The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-15
ACRICUL TURF IN
 NEW ENGLAND
Boy Winners Going to College.

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 If you could raise 440 bushels of potatoes from one acre, would you go to college to learn how to farm Law renee K Estes, who had this record yield in 1914, has just finished a short course at Massachusetts Agricultural College to better prepare himself for running a farm. Hoyt Quin1by, the Vermont boy who raised PA bushels of corn on one acre in 1913. is plan ming to go to college when he finishes high school C1eon Hammond is an ether Massachusetts winner who is preparing to enter college.-- After their college courses are completed they will return to farming. With such men in charge of New England farms, the future of agriculture is cer- tain. Greater production per acre means greater prosperity both in the country and the city.
 Alfalfa Increasing in New England
 Forty thousand acres of alfalfa, were grown in New England last season, ae- cording to the crop reports annpunc- ed in the National Alfalfa Journal. A yield of 84,OOO tons with a selling value of over million dollars was realized by the New England farm CTS Farm CTS who claim that the season is too short, and that the soils are not suited to the growing of the legurne- are fconfr onted with the total acreage as an indication that their fears are groundless. Alfalfa is grown throughout a number. of Cana dian provinces where the seasons are even shorter than New England and the danger from winter freezing as great or greater. Hardy varieties of seed, inocu1ation, a good seed-beds a supply of available pIantfood to give the crop a quick start, lime to correct the acidity of the soil and cultivation
 
 improving crop in every New England county.
 Director Clement On Fruit Growing.
 Color, size, freedom from blenaiskes, quality and uniformity may be ob- tained in fruit growing by prunings fertilizing, spraying, cultivation and thinning, according to F. M. Clement, Director of Vineland Station, Canada A starved tree produces little apples; we1l-nourished tree larger apples. F'ertilizing is ranked as of more inn portance than cultivation, because, it also effects the yigor or health of the tree and makes it better able to resist disease. The first step in uniformity is to prune. shape and balance the tree.
 Bright Prospects in Apple Growing. Now is the time to plant apple trees, according to Prof. F. c. Sears, of Mas
 
 is little danger of over-production and l a number of reasons why orcharding should become more profitable each year There are fifty million less bearing trees in the country than ten years ago, an increase in population of 30 per cent. and a greater and more general use of apples. Better fruit can be obtained through atten- ton to cultivation, fertilization, thin ning spraying and pruning of the l trees. By growing crops between the trees, a profit can be made from or chards until the trees come into bear | ing and cut down the cost of getting g the orchard started.
 Western Farmers Looking Toward New England.
 New England is a region to which l Westerners are turning their eyes. | There is that about this country, with all it's agricultural drawbacks, which appeals to sentiment. The lure of l the Golden West was we'll enough, and now those who were lured, or perhaps their children, are experiencing the ! lure of the beautiful East. Not only returning to settle down to enjoy life, but some are returning from the m ore 1 fertile country to take up neglected farms. content to take a narrowed swath faS the sake of the handler markets.-F. w. Proctor, in Rural New Yorker.
 Carrying Crops Through Dry Seasons.
 "rhe- secret of being able to carry crops through unfavorab1e seasons is l to have the soil in the right condition of fertility and to feed the crops well, '' l says Charles E. Lyman, of Midd1ehe1d, Conn.,, who has a farm and orchard