Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-01

demonstration orchards s in carrying out 1 the fruit project. These orchards are O. cated one on his own farm, and the her on the farm Of Simon Brewster, Jr. Pr-iit ] ing demonstrations in these orchards wels held under the direction of the fruit s2e. 1 cialist of the college during the; last of December. No definite results have yet been secured in the lime and clover pro- l ject. No doubt after the exchange has Ebeen organized efforts will be made to 1 line up one or more carloads oflime for use in this locality Benjamin Gallup has made arrangements for at least one pas ture demonstra ton, where the use of lime and acid phosphate will be tried out. ! Grotsn 1 An interesting bullet culling demonstra- l ton was held at the farm of R.. J. Whit. ham in Groton, during the middle of No1 vember. This meeting was attended by i abcut>a dozen people, and at that time the outlets which it would not pay to keep over winter were. thrown out to be disposed of as meat. Some miscellaneous work has been done by the farm bureau in this vicinity, such as furnishing infcr- nation in regard to construction of poul- I try houses and seeing that one. or two 2 men were supplied with milk sheets in
 order that they, could keep an accurate record of production of their cows. Lebanon
 During the past winter an extension
 school of four days was held in Lebanon.
 at which time the extension specialist
 from the college talked on different. sub
 jects of interest to5the. farm menAand wo- men During the early part of November
 a farm bureau meeting was held at the
 town hall in Lebanon at which time CO., | rSrNAr iva. h5Ix kA
 close of the meeting committee with
 Ed Hoxie as chairman, was appointed to
 look into the proposition, and if advis- able to obtain subscriptions for stock for
 the cooperative exchange. To date $500 has been raised by this committee. and about 20 or 30 men yetremain to be in terviewed It has been tentatively de- cided that the organization meeting will be held on the afternoon of January Tth . II At the meeting of the Goshen com munity club held. the early part of the
 year a committee was appointed to work up a definite programme of farm bureau
 work. This committee met and lined - up the following projects:
 ' Fruit project in charge of E. " \ Jones.
 ?. Dairy project in charge of Elmer Geer
 : 3 Lime and clover project in. charge of | E. H. MCCal.S i.yy ;i --as.sF a, Cooperative. buying in charge of
 George Griggs.
 ,1 In carrying out the fruit project E. w.
 Jones has made arrangements for dem ' onstration orchard on lis farm and a Ipruning demonstration has already been s held. Elmer Geer has plans under way r to secure as many men as possible to keer t registered bulls and to- join the Better # Sire-Better' Stock" campaign which has ? been running for a little better than s ' year throughout the United States E. H # Mccall plans for lime and clover dem, l. onstration O nhis farm. A sample of thl l. soil has been taken from the demonstra. :. tion plot and analysed at the Experi n ment Station at New Haven. This sample h showed lime requirement. of 1850 lbs d ground lime stone per acre. If possible
 one or more carloads of lime will als,
 be lined up to be shipped in during tn,
 winter or early spring
 v A lime demonstration which was pu J. in last spring on the farm of C. J to Abell, showed some interesting results r. On this lime demonstration there wer y different plots on which different amount
 of lime were used. On the first plo Il where one ton per acre was used a yielt
 of 2481 lbs of hay were secured; on tn of second plot, where 1900 lbs. per acre wa
 used yield Of hay was 224o lbs: on tn se third plot. where no lime was used tn
 yield of hay was 1895 lbs. while on tn lg fourth plot where two tens of lime wer in used per acre, the yield of hay was 533 O. lbs.
 k- k Ledyard 0 In Ledyard q, culling dernonstratic, Il. was held at the farm of BIT S. Gran Vo dall, during the middle of November A ne this, demonstration number of peopl he brought in from one-half to dozen pu on lets each, to be handled by Professo le' Jones, and all of the bullets that Wer e. not worth keeping during the winte Ill were culled out from these different lot Considerable assistance has been give h- through the farm bureau to differer fruit men in this town. On one man
 farm it was discovered that he was ha1 au ing considerable trouble with brown TO ne and information was furnished him. or that he could get rid of this djsaa. ns another year Plans for the n1anagemei III of. "a, young orchard were drawn up vii at another man. While in still another il 2. ne some suitable varieties of bush fruits
 Lisbeat
 The principal farm bureau work do; on in Lisbon this past year has been in u ,ld nature of cooperative buying. A far ng bureau meeting was held early in, the ia .nt at w:ii1h time Mir. Monroe the ma TX eeir CTS specialis. from the college, discussed t ty value of cooperative buying with | farmers of this locality. At that time te- cornmittee was a1pcined to canvass t fife town to oeterr1ine the sentiment m- farmers toward cooperative buying. T at censpfttAe with James Graham hM chairman. put in considerable time in securing the names of about 30 farmer ro- who would be interested iH the organiz ,xs tien of a cooperative exchange. Owi, ,as to the small number of farmers in Il am bon 1t was felt tAat if possible, better I
 suits would be obtained by cooperatil bf with Griswold farmers, and accordins
 this committee attended 5 . meeting F Grigwoh at which arrangements we
 made for the two towns to cooperate old orEaAizng ! cooperative exchange,
 have heedTnartsrs in Jewet City. T ja. develepsient of this project has been ol
 lined under the iterls for Griswold. i've Lyme
 arc sSAt farm burean meeting held insLy4 n aann during the early part of the fan te tee tative program was discussed, and 'ett conNnSttee with Lawrence Raymond py chairman, was selected to draw up pia ion for definite farm bureau work duri sti-, +ne oawn;,e 1,es,s@ ,T,,. ,,,.-.,,.,, a. e co .tstiyely outlined includes live stock f scn prcvssseat :: hay improvement; and bet MI grain varieties
 an A. culiing demonstration was held VII Richard Peck's farm during the lat 'uis1 teontinued en rass Tea, Gel onsl