Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-15
COMMODORE PLANTS MODEL FARM
Perfection in Proucyeness Aim at the Big Eastern Point x Farm--Sterling Mil kProducers in His Herds-About 1,4oO Quart. of Milk DaiIy-11 ooo Hens-Modern Fa- ciities in Every Department

There are quite a few model farms in New England, and one or two or them are in Connecticut, but Branloro Farms, the highly organized estate or Commodore Morton F. Plant, does nol need to take a back seat to any ot them. It is worth a visit, or, III aaeS a good many visits, from the man III terested in seeing the acme CT eastern ttsal farming. Of course, it is not aIlether Oalryple farm, like the big 77'Veo, acre proposition In North Dakota; put the $50 acres that Supt. R. H. Ortez mas to look after are trained down to a pom where nothing can be desired III the way of productiveness.
 May Send Berkshire Pigs to Fair.
 President Arthur D. Lathrop and Treasurer Frank w. Brewster Of the New London County Agreeullurai sot ciety, who put in the afternoon II Branford Farms Friday did n | see the whole of it, They wanted. 1a ost part, to look over the ores stock-he has little ove -lead, the cattle foreman, Morra tnson. told them-and they wantcG. too, to see if they could get some Of the Plant animals for the Norwich fair in Sep teuiber MT Ortez did not give them a positive promise that he would have his farm represented, but he told the delegation, from Norwich, which in cluded R. c. P1aut and the society s advertising man, that he thought he might be able to ship several BerS- shire pigs to Norwich. The piggeries are in East Lyme, on farm near the Plant game preserve. Branford Farms will send two carloads of stock, or about 25 or 30 head, to Charter Oak fair, which opens the same day Nor wich opens.
 'sWhy don't you shift your dates and then we can give the preference to the ,kxv2y zl- {AoD oT1+ intendent.
 Hartford got our dates-we didn't get theirs" said the Norwich presi- dent We've had the same dates for years. Charter Oak did not have the first call. They butted in on us, not we on them"
 There is reason to believe Branford Farms will be represented. MT. Ortez agreed to look over the list of stock booked for Charter Oak. He is glad the New London county fair is in tie hands of progressive men that will push it, and he told MT. Plaut that ne noticed the. Norwich exhibition is be ing liberally advertised.
 Got to do it," said Plaut. This is the day when you've got to go to the people. not sit at home and suck your thumbs and expect them to come to you"
 Cattle Foreman Johnson is a ready man to talk. He is a Scotchman, with long memory for anything that inte-- ests him and a ready wit that makes him companionable to visitors. His barns are open all day to people that wish to visit them. The Norwich party got to the place just in time for the 2 45 milking. The morning milking is al 4.45, just after the cows, turned out by the night watchman at at night get back to their stalls
 Milking by Machinery.
 The milking is mostly by machinery The devices in the Ayrshire -Guernsey barn are nine in number, and Mir Johnson has 12 men. The patent milk CT takes all the teats at once, and i gets all the milk, which is then weigh. ed, strained through cheesecloth ant cotton. and sent to the bottling plant
 How much milk a day?" is tn, question MT. Johnson gets, first cracl out of the box, from the visitor
 About 1.400 quarts a day is wha we aim to produce" said the boss o the barns. That is quite a lot, but w get rid of it all, and very often we wisl that We had more. Fully one-half o 1t all is taken by the hotel, and thel the demands of the mansion, wher there is. of course, big force of hel and much entertaining, are very large.
 The chief accountant at the farm ot flee added that there are lots of time when they could sell much more butte at gilt edge figure if they had it.
 Ayrshire Guernseys.
 In the Ayrshire Guernsey barn ar S6 of the handsomest cows on the con tinert. There are five Ayrshire bull. Neither Good Time is as good as an of them. He is six years old. son C Neither Craig Spicy Sam and Importe Bell. Of the COWS, Jenina, one of tn first animals the Norwich party stop ped to admire, is 50 pound a day GOV Lady Florence, Redhill Nameles Charm and Brown Hill Snowdrop ar away up high among the Plant milk CTS. Fatinanza, a great nilch COW this barn. gave 16,o00 pounds of mil last year and made in the neighborhoo of 800 pounds of butter.
 One Hundred Calves.
 At present MT. Johnson has at lea: 100 calves. Several of the pretty littl fellows, Holsteins, Guernseys and Ayr shires, are in a building close by th larger COW barn. Most of the bu calves are sold. Every good heifs is likely to be kept. but when the CO boss finds calf badly marked it killed and sent over to the mansion, 3 a general thing.
 The smaller barn, which has nothiu but Guernseys, was also visited, an