The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-24
POLE CATS
 PELTS BRING
 SII IN MONROE
Monroe Center Stove Club is
 Shy of Quorum
Especial to the FarmerD (Bv Arthur W. Erench.)

Monroe, March 24.-N arren w. bliss. high chief of the Nonowaug basket Of chips has been smiling -ome more cf late and they won. [ come of. This is thus. because. well he's a pretty busy man, but semi- occasionally his sporting blood Will tell and there you are. Not long since he and Ed. Beardsiey of Bay burn baliwick, discovered that an ag- gregaticn of skurks had pre-empted and occupied Q small cave at DeVll Den. As it is like getting money from home to sell a good skunk skin. It nowaday prices. they started to think it over. After a wise think, they. with force of arms scientifically captured all the said skunks and sold the pelts for s11: real money Hence the smiles and q deserved medal, if there is any. fer having the record s <'nned, a well as the skunks.
 genuine. begging tramp IS as r-e almost. in Monroe. as hens teeth. Too far off the railroad lines s,- one reason. Not long since. the f-s rmer printed an itcr1 concerning tle arrest Cf a genius ,,"ho, wno. w ren he was asked # he wanted to =, to jail said: Yes. either there or 10 Monroe addiug. don care much. which. He claimed that he lad been in jail and in Monroe and that, to him, there was not much difference Now he is discovered. He must t,e the boomer" who got here l.-t summer at having time and got ..ii the job of turning Srindstone to SSarpen up four scythes. a big all and Kitchen knives. getting. on the side :. hand out of prune pie and well water. when he expected angel cake aud cider old enough for whiskers cIs if
 The Monroe Center Stove club has been somewhat shy of q quorum at ho inter in fact breaking the record. Hon. Stieb M. Clarke is away much, T his legislature duties, Dactor Wales mas run largely. to his being "out o nishts. professionslly Edwm C- shelton has had the grip and con- -inued ailments. Pun Agent French has had colds and things that made him afraid to go out in the dark and stch some more. Historian Renoud has often taken to bed, in the gloam- ing John Andrews has been work ing overtime in studying up spring wall paper and paints and members Lord, Benedict, Lester. Selleck Eeardsefy and others, have had nights when they never cared to wander from their own fireside. But Presi- dent Burr has not scored a miss, of the amen hench.
 Your real farmer-as far as dam age 70 his crops goes-as we'll as others. does not see much need of having bounties on foxes. As rule the fox does but little injury in his predatory rounds. Now and then ne makes of with chickens but not many. The fox is a scavenger of grain fields and meadows, killing the ground mole, farm pest He atso catches other rodents. What must now come-owing to their increase and trespass-is a bounty on wood chucks. These animals are destruc- tive to a great many things in kitch- en gardens. Their depredations go on everywhere. they not being too shy of coming in thickIy settled places. Also they do great damage to growing and ripened crops in farm fields and in the tearing up of mead ows. to dig their holes.
 Now that the almanac spring has arrived. a number of Monroe rest dents with large houses, are figuring it out that this has been the longest winter ever. it being five months this week. since snow and ice came around. with attending cold. Fur than that Several say they have broken the record in burning coal TT wood and some have had to, or will res-ock this month to carry them along to the days when furnaces are shut down. Rev. H. s. Habershani. :,t the rectory and H. !. Lord, who use a large heating system, say that coal has just simply melted away this winter. The former figures it that this season he has burned a consider 2 bIe worth. of more than s100 and Nr- Lord is a close second. And it is not safe to put country furnace s,ff of the job before along in May.
 For a number of years SamueI Hurd has sawed and sold tG order stove length firewood. mostly and about the Center, this has afforded q great deal of accommodation. His F,9ITrfla~ers will regret to know that h.. wi'l probably withdraw from the business this year. as the supply on his own and fathers property is giv- i-g out.
 T F Mrosko is still greatly Der cssved over the untimeiy death last D.cnth of his young son. The lad vas bright and apt and of much help tc his father with farm work. The fcther. not reconciled to his loss is .-aanew hat considering the selling of fis large property and returning to -isc city to live again. unless he should .;ie~oveT that rarity. a good hired i,zn.
 Wesley BeardsIey of the Center. a-.swers tho call of the west and leaves for that section this week
 topping on the way n visit his sis ;,- in New York and mother and relatives in Chicago. He goes to the vicinity of Yellowstone Park. Wyorl- ing. where he will be engaged in rcme employment there, at a large hotel. catering mainly to tourists.
 Some of the main highways of the [ wn are now getting into the usual nad condition incidental to the thaw ,f spring. Tn and about the Center she roads are fairly good, but else v-aerc, oyer the routes taken by heavy cams hauling timber and railroad -ies. the going is getting 10 be some hing fierce.