Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-05

ed president of the New London County
Farm and Home Bureau at the bureaus
annual meeting held Saturday in the
chapel of the First Congregational church
at Norwich Town. The meeting, which
was well attended by delegations from all
sections of New London county, opened at
10 o'clock in the morning when it was
called to order by Vice President j. D.
Mccarthy of Norwich Town, acting in thu
absence of the retiring president. c. J.
Abel of Lebanon, who was unable to be
present. i
The reports Of the secretary, S. E. Hol-
bridge and treasurer Webster D. Coop.
were made and accepted and were fol-
lowed by summaries Of the farm bureau
project work accomplished during the
past twelve months.
Poultry Project.
The report on the poultry project was
made bv Arthur Fellows of Norwich
town, as follows:
Considerable work has been done dur
ing the past year on the poultry project
which might be outlined under the fol-
lowing heads:
Oulling Demonstrations. Three pull
let culling demonstrate ions and four hen
culling demonstrations were given. At
one of the pullet culling demonstrations
into two parts All of the best hens
were put in one flock and all the medium
hens into another, while all pullets which
it would not pay to keep over winter
were thrown out There were something
like IA culls. This man keeps records
on the production of each lot of pu1letS
during the next year. Two other men
had pullet eulling demonstrations a year
ago and had their f1ocks divided in much
the same way. Accurate records were
kept by one man for a year and by the
other man for eight months. The man
who kept his records eight months re-
ported an average of ten eggs more
per hen over his medium flock while
the man that kept his for year reported
an average of Is eggs more from his
best flock than from his medium flock.
This should furnish some excellent IN
formation for these men to use in con-
nection with picking out breeders for an
other spring.
One poultry club was organized by the
project leader in Waterford during the
year and ten meetings have been held
attended by the poultry specialists and
sometimes by the county agent. Several
men and women have kept accurate rec
ords of egg production, cost of feed and
cost of production. This club is making
an effort to increase its membership fol
the coming year.
/ Over 100 poultry calendars were put
out in the Home Egg Laying Contest ii
this county. largely at culling demon
strations and through poultry projec
| leaders. Each month the person whom
keeps one of these calendars send in
post card giving the production for thu
month, number of hens kept, averagt
production per hen etc The -e/dltry spe
cialist at the college gets out a count!
average once a month, so that each per
son knows exactly how their flock com
parts with the average with the coun
ty.
A very successful all day county poul
try institution was held the latter par
of January. Both forenoon aid aft
ernoon sessions were held at which tim
successful poultrynlen spoke of differen
subjects and specialists in poultry from
the college also gave talks and lectures
This proved SO popular that a numbe
of people have been asking this fall TO
another poultry institute. In additio
to this poultry was one Of the main sub
jects at two community Institutes hel
during the winter.
Fruit Project.
j. D. Avery of North Stonington MAD
fthe> report on the fruit project for tn
year. The report was as follows:
The fruit work as it was carried OF
in the county this year was confne
largely to demonstration of orchard
run win a definite plan in view.
the winter pruning demonstrations wer
: held in all of these. orchards five in al
and in addition to this three other den
| onstrations were held in other part
of the county making total of eigl
held, attended by 80 people. In one con
t munity a spraying demonstration We
: arranged in the spring but the spra!
l ing in the other orchards was done
f !, the local men outside of demonstration
4 In all of the orchards the trees WEI
4 sprayed at least twice and one ma
S carried through a complete spraying pre-
: gramme putting on five sprays durir
: the season. The reason for the diseol
e tinuance Of spraying in the other o
chards was due to the hard frost whiC
d killed all the set of fruit
a In addition to pruning and sprayir
]. a definite plan was carried out in eaC
: orchard. Of fertilization. This consis
n ed of the use of anywhere from five
| seven pounds of nitrate of soda per tr
! combined in two orchards with a null
of hay or straw. All of the orchards wi
the EXCEPTION of one orchard which W
under cultivation, received the nitrate
sode treatment
A late inspection this fall showed III
r these older orchards had made exec
e tionally good growth of wood this We
l. and a large part of the trees in ca
Is orchard budded out in good shape
l. that a good crop of fruit may be e
is pected next year. These same demo
If stration orchards will be continued he
year and plans are under way for t
le organization of at least three more.
/ Crop Project.
m The crop report was made by H.
: Whitman of Waterford. In his rept
> Mr.. Whitman said:
f. without doubt the crop work CARR
N out in the county this year has be
i the best organized of any of the pl
iects Early in the spring a conferer
NJ twas held with the crop specialists a
plans were carefully gone' over for sta
ing number of demonstrations alo
different lines which. would be careful
looked after. During the next seas
t. six pasture fertf!izing, demonstrate
~ were put in, nine top dressings of h
In land demonstrations, six crop rotat
demonstrations, four potato grow
l demonstrations, two seed corn DEM
i'd strations. three silage. corn demonstl
al tions and one witch grass eradicat
I'd demonstration.
~ Hay Top Dressirg-The census rep
~ shows that New London county produ
the smallest amount of hay per acre
any county in the state. AS this 20
ty is mainly dairy locality ands-c
If siderable hay is bought by the farm
on It was especially appropriate that 50
rs. work should be done to improve the
lie. lands of the county. Nine top dress
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