Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-20
AUTO CAVALCRDE TO STORRS
Sixty-two Machines Carrying New London Improvement League Party-Eioms Foot and Flags Wave All Along the Way From Norwich-Visitors See All There is See at States Agricultural College.

and 1,03S pounds of butter in a year, state record The college takes es- pecial pride in her because she was of their own breeding and has a daugh- ter, granddaughter and great grand daughter, all of which show great promise of following the great record of their maternal ancestor. There is another Holstein in the herd that has state record also, 9S.6 pounds of milk in a day.
 American Hens Lead.
 Professor w l.. Kirkpatrick raised the pride of his auditors in hens American when he told them that in the international egg laying contest Tom Barron's English White Wyna- dOtteS had been Supplanted in the lead hy a pen of American White Leghorns
 rom Mt. Carmel, Conn.,, that were eggs ahead of the English birds Tues day night.
 Professor W. l.. Slate of the depart to corn, speaking of seed selection. which the college is working on and of economical rotation of crops for the best advantage of the dairy farm CT experiments with soy beans and alfalfa and corn.
 Professor A. G. Gulley spoke for the department of horticulture.
 Improvement League President. President C. D. Whitman of the Im- provement league commended what he saw in the wonderful improvements | that had been made at the college | since he had been there few years ago. He told his hearers that the | Improvement league was here foI work. with a membership of from 300 | to 400 with room for many more, | Joseph T. Cruttenden chairman oi the Eastern Connecticut Development l committee expressed approval of the | wise expenditure that the state had made at Storrs college and said thai the thing needed now for the busi- ness men to work for was trolley line to the college from WiHimantic
 Auto Trip of Inspection. Il Upon the conclusion of the pro. gramme the autos were boarded
 again for a tour of inspection of thu
 college buildings, led by Professo Il walk, but the extensive layout of tn grounds, made the machines very ac ceptable
 The COW barn with its sleek en,
 contcA ted looking animals in scrupu lousIy clean quarters, and the dair,
 department building with its model ap
 pointments were first visited. Thel
 followed the poultry. department build ing trd tfsf 100 poultry sheds wher the 1000 hens in the egg laying con 1 test were <een.
 The horse barn, fields of alfalfs
 
 , plot were all alike points of attrac tion which were carefully explaine by the staff at the college. Ice cream of the finest quality wa . disposed of at the dairy building an 30 gallons were consumed during tn
 day.
 By four o'clock the visitors wer tready to return to their homes an l the long line of machines departed af ter the profitable day.
 Cars That Went. si Among the 62 automobiles a 5 Storrs were the following: Mayor [ ' c. Murphy T. A Robinson, George F 5 Pratt, E. c. Jewett- Chas. s. Peck
 ham, R. c. Plaut, Henry E. Davis. D l.. P. Walker, Archibald Mitchell, ,. E. Vaughn, Henry F. Ulmer, Hert Bros. H W. Cardwell, Charles
 Fairclough, George H. Loring, Arthu !, D. Lathrop, O. s. Smith, R. H. Ora! f Norwich Business College, C. L. SS"al s W. F. Bogue, Moses Harvey, C, ! = Lathrop, c. E. Wright, Norwich; I l R. Barber, Jewett City; Edward Gee : Lisbon; R. R. Wilde, Jewett City n Ray L. Harding, Lyme; w. C. Ter. ;, Jewett City; Alfred Avery, Mort h Stonington; Frank B. Ricketsoi = Taftviile: s. J. Avery. Bozrah; G. . Alyyn, Waterford; William L. Mai e Mystic; Charles F. Hopkins, PlaiI e field: Thomas Hamilton, Groton; K g Noble, Hartford, pr. J. L. rHarrins e ton, New London; Mrs Lucy e Scholfield. MontviIle; A w. Aver | Uncasville, G. H. Manning, Yan1' = w E. Manning, Yantic; C. l
 Young. TaftviIle; Dr. George ThomI a son. TaftviIle; W. B. Montgomer e Griswold, w L. Lamphere. New LOT = don, Edward T. Smith, Willimanti' n T. w. Avery, Groton; Miss Allie n Bishop, Bozrah; F. IT. Brownin
 Lebanon; J. H. Lathrop, North Franl
 lin; Charles H. Phillips NersailIe'
 AseI DeWolf. Mantle; Francis TcNs = mara. Norwich Town; George A. Dav v ley. VoIuntown; C. A. Benham, J ]. Waterford; F. s. Armstrong. Franl - lin