Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-18
FARM MACHINERY FEATURE
OF NEXT COUNTY FAIR
Storrs Exhibit Another New Thing in
Agricultural Soeiety's Plans.

Realizing the important part that
machinery is playing in the farm work
of the present day farmer, the New
London County Agricultural society is
making arrangements to have a big
machinery exhibit at the county fair
this fall.
When our forefathers, with their
rude tools and farm implements, first
titled the virgin soil of this beautiful
land We live in, their struggle was a
titanic battle with the mighty forces
of nature; their descendants in the
present day have a much better chance
as science and invention have stepped
in to make easy their path.
On the broad and fertile prairies
of our mighty west there are seen in
the spring of the year great gasoline
tractors dragging behind them huge
batteries of gang plows and harrOws,
working with shifts of men for the full
"a hours of the day to get the wheat
into the thousands of acres devoted
to this grain in that section Of our
country.
Machinery is coming more and more
ing a thoroughly up-to-the- minute
farm. Although here in New Eng
land there are few farms where the
acreage is so large or so level that the
Operation of blowing and narrowing
can be done with the gasoline tractor
I1Of q IIlClGSSt lIlCI0 are d IIlulllLuu0 OI
machines on the market which will
tighten the farm work, both for the
farmer and his wife. In fact there is
so much machinery in use on the farms
that practical farmer today must
needs be one-third farmer, one-third
business man and one-third machinist
With the perfeCting of the gasoline
engine, it is now possible to secure
a light, serviCeabIe engine at a nom
inal price which will run the cream
separator, fill the siIo after cutting the
ensilage, pump water to the farm
buildings and after working all the day
at these tasks it will turn to at night
with the aid of a, small dynamo fur
nish electricity for lighting the farm
buildings. On big dairy farms they
are even milking the cows with an
electric milking machine.
To those people who have never seen
the working of these farm machines
the exhibition will prove a most in
structive and enlightening lesson in
the march of modern Improvement.
Cement is another material which
is coming rapidly to the fore among
the different things used on the farm
today and one of the largest of the
cement manufactures has already
asked for space for demonstration of
the many uses to which this cOmmod-
ity sadapted for farm use. Cement
has been found to be particularly
adapted for building of farmhouses,
barns. silos. chickenhouses, drinking
trOughs, pigsties, and also fence posts
and steps. So many things that are
necessary about the farm can easily
be made with a few bushels of sand
and a few bags Of cement by the
farmer himself, that this firm, which
a few years ago shipped the bulk of
their output to the cities, now find
nearly a third is being shipped to the
farming districts.
of the fair hope to make a permanent
attraction on their annual programme
is the exhibit Of the Connecticut Elk
detrimental Stations at Storrs and
New Haven. With these displays will
come lecturers who will daily deliver
addresses on farm management and
agriculture.
The various oranges throughout New
London, Windham and TOlland coun-
ties are cooperating with the fair man
agement toward securing the biggest
collection of grange exhibits in COM
peting for the premiums offered by the
society. The premium has been won
for the past two years by the Norwich
grange, but according to letters re-
ceived from the masters of other
oranges, they will have to hustle to
win the prize this year.
Something of circus. something of
market place, something of an eX-
pertinent station, and. above all, some
thing of an education, such, according
to the officials of the Agricultural So
ciety, will prove to be the 61st annual
fair that will be held this fall.