Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-03
Improvement League at the County
 Fair,

Fair.
 The improvement league will be rep at the county fair this year l with a booth in the northern part of | the main hall. Here we will have some l results of our experiment plots and exhibitions purDC-ing to show the lines that the county agent is taking up and t.OlnS in inc county.
 The county fair is an organization for the farmers of the sur country and as 1t Is the leagues purpose to have its works bet ter known and to become acquainted with all the farmers and ultimately to have them all enrolled as its mem bers, the county agent will be on hand to answer all questions and meet any who seek advice or information. It is hoped that at this time those farm CTS who have not already become ac- quainted with us will make a point to call at the booth and spend a few moments. It will be a grand good time to make arrangements for calls and other meetings. Doubtless many farmers throughout the county are ready to join the league and at that time subscriptions for memberships will be taken. We cordially invite our own friends to come in and hope to meet many new ones-
 Cooperative Lime Buying.
 Announcement in a recent issue of the papers as to DuylHS llIIic lIliS leii together has brought several replies, but not enough to secure as large a shipment as hoped for. Very attrac- tive prices have been secured in com parison with the prices when lime IS bought in small quantities and by In dividuals. If all orders are in by this week Friday the lime will be deliv- cred inside of a week.
 All business will be done on a cash basis, through an organization known as the New London County Farmers Exchange All money will be handled by the Uncas National bank which has kindly consented to serve as medium through which to carry on the trans actions. Checks will be made pay able to this account and money de- posted to the same and upon the mo- tifieation from the bank that such an amount of money is on deposit in its keeping the order will be sent to the concern. This will greatly facilitate matters and keep the handling of the money out of the Leagues hands. This method will be followed out in all the buying transactions that are car ried on.
 Farm Survey Work to Start. Before the end of another week the county agent hopes to start the farm survey work with the help of H. F. Reyes. who has been appointed by the United States government to work 
 nection. That the work may be fully understood in order to facilitate mat ters and have all enter in with his cooperation a word of explanation IS given here.
 Every farm is an experiment sta ton and every farmer the director | thereof" The collection and correla- | tion of the results secured from the actual experiences and experiments of the farmers will give us most val uable lot of information. Such in | formation secured by observation or a stranger or from few farmers would | not probably be very accurate; but ii | large numbers of experiences are | studied by statistical methods, reliable results will follow. Many farmers at | tribute their success to the wrong | thing This is to be- suspected since | so many factors go to make up either success or failure. Success may pe attributed to the manner of feeding the dairy cows when as matter o1 fact the cows are not paying at all and it may be the hay crop or pota- toes or the wood that is cut from the farm each year that brings the farmer out ahead. Failure may be laid to the soil when in reality the real difficulty is that the wrong type Of farming IS being attempted. By studying large number of farms the real reasons ano their relative importance usually stano out clearly It is in other words putting the farmers business doWT in black and white and in many cases before tabulation is undertaken the Itroubles of the farmer can be easily seen
 It is designed to determine what the difficulties are in the way Of soil Ter tility, crop difficulties, market condr- tions. to determine what systems o1
 farming are paying best and to en- able us to make suggestions for the
 betterment of the agriculture Of the
 region. -
 Such questions as the following vii
 he asked: The value of the land anC the buildings machinery, stock, etc.
 on hand The acreage and yield o each crop in 1918 and amounts solo and the receipts. The amount of milk
 eggs. fruit and such sold between Apri
 1. 1913 and April l. 1914 The ex- penses for labor. seed, feed. fertilizer
 machinery. threshing, silo filling, etc.
 during this same time.
 It should be remembered that al
 replies will be strictly confidential. Int
 information that you and others give
 will be used in making up the final re-
 port on the general conditions of farm
 ing in your town, but the replies o
 individuals will not be published
 without their consent. The work ha: nothing to do whatsoever with tht
 taxes or assessments, so you may give actual cash values with no fear tha
 they will ever be repeated. It is fol
 the purpose of an agricultural study and if the figures are not as near cor rect as possible the whole work VII
 count for naugFt.
 An example of the value of these
 surveys was brought out yesterday. 4
 man from one of our neighborins