Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-29
FIELD TRIP THROUGH

GOSHEN, LEBANON, FKANKL
 The field trip conducted Friday by the New London County Farm Bureau cov- cred the towns of Goshen, Lebanon and Franklin.
 The trip started from the farm of E. w. Jones at Goshen MT Jones showed the party through his demonstration or chard where he has a very fine set of fruit. This orchard was sprayed three times this year through the spray ring organized by the Farm Bureau in this section. Some of MT. Jones' Brown Swiss cattle were also seen Mrs Jones en- tertained the women in the house with an exhibition of home made quilt, rugs and home made freless cooker. At E. H. McCalrs which was the next stop Mrs. Mccall had home made couch hammock ready for exhibition while the men looked over MT. McCalps demonstra- ton field and corn. From there trip was made to the farm of B. l.. Water man. Several things of interest were seen here including MT. Watermans Hol- stein cattle and a lime demonstration field, one-half of which received ton of ground lime stone and the other haN of which received no lime MT. Water man said that he secured about one-third more hay from the Timed portion at the time the first cutting was made and at the present time there is good second i growth on the Timed part while the l growth on the unlimed part is, very un- even and much thinner. MT. Waterman said that the increase on this second crop would more than pay for the lime which he used. The corn demonstration which he Is running Is showing up ex- ceptionally well and some very interest 1 ing results ought to be secured when l the weights are taken on the different varieties. It was very noticeable that where the corn had been thinned to three 1 stalks to the hill the growth was much larger and the weights much better ma. tured than where there were four or five stalks in the hill and no thinning had been done.
 The next stop at the farm of B. R York showed a very fine set of apples ir his orchard of 80 trees. arious estimates were made on the crop of apples in this orchard. Most of the men feeling, that the trees ought to give around five bar rels per tree. The fruit is of very fine quality due to the spraying which wal carried out by the spray ring The stoI at the farm of Fred Abell showed another corn variety demonstration in excellen shape. On this demonstration plot 1t wal | secured from Ohio was much larged ant
 would give a considerable greater growtf
 of fodder than corn seed bought from To cal dealers or seed raised in this county Several of the men on the trip stated tha
 they wished to secure some of this corr
 driect from Ohio farmers to use for thei
 silage next year.
 Thestop at J. R. Fosters farm provet
 a very enjoyable one. Plans had previ
 ously been made to eat lunch at Bailey
 Ravine but considerable time was los and lunch was eaten on J. R. Foster
 barn floor, as it was rainy at the nool
 hour. MT. Foster showed the party hi
 fine herd of pure bread Jersey cows an
 an excellent pure bred Jersey bull. ;
 brief trip was made through the orchar and Mir. Foster pointed out two Groven
 stein trees from which he has alread picked more than enough apples to pa the total toward the purchase of th
 power sprayer. It is needless to say tha ei he is well pleased with this piece
 work done by the Farm Bureau At tn ; suggestion of MT. Waterman and NJ
 Jones the party stopped to look over tn
 new Lyman, Memorial High school c
 Lebanon Green. Everyone in the part
 seemed very much interested and @ , pressed themselves as feeling that tn building will prove of great deal of valr to the town of Lebanon. From there tf
 party went to the farm of Lloyd Aver . North Franklin where Mir Aver had { : exhibition his cattle and his big Holstei |. bull. Some of the men made a gue that he would weigh from 22oo to 24t : pounds. The auto tour broke up at th f place after both men and women ha
 pitched a. few games of horse shoes af : the men had played few innings F ball.