The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-18
BEDDING
Another Big Artificial Lake is Being Constructed on Estate of Com. m0dOre Lutfgen at Sun.
 set Hill
Protective League to Illustrate Possibili ties of Scientific Corn Grow. ing in Vicinity of
 Bedding

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 Bedding, April 1S.-Another arti- ficial lake is to be created by Com modore Luttgen on his estate on Sun set Hill. It will cover about 15 acres and is to be located short distance | above his other lake of 171A acres. A canal will connect the two sheets of water. Blasting and other work in connection with the building of the new dam has been in progress for several days. From 40 to 50 men are employed on the job which is being done by the same contractor who built the dam for the present lake. Mrs. Dorothy Williams of Sunset Hill died on Saturday at the home of her daughter in Mt. Vernon, aged S7 years. She had been in failing health for some time from the ailments in- held Monday morning with interment in the Ridge cemetery. Rev. MT. Boone, rector of the Episcopal church, officiated. John and David Williams, sons of the deceased lady, are moving from Sunset Hill to a farm at Chat ham, N. Y., which they recently pur- chased. Their sister and brother-in- law will remove from Mt. Vernon and live with them in their new home. To stimulate local interest in bet ter methods of corn growing the Pro- tective League has arranged with the corn day on Friday, May 3rd. Speci- mems of field corn grown in Bedding are desired for testing and judging and to aid in this work the League asks the farmers to send sample ears of the best corn grown by themselves or their neighbors to MT. Treadwen at the Gilbert Farm before April 23rd. These samples will be tested for ger imitation and should be accompanied by the name of the variety and the name and address of the sender. As the notice sent out by the League says portant crops and of late years it's local acreage has shown a steady in crease.
 In 3 year or two the ten or twelve acre pond on the farm of Attorney A. | l.. Livermore should be a paradise for the devotee of the rod and reel, hav- ing been just stocked with more than 2,000 young trout most of which are from four to six inches long. A sec ond batch of 500 arrived last Friday, being the duplicate of the earlier con- signment. On Tuesday there was re- 1000 and yesterday there arrived the fourth and final consignment The latter are Rainbow trout and came from Maine. Upon reaching Bridge port they were at once transferred to a waiting auto and hurried to their destination. Of the entire lot of trout about 150 are of fully a pound weight each.
 At the annual meeting of the Red ding Tree Conservation Association held last Saturday A. l.. Livermore George s. Banks, J. w. Teets, Her were reelected directors for the en- suing year. They will soon meet to choose officers. The treasurer's re- port showed that the association was out of debt, having fully paid for it's two gasoline power sprayers, and had balance of $40 in the treasury. This spring the machines have sprayed up ward of 1000 trees. The association has therefore been a success although in it's formative stage it underwent the derision and knocking process which seems to be the lot of all en- terprises in the nature of progressive innovations. Some of the criticisms were to the effect that the spraying liquid would drop on the grass and poison the browsing live stock and that it would also poison the honey bees. Besides the project was doom ed to financial failure. "It is naught, it is naught," said these wise critics, and furthermore it is rank foolish ness generally and a throwing away of money" These wise ones proved to be entirely wrong while the value of the work done by the association puted to old orchards that were near ing the final stage of decay and in the comparative absence of interior worms from apples that were pro- duced last season by the trees which had received a second spraying. The to the scale and in some instances virtually eliminated that destructive pest.
 First Selectman Charles Sanford called upon Governor Baldwin in Hartford on Tuesday and presented a petition favoring the appointment of J. Arthur Sherwood of Easton as a member of the State board of agri- culture on which there is vacancy. The Governor gave no assurances in regard to his choice. MT. Sanford also tried to get an interview with gard1ng State road construction here, but the commissioner was away.
 New York parties were in negotia- tion with P. M. Brotherton this week for the purchase of his residence and farm at the Center. A bargain was virtually struck, although not formal ly. The same parties also looked over the Williams property on Sunset Hill.
 On Tuesday Mrs. Ellen Brady sold her property on the west side, con- SiSting of house and 12 acres, to Glendolin Mikklensen of New York. The purchaser, who is brother in- law of pr. Deming, will make over the house.
 A report that Mrs. Thomas Lackey of Sunset Hill was one of the victims of the lost steamship Titanic. happily proved to be unfounded. She was re- turning from England but came by another. steamer and reached home safely Or Monday
 Julius Rifkin has rented his place above Jump Hill to a resident of Washington, Conn.,, and will remove to New York.
 Owing to the rain there was an at tendance of only about 50 at the whist held Saturday evening under the auspices of the Bedding fire de- partment. It was, however, a very pleasant affair with a financial bal ance on the right side. The depart ment will give a dance this evening at the same place, the Sanford School gymnasium.
 Bishop Johnson of South Dakota officiated at Christ Episcopal church last Sunday morning in the capacity of substitute for Bishop Brewster, who has insufficient time to personally perform all his duties.
 H. G. Bodine of West Nutley, N. J., has rented for the summer the resi- dence of Dora Read Goodale at the Center.
 Prof. John Ward Stimson and wifes returned last week from a ten days trip to Tennessee.
 A, weeks mission conducted at the