Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-02

Smith bragging him.
 don't say that all the farmers of New London and Windam counties could raise pork of sort profit Some not built for pig growers Just as some couldn't make others who could pigs for this Norwich market That sin weight of pounds and paying average o 10 cents pound them have of the Chicago raised twenty-five miles of abattoir That's very tidy money would have helped everybody concerned it could have been kept ome circulate where it be- longed If had been paid local farmers would have wholesale merchant countless fortaby in factory would have every bank But that Chicago has clutched It, how much o will Con- A man with one cow can pig cheaply. know of one farmer over in Eastern New York; who has two hundred and raises hundred at good ground rye in sknn keep the pigs growing Then when the first cool weather comes he shades off his ration gradua meal exclusively and freely His market allows him eeway for hogs now being dressed
 200 lbs bran. .........s3oo
 Add $500 for the value of the weES9d a & pe m n raises s his fattened hemand he has 22pound hog at cost of so63, he heP bI % e ne td fr T 9 gor sd 'q i e b @ w "9T Th labor involved estimate for himself If the farm besides keeping also raises his the actual fattening the pores may further man makes double profit charges pig $40 hun hred for the meal fed it. he the hmsea profit Two years ago N. H. Brewer of Hockanum, the ona prize for corn by growing I35 3 bushels o seed eon raised at profit at loss Nor does it matter for what
 
 eght-rowed flint old Connecticut land in old Connecticut Pearley A. Davis, Massachusetts, another big przevnner this We avens been apt to think of these New England corn-growing But here's Connecticut beating the whole United States comprehension Prof L. A. Cn corn in about S busheis Did you know that the of Kansas for the past has been it's average bushels whatn heavens would you call Connecticut with its of bushels and it's pig-ran whom spoken above raises than SI4o hundred when he sells it pork There ea thousand acres between Waterford and Woodstock which chuses good share of that quartermlion dollars for Chicago ought to sta in them in return for the corn and pork which they might and should raise
 GOOD SHEEP GROWING COUNTRY. The Unable Rocky and Brushy Pastures Will Produce Nut
 Wool.
 Pork is only product which the markets of the ties call for and which the producers them could supply but don't There others The dairy interests including milk and butter production perhaps well developed of the strictly farm industries But good deal might be done in the sheep lne wherever stray dogs be kept from killing the focs Much of the land of New London and Windham h1y rocky wooded These areas unpowabe and which furnish but pasture cow chosen banquet tables for sheep The wooy will leave good grass, any time chew weeds bushes Eliminating the loss liable from dogs they care by cheaper fencing liable generally know how take of themselves least all through the and fall and farther the than any other domestic animals There IS and always will be de- mand for wool; there and always will be demand for prices which specuators low comparison with those charged by the butchers and the
 
 wool where the flock be kept of the year otherwise scrub land
 Moreover flock of sheep always pays the fam every year. almost much other ways they pay the money for wool The which they make their sheds ing winter easily worth double load for load other made on the farm Not only has sheep high value because of the panood but that food usually n available forn easily accessible the rooe and better proporoned for promoting uxurian growth The which sheep leave during the and fall their enrichment those able hills If of their ed they simply unring vegetable scavenge and will 1t almost awnke neatness If such old sheep finally be powed they will generally yield without further maturing, superb crops of potatoes.
 Perhaps sheepfarnng, alone and itself suitable tionably of farms which keep where, side small focks would themselves money would build profitable acreages.
 HEN AND DUCK COUNTRY. What Has Been Done May Be Done With Larger and
 Results.
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