Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-18
BoRoUGH's POPULATION
Not Always Correctly stated-Fiqures Give Wrong Impression, When Brooklyn is Not Included.


 In many ways that the majority of Danieison people do not realize this borough is suffered to lose prestige on account of the population rating it re- ceives in many publications that are consulted for information about the place by people who are strangers to 1t, but, for various business reasons, want to know the number of inhab- itants here.
 The population figures published are correct, but they give no inkling that across the Quinebaug bridge on what is known as the West Side-in the town of Danielson, but to all practical purposes as much a part of Danielson as Broad or Hawkins streets CT the Westfield section-there are about 1,500 more people. Ask any one or all of them where they live and each will answer 1Danielson." This is true even though it isn't
 Danielson is their home. They at tend church on the Killingly side, get their public utilities service of water and lighting from Danielson corpora l tions, do their trading there, receive | their mail at the Danielson office and are as much and as valuable to Dan | ielson as Danielson is to them. Only a bridge over a narrow ribbon of water and a legally made line of division, not | visible in a sense, but potent, separates | them. And yet on account of the pop | ulation figures that all strangers must consult when they want to know about l Danielson these 1,500 people are not accredited to Danielson, which suffers | thereby. No one who does not know ever takes account of the Brooklyn fire district, the official title of the West Side, as being a part of Daniel | 1Ot, I IL borough limits.
 Danielson people who find state ments of the borough's population are toften surprised when they see the i figures given for the third largest place in the whole county.
 Value of County Fruit Crops.
 recently issued government publi- cation has the following relative tc the value of fruit crops in Windham county:
 Apples have been an important cror for a great many years, but the indus try was badly crippled during the period when the farms were abandon ed or neglected. Trees that were healthy and bearing well soon became diseased and dwarfed, and the fruit became inferior and ceased to bring a profitable price. In 1860 the value ot the orchard products was s52.320. Ir 1870 it was $33,250, and in 1880 it was S14.d32. Undoubtedly there was a marked decrease in the output of the orchards covering this period, but nc definite conclusions can be drawn from the figures.
 The fact that the value of orchard products in 1909 was s45.455 indicates the revival of interest taking place ir the line of horticulture. though here tagafn the important fact of season in- Huence may mask the true increase ir productive orchards
 The total acres in farms in the county in 1890 was .24s.519, of whict 151,117 acres were improved. Int census of 1900 showed 27a,711 acres ir farms, with only 1e2.709 acres i'm. proved. a decrease of 4s,S7s acres 1T improved lands iR a period of ter years. There has apparently been z further decrease of lands in farms anC in the proportion of improved land, tn, figures as returned by the census O 1s16 being 241,277 and ss,s45, respec lively. A difference in the opinion O
 the farmers making the returns as t. l; what constitutes improved land may il ] part account for the marked decreas in this item.