Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-11
GAVE MILK DEMONSTRATION FOR
 COUNTY FARM BUREAU ANNUAL

An instructive address by Professor ". P. B. Lockwood of the New England Dairy and Food council of Boston, with graphic Illustrations of the stages through which milk passes from the COW to the customer, made feature of the afternoon session Saturday of the annual meeting of the New London County Farm and Home Bureau, which was held at the Community house on Church street. Professor LockHood's 8 demonstration through cleveriy contrived mechanical apparatus began with the process of milking and carried, the milk through Il .the steps and processes, to it's final delivery in bottles to the cus- toner.
 The following officers were elected at the afternoon session.
 President, H. R. Whitman, Waterford i; vice president, E. L. Waterman, Leba- non second vice president, Mrs. H. G. Dart, Montville; secretary, Mrs. B. T. Avery, Ledyard; treasurer, Andrew M. Avery, Ledyard; auditors, C., J. Abell, Lebanon; c. P. Bushnell, Norwich.
 DirectorS-Bozrah, Nelson Stark, Mrs. Edward Bishop; Colchester, Louis Ben. son; East Lyme, Walter Scott; Franklin, L. H., Smith, Miss Helen Kahn ;. Griswold, c. T. Armstrong, Mrs. c. T. Armstrong 6IOtOIIB IT, d. VI LiIIIldII' AIES SHdTIc5 Adams; Lebanon, D. W. Jones, Mrs J. R. Foster; Ledyard, Andrew M. Avery. Mrs. A. D. Barrett; Lisbon, James Ora ham, Mrs James Graham; Voluntoxn, Benjamin Gallup; Lyme, N. S. Strong Montville, Ed. O'Brien, Mrs. H. G. Dart; North Stonington, Mrs. Ellsworth Gray Norwich, Arthur Fellows, Mrs. F. S. Wheeler j. Old Lyme .-; Preston, Earl Bennett, Mrs. Appleton. Main; Salem. L D. Clifford, Mrs: IL s. Houston; Sprague Win Rabbit. Mrs. Wm. Parks; Stoning- ton, Mrs. E. NJ. Woods, C. E. York; Wat erford, Mrs. H. R. Whitman, O. R. Dim mock 2
 Directors at Large-Lebanon, J. R. Foster, Mrs. Wrn. Pultz; Lyme. J. L Raymond; Norwich. A. W. Lillibridge Preston, w. ". Service.
 County Agents Report
 The work of the farm bureau was pre-. sented in County Agent H. F. Johnson's annual report, which was presented al the opening of the morning session and was in part as follows: In going oyer the program of the prev. ious year 1t was found that practically no attempt had been made to interest the farmers in keeping records of the farm business. This is one of the most funda. mental projects which the extension or ganization can undertake and it was de. cided to write a farm management pro ject into the general program.
 Eleven Community Committees
 Eleven community committees func toned during the past year or at leaS l there were eleven committees on pape 1 and definite records have been secured tt show that "A out of 48 members on thest committees took some active interest II ] pushing across the particular project il ! their community. Practically all of tn, other members on these committees wer, running on their own farm some demon stration work so that while their inte rest was not exactly active they Wer, ! nevertheless helping to develop exten : sion work. Two very successful sectional tour were held during August. 1 Soil Improvement Project
 1 Under the soil improvement projec the use of lime has received .considerabl 1 attention. Seventeen soil samples wer taken on different farms, and tested D. 1 the Truog method at the office Withou ! exception they all show lime require i! rnent of one to four tons of ground linn per acre. During the previous year {, number of soil samples were also teste 80 that at the present time pretty goo idea of, lime requirements aaYe been SC cured for this county.
 1 Considerable interest has been show
 in the use of explosives for blasting ou rocks in fields and in blowing ditches fo drainage. As, 3 result one demonstrate five more hGre already been planned fo within the next two weeks.
 The work with commercial fertilizer
 has been largely cooperative buying an
 selling.
 Corn Production Project, Clover-It hoped by using these rotation demonstra tion fields which contain anywhere frol i one to three acres in the demonstrate I plot, that farmers will become intereste
 in following out the right kind of prac
 tlce in raising clover: If the right metf ods are not used in this county no clove
 will be raised as Is evident at the preser
 time by the lack of clover.
 fl Hay-Nine top dressing demonstration
 were run this year on the same plan a
 was carried out year ago.
 i Improving Potato. Crop
 Potatoes-Constderab work was dor
 this year on the Improvement of the pc
 tato crop, particularly, with reference
 the use of certified northern seed. I'll
 different, demonstrations that were put l
 use, in most cases, four differer
 sources of potato seed:-=- 'rk ,.
 In the potato field day at Presto