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FARMERS TALK TO FARMERS RESULTS —CAREFUL SELECTION OF SEED ASSURES (Written Specially For The Bulletin) | pared with us iln lcumm»mm_ m1:: 1 4 t u've 8 Hla o plants a great deal more corn ‘.‘“‘.’fr:-x‘\w;.\:;w‘x:xlfi.x“u(l.:ud“;u‘ l"m{‘“(.l- | any of us would be likely to. So he The Bulletin's competition. But while | has a bigger seed-plat than we ertdinly i3 thme and more ‘then|Should meed. Ie takes as a starter e that the thing was done, with me | the ten best ears of corn he can fin rains have been so constant and | On his farm. He prepares a seed- king t T not yet through | Plat of one-quarter acre. Then he h the Job. It Is just two weeks | Shell thy ten ecars, by hand, reject- b e o Hince the whip-poor- | ing alt the tip and all the butt ker- 0 e sene an v i, nels. He plants the seed, one kernel e e O . Slanting | ina hill, thkes good cife of the Gy ti o N Ot Yhe Pourteen | and, when it matures, takes the best ime on this farm. ers . Sundays, | tén ears from the rows dhowing the dAy, seh) dry out.. By worklig &4 the heat nsed {07 seed it the.big e old Scratch every minute the | felds. man and the mud would let S st fort That they all growing one Perhaps some ot had for specialt While h than ar's will be y be an end to It can readily be seen that every ast | | improvement, but it 2 s oo ed for some geasons, ! t isn’t at all satis up, rfec should do one 1 been of selecting the oor neigh- better, years selec d in this way, hey come s good ground and the n all ten of that nd did p leally the | ang only the ve: nd z, Carlsted | g ing the seed corn, . en | Such fact Now, thers isn't as much corn | PIOVE that raised in Eastern Conne t as there | Ve 4 n art of my f tot | practi subled my i per acre g ey of the oldfashioned ongfellow” ¢ 1 the saihie ote by breeding up to two- se for rais- alks. It is $ty Bushels that there'll be more r : , pay for labor vy stalk bears and m erest and® taxes alk has but | e > sp far as tha se orn, in ot > that point w ears than one, where a i good many more bore three e And It takes a little trouble to sure | it all started from one single stalk g pertost seed, as Caf s ears on it, the only groun s I T lot I Deainess Cannot Be Helps A Judge Tenn sore on de the the actior m. tors and better, v Danfe go, when I telling are Cared just as well we farmers into ruts, and formea the habit certain way and in Selves the w out of the it so yoursely h n t into b Come, now ing | mu- | I am to that very s 7 u | self: and the more 58 I8¢ { that there isn't mu HAlls | to°get any of us old S Ty 0. | any difterently. But ot w old to le jump oy be E there's quite a 1 | in their In Bad Fix. of Gill worried anything ne us 1o best we in too many hundred and si A od from ne thr hundred or TY best seed pra vhethe; ess, with any the utmost W, ho! kno of farmers sort in them. doing thin certain ¢ < a eces tter g be ¥ to f thing, x y i and keeps on selecting his ach W m it w proving it and breeding it 3 r the 1 lares, he 1 young man ) o milghty was in el &n acre knew something about | corn is 1 ¢ et | save our seed s n fif shels of > husk, e win | x s so of {1 Sigt we who choos rn, from a sir red | Seed and e” it and han ry pla neither rain re e he in g | T€ T mic ven we fail to g st iably such iency ough pick out ting a hundred or two ears from and planting them, we should throw out two, pro- duced next season from that ten. There’s no question about the theory h shown by Caristed so sound ctice. ich when we make at selection of r we armers when we sort pos- W w-it- bully- g ords d we keep on doing them that way, e we don't feel like giving our- twi The longer | live, the more inclined | to my- | I become convineced | ch use of trying | messbacks to do | . thank heaven, he too rheumat It doesn” itional n that on 1 expens: t in- ne very we s If of curec ou are wouldn’t it be _cuts, bruises and | better for you to raise higger crops? The Lee & Osgood | If any of you are not raising corn b cause your accustomed methods : —~ haven't shown it a profitable crop, 6 No. Main St, | wouldn't it be worth taking the chance medies for kid- | to i Jus tle more care in id not cure him, | choosing seed might not turn the loss Ivertisement of | into grain gan taking > | commenc pains jeft my bac was free and Overhauling and Repair Work | Of Mech ming, Blacksmithing Sealt & Clark Comp, 387 10515 Rorih Main Si ALL K OBILE CKS and upholstering na CARRIAGES, WAG- | | sat wi And | to pr INDS ON— CAR little t painting, trim- 3 systen and wood work. | Minnesota r, who was mtent” ho hat counties mewher Lcr Now There never yet was a farmer worth his salt as a § thor- dif- one nen the census of 1910 | housand ac its branches. | dii th worth } while on ¢ rcre-and-u | half | THE FARMER, ! A Movelty. i s itself, hut a word-to- n a President and wtan Sean ent does seem a movelty, ren’t yet too | to when it happens to | This matter of seed selection isn’t | is never quite | mdelf or with what he Tolland County ANDOVER Accident to Roofer—Obituary Notes— BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder made fromRoyal GrapeCreamofTartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE LETTERS FROM TWO STATES RIPLEY HILL Town Meeting Road. Anson Will He was A good delegation attended the Po- mona grange meefing at Gilead. Leonard of New York, superintendent of agencies of an acci- Thomas W dent insurancé compan was the guest of Rev. and Lockett, on | will be held at Mrs. Zechiel's F Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Leonard | May 24. ent of the trustes board of | On Trouting y'clock fir he place own ely d m D, itizens met a b »wned by Albert War- ds near % u the place and is night | cp unroofed by the wind nan 4 he C, A. ( I'he neigh- | time ago and made other necessary re- ponded to the alarm from the | pairs to the society prop E 7 bell as promptly as could be | I and family were gue expected at that hour, and, favored by ! 3 taking their m: the absence of wind, saved the house, the ell of which was near. was not a large one, but together with taken jams, con Congregatfona ed by wn to while tin roofing, sustained a bad cut on the right fore- | finger, which caused blood poisonin: to Hartford surgeon attended to the wound. Williams is confined to his home. Mr, Richards purchased several hun- Brooklyn, both services. SPRING HILL Albert Warren Receives $600 ance on One Autemobile Burned. With Mrs. A, E. Consider State | Hill school district, Ripley Hill. where Mr. | gramme was programme was as | Greeéne and Mrs. Utley; reception, M sl, Mrs. Parker, | Freeman, Mrs. Zech | Mrs. Benjamin Greene N. Y. that| A nest of ra v le Insur- Church Property Repaired—Work of | & about 2.30| Sabbath Protective in the barn on| scribed. incey C. Davis, e The barn was | On Saturday a together with The barn | A reception will be given by the { to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson on Satu | June 8th. The next meeting of t New Club Organized—First Meeting Peterson. A club for the promotion of social welfare and the improvement of the local school grounds has been organ- | ized among the ladies of the Ripley | The first meeting | of the club was held Friday, M at the home of Mrs. A. E. Peterson, A very enjoyaple after- | noon was spent and an interesting pro- provided, after {light refreshments were served. and Mrs. Trip. t week which contained 14 League seme | health for while waiting for | In a AUDITORIUM Billy==NEWKIRK & EVANS--Sisters PRETTY SINGING AND DANCING NOVELTY | MAROU I Dick & Helen Franklin European Comedy Novelty The Drummer and the Show Girl MONDAY AND TUESDAY ONLY—101 BISON ' THE POST TELEGRAPHE EXCELLENT 2 REEL MILITARY FEATURE FIRST HALF| OF NEXT WEEK R and while getting established Loomis Maples. . Rev. Mr. McIntyre of Protective league spoke at the church Sunday afternoon. > 10, | Darrow while in town. and Sunday P.Pratt of New London. tended. |Washington County, R. gt ROCKVILLE aw of Plainfield, trees Tomaquag valley Saturday and of Moscow rents, Mr. De- | Ha former’s parents " Mrs. John Dye’s Death. the died recent guests of Green. was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. B, household effects to arrive by freight at the Sabbath interestingly He w. Miss Alice W. Pratt spent Saturday with her brother, Robert W'}ri;'h Arrive from Cleveland. follows: Music, | | Rev. Mr. Yukal, wite and three chil- arrived from Cleveland, managed to plow and plant Bciidhs 4R . dred ‘chickens from Boston, this week. |Miss Carrie Zechiel; Austin Dunham's |dren have 2 Whole_acre of corn In the | Year e thus graded up hie seed £10M | g raly Charles Johnson and Mrs, | Ke(¢h of Early Days in Coventry,Mrs. [ ONio, and he has commencel tis Tt the middle of July, if [ O - A8 . abeth and Her German Garden, 3 here and i stio i . nditions continue as here- | 51V 11 be pretty good and | Tyuesday, Charles Johnson,’ long a | Fulla Whiter mace tier aenrio Y098 | Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox of New York dlin,” The chances | resident here, was buried from the |chiel. The various committees are as|SPent Sunday at Rest cottage. - -3 e et “_‘”hf’“ e }h“] &7 | Congregational church, the pastor of- | follows: Committee on constitution, | Mrs. Bertha Je . B aro Vi hers of you may | (T8 JUS 4 legtle befter, than the W~ | ficiating. He was in his SOcH year. His | Miss Julia White, Miss Margaret Eng- |0ng ot Mrs Gardner’s, o experience. " In that | Fe0E SL00K hills wne eArs from|son will occupy the farm this sum- |lish, Miss Zechiel, and Mrs. Freeman; | Mrs. Sleight came to Cozycro i i Aol it A e e W 7t TR b refreshments, Miss Sarah White, Mrs, |42 for a week. e kA s ) seed, it is reasonable to suppose that| On the same day, Mrs. Norris Loo- | Frank Boynton, Mrs, R. H. Sherman,| The Jast Grange meeting was of ex n o ) | mer, age 90, was buried from her | Mrs. Barbour, and Mrs. Joseph Greene I intetest T home, Rev. Mr. Cooper officiating. | decorating, Miss Brigham, Miss Mary | he Grange entertainment and -| Both funerals were in the. Anover |Green, Mrs. F. B. Topliff, Mre. Johy |Play early in June the dress rehearsal| € ] cemetery. o Wednesday evening was generally at- Last Saterday Jobm Champlin, R. G. | P velve 3 3 e t the Sev (wolvo YOars. | gherman and Rev. R. H. Shermar here 1eday went to ebanon on a trouting trip % by it or the auestion of | Rey. Mr. Sherman visited his old home sy N et % | while the others were whipping the g e church on | PEORE. They report the wa 0o high Ator ga st erved . Dy the Rev. Joii 3. Lat- |7 o aey & = school here by planting shrubs and both sePVices was unearthed in this [ SChO01 I st o - rlo Barber and son were callers in 2 Crandall was a recent call- | Narraganselc | has and randall were last » has been in poor f late had seem- quite suddenly . Henry Chester of North Mr. the adjoining sheds made a hot fire for a little while, At daylight nothing was left but smoking ruins, The in- surante has not yet been adjusted on the barn, but Mr. awarded $600 on at about $800 Tuesday hour Mr. and Mr: Sunday and Monda er’'s mother, on May yme of GILEAD Pomona Meets with Hebron Grange. Pomona grange with Hebron grange at Gilead hall on The morning session was ven up to routine business and con- the fifth degree. erved at noon by Hebron afternoon and consisted of e Growth of Socialism. with for a few day Central East Centr Wednesday. grange ope he the esses on members, Mrs. C. Mildred, tic Monday. Mrs. Sherwood Raymond Britain is spending the week with her parent: Mrs. Albert Gilbert Barbara are Gilbert. GURLEYVILLE, Miss Ethel Simonds relatives in Willi ic. Walker has returned home, having spent several weeks with her parents in Mount Hope. B has returned from a Mrs. G. A, ¥. Farra with ayland 1 Latour house, place. Mrs, A. ( taining a co Narragansett Rev. E. H Wood, atten convention at STAFFORDVILLE ‘hamber] Ellery M. , who has been in the Hartford hospital for bloed poi- soning, returncd heme last week. Mr. and Mrs. James Roberts and family of Watérford are moving thig week to one of Mr. Ferry's tenements. Mr. Roberts is emploved in the Gar- H, West and sen Arthur have secured employment in Pittsfield, MANSFIELD DEPOT ing fo the severe storm there were o is v Bu ache: a The Mrs. al public New Politics, sic and remarks by many About 200 were present at the afternoon session. W. Hutchinson and daugh- returned from Williman- visiting Mrs. ar his son de ded lly impossible to the bilious. biliousness y our stomach, indigestion go —when the bowelsareregulated and the liver and kidneys stimulated by BEECHAM'S L torrs of Coventry is at father, E. F. Storrs, has , having purchased reeman has been enter- Mrs. Horniss, from Turncliffe the Sunday sehool Storrs 1s onda, Sound Sleep LS Warren has been the one machine which was insured and reperts his loss . The origin of thé fire has not been accounted for. Twenty-five hungry people were fed by the Ladies’ Aid society at the church evening, followed by patronage young people present, some from Mans- field Center, was ap preciated. . A. D. Palmer spent last v with Mrs. Palm- a of the A, Tucker, at met A sumptuons session was recitations, promineat of New and daughter Mary B. the guest of the kitchen st Springfield. moved to the the and Arthur t Thursday. 381 Fourth A reh last Sunday. | morning, [es- ove. You need Blaugas now. will send you our illustrated catalog which tells all about Blangas with details of our special One Year Trial Offer. Atlantic Blaugas Company venue A Blaugas Apparatus will light your house, do your cooking and give you an abund- ¢ ance of hot water whenever needed |, + Every Convenience of City Gas Right in Your Home A Blaugas equipment does away with all the needless work now spent in cleaning oil lamps and caring for Save half your daily work and lkeep your house clean and cool during the coming hot weather. Save your time and strength and enjoy the many comforts which Blaugas will bring you. Have a gas range and water heater in the kitchen. Have every room in the house well lighted. 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