Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-20
FRANKLIN AND LYME MAKE
 FARM BUREAU PROGRAMME

Farm bureau committee meetings have receWly been held in Franklin and Lyme, which have outlined programmes to be held for the year.
 In the summary Of work of the past year given at the Franklin meeting it was found that a number of men in the town used lime and mixed their own fer tilizer this last year as result of farm bureau work Three crop demonstrations were run in the town. One on the farm of F. S Armstrong where q trial is being made to determine the value of lime in the growing of clover. Another demon stration was placed on the farms of Geo A Kahn where different treatments have been given to four plots 10 determine the value Of fertilizer in combination with lime on the growing of clover. Another demonstration was run on the farm of G. A. Miller where different sources of northern see were planted side by side to determine the value of different sources of seed In the fruit project which was , in charge of Will Brassill it was reported that two pruning demonstrations had been held at which time the extension specialist from the college showed the men proper methods of trimming and pruning trees of different ages The cooperative marketing project in charge A. of progress During the year a cooper 1 ative exchange was organized which in- cluded part of the farmers in Franklin and part in Bozrah and something like
 $13. coo worth of business has been handl- ed since the first of March. including 1 feed seeds. lime and fertilizer.
 1 For the coming year the same pro
 gram was laid out which included a bet ] ter development of the cooperative mar
 keting project fruit and crops. In addi. l tion to this it was felt that some work 1 should be done to improve the dairy con iitions in the town. Jean Aver was ap. pointed leader of this project.
 George A. Kahn was nominated by the committee as director for the coming year. This nomination will be placed with the nominating committee of the farm bureau appointed at the last direc. tors meeting.
 The farm bureau committee in Lyme
 planned the programme for the coming year. After considerable discussion i was decided to organize a baby bee. club and Lawrence Raymond was elected leader Of the club. It was decided tt continue the cooperative purchasing worl done last year. One carload of chemical. was handled in the spring and H H Reynolds was elected leader of this pro ject. Plans were made to handle at leas one carload of chemicals and carloa, of lime. WGdl Marvin was placed il charge of the getting together of seed or
 ders including all kinds of farm seed and northern seed potatoes T. is prob
 able that these orders will be place through the county cooeerative eXchang pool One crop demonstration was rul
 in Lyme last year on the farm of J. I
 Raymond and plans were made to con
 tinue this demonstration and put in tw
 more an alfalfa demonstration on tn
 farm of Ray L. Harding and a cor,
 demonstration on the farm of N S
 Strong. Mir. Strong was selected as lead CT of this project.
 The names of J. L. Raymond and Ra
 L. Harding were ordered sent in by tn
 committee as nominations for director for the farm bureau from Lyme for tn coming year. The Lyme comrnunit
 committee left it to the nominating com
 mittee of the farm bureau to select tn one they wished for nomination for d rector.