Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-09
CASH PRIZES FOR
 JUVENILE JUDGING coNTEsT
Winners Will Be Taken to National
 Dairy Show at Sprinafeid.

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 The juvenile judging contest which has been started by the New London County Improvement league, F. c. Warner, agentS project has been sub- u1itted to Secretary Beckwith of the New London County Fair associa@ dop and is to be submitted to the executive of that association with the recommendation of the secretary. En- rollment for this work is now open and may be made either through the county agent or the secretary of the Fair association. The county agent urges the directors to assist in Inter esting all the boys and girls under 19 years of age in this project so that enrollments may be made through the month of June and classes organized to take five lessons to be given by the Extension Dairyman. starring in July. Any boy under 19 will be eligible and it is proposed to take the boys to dif- ferent herds for actual stock judging work in preparation for the contest at our county fair. at which time three cash prizes wilk be offered and arrangements will be made for taking the three prize winners to the Ma tional Dairy show, to be held in Springfield next fall where they may enter as team in New England wide juvenils judging contest for some very attractive prizes, among
 
 State College of Agriculture.
 New England. the oldest part of the United States, is being rediscovered f'Back to the farTn.' is the call now resounding through the busting cities. And the people are going back to the fields of their grandfathers, to ploughs and harrows, which have been neglected while interest has centered in manufacturing and commerce.
 KTarv IaA 1ooA ed one of every three of it's population in the rural districts. Then a great change came, and thirty years later, in 1910, one of every six persons liv- ed in the cities.
 In the same thirty year period the number of acres of improved land in farms decreased from 13o00. GOO to 7,- 125,0 GOO The number of farms de- creased from POT. 900 to 89.000.
 But now the pendulum is swinging back. With large established mar kets easy of access. roads ad credits good. the glittering attractions of the Middle West practically closed to new corners. New England again is turning to agriculture with a new spirit i'm proved facilities and better hope of success
 Evidence of this increasing interest was shownN in the large meeting of the Governors of the New England
 
 inent stockmen, at Springfield, Mass, on February IA, to arrange for the l Eastern States Agricultural and h. dEstrial E7(,osition, to be held at Springfield.
 Not only is the East watching the revival of interest in agriculture but the whole country as well. New England won for itself in recent years a reputation not as an agri- cultural center but as a leader in 1 commerce.
 David F. Houston, secretary of agrf- eulture, from his office in Washing on, is watching this change. A | 1ustling businessman type of secre- ary of agriculture, Mir. Houston looks mon the new order of things as ine- | yitahle, the result of passing through different period of transition and g l natural consequence from the great markets that are opened and the i'm 7roved methods of tillfng the soil and -aising stock.
 "The agricultural problems in New | Sngland are varied and complex" Bait aIr. Houston. 'sThey are receiving tn. sarnest attention Of the farmers tn, 'armers' organizations. Of business i 71en engaged in banking and com nerce, of the state departments O agriculture, of the experts of the lans ! -raft college and of the Federal De 3artment of Agriculture.'
 New England has possessed man! edvantages in industry, and her ac sivities have been more peculiarly il his field for many generations. Sh ?as become a manufacturing and al lrban section, and this deyelopmen | Ias had a marked reaction on rurs ' fife.
 Decrease in Rural Population.
 eThe first thing that strikes our at tention is the fact that the rural pop llation has shown relatively lttl hange in the aggregate in the las tual decrease Of about 160, 900.
 Tt is interesting to note that of tn -esidents in the rural districts of Nel England who were born in foreig :ountrfes, approximately Il, 900 cam rom Canada 1000 from Ireland an Great Britain, 2,5o0 from Germany. q 950 from the Scandinadian coIntrie and more than 1.100 from Russia. recent years a considerable number ( foreigners come to Southern Ne England from. the Portuguese posses sions. As a rule, the foreign hor farmers engage with reasonable sue cess in intensive farming.
 'Tt Is significant that Of the gee grapphic divisions of the nations Ne, England shows the highest percen age of farm ownership. There hs been an increase in the number mall sized farms and decrease he number of large holdings, du principally to the growth of the ii eensive system Of agriculture
 The tendency since 1910 has bee toward an increase of acefRge fc cereals, and an interesting fact is tils the yield per acre of most of the pro 3 ducts has increased. evideneing a improvement In agricultural method Tn 1880 the yield of oats Go the ac1 vas e2.e bushels, while in 1914 an 1915 the, yield was more than 70 bush els. Tn the former year the yield corn to the acre was S4s huahel while the last two years the yield ez ceeded 46 bushels. While there was decrease in the number Of cattle New Enrfnnd ir fhe nerfod Rrnra f2E