Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-15

here one of the nilkers gave the men from Norwich a chance to stick thelr fingers into the electric milker.
 Feels just like a politicians hand T shake-soft and loose" said a man who has held an office or two and whose ac- Quaintance with men of political preol- lections has been considerable. The contact does not hurt, but you are not exactly prepared for the kind or a sensation you get when your fingers slip for the first time into the business end of the electric milker.
 Takes Pride in the Cattle.
 The barns at Branford Farms are kept sweet and clean. The owner likes his stock. and he never fails to take his guests through the barns person. ally. On such tours he hates to ind anything dirty or out of place. MT Johnson says his dozen men work pretty hard in the morning hours, but in the afternoon, when things have been made shipshaDe, he lets them re- lax little. The milking of the S6 cows in the big barn is a sight not soon to be forgotten. It would not go badly in the moving pictures.
 The name and number of each regis tered COW is over the stall in plain blue letters, and he that runs may read.
 Have Many Visitors.
 All the Plant employees on the big farm are courteous fellows. They have a deal of company, and they admit they generally enjoy showing people around on a day when there is nothing extra doing The roads are in fine shape, ty of shade. There isn't any white wash on Branford Farms, but there are hundreds of yards of white paint, and everything in the building line is spick and span. All the refuse is drained into one tank and from that tank a thTea a-pUiinda1~ thrnVVinQ at least 100 gallons a minute shoots it away, via a 10-inch pipe, to a part of the farm where fertilizer is needed.
 There are at least 11,000 hens at Branford Farms, but these will not be shown at any fairs this fall. The call for chicksn, from the hotel and lne mansion and the cottages and the help, is. quite naturally, something enor- nous.
 The storehouse is PTS feet long and 1 75 feet wide, divided into 10 sections. There is a perfect avalanche of crack i ed corn ground for the poultry depart ment every day. The machine was at | work yesterday too early for the Nor wich visitors to get line on its op- erations by actually seeing it, but the man. vouchsafed the information that five tons had. been ground in about six hours. The feed is all put up n | bags of uniform size, and they fill one i section of the StorehouSe to the raft CTS. All the storehouse floors are ce- ment
 800 Yards of Henhcuses.
 The henhouses stretch along for about 800 yards and they are sur rounded by yards that cover at least 100 acres. Superintendent Rivers Of the poultry department has his own office and his own clerk, and every thing there, as elsewhere on the | c-OIIT1dS is lnnEad af
 matic manner. A spur track from the
 main line of the New Haven road at
 Midway permits the unloading of a car l of grain at the side doors of the store house.
 Superintendent ortez Busy Man. Superintendent Ortez, who has tC
 look after everything in a general way
 is busy man from early in the morn
 ing until late at night, and often h, is about the big farm, or at the farm
 office, when the help, with the excep
 tion of the night watchman, hay, knocked off for the day He spin
 around the place in a high poweret touring car, driven by his own chauf , feur. Often the superintendent is hard man to find. but he is well in
 formed and affable when you do fin him. He was reported in severa places Friday afternoon before tn
 Norwich party got him rounded UT
 They chased him in their car from tn
 big COW barn to the storehouse. iron the storehouse to the poultry farm. an had about given MT Ortez up as 2. ha !. job when they finally met him comin back from Groton ferry. He told ther { he was glad they liked the Plant plac, 1 and he invited them to come again. a well as to go to East Lyme to see tn pigs and about 50 head of stock tn :. commodore has there.