Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-09

1 Cottage cheese luncheons were given |
 at the First Baptist church of New |
 London on Tuesday. June 25, and at |
 the Broadway school in Norwich, on | | Wednesday. June 26. These luncheons were given for the county and farm
 home economics leaders who are work |
 Ing in the interest of the New London l County Farm Bureau. At the lunch l con, the New London County Home | demonstration agent for the farm bu- reau, Miss Catherine Case, was intro
 duced. In speaking she emphasized 1 the need of cooperation between the 1 chalrmen and herself in order that they both work successfully to help New London. county go over the top.
 Miss Cora Marsh of New London and Miss Louise Howe of Norwich had the respective luncheons in charge | Ihere were "A guests at each luncheon, which was enjoyed, and fully con- vineed even the most skeptical, that cottage cheese might be prepared in
 many substantial ways. Miss Eleanor | Moss, the demonStrator, who s1perin-
 tended. spoke of the easy method by which many of them might be pre- pared. Miss Robert, the cottage cheese expert from Washington, spoke briefly
 on the cottage cheese campaign all
 over the United States, Miss. Hayes
 from Connecticut Agricultural College
 told of the progress In Connecticut
 The results in the city being extreme ly gratifying. The luncheons were
 served by Girl Scouts of New London and Norwich, they were very efficient
 waitresses, serving the dishes prepared
 by Miss Moss and Miss Hallock, the boys and girls county club leader of
 the farm bureau
 The work of the assistant county agent during the second quarter has
 been taken up with farm visits, corn tests, demonstration and pig club work.
 Herd Improvement.
 , A report of the years work with it's I seven co-operators in the cow testing
 demonstration was submitted and it z was voted by the county agricultural
 board to. enlarge the work so that more farmers could receive personal aid this year. It was voted to assist
 any farmer in starting farm accounts, @ in making up dairy feed rations and : in the testing of milk. the work to be
 available to all farmers without cost.
 One of the items brought out by the report is the necessity of feeding more ', hay on the average dairy farm. The . report showed that the best farm fed N the largest amount of hay less than [ an average amount of silage. and an 5 average amount of grain, feeding 1 4 U tons of hay. three tons of silage and I three-quarters tons of grain for COW u per year. During the year, fifty three o cows were sold and in most cases re- '7 placed by better cows.
 Q Seed Corn.
 For the purpose of assisting the Il farmer in the county to determine the
 germination value of their seed corn
 a large number of samples were taker Ii from all parts of the county and sem W to the Connecticut Experiment Sta |" ton, New Haven, for germinatioI " test. A large amount of poor corr 'r was found, as out of seventy-fiv sam 'e pies only ten germinated high enougl n. to warrant ones planting. Fifty bush d, els of corn were personally converted h, to men, and a large number of mel l. were told where good corn could b. l. located. The price of this corn range le from $4 to S5. In most cases it ha n come well.
 of Pig Club.
 Keeping pigs is one of the Junio " Food Arny's projects, to be carried ou 70 by boys and girls two contests ar lt conducted this year; fattening contes . which commenced June l. or as 500 ! E after as the pig can be weighed, an lil ending Oct l. and a breeding contes running from July 1 until June 1, 0 ir until pig farrows. In order to stimu " late memberscip, talks were given is fifteen schools. three granges and sev . eral articles published in various news 5 rapers. Through these means, 127 boy .u and girls have signed memberShi F. cards. In some cases, the boys an 1 girls have, but to twenty-five boy 'l and girls pigs were furnished by tn :, assistant county agent from the farl II IT. of Morton F. Plant, East Lyme; G. | e, N Stonington; and E. L. Pultz, Lebanon
 The boys and girls in the county show m mne ed of what stuff they were made la! 0e year, in winning A per cent. of tt
 pig club prizes of the state, while haN te ing only two per cent. of the men il' bership.
 Ie- Farm Labor.
 The demand for farm labor far e1 n- ceeds the supply, both single and maj ar ried. The local source of supply 70 very limited. Some assistance hs
 been rendered by the United Statt
 Department of Labor, and some by u 'N Boys Working Reserve, six men ar nd five boys being placed on farms. Or O. pleasing feature of the labor situatic lip is the satisfaction the boys are gi7 he ing for it is inevitable that as Tor nd as the war continues boys will be mo us in demand on the farms.
 ,lr. Soy Bean.
 gb Nineteen bushels of soy beans ha' .x been placed upon the farms of Ne nd London county farmers to be plantt 60 with corn for silage. These beal etc were all grown in the county al ,se should prove more satisfactory thi
 a those grown last year. This deed w
 grown from seed furnished by t N Connecticut Agricultural College E. .n- pertinent Station. The station is flu we Eishing seed again this year for t for purpose of locating a home grow nd supply. The seed has been placed of six farms.
 ,n- Bull Campaign.
 as As. result of our bull campai rk, launched last winter, several dairym the have expressed their desire to pu eds chase pure bred sires. In order to S are cure a source of supply, a visit W lf- made to the farm of John T. Hunt, the4 Ridgefeld. The prices asked we hef reasonable, considering the quality are the bulls offered for sale, but were Tub high in price for the men in t ub, county. A new source is sought frc the which bulls of good quality. but le
 J. price, are hoped to be found. ub. yer Volunteers For Limited Service md Nothing definite regarding the linn rtn ed service men in the call for 150 m m- for army clerks from Connecticut