The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-07
BEDDING

Bedding, Dec. 7-The seven acres of wild land at the east of Sunset Hill which has stood on the tax abstracts for generations as the property of the Drew heirs were sold for back taxes at the town house last Saturday morning. In the levy upon the prop erty' charges were cited only as far back as 1896, records of charges ante- dating this time not being discover aple. Neither was there discOverable any of the Drew heirs. The taxes With interest and lien charges amount. ed to S5O.79 and the costs brought the total obligation to. be satisfied up to SS5.65. When Collector Duncan made formal offer of the property, Attorney F. B. Peck of Bridgeport representing commodore Luttgen, offered exactly that sum and after further bids had been vainly solicited from the two or clared the property sold. The coIlec- tor has in the works proceedings for the sale of twelve or fifteen other real estate parcels to, satisfy taxes long overdue. Some of these parcels will not realize enough to meet the obli- gations.
 After the Hill artesian well at the center had been sunk to a depth of apout '45O feet a fair flow of water was produced and work on the job suspended
 Henry Cooke, who has been in charge of the Storrs College experi- mental farm 'at Georgetown since it i was established, has been transferred to another of the college farms in the lower part of the county. A course or lectures on agricultural subjects has been arranged for this winter at the Georgetown farm It was at first intended to charge admission to these h11t f1rn ,oI, fha off of Secretary Plump of the Protective League the management decided to make them free The lectures would have larger attendance and there fore an increased usefulness if they were given at the public hall in GeorgetoWn or better still if given in different sections of the town. In view of the sunken and insecure con- dition of the floor of the town house, it would hardly be prudent to wish disaster by holding any of the series in that building.
 known mason, died at her home in Hopewell on Saturday. About two months ago she suffered an apopletic shock which caused her to fall and resulted in the fracture of her collar bone. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon with interment in the Ridge cemetery. Rev. MT. Boone of the
  vices.
 The selectmen, at their next meet ing, will appoint a tree warden in conformity with the new law. c. H. Plump was chosen to the office at the October election under the former law, which was supposed to be still in effect, but his election does not count.
 William F. Claflin, the purchaser of the Arthur. J. Todd place, will occupy the property about New Years. He is an architect and has planned to make a number of alterations in the house. The family will occupy the place the year around.
 The pupils of the Hill Academy, which has been made a higher grade of the public school system, are study ing local history using as their chief guide Charles Burr Todd's History of Redding.''
 The brooder house which Herbert Barnes is adding to his already large poultry plant is 125 by 25 feet. He in- tends to build in the spring '1ay- ing'' house 300 feet in length. The big flock of Leghorns which MT. Barnes raised last summer are be- coming productivel-in the matter of eggs yielding about four dozen daily. MT. Barnes has purchased the team of fine working horses which belonged to the late James Mcdonald
 The water tank in the cellar of the main house of the Sanford school burst on Monday, causing much in- convenience until plumbers from Dan bury could repair the damage.
 A talk by MT. WaldrUn of the Con- necticut Experiment Station on the spraying of fruit trees and one by State Forester Samuel S. Spring on forest conservation interested good sized audience in the town hall last Go of+ ho fir1r yxyoQ Q brought about by the Protective Lea que. Few of those present realized that apple trees had so many insect enemies until those pests were pictur- ed on the screen. MT. Waldron said that most of the old and unproductive orchards could be brought into bear ing by spraying and pruning although some were so far gone as to be past redemption. Owing to new plantings the State had more apple trees than ever before and in general the young orchards were receiving closer and more intelligent care than had been given their predecessors. That spray ing paid had been so fully demon strated as to be beyond question. Con- necticut apples were superior in fla vor to the much wanted fruit grown on the upper Pacific coast and there was no reason why with better culti- vation and methods of packing the
 
 high prices as the fancy Oregon ap- ples At cost of about $30 there could be provided a spraying machine of the barrel type to be worked by hand which was adequate for all or- dinary needs MT. Waldron also told how necessary was spraying to save the elm trees from destruction by the beetle which preyed upon them New Haven, which had lost many of her noble elms from this enemy sprayed the remaining six Or seven thousand last summer with a twelve horse pow CT sprayer at cost per tree of g cents. Most towns, however, would probably find it more economical to hire the work. done by priva'e firms. This could be done where there were from 150 to 200 trees to be treated at a cost of about $1 per tree. In des- cribing, the hand treatment for elms and other trees which is designed to prevent the passage up the trunks of of the egg laying pests, the speaker said that there should be a layer Of cotton batting under the bands.
 MT Spring, in opening his lecture. said that while the word conservation had different meanings for different persons it really meant the misuse of our natural resources as disting- uished from the recklessly wasteful use which had too much prevailed in the past. A valuable asset of every