Charles F. Taylor of West port was not able to be present to give an address on George Washington 1 Rev. Kenneth Mackenzie of that towr
 read a very interesting paper on the l Religious Life of Washington" W 1 o. Burr gave a practical and valuable
 account of his method of raising poul- | try, pointing out the kind of breeders ] to be used, and how to run an incu | bator He was listened to with deeI
 interest and much apolauded.