Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-08
COUNTY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE DATA
 By DIRECTOR MURRAY D. LINCOLN

duties connected with the orchard and are making several hundred dollars per year out of the proposition. If other boys can do it why can't ours? We firmly believe that they can.
 National Dairy Show.
 On the 24th of this month, a New England special train leaves Boston at 4:00 D. m. for the National Dairy Show at Chicago. This is meeting that every cattle breeder, milk producer, milk dealer, milk inspector health Of ficial- ice cream dealer and agricultur- al official should attend. From all re- ports it is worth anybody's time and money to take in this grand exhibition of dairy cows and every thing con Eected with the industry, as their va cation. Ideas may be gained there that are available nowhere else.
 The cost of the round trip ticket l from Boston is only s39.65. from Springfield, s36.50. Rooms can be se- \ cured at low prices during the show, The tickets are good for return till the 4th of November since the special train only runs out and each person ar | ranges his return for himself. The tcou1ty agent is ready to secure pass age for any and all or to supply fur | ther information. It needs at least a
 hundred persons in order to get the special train and all who possibly can go from Connecticut should taken this
 splendid opportunity.
 | Our Ultimate Aims.
 Now that the County League has been in operation some six months the question comes to lot of minds as
 to what it is really driving at. The age agent mas has been answering-cells here ana there all over the county While | perhaps these calls render some in- l dlv1dual aid nevertheless at the end | of the year their effect is not going to
 be very apparent except in the appre- c1ation of the recepient Our ultimate aim must be something larger and broader in it's scope than this individ- | ualistic idea and that something is the | organization of all the agricultural
 forces into one big movement which has for its purpose the advancement
 of all agricultural interests
 big results are to follow this
 movement 1t must be through organ
 ization. The central organization is
 the New London County Improvement
 League. Then local coordinate or
 ganizations will be formed in every
 township or community., In some
 places the grange if it is well estab-
 lished and in good working order will
 suffice. If others local agricultural societies will be formed. Then the agent will do the business in CO.,
 operation with the president or leader of that society. Much of the success
 or this county agent work depends on
 the development of local leadership and 1t Is to these. leaders that we look for help in carrying out the plan. With these we'll established the county agent=will go from organization to organization, visiting those who have filed requests with their local of ? fees. These local organizations can . buy anything from a lime spreader to carload of grain together; they can arrange for lectures by various agri- cultural experts and local growers, etc. they can ask for an receive state aid , in time of necessity as for instance a
 raid of the army worm or similar
 calamity, and in all they can take the , needed step toward the organization of the farmers who represent the larg- est unorganized branch of industry ifi existence today. . Soon notices win be sent out Tor
 meetings in the various towns and communities. Every farmer should read the papers to keep posted. on tho doings of the League and be sure to : be at these meetings for sooner or later we want every farmer to be-
 come affiliated with, this movement which is sure to be of great benefit
 to himself as well as to the conmun-
 ity in which he lives. .--
 Meeting at Jewett City,
 On Friday evening of this week at
 o'clock the League is to hold a meet
 ing in the town hall at Pachaug, and
 it is hopend that every farmer in, the
 Ilefghborhood will be on hand to listen
 to the talks.
 The county agent will give a talk on
 the projects of the League at since
 the cooperative buying has been start
 ed and is soon to be carried to other
 products it is of vital interest to all
 farmers who have any stock to feed
 whatever.
 ed Dairy Extension man from the
 Connecticut Agricultural College is to
 give 8 talk on the possibility of COW
 testing association in New London
 County and also some points on the
 economical feeding of your dairy COWS.
 These are subjects that should inter-
 est all, its to your advantage to bs
 there. 1 Fall PIowin.
 Sl As soon as the harvest is over, start 2 your teams to blowing and keep at it z as long as the frost holds out of the i. ground. Work is stacking up n>,w and !, 1t Is a good tune to get ahead on next , springs work. In spite of all that Is
 being said about this practise very , little is being done in the county. The
 terms of Spring rush" would lose s half their terror if the farmers would . make use of the spare moments dur ing the fall and winter.
 g Cooperative Buying. : This week sees the second article being bought for the farmers CO., operatively. This is a carload of ap- ; pie barrels. Although this carload is . l iIOI all IdKen III one AOcdIlIy, neVerLI1S- less the price obtained by buying to-
 gether in carload lots permits the re- shipment of these barrels to vvarfous T points in the county and then save on what the cost would be to the snaH buyer. This is only the beginning Of
 the articles which the agent hopes to get the people of the county together to by comparatively.
 , Feeding the WindfaII Apples. There are bushels of apples that will go to waste this year under the trees which, if fed to the stock would con i, sumne them with much profit. Properly fed they are excellent feed for mills cows, hogs and horses. Many indi7 : viduals claim that they are certainly worth more to feed to the stock than to make into cider which has very limited market and generally at g. very cheap price. One man from Massachusetts reports very fayorably , in their use. He says. "I have proved;
 the actual value of apples for dairy,
 stock by actual experiments About four quarts were given each COW for
 the first few feeds until they became | accustomed to them Then the amount