Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
EXPECT 5000 FARMERS
 AT STORRS COLLEGE TODAY
Especial to The BuHetin)

e. AT STORRS COLLEGE TODAY
 Especial to The BuHetin)
 Storrs, Conn, Aug. 4.-With the ar rival of Farmers Day tomorrow some three thousand farmers are expected to attend the exhibitions and good times at the Connecticut Agricultural Col lege. Farmers day being an annual event means crowded conditions and as the feeding facilities at the college are unable to handle such crowd basket lunches will be in vogue.
 I The principal speakers of the day will be S. L. Strivings of New York, vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. and Sara Louise Arnold
 dean of Simmons College Mir Striv- i ings will speak at 1.30 o'clock on Some of the Agricultural Problems Ahead
 Mrs. Arnold will speak A& the evening meeting at 8 o'clock and she will be fol- | lowed by Rev. George Gilbert of Mid
 dletown who will conduct a country so- cial hour.
 i The feature of the morning will be
 the sheep drive at 11.30 o'clock when
 trained collies will be used in a sheeN
 drive The big thing in the afternoon
 will be the livestock parade. In this fparade ffty-two head of pure bred live
 stock, Percheron horses, Jersey, Hol-
 stein, Ayrshire. Guernsey dairy cattle, Devon. and Shorthorn cattle representing the dual purpose breeds and Hereford cattle representing the beef breeds will
 be exhibited. Other features of the day will be inspection trips to the various departments at 9.30 to 11.30 in the morning and again at 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon, all starts being from the
 main building. These trips will take in the experiment station fields and vegetable gardens, bacteria plots and peach orchards, dairy and dairy barns
 apiary and botanical gardens, piggery poultry plant, and the beef barn and
 sheep barn.
 The estimated attendance Wednesday
 was about seven hundred, these being
 members of the Poultry Association,
 Dairy Association, Beekeeping Associa-
 tion, Vegetable Growers Association,
 and PomologcaI Society, each of whom : held meetings on Friday, and Swine Growers Association, the Jersey, Hol- !, stein, Guernsey and Ayrshire Associa- tions, and the Sheep Breeders associa- ! tions will hold their meetings
 , Poultry Association.
 The first speaker at the morning ses- sion of the Poultry Association was A.
 w. Richardson of Durham, N. H., pro-
 lessor of poultry husbandry in the New : Hampshire State College, his subject be- Ling, Using PulIets for Breeding. Pro- lessor Richardson expressed himself as
 a firm believer in using bullets entirely l for breeders never keeping over any for more than one season. By doing this he claimed better production is obtain ed for those after the dollars in egg business. Cockerels used for breeding are put in with inc bullets after the ] outlets had laid for some six months. pljp1S f,.;1ClPJ aarlV md a c they mature in about four and one-half months they lay during the early win
 ter months when eggs are bringing the best rices All cockerels of the first
 hatch A,e sold for meat but the best of the second lot are kept one side for
 breeders.
 Buttermilk is the best feed for poul-
 try and keeps them from maturing tOO ! early as would happen if meat were fed. Trap nesting poultrynen, he claimed, could not get the production that can be
 obtained with using bullets who mature early and who produce the best layers
 The second seaker was Roy E. Jones of Storrs. extension poultryman. in the
 Connecticut Agricultural College, his subject being The 1925 Hen. In speak
 ing of the 1925 hen he asked if it was : not reasonable to expect great advance ment in egg production in the next Lew years as during the past years many
 notable advances such as egg laying . contests and standardizing poultry had
 been worked to the degree it has now ) reached. The saying of $1 per hen per , year is now gone by and soon S4 or s
 must be obtained or poutrymen must go out of business. Two remedies can Joe t found for this, one being an advance in
 prices of eggs, the second being a more
 economical way of production. In this r latter statement he requested that pro- 5 per feed be given but right feeding should be advanced. One of the things Connecticut poultrymen must compete
 with is the western competition. At one time this was remote but now with ) transportation facilities it is possible to . get strictly fresh eggs into this state at prices lower than native eggs sell for I'd the only remedy for this was fo1 cooperation of Connecticut poultryrner with better conditions as their aim.
 The afternoon speakers for about ar hour were called from among the mem bers of the association, each responding telling how they started in the business and the rules governing their success ; The first address came at p. m. wher D. Lincoln Orr of Orr's Mills, N. Y, sec.
 retary to the New York Poultry, Pigeor . and Pet Stock Association. spoke on The 7 Function of the Poultry Show. Mir Orr who is connected with the Madison
 Square Garden shows. first explained that in his opinion eggs were not all O
 the poultry business. Every real poul
 tryman, he stated, is naturally poul
 try fancier and among the best in tht
 country is the ''backdoor" or back yard" poultrynaan who is not in tn,
 game for commercial purposes. Poultry
 men must learn that the better thu standard of their flock, the better tn,
 production. The poultry show educate
 the people to this fact and was one 0
 the first packers of the movement fo , standard poultry.
 :, The other speaker of the afternoon
 was Paul D. 1rne of New Haven, sec t rAtary of the Connecticut Poultry Asso ), citation. who spoke Poultry Show In U U novations in Connecticut. This state, h, said, contains many poultry association d who today work together this bein, a done in no other state Several year ! ago the associations agreed to hol T ' poultry shows at dates that would no !, conflict and when this was done GOOD
 were purchased and sent from city t n city as the show WIS held. in this man ner more than paying for themselves People should not make fun of the ma1 f owned breeds other than white leg
 horns, etc, as these men are interested