Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-21

l mona, No. 6, P. of H., held their reg thar meeting in Pythian hAl.. There waS a business session at 10 o'clock. but the election of rs.srnber of the executive. coznnGttee was poStpone6 After the business session, the fifth de- EErse was conferred on a good sizea Ecfass by the officers of Quinebaug Pos rHioRa. No. 2. Dinner was served to | the delegates, of whom there were lover a hundred present, at noon.
 r Promptly at 1.30 the literary pro- gram, which was arranged by Mrs Mary Ross Munyan, lecturer of Quine- baug Pomona, began with a violin Ieolo, Liebesford,, by Kriesler, by Miss Isabel Montieth of Storrs. The next number on the program was an essay | The Lord of Misrule. by Mrs Eliza fbeth Jewett Brown of Wolf Den granEee Mrs. Brown was unable to be present and the essay was read by Mrs. F. K Haynes. also of Wolf Den, grange. The essay dealt in a scholarly way W'1tn | the causes of the war and sho"ed now the German war madness was m facs l a going back to the times when the Teuton horles roaned the Black For est the most warlil<e nation on the | face of the globe. also the most par barrie and one of the last of the mod ern nations to become civilized or to feel the effect of. the Rennaisan nee. Verify. the kaiser is 3 lore Of rniSrrie in bringing about this tkrowback to the unciviiized~ past.
 
 Mrs. Browns essay was followed by a talk on the war by Rev. Marshall Dawson of Storrs. MT. Dawson spoke on the conservation of pep" that Is the maintenance of the national mo rale. He told the delegates that they must not look at things, especially the newspaper stories of the war, in a pessimistic light but rather they should always look at the bright sioe of the subJect- Mir. Dawson illustrat- ed his point by reading severaf chpss pings from The Bulletin and showed how by reading between the Tines person might easily get the. linpres- sion that the government when giving some of it. He told the delegates that they must read into the piece the cheerful confidence of a nation on the path to victory Arthur Roberts of Wolf Den grange then rendered the solo Trumpeter, c,,,c,5-t F.e gave A Song in My Heart. Io.lovsing Nr Roberts solo and encore the delegates rose in a body and sang all four verses of America. Mrs;
 Out, to o:d Aunt Mary's. by James Whitconnb Riley. As an encore she rendered The Little Things We Don't Do, by Margaret Sangster. Mrs. Nun van then introduced the Hon. l.. c. HeaIey, who spoke as follows on
 
 the Shortage of Food? ..
 L. c. HcaIey Speaks. I didn't want to speak here but l found that it was no use to argue with a lecturer who cannot distinguish be-
 tween No and Yes ocer the telephone, was introduced as a graduate Of the Iowa State Agricultural college it started a rather curious train of thought in my mind Not that am a graduate of any college, but was born l 50 years ago in that very town of Des Moines, Iowa, where the college is located. It is indeed a small world and almost everywhere you go you
 meet people who came from the same place that you did. The Downward Trend.
 The downward trend of Connecticut agriculture began. with the treat gold l rush of 1849, when so mary of Con- Eecticilts farmers went west in search ] of gold, and seeing the great fertile prairies of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, they forthwith established the great agricultural empire of the west today, to the detriment of the New England farms. New England with tits farm CTS gone became of necessity a n1anu = featuring community and the boys and girls of the next generation found the cities with their higher wages and bet ter opportunities for education calling them away from tine farms. The first agricultural records were made in 1854, and they show that the city cousin. He raised his family of l buxom daughters and stalwart sons and had his cattle. sheep and swine, and while perhaps he did not have much actual money he had many ] things of far more value. He had a we'll built house. so well built that most of; them are standing today, and i of which number only two-thirds are <I >sx,r~ I.1s~ -1 Ix1I-- --~l.- Lr-- war. In those days a farmer raised all his own meat and vegetables and had a surplus left over which he sent 1 to the cities. Now he cannot raise | enough for himself as most of the ag- ricultural products of the state have to be freighted from 1900 to 1000 1 miles before they get here and besides the cost and the profit we have to pay | the freight Why not grow our meats and grains at home as our forefathers did There are patriotic as we'll ss economic reasons as the following f1g- | ures will show:
 Exported in 1914 sT.ooo 600 ponntss of meat: in 1916. 2o1 .oeo 900 pounds of potatoes; in 191s 2.7oo,ooo bushels
 And in the latter year there were 10000 fewer bushels grown. Y> livestock in fs45.
 In 1s45 we had in Connecticut 1s2, TIT sheep, 2es. .225 cattle and 1se, ,000
 hogs. Tn 1915 we 4,ar 1s.ooo sheep l-119 900 cattle and 59ooo i1ozE. Mean while the population Of tfe state has i Increased four times what it was in 1245 so is 1t any wonder that we should | have Dea-iy 505 900 baetss shipped in to us by freight and about 20ea ,6eG hogs in the same manner besides a courtless number oe arimsls shipped in cn the hoof. If Connecticut was stocked the way sho should be with beef cattle she could supply the state with beef and would keep 8 packing