Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-02
FARMERS WEEK OPENS
 AT sToRRs COLLEGE
Special to The Bulietin.)


 StorrS. Aug. 1.AFarners' Week open cd officially today at the connec3cui Agricultural CoIleRe. By afternoon sew eral hundred inten-sted. in various fas-r activities had arrived and after signing up al the registration booth made prep arations to attend the various meetinrf and observe the many exhibits and ex. pertments that are planned for the week By tomorrow morning the number in at. tendance will Increase and befcrs tho end of the week the attendance at tho meeting will reach several thousand
 The college grounds have been czre fully laid out for the visitors and fhs committe in charge of the activities oi the week have arranged an zttractfvt schedule Of entertainments for thoss who will attend Many notable speak. CTS have been secured and tomorrow when the department progrzms openi will see the beginning of a busy week.
 The Poultry Association Of the stats held its first meeting Monday afternoon the meeting being opened at D. m by Prof. William Kirkpatrick of Connect cut Agricultural 4 College. Prof. Kirk patrick after welcoming the poultry as. sociztion to the college told of the tn. terest In the state along poultry lines Three years ago. he said. three boys came to the college with their poultry and raid their way through college h this manner. Thus far this year five young men had signihed their intentions of payinZ their college tuition in the same m.,nler. The college allowed them the use of abandoned coops and he Euc- gested that in these days when many sO- cieties wers doanting money for worthy purposes. 1t night be a good thing if the Connecticut Poultrymen's Association could lend support to the young men who desired to cam their way through college by keeping poultry at the col hge.
 The first speaker on the program wal H. D. Monroe of Pennsylvania State College. who spoke on Should Connscti- cut Poultrymen Buy Baby Chicks iu Connecticut. Massachusetts. Pennsyfva- | mia or Ohio7 The baby chicks business Is on the increase, he stated. One yoms man l know has built up a business ] In day-old chicks that netted him S1z.- 900 last year The poultryuan must however. select two methods of buying dsy-old chicks or eggs for matching. Hs can buy from selected stock or buy iron dealers who get their eggs anywhere, re 9 gardless of quality of stock He be- lieved that too many poultrymen Wer, \ forcing their hens for egg production U and paying no attention to breeding ans : thus in a few generations the selec l flock Is lost and egg production falls of When a poulryman buys chicks, he should see the stock from which the, come. Some chicks bought for nfn . cents aren't worth that much The rnor 2 expensive often turn out to be the bes; q purchaser of chicks should buy iron ]. the man whose hens show strength an Y vigor and whose egg production in = creaSes yearly. Poor breeding afwzy ftells In few generations and the poul \ tryman who forces his chicks for eg - production loses flock of vigorous pul
 lets.
 A discussion of egg selection follow
 ed. during which the statements wer s made that, nine-tenths of the trouble
 raising chicks can be traced hack to tt > egg, and that breeding from the olde n hens is better than from the bullet i z Marshall Dawson, of storrs, spoke Q ' Poultry as a Profitable Sideline. There d no such thing as a one-man poultr
 farm business as 2 side line, said NJ Dawson. One man know who had ft 1 1,r (continued on Last Page, Col. Three