Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-03
Especial to The Bulletinl

Sterrs, Conn, Aug. 2.=Rain. that fell almost continuously until afternoon to- day failed to dampen the spirits of the thousand farmers gathered at the Con- necticut Agricultural college to listen to l speakers and take part in various trips to points of interest in many departments of the college. Many of the out of doors demonstrations were abandoned for the morning but some were held during the afternoon.
 With clear weather Wednesday should prove one of the biggest days of Farm ers' week, for all association meetings and demonstrations will be in full swing
 Fhe speakers of the evening will be Gov ernor Everett J. Lake of Connecticut and Robert Scoville of Taconia, Conn.
 Baseball games between the dairymen and poqltryFnen, postponed from today will take place during Wednesday aft ernoop another feature will be the in-
 door baseball, outdoors, between the fat men and the lean men.
 The Wooden Nutmeg, published in the interest of Summer Farmers Week has
 made it's appearance ona contains the usual pep and dash that made it so drought after last year. It contains a collection of short stories, and 2 weather
 report, although the last named item is II sometimes misleading Mondays issue statedthat Tuesdays weather would be
 fair and csel and advised getting Palm
 Beach suits out in case of emergency I Tuesday, Nutmeg said that the fault in
 this news was typographical error, as
 yesterdays report read, Palm Beacr
 Suit" when it should have read Un1brel.
 Ia. The Wooden Nutmeg also fuFnishe:
 advice for those who seek enjoyment and
 carries each days program. The last pagt
 is usually devoted to sporting news.
 The meetings for poultrymen got undel
 way at 1000 a. m. Paul P. Ives of Nev
 Haven, secretary of the Conn. Poultry z mems Association introducing A. W
 Manchester, president of the Mansfield , Poultry Cub, D. M. Goodwin, presiden ! of the watertown PcSltry Club, and R E. Jones, extepsion poultryman, wn . a spoke briefly on the doing of "Adul Poultry ClubY The adult clubs, the stated made their start only after boy and girls poultry clubs had been sue z z cessful. Since these clubs have bee ' started friendly competition has stimu U lated the desire for knowledge of jus v what their poultry costs per year.
 MT, Ives stated that the annual tou - of the peultrymen would be in Connect cut this year during August 2S-26tl
 the start is to be made at Eastford an after the tour Hartford will be nea  known and most successful poultr n farms in the state are included in tt ,- trip and it is believed that fifty cal .s from New Jersey, Massachusetts an is Connecticut will take the tour.
 H. D. Monroe, Pennsylvania Stat F. college, spoke on How to get more egE ,e next winter, with especial reference 1 . the use of artificial light Mir. Mol ,e roe laid special emphasis on the Ealt m of having good, vigorous stock to sta "a with and not to push them too fast. Mo h people wait too long before using artit 70 cial light and then push it too strong ar es the first thing tbe man knows, his hel
 begin to mott and laying stops. If hel ir are from so to 6e per cent up in u of winter months then leave artificial liz lis alone. If you use light, he said, sta Is, slow and give more daily until their d; s. is from 12 to 14 hours of light Tn t 50 spring stop using the artificial light no decreasing the time by about Is minut de daily. Hens should be kept busy wh
 under light. As to the amount of me