Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-12-06
GOOD YEAR FOR COUNTY LEAGUE
Shown in Reports Annual Meeting Valuable Aid Given
Agricultural Interests by Improvement League in Its
Second Year-President Whitman Reelected-County
Agent Warner Outlines Plans for Future.

The first of the year H. ]. Baker
took up the work of organizing Farm
ers' leagues in the other seven counties
of the state and to say that he has
| been hustling is putting it mildly, Tor
he now has active bureaus in all the
counties but Tolland. 1t is indeed
pleasing to note that Preston is to
have the first extension school in the
state. the same to be held early in
! January. The extension service of the
| Agricultural college will also given
seven other schools this winter. The
Long Society Community club of Pres
| for a course of stereopticon lectures,
| the first of which has already been
given by A. ]. Brundage, state leader
| of Boys and Girls club work, and 1t
is work and enthupsiasm like this that
| counts.
! Secretary Jewett called attention to
| the first annual conference on county
| farm bureau work and county league
| work, state of Connecticut, to be held
| in New Haven, December Sth, 9th and
| 10th and said that all that can should
attend on the Sth. when some of the
! best authorities in the United States
| who have studied cooperation abroad
| will be heard from. 1 should like to
see this conference held in our own
| county and will recommend to you,
said the secretary. that we at this time
extend an invitation to the state lead
er to hold the next annual conference
| with us.
| County Milk Station.
] Norwich Chamber of Commerce,
| which brought about this very impor-
| tant and constructive work recently
| appointed five bureaus Of 10 members
| each, electing me chairman of their
Agricultural bureau and we have voted
| to lend every possible aid to this
| movement and will this very evening
! hold meeting to listen to a work.
| ing proposition for a milk station for
| Norwich. This is matter which our
improvement league has been consid-
| ering for some time and if conditions
| warrant the establishment of such a
station no doubt the Chamber of
| Commerce will assist the league to OBJ
| tain it.
Why Not Raise More Corn?
l want to see our 81 entry corn
| fair of this year increa sed to ten times
| that number next year and believe it
| can be done. Why not raise nine mill
| lion bushels of corn in Connecticut in
stead of three million bushels? Why
| should we import corn from the Ar
| gentine Republic? 1T is being done
that the County Fair association hold
their annual corn show on the first
| Saturday of December, 1916, in this
| town hall, the same to be held in con-
| nection with our annual meeting. An
other example of cooperation.
Cooperation the Thing.
Today group after group, industry
| after industry, are working together
! in a cooperative way, concluded Sec
| rotary Jewett Cooperative fruit grow
| ers are organized to encourage the
production of a better variety, and
| grade, and to sort and market all that
/ come up to a certain standard, CO.
operative Srain, potato, and tobacco
| warehouses, to store, grade and sell
| these commodities, cooperative milk,
| butter and cheese factories, to make
grade, and sell dairy products, coopera-
! tive contrasting associations to weed
| out poor cows and thus to make or in
| crease profits; cooperative cattle
| breeding associations to improve the
| grade and increase the productivity
and it is a foregone conclusion that
| the farmer that becomes interested in
the above that becomes identified with
| the movement, Is bound to make his
acres produce more. will have better
surroundings, will have more of the
comforts of life, and at the same time
| be more prosperous.
| Friends, it is most gratifying to see
/ the farmer and business men getting
| together; it is a convincing sign that
| the dividing line between towns and
| country is becoming an imaginary one
| In the past when our attention has
| been called to a strinkingly prosperous
| town, it has always been attributed to
| a factory or railroad connection rath-
| er than to dairy herds and broad acres
| Occasionally bright instances stand
| out like guide-posts along an unfre-
| quented way, leads us to hope that in
| the tomorrow that will soon be now
| the prosperity of our cities will be at
| tributed to good farming country
and the cooperation of the town and
| country business men.
In closing, l want to impress upon
| your mind the fact that there is work
: ahead and that while we may seem to
| have accomplished much, we have only
| begun to build, the foundation is bare
! ly laid. Cooperation must be foremost
| in our minds. Call on your agent for
| assistance, do not wait for him to look
you up. And if there are any here
/ who are not members of the New Lon
| don County Improvement league now
| is the time to become a member of this
great movement. Remember, our aim
| Is to unite all organizations and in
| dividualS, farmers, and business men
| into county league of community
| building.
County Agents Report.
In the annual report by County
Agent F. c. Warner, one of the inter-
estlng things mentioned in 1t were his
| conclusions upon what had been learn
ed and what the plans for the future
were.
He covered these points as follows:
| 1 think that one of the most i'm
|
| bers Of our league and the public in
general are not well enough informed
in regard to the work from day to day
and what he is trying to accomplish,
but of lines of work which the league
might carry out successfully if prop
erly organized. Since the 26ta of June
1 have each week furnished every d.
rector of the league with a report of
the past weeks work and an outline
of the work ahead. They are in a bet
ter position than I to tell the advan-
tages Of such information and whether
1t would be practical to furnish every
member a monthly bulletin such as
many of the best pieces of work we
could undertake.
Another item that we need is more
united efforts along certain definite
lines which should be decided on at
the beginning of the year and enough
of the agents time apportioned to in
sure the success Of each project.
Should Keep Farm Accounts.
L have already mentioned the farm
management survey, but did not en-
| phasfze its importance in getting farm
ers to keep farm accounts whereby
they will know the actual cost of pro-
ducing farm produce and so be in a
position to demand a price which will
net them q profit. In the same con-
nection demonstrations should be ar