The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-11

l year, leaving the balance above the $1, ,O00 to be raised by subscription. The undertaking is one distinctly within
 the province of the Grange and will
 probably be taken up in earnest at i the orders next quarterly gathering. Aside from the failure referred to last weeks meeting was highly successful,
 about 175 being in attendance.
 As soon as Sanford H. Osborn finishes
 his state road job in New Fairfield,
 which will probably be within week, he is to start work on the contract he has taken for the construction of about. a mile of state highway from IGeorgetoWn westward toward Bedding Center. About $7,00o is available for the improvement. The road is to be of the stone base and gravel top type. The section to be built is in shock ingly bad condition, having been who'll ly neglected last year and also this season. There are many complaints about the delay in repairing the state road across the Ridge which is in very bad shape between Bpiscopa1 church corner and the Five Points This comes largely from the failure to spread properly before it was rolled the top dressing put on last fall. The culverts are now being overhauled, which is probably the first step to- wards general repairs. The state highway department has promised that the road will be oiled again this sea son.
 One of the small colony houses com prised in H. s. Barnes extensive poul- try plant on the Ridge was destroyed by fire last Thursday afternoon, causs ing a. loss of about $50. It was one of a group of many wooden buildings and had the. wind been from another direction all would have been serious ly endangered. MT. Barnes present poultry family includes about 5000 young chickens matched this year in I7f= sists of a large building devoted en-
 tire1y to that purpose. Last season there was great mortality among chicks in this section, especially those diarrhoea, but so far this year the dis ease has been much less prevalent. The
 best remedy for or rather preventive against the disease is said to be the feeding of sour skim milk.
 Everyone knows the crows evil
 propensity for digging up and de- vouring newly planted c8rn. but to
 most people it will probably be new information that the same pesky bird ig sometimes equally destructive as regards potatoes. For two or three seasons past they have ravaged Jacob sprouts appeared above ground. This season he thought he would fool the I fnnarauders by leaving no signs to l show where the seed had been plant
 
 ground with q marker to locate the
 rows he made use of a string. and
 also forbores to sssHat'' with his hoe the places where the seed was drop ped. It was no use The crows To-
 cated the buried tubers just the same and after exhuInfng them left only 1.-the skins.
 The suggestion that the holiday breaks tn the rural delivery service be avoided by the signment to duty on these days of the deputy in place of the regular carriers would not
 work out successfully in the case of the Bethel postoffice, for the reason
 that there are not deputies enough to go around. Three routes are covered 1 from that office and for the three
 there is at present only one. deputy When the rural delivery was first established deputy as well as regu-
 lar appointments were in great de- rand but now no one seems to want 1 the1n. The postmaster would like to keep the places filled, but the in 1 ducements are seemingly insufficient to attract applicants.
 The twenty-ffth annual convention fof the Minnesota Bankers Association
 opened at Minneapolis.