Republican farmer., 1918-06-28
FOOD ARMY OF
 STATE WILL 60
 WELL "OvER TOP"
Litchfield, Middlesex and Holland Over Quotas and New Haven
 Also In Van

With Lltchfleid, MlddleSe1, afG IOl- land counties well over their quotas, and with New Haven county nearly up to 100 per cent, the Junior Food Army is assured of going lover the top" in the drive for 50,000 boy and girl members. This is in spite of the fact that Fairfield county has en- rolled only a little over one-third its quota and Hartford county only about one-half the number expected of it. The total number of enrollments at the present is over 36,000 with the drive for 10000 canning project members yet to be launched and a possibility that the cities of Bridge port and Hartford, which have prac- tically no enrolment to date, may come into camp at any time with four or five thousand recruits each.
 Gardening is the favorite project with the boys and girls. Over 200 of the enrollments are in this activity alone. The honors for the amount of land under cultivation go to the corn project members. however. Although they number only 961, they have un- der cultivation 4S0 acres of corn, while the garden members are culti- vating SIS acres of land.
 The potato members, numbering 1,- 451, have under cultivation 1S0 acres of potatoes, making a total of S98 acres under cultivation by Junior Food Army members at the present time. The live stock contingent, which has had the choice between pigs, sheep, poultry and calves, has shown greatest preference for poultry. A total of 26,140 birds being cared for by 2,619 members.
 The pig project has claimed the at tention of 1923 members, who are rearing over 2,0OO pigs This is about four times the number of pigs raised by club members last year and indi- | cates that Connecticut boys and girls l have taken seriously Herbert Hoo- ver's declaration that a pig is as good Or. George W. Coleman, the head of COMMUNITY FORUM.
 1 the great Ford Hall Forum in Bos- ton, who spoke last Sunday evening congratulated Bridgeport on the re- markable success of her Community Forum. The Sunday Evening Forum this week will begin at 7:15 with open air community singing on the site of the new United Church at Broad and Bank streets, opposite the l city nall Gin case of rain, in the United church,. The singing will be led by the United hurch choir, Mrs
 Elmer Beardsley, director, with Mrs. Lena Mason Barnsley, soprano; Mrs.
 May E. Hard, contralto; MT. Louis 1 Ginand, tenor, and Mrs. Albert Lapke, baritone, as soloists, and MT. George P. Sanborn, as cornetist.
 At o'clock Dr. John G. Coyle, the well known Irish orator of New York, will be the Community Forum speaker.
 His subject will be Irish Home Rule and Conscription." The Forum will be held in the church. Dr. Coyle is
 a practising physician in New York
 city, and is we'll known as a writer
 and lecturer.
 as a shell in the war with Germany. The calf and sheep project are being taken up this year for the first time,
 but nevertheless 4166 boys and girls are raising these types of live stock. At present f27 boys and girls have signed up to raise sheep and although
 considerable difficulty is being expe-
 rienced in securing the sheep, the needs are being filled.
 The food saving project, which is
 mainly drying, has 1,601 members The cooking project has S,S60 mem
 bers, many of whom have already completed their work.
 The drive for 10000 canning mem bers is being staged in response to the
 call from the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture for one million
 jars of fruit and vegetables canned this season by Connecticut boys and girls. The following quotas for can.
 ners have been assigned for the va
 rious counties: New Haven county
 5,360 members; Fairfield county, A..
 69O members; Hartford county, A. 690 members; New London county
 1,60S members; Litchfield county, l..
 $40 members; Windham county, 93s
 members; -Middlesex county, 93S mem bers; Holland county, 5366 members
 There are already 3,435 cannin: members enrolled and these vii b, credited to their home county in thu
 canning drive
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