The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-27
Farm Bureau Shows Gain
 in Food Production Here
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 c-Headquarters of Y. w. C.. A. cookery courses.
 d-Regular meeting place of Home
 e-Exhibit room and window, em- phasizing timely topics.
 Economies teachers of city.
 f-Selling: as long as conditions de- mand it, corn syrup as a sugar sub- stitute.
 g-Emphasizing through demon- strations the possibilities of dehydrat- ed products.
 2-Field Work - Organization of neighborhood groups among foreign CTS for personal help.
 b-Co-operation with Home Service in all food problems.
 c-Establishmen of soup kitchens where children need it.
 3-Educational Work in Canning to center around municipal cannery.
 4-Junior Work - Organization of children into teams for food study.
 Agricultural Department. County Agricultural Agent L. A. Bevan, reported on the work, in his department for the year as follows: IL l1dS UG0n n6CGSSdLy 4OI lIIS C'SSul | to make many farm visits this past year to become acquainted with | farmers and conditions in the county By farm visit, letter, telephone call and office call the county agent has personally communicated with 1872 farmers in the county, or an average of five per day.
 Other lines of work have been i'm portant, especially emergency work The seed corn situation was the mos known in memory of the oldest in habitant. The severe freezing weather injured the germ, preventing a gooG | stand. Seventy-five samples of corr were taken and tested at the New Haven Experiment Station. Througf the fine cooperation of the pres many farmers learned of poor condi tion of seed corn and consequent! tested before planting.
 Labor-There Is no need to say tha l labor could not be obtained easily However, Danbury and Stamford of fees with the help of the U. s. Elm ployment Bureau at Bridgeport
 placed 13S men and boys this las year. Plans are now under wa,
 whereby a man will be located il Bridgeport to handle agriculture
 labor only.
 Dairy Work-Most of the work aIonj
 dairy lines has been of a personal na | ture. Balanced rations, growing o
 more clover, earlier maturing siIag
 are points which have been emphasiz
 ed by farm visits at meetings and b.
 articles in the Farm Bureau Ex change.
 Poultry - Poultry meetings ant
 demonstrations have been held to GU
 the cost of feeding and get rid o
 stacker hens. Seven different part
 of the county have had meetings wit
 an attendance of 154. As a resul there has been saving of 30 per cent in the grain bill of each flock S
 culled.
 Agricultural Survey - The count agent acted as county supervisor fo
 an agricultural survey. By using it | different ways labor was placed an mailing list was furnished for tn Bridgeport Market Gardeners Asso citation. When plant lice threateue the potato crop, each pototo grove on the survey list was sent a circula } letter explaining method of contro Field Crop Demonstrations wer
 carried out with soy beans and silag, l and early as against late oats, an |, this fall ten plots have been starte all over the county to test out a ne I variety of rye called Rosen rye whic n has proven a high producer in othe d sections.
 Q Silage samples have been taken 1
 determine the. best types of silage 1
 grow in this section
 A County Corn Show was held i
 Danbury with 115 entries. Twenty = five 5o-ear exhibits had germinatio 0 tests. Another corn show will 1 n held this year at the same place c : Jan. 14 to 16 inclusive. 6 A Home Produce Bulletin reportir = the supply and demand of vegetabI 8 for the Danbury market, with sugges n ed recipes on cooking and cannir
 those which were abundant, was put e llshed three times a week the Da1 1t bury News.
 1t The county agent had to act as d rect agent for the U. S. D. A. in suc e work as distribution of nitrate y. soda, investigation of exemptic g, claims, and filling out of questfo, IT naires on information vital to the U. .s Department of Agriculture. l. Forty-four agricultural meetfn O and demonstrations were held, with s. total attendance of 2,041, averagil 10 46 persons to a meeting.