Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-29
GETTING RESULTS
FROM HENS AND GARDENS

At the annual meeting OF the FOL
land count Farm bureau, the Rev. f.
K. Abbott of Bolton gave an interesting
talk on How the Country Church and
the Farm Bureau Can Cooperate to
Their Mutual Advantage. His re-
marks have aroused considerable
thought and discussion.
In the January news letter sent out
by the farm bureau is letter from
the Rev. Marshall Dawson of Storrs.
who had what was considered one of
the best gardens in Storrs last year,
and who obtained very satisfactory re-
suits from poultry. The letter, which
shows what can be accomplished in
small scale to advantage, is as follaws:
In reply to your inquiry for facts
and figures about my garden and poul
try records for last year, l send the
following: On September Il, 1917, l
bought twelve pullets, the first of which
began to lay on November 10. l trap
nestled the birds for about a month, and
killed off six, an unduly large number,
! because I had been compelled to keep
the pullets shut up. The six poorest
| layers, which I killed, were very fat
and would easily have been worth 81
apiece for meat. The remaining six
| hens, in the period from Nov. 1917,
! to November, 1918 laid, according to
my records about 1900 eggs-tlle yield
being well distributed through the year.
| At current prices, these would easily
| be worth s48. Expense during the year
| for feed, straw and mangels amount to
about $24 I still have these hens,
which l shall use for my next years
| breeding stock. The result of the year
is, then, as follows:
Bought u pullets, Sept. Il for s 6.63
teeC cost ..''..'.'........ 24.00
Total .........-.-.:...,.... sso.6s
Eggs ..............,...... $500
Totals NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s54.oO
Net profit, excluding labor charge
s2S.37
plus six hens, left on hand -, $25.37
Results in Garden
with regard to my garden 1 may
say that the most valuable return. to
me, was in eXperience-for it was the
first real garden | have ever had My
friends told me that I was putting too
much labor into the garden-which was
no doubt true. However we had green
peas on June 9, an. excellent spinach
on May 16. On April q I planted two
thirds of peck of Irish Cobbler po-
tatoeS in a plot where 1 had engaged
III d knOCh-dOWn uShL. with witch
grass. On July 3 we had potatoes of
sufficient size to eat-not marbles
either. The seed cost 20. cents. and
produced several bushels OF first class
potatoes, at a time when they would
have sold for S10. For fertilizer, l used
phosphate and chicken manure. And !
sprayed those potatoes-believe me
r three times with Pyrox Also before
planting, I soaked them in a forna liz
solution.
, To sum up the matter my garden
= furnished our household, in great yari.
ETY. and abundance, more than we coulG
eat, and filed our shelves with canned
! stuff; likewise cur bins with bean:
yellow eyes) and potatoes. Yet
: should hesitate to say my garden was
better" than that of my neigibors
It was somewhat earlier than mos
= neighboring gardens because I took {
: chance on the first good weather.
= sould figure garden profits as follows
= Product S1nt
Entertainment Observation-Disclosures. Il
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Sill!
Expense-seeds, fertilizer, blowing i