The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-21
BEDDING


 ing on October does not make such a bad financial showing as it shows that during the past year former tenn porary loans to the amount of $S,50O have been paid up and only $500 bor- rowed. There are offsetting consid- erations. however, which somewhat dim this fair picture. We began the year with about $2,300 in the treas ury whereas there is now only a beg garly $10. There is still owing B. B. Banks on his road contract the sum of $2.500 and an outlay of $2,500 has been authorized for the building of the new Georgetown bridge, work on which was commenced last week. Outside the Banks contract there was expended on town highways $4s7 and on bridges and sluices s335. State road upkeep cost an additional s3SS. Other items of expenditure were $1,- 667 for the state and county taxes, s1,356 for paupers and SS21 for snow removal. The total tax collections were upwards of $22,000.
 | The net cost of the schools was $6.- 100. This includes two unusual items of expenditure, s200 for instruction in vocal music and s2O0 returned to the state in consequence of previous overpayment arising from an error in the school enumeration. Neverthe- less am increased expenditure of from $400 to $500 will be called for the coming year in connection with the operation of the new Georgetown school Although the salaries of two teachers added to the staff are to be paid from the Edwin Gilbert fund, there has been engaged a third addi- tional teacher towards whose salary of $500 the town must pay it's propor- tionate share. The same is true as regards an increased cost of $400 for O janitor.
 Those from this town who attend ed the very important conference of milk producers held at Hawleyville on Monday, were Albert Williams, Chas. Sanford, A. G. Barnett, George O. Sanford, John c. Read. Lew Warner. Everett Gorham, E. M. Sanford, Clin- ton Sanford. Milo Osborn and Bart lett Sanford. J. Arthur Sherwood presided and fifteen towns were rep resented comprising the larger part of the territory from which Bridge port draws it's milk supply. The general object of the meeting was to unify the dairymen of this section, the eastern portion of Fairfield and Litchfield counties, so that they may be in a position to meet the forth coming requirements as to the pas teurization of milk marketed in Bridgeport, doing so as an indepen- dent organization and thus avoiding the alternative of selling the raw pro- duct to either the Borden or Mitchell companies at prices these concerns might fix. All those present seemed to feel that the new conditions they were facing had brought about a crisis in the industry and that the situation presented a case of either getting to- gether or getting out of business. To the general discussion, which ranged over the whole subject, Prof. Judkins of the State Agricultural College, con- trtbuted much useful information, be- ing specially qualified to do so from the fact that he recently took part in a like cooperative movement in Rhode Island. having reference to the milk supply of Providence. a city somewhat larger than Bridgeport. The undertaking had resulted in the establishment of a pasteurization plant at a cost of about $40,000. The speaker explained, however. that the cost of plant depended on size and consequent capacity. For $1,000 there could be equipped plant having a daily capacity of 1000 quarts. AS Bedding now sends daily to the Bridgeport market 1000 quarts it nat urally occurred to the local delega- ton that should the larger project r~a1 4L.xx Iod n S,,f4ciopf o,1fpuf for a home plant of their own.
 The outcome of the conference was the appointment of a committee con- sisting of one member from each of the fifteen towns who are to report a plan of organization to another gen. eraI meeting to ,be held in Danbury next Monday. Before adjournment a preliminary basis was formed on the basis of a payment of 25 cents monthly for each COW owned by those subscribing. ,ff
 At last weeks meeting of the Mems club County Agent Wright and R. C.. Lester of Darien talked upon alfalfa growing, the latter recounting his ex- periences of the, past five years in the cultivation of fifteen acres. all the tracts doing we'll. He advocated fall rather than spring sowing. starting the preparation of the soil at about the time for putting in oats and con- tinuing the stirring of the ground al frequent intervals during the summer to secure thorough mellowing and weed subjection. Ground with hard fan near the surface was unsuitable and he recommended a liberal use od fertilizers. Every kind of live stock he said, took kindly, to alfalfa hay and he had even used 1t successfully ir fattening hogs. w. c. Sanford and A. G. Barnett also described their al. falfa raising experiences. the latter saying that he had obtained the best results with spring sowing.
 Elmer Deming, a colored youth, oi 15. stole a bicycle last Saturday from the premises of Miss J. H. Sanford and secreted it in the fence bushes oi a field on the Ridge where it was found by his father. Constable War. ner then began @ hunt for the culprit but failed to find him as young Dem ing had evidently taken alarm and skipped.
 A passertby discovered a blaze las' Saturday night. in the unoccupied ten cement house of Albert Williams 1T hometown. It had started among tn, rubbish in an old trunk and spread tc the floor and the walls. Neigibbor' squelched the flames without callins out the department. Whether tho fire was set or started from the gnaw' ing of matches by rats is not known The school transportation contrac for children of the Sanfordtown dis