Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-30

earth well pulverized.
 First the tomatoes grew wonderful | ly and ccntiuued to until they began I to grow more slowly, but in the end they matnred very nicely. I had troI l ble with few cut worms and tomato bugs, bat after all they had exceed ing1y good rezults and did not require much care after the first sdoeinz, as the weeds were then practically Killed. Produced 20 Tonatoes. There was plenty of rain during the l season so my tomatoes were naturally I we'll watered and the vines produced about 800 fomAtoes
 Many Of my relatives. friends and aisp Mfr. Warner, MT. Brundage, MT. Swift and Miss Stazscweatfler visited my garden. was delighted and most aEreeabiy snrprised over the fact that my efforts in the garden have been The total cost was sa.7o, but the net profit was $18.50.
 Here's wishing all the agricultural clubs success.
 EDITH HELEN STOWE. One day Mir Storrs came to our school and asked the children if they wouldn't like to join one of the clubs. He told us to talk it over with our parents
 went home that evening and told my father about it. I asked him to pick me out good piece of land near the house. My father gave me little lecture, telling me if I was going to join the club not to back out, or in other words, Don't give up the ship As a few other children joined we decided to have club meetings. One night the members of the club, which stayed after school and voted for the officers. Henry Krause was chosen president; Ellen McDermott, vice pres ident. and Israel Beinsten secretary. Henry Krause resigned from president so took his place. We then decided when to have our meetings. We all thought the first Wednesday of each month would be convenient We had five or six meetings. We conducted them as follows: Silence: roll call, setting the seedbed ready and many other subjects which would help us.
 Our teacher was always at our meetings, and several of the girls and boys of the higher grades. Our last meeting was in July. MT. Storrs and a Mir Dansager came. MT Dansaser gave us a better idea of how a club meeting should be conducted.
 Getting seedbeds Ready.
 The next point was to get our seed beds ready. My father plowed and narrowed ne-twentieth of an acre for me. He then put on about two loads of manure on it. Before I put in my plants I cultivated a plot. I set out my plants June 5th- My father helped me. We made a mark to know where to put the plants. We planted them four feet apart and had four feet be- tween the rows.
 My plants were getting along fine when the cut worms started They had cut down several before I found it out. I set out some new plants Paper collars were then put on the plants near the ground. I cultivated them twice and hoed them about twice, as I,4Ir, fo@1 T only hoe at intervals.
 After a while small green tomatoes. I went out every day to see if any were ripe. One day Mir Storrs and out to see my garden they saw ripe tomato. This was the first one. It was July 27th when I picked it.
 The fruit soon ripened after that The first quantity I picked was II pounds, which I sold at 10 cents a pound. I think that I was the third person in town to have tomatoes. Later I could pick more, as they rip ened quickly and I used to pick them yellow or just a little red and bring father took them down to town and sold them for me. Towards the end of the season I would sometimes pick a bushe1 or two of tomatoes. made $16.75, without counting the cost of labor
 The cost of my labor was s256. I do not know whether I will join the club next year, but I think I will.
 ELLEN A. M'DERMOTT.
 When I joined the poultry club I took % White Leshorn hens and put them in a henhouse which was di- vided in half which were hens in. Every morning before I went to school I fed and watered them. The sens sang very merrily and scratched as they sang. Nights when I came home from school l fed the hens and they were glad to see me. When took the eggs to the house I always set the number of eggs down on the report card. I few the hens dry mash every day There were two days I got 21 eggs from my hens I set my eggs fin April. When the chickens matched they were not very hungry the first day or twp. After the chickens were old enough to separate the roosters from the outlets separated them. There were more roosters than there were outlets. sold the roosters to a
 CLINTON JAMES.
 This is the first year that have ever helped with the canning. There has never been any club work done heIe before. 2.
 Most of our work was done on an oil stove, but a few times my mother had a fire in the range, and we Sal- ways tried to put up few Jars or fruit at that time. All Of our jars arc the Lightning variety. and we used large kettle with a. piece of wire screening in the bottom to prevent the jars breaking. We were careful to lower the jars in the hot water grad uaIly; also tested all the rubbers- It was fortunate we did, for we some times found poor one.
 One day we canned 1s quarts of to- matoes We did mt 7cHn any fruit Of vegetables for market, as we had scarcely .euough for our own use. Many of our vegetabies were spoiled during the long wet period So was not able to get the kinds and numbers required in the club instructions. But we kept on s1siIg whatever we could i get and succeeded in getting 61 jars of Vegetables and fr1litz They were the Believing kinds: Cherries, hucAleber- ries, peas, beets, tomatoes and greens. l I did "a feW ja1v alone to see If I