Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-01

lecsang some Of their best stock fer
breeding purposes. Il
TWO Farm Bureau meetings were held
IN salem during thislpast. year. The nrse !
one haing held In June at which time q i
t.ornrnittee was appointed 70 seeG
=. nm Bureau program. This program
g sravn no. consisted of the following
projects:
Of Joseph Dytko.
q Dairy project IN cnarge OF Lawn
). Poultry protest in charge Of L
Joseph Dytko has made some very
| deinite. progress in carrying out the
/ lime and clover project; in cooper lion
| with other members of the coGnHlartee
1 orders were secured from Is men TOR q.
| al ton car Of lime. This car was un-
1 1oaded at Colchester the early part OF
i Dscsmr,er No definite results have yet
l hssn oSsaind in the dairy. project With
ant a doubt an effort win be made to
mace some registered bulls during the
coming wear. A cullng demonstration
was held at the town hail in Salem at
| which fine a number Of people brought
= in crates Of pullets to be handled by the
poultry specialist from the college,.
| During. the fall, special meeting was
arranged to discuss the use Of hme-
Al that time Professor Dorsey from the
| college talked on growing clover and the
county agent discussed cooperative purs
chase of fertilizers and seeds
= cuIsine demonstration was held al
Hne,, Miller's farm in spague during
: November At that time PROFESSOR
: / Jones divided the pullets into the tgooo
! and medium classes, and this flock viii
: be used as a demonstration flock WIZ
!, record kept on each flock
stonington
During the past year three nesting
| have been held in Stonington. AT
= meeting held early in September, pro
). iec#s which woukl interest the conlnu 81
y tv were discussed and it was felt tina
: cooperative marketing of milk would
I be of value At a meeting held a shor
T. time ago the grain dealers OF Myssa
and Stonington were invited to discus
IS with the farmers plans for the cooper
alive purchase Of feeds. The graf
y dealers to charge certain amount pc
r ton above, the wholesale price and tn
| farmers to place their orders for cal
IA load of feed and to pay cash and tax
n it from the car when it arrived IN
grain dealers of this locality have sfaov
" a very fine spirit to cooperate Wrrh u
farmers.
ur Waterford
~ AS far as cooperative buying soc.
Waterford led the way this year
a meeting held the latter part of Jul
= the Farm Bureau program was line
- up, consisting of: a. Cooperative bu,
%. ing in charge of a committee with Hue
81 whitman as chairman t21 Dairy Pr,
20 ject in charge of O. R. Dinn'oc6
=. Fruit project in charge Of c. E. Chi
: man and w W. Wright; "a Poult
"a in charge of H. II. Leland; go Roug
~ ages in charge of H. r. Whitman.
Within a month after this Farm
~ reau meeting wac held. cooperati
~ exchange was organized and the infiuen
-. of this organization on the grain pric
- in New London was very marked. ]
W. ~, definite results have yet been report
~ in the fruit and dairy projects In t
We rtoultry project more than 20 people l1a
been secured by Mr.. Leland to Ike
80 poultry calendars for the home egg Il
ing contest. Two culling demonstrat ic
were also planned and carried out, c
", at Mr. Leland's farm and the other
- the farm of Elmer Peabody.