Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05

in those birds and in their way the TO- duction may be great
 In the evening w. F. Kirkpatrick, of Storrs, professor of poultry husbandry at the Connecticut Agricultural Col lege,' had for his topic. What Can and Should the State Association Do to En- courage Young Men Who Are Inter- ested in Poultry? In his talk he out lined the work being done at the college i and stated that it was up to the state association to aid young men who are interested in poultry if the business was | to succeed in the future The remain | der of the session was the showing of film on poultry loaned by the poultry l department of the U. S. Department of
 Agriculture at Washington, D. c. Beekeepers Association.
 The first speaker at the morning ses- | sion was Allen B. Latham of Norwich i his topic being Beekeeping From the Dollar and Cents Point of View. MT. i Latham explained how he used an in 1 cubator to aid him in producing queens for the market The use of older larvae | for grating to save time and the sys- tenn of mailing decreasing costs ] The remaining meeting of the day | was in charge of Arthur Miller of Prov l
 idence, who spoke on Planning For
 Next Years Honey Crop. Two factors
 in getting ready for the crop were the
 raising of good queens, and the keep
 ing of good combs, thus eliminating the
 drones in the broods and getting a larger working force into the field for
 the honeyf1ow.
 In the afternoon a general discussion
 of Flavor of Early Honey and 'Increas- ! ing Colonies of Bees Q-er Normal
 brought forth comments from all and
 men in the honey business and in the
 queen selling and colony selling bus-
 ness presented their opinions on each subject.
 Mock Auction.
 'Nine-ffty will anyone make 1t a
 thG~ md" was heard Wednesday after
 noon beneath the canvas of the dairy
 tent when the Mock Auction" was in progress and bids were asked for on choice cattle and horses. to the number of twenty-head Each visitor buying
 the animal auctioned told his reason for the purchase and was informed by the committee whether or not he had made
 a bargain oz had been taken in. All
 though the auction was for fun change
 was made when a f1ve-months old Hol-
 stein bull was led into the tent and
 voice from the crowd asked that the sale
 be made real in this instance The col
 lege had not intended a sale to take
 place. but to please the audience with , real auction the bidding was allowed
 and S. M Crowell of Middletown pur- chased the bull for s200 which was be-
 low the price asked at the college. The Dairy Program.
 Contagious abortion was the princi- | pal subject before the Dairymen's As
 sociation Wednesday. As pointed out , by Prof. G. C. White of Connecticut Az
 ricultural College this disease is more , widespread among dairy cattle in the
 state than bovine tuberculosis. In many herds the trouble has heen introduced through COWS purchased from sources This includes disintection of the COW where the infection exists.
 , Disinfection is the only preventive. after calving and of the male before
 and after service. Remedies and vac 7 cines have proved of little value. Dr. L. F. Rettger of Yale University, who has been working with Prof. White
 on this problem, explained the nature of , the disease from the standpoint of the , Nacteriologist. The disease he said, is
 infectious rather than contagious. Prof.
 White and Dr. Rettger have published
 two bulletins, Storrs Experiment Station
 Bulletins No. 93 and No. 103 on this sub
 ject They cover, perhaps, the best mod
 ern information on the subject. . Sterility in the Dairy Herd was the subject of W. w. Williams of Spring : field. Mass. Dr. Williams is a veteri- ' marian, specializing on the subject of . sterility. Sterility may be caused, he said by infection, by too much fat, by 7 by improper feeding.
 r On the evening program short talks s on Advertising Dairy Products were made by R. c. Fisher of the Connecticut 7 Agricultural College, H. J. Baker, Ni- : rector of the extension service, and H Q H. Meyers of the Connecticut Milk Pro- j. ducers Association.
 s Dr. F. L. Hartwell, director of the f Rhode Island Experiment Station, talk ed to forty truck gardeners on the sub e iect of Fertility Problems of the Mar t ket Gardener Experiments conducted al f the Rhode Island Station indicate that r vegetables have individual tendencies as
 to fertilizers. The same treatment will . not yield success with all crops. The 0 present effort is to determine to what . extent commercial fertilizers can re l. place manure, which is becoming very e difficult to obtain. Green manures have e failed to give satisfactory results witf , some vegetables.
 The PomologicaI Society. : The bushel basket may supplant the . barrel 10 some extent Ill marketing Con e necticut apples unless barrels become = i.cheaper and easier to obtain. The bo2 |, package has not won favor with many :, Connecticut growers. The subject O , packing and marketing brought out suite 5 a lot of discussion at the session today ', of the Pomological Society.
 r Demonstrations in spraying, pruning and grating were given at the college n orchards. ". H. Cole of Massachusett: Q Agricultural College gave an interesting n talk on storage of fruits and vegetables Q There were more than eighty fruit grow e CTS at the sessions.
 r. The Women's Meetings. Dr. Valeria Parker of Hartford, rep $ resenting the Connecticut Social lily e giene Association, talked to larg' e group of women on Mothers and Daugh n ters. The address was the feature O O Wednesdays sessions for women. U A demonstration in home nursing o , invalids was given by Miss Mary Con IT Ian of Hartford, representing the stat Il boar dof health. The women were ini
 tiated into the mysteries of how t. Il change bedclothing without disturbing