Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-19

ed by those who were watching the dem onstration. Mir Campbell went over MT Warren's dairy bull in the same manner.
 The next stop was made at George Bowen's, Eastford, where Mir. Campbell analysed two Ayrshire females and a bull, pointing out what to look for in conformation, constitution and produc- tion. Both MT. Warren and Mir. Bowen had in their herds some fine specimens for the purpose which Mir. Campbell so instructively used them.
 The party them proceeded to Kingsley Browns, Windham Center, arriving about noon. Ice cream, soda and basket lunch were next on the program, and those on the trip rested under the spruces on Mir Browns lawn. The first speaker after lunch was Mrs. Marion F. Dakin, from Connecticut Agricultural college, who was introduced by s. Howard Peckham, president of the farmers association She gave an instructive talk on the possibili- ties of accomplishment along the line of better health in rural communities. Her subject was The Farm as an Ide. Home. Mrs. Dakin pointed out the splendid den- tai clinic work that is being done in Bridgeport, the effectiveness of farm bu- reaus, and extension work tr general, in- cluding the work that has been done in
 
 tions for the employment of visiting nurses.
 Stancliffe Hale of South Glastonbury. president of the Hartford county farm bureau and secretary of the Connecticut | farm bureau federation, followed Mrs 1 Dakin with a talk decidedly to the point l and very instructive from a farmers as | sociation standpoint. Mir. Hale compli- mented the Windham County Farmers 1 association on the number of men who | had renewed membership voluntarily since the fee had been changed from s1 to s5. The doing away with an artifi- cial stimulus in the way of hard. l searching campaign stamped the 1o9 men i who have renewed voluntarily as a strong nucleus for the development of one of the best county organizations in tConnecticut This nucleus in Windham county, MT. Hale felt. would be the | mainstay in the development of a county organization in Windhsm county that will take on new tendencies. It is MT. | Hale's belief that these tendencies will | bring about the employment by the | county organization of someone who will | look after the business interests of the | farmers organization. MT. Hale men | toned the work of the national farm bu- | reau federation. the necessity for it, and some of the things h the way of tariff revision, railroad Fs.:Ss and other things ! which it has accomplished. The American l farm bureau federation has not come
 close enough to the farnsers for them to realize what has been done for them by
 this most businesslike national farmers organization, he said. The family mem- | bership of 1900 at s10 in Hartford county, in which county Mir. Hale is | president of the county farm bureau
 was spoken of as an obligation that the
 farmers in Hartford county and the off
 cers of the farm bureau had taken on
 and meant the promulgation of new
 kind of service which will be in the na-
 ture of organizing the business methods
 of the farmers.
 Mir. Peckham presented Whitman Dan ielson of Putnam, treasurer of the asso
 citation, who gave a brief talk on mem
 bership, commeD5ing those who had re
 newed their membership voluntarily, anC pointing out the sound policies that thu
 officers of the organization have decided
 upon after keen deliberation. When thI opportunity was offered those on the triI
 to renew their memberships, many tool
 advantage of it.
 Those present visited the poultry plan of Kingsley Brown, which was a matte of couple of minutes walk. and ther
 Roy Jones, poultry specialist of the Con necticut Agricultural college, pointed ou factors that should be observed in tn
 building of the houses, and the poultr.
 which was before them. MT. Jones an ! swered many questions for individual
 who were particularly interested in tn poultry business, and from every. poin of view Mir. Browns plant proved a yer
 practical place for demonstration. The next stop was at Thomas Mara,l Windham. and here one of the thing pointed out by County Agent Davis wa the value of soy beans grown in corn fo silage. He told of the Maine and Wis \ consin work along this line. The fac -that Mir. Mara had saved his leamin
 corn seed for the last five or six year was without a doubt the explanation fC the splendid field of leaning corn whic
 was before those present. he said. Visit ing the field where the soy beans wer planted alone, as well as in corn, tn
 county agent spoke concerning the metf cd of inoculating soy beans. about tn k variety, which was medium green, ths was used the fact that MT. Mara use
 soy beans in his oats for green feed tn
 spring, and that, all in all, Mir. Mara
 farm, with it's splendid second crops
 clover, fine silage coEn with soy bear
 growing in it, his poultry. bees and, dair
 represented a paying and most practic;
 diversified general farm.
 From here the farmers went to E. TN1a 14-N~