New Britain herald., 1917-05-14
MORE MEN NEEDED
 FOR PUBLIC FARMS
Apathy of Public Threatens
 Success of Undertaking E--I.-z@s-.- v

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 More rscruts are nesdsd for Nov Britain's asricultural arsny. to bs
 composed of mon not qualifisd or eaIi upon for military service. if the pro- Ject Is to be . sucoess. Reafisine that the season is rapidly advancing And that to have success crops immediate planting is neceasaEy. Mayor ouigley, after consultation with . number of prominent men, today announced that
 the Tracy farm in Stanley Quarter,
 comprising fifty acHes of excellent, tillable land. will be used as~ons farm.
 In order that no delay shall interfere
 with the work the mayor states that
 tomorrow tractor blows Will be sent
 out there to till ths land.
 After consultation with state agri-
 cultural experts, IL has beon deemed
 inadvisable to attempt farming on an
 elaborate scale on tho Whigvilie
 which is mountainous and rocky. fs
 not adapted for motor apparatus and
 1t is almost impossible to secure
 horses. There Is also tho disadvan-
 tage that the land available for farm
 ing is scattered. Although there are
 hundreds of acres owned by the city
 in Burlington and whigville on each
 farm there are only comparatively
 few acres of farm land. The rest ds
 either woodland or pasture land. Az
 a result Of these Investigations it has
 been thought advisable to use only land in the city, where the volunteer
 workers can get to 1t easily.
 An agricultural expert from the
 Connecticut Agricultural college will
 be here tomorrow to consult with the
 men in charge of the city farms and
 he wdi1 also supervise work on the
 Tracy farm. Adjaoent to this Stan-
 ley Quarter farm, Richard Murray
 has about twenty acres of good land
 which he will permit the city to use. It Is estimated that 1t will require about 300 bushels of seed potatoes to plant these 1eventy acres and as the work will begin immediately 1t will be necessary for the volunteer asrdculturists nrst to cut up the 300 bushels of seed potatoes for planting. The tractor blows to be used are of . modern typo. Each tractor is equipped with . regulation blow and after the land has been turned over . disc harrow and rake, the rake be- \ing dragged after the harrow, is af- tached and the. land Is made ready for immediate planting.
 City off1cials gre also in consultation with Lawyer John H. Kdrkhann. trus- tee of the Theodore Stanley estate. with view to securing the use of about thirty acres of this farm for the city. If this is secured former Safe-. ty Commissioner F. Holmes has an other large tract of land nearby which he will permit the city to use for farming purposes. J. c. Lincoln of Berlin has twenty acres of land on the trolley line winch he has offered to the city and F. H. Afford has six acres on the Plainville road which he ! has donated. He also has loaned the use of his barns on Main street.
 John H. stoneham. 16 Prospect street, employed as janitor of the Monroe street school, has offered'to do whatever farm work he can for the city.
 There has bean some adverse com- msnt on the city farming plans be- cause, 1t has been argued. the pro- posed tax would be levied on property owners while people who were not taxpayers would receive equal bene- fits. Regarding this, Mayor Quigley 1 stated that in the first place people ! who are not taxpayers contribute just | as much through their rent. 'If my | taxes are increased increase my ! rent, and so do other property own l CTS, 50 when you get down to the base | of the affair you lind that the men . who rent houses pay their taxes as we'll as the owners" But, according | to the mayor. it may not be necessary to really collect the proposed special | tax of one mill. ''The charter pro- l vides. his honor explained, 'that the city can borrow money only for school purposes. The present plan Is to levy 8 special tax of one per cent. | and on the anticipation of this tax borrow enough money to finance the farms Then when the produce is sold at cost the city will be reip- l bursed. the money paid back and the tax, consequently, will never be col lected. It will only be in case the crops prove . failure that any pro- 1 posed tax would be collected"
 MUSICIANS IN SESSION.
 New Haven, May 14.-Representing ! some 5000 musicians in this country and Canada, the American Federation |