Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08

to better the milk industry and I hope that all producers in New London l county will join this movement, says County Agent F. c. Warner in his re- port covering the period of six weeks | since the last directors meeting which ! was held on Sept. 23 to Nov. 4. Many have already expressed the value of the Farm Bureau and it said to the present situation and I feel that by milk producer in New London county will give his hearty support to the Farm Bureau organization.
 The report follows in full:
 Field Tests and Demonstrations
 Nineteen tests and demonstrations have been visited and final results ob- tained on several plots. On Sept. 26 and 30 Prof. B. J. Southwick of Storrs Experiment Station assisted in the work, and reports that we have sev- era1 of the best tests in the state. He was particularly pleased with Director N. E. Writings soy beans, and Di- rector c. B. Davis ensilage corn and soy bean test. He also inspected A. A. Young's acre of flint corn which stood in the shock and thought it had the appearance of being a very heavy yielding piece. Weights were taken and samples forwarded to the experi- ment station from five of these plots and the remainder will be taken care of as soon as possible so that a final report may be made covering this pro- ject.
 Club Work.
 The most important club activity during the past month was the eX
 hibit made by the New London county
 boys and girls club members at the Eastern States Agricultural and In- dustrial Exposition held in Spring
 field Oct. 12 to 21. New London county club members competed against
 boys and girls from the other New England States, New York, New Jer- sey. Delaware and Pennsylvania. Ex
 hibits were made in the potato corn, canning, garment working, and poul-
 try projects, and judging teams were entered in the corn, potato, canning and dairy judging projects. Among
 the prizes secured by our club mem
 bers were first prize on the largest
 and best collection of canned fruit and
 vegetables by any one club member,
 one jar Of each variety. first and third on the best ten ears of flint corn 1n the exhibit and other prizes on can
 ming, sowing and potatoes. The judg- ing teams also placed well. winning
 second in the corn judging. third in the potato project and fourth in the canning. Our stock judging boys
 were hopeiessly outclassed as they had to compete against boys, specially from Massachusetts, who had been studying stock judging for three years in the Agricultural High School courses. Total prizes won by the ex- hibitors amounted to $35.75 while the judging teams won a total of $5, mal1- ing $8075 brought back to New Lon don county by our club members from Springfield.
 Achievement club members in New London have been furnished with re- port blanks and requested to mail these to the office. This was deemed necessary on account of the infantile paralysis epidemic and of the 124 members who started the seasons work but who received no supervis- | ion through the summer, 25 have re- | turned complete reports showing faith | fully carried out work through this time. As soon as all reports are in l these faithful members will be re- warded achievement club medals and the work will be called complete for l this sea son.
 Three canning demonstrations were given by the county agent. two at Nj antic on Sept. 28 and %, and one at Gilead, Waterford, Oct '. It is esti- l the benefit of these demonstrations and I find that the cold pack method 1 of canning as advocated by the U. $. l department of agriculture is becoming | the county. Two schools have been | addressed on club work one at Newent | school, Lisbon, by the county agent, Sept. 29, and at Baltic school on 23d | of October. by Secretary w. o. Rog- CTS, who kindly relieved the county l agent on this date.
 | National Dairy Show at Springfield. The county agent spent a total of seven days at the Dairy Show and 1 found that he did not begn to have 1 time to take in all that could be seen l Considerable of his time was taken up | with work on club exhibits, confer I ences and committee meetings, so that very little time could be devoted to l closely inspecting the cattle. horse and | machinery exhibits. A large number | of New London county farmers took | advantage of the opportunity offered ure of closely inspecting some of the prize winning cattle with farmers l from the county. I believe that this
 exposition will greatly benefit the dairy industry of New England. l New London County Corn Fair.
 Plans are now nearly complete in regard to the New London County
 Hall, Norwich. Dec. 2. in cooperation
 with the New London County Agri-
 cultural Society, the New London
 County Pomona Grange and other office on Oct. 25. Director B. T. Avery
 of Ledyard and MT. A. A. Young of l Jewett City assisted your county agent in drawing up tenative pre- mium list. including rules and regu- lations and other information for ex- hibitors. On the 20th of October your executive committee met and approv.
 ed this premium list and took such steps as were necessary to carry it to completion. The rules and regula- tions together with corn score card I have already been published in the | Norwich and New London papers and the premium list giving classes and prizes will be given out as soon as the contributions have been secured. When
 this material is complete the whole will be printed as a 1eaflet and dis tributed throughout the county. We hope that all will cooperate in this movement to improve corn in New London county. the importance of which is being particularly felt in this
 season of high prices.
 Milk Situation.
 Many have followed with interest the effort on the part of farmers pro- 1 ducing milk, ton secure better price. Last spring the milk producers around Chicago, carried out a successful cam