Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 27, 1914, Page 12

iTIES OF Two or three recemt publications of the government haije interested me much, and I wonder if they might not some of you? Anywlay I'm going to pass them on to such of vou as may not already have seem them. The first is a sl caf of statistics from the ceusus burtau, showing the eight largest crop-produfzing counties in the coumtry. Of these eight, the first is the extreme west;—Los Angeles county, California, which had in the year reported on a totsal agricultural production of $14,20,9(0 in fruits, veg- etables, hay, Hvestock =and dairy pro- ducts. The lowest of the eight is in the extmeme Maine, with a total production of $10.- 151,000 in potatoes and vegetables, The other six come in the following order, with No. 23, east—Anoostook county 3,059,000 12,811,500 12,540,700 11,377,300 10,607,800 10,222,200+ Iroquois, il La Salle, 1L, In all of these six counties grains are the princlpai production, though dairy products take 2 high place in Lancaster county, Penn. The census figures also show the income per acre in these eight best farming counties of the United States. They are as follows: los Angeles, Cal. Lancaster, Parw. . I > Aroostowk, Maine 2n 3 McLean and Lawingston, 11 . 18 la Salle, Ii . 17 Iroquotls, 11, . 16 | ‘Whitman,_» Wash, 14 Still more intevesting to me are the statistics of the production per capita in these eight bawmner courtties. They strikingly reverse the order of acreage production. The waiue of farm crops produced to each individuwal in these counties is shown in the next table: Whitman, Wash Iroquofs, Tn. . Livings 1 i Nelaam T, Aroostook, Mbi Le Salle. 1L Lancaster, Penn. | Tos Angeles, ; It seems a bit curious, at first giance, that Los Angeles, Cal, and Lancaster, Penn., should head the list in produc- tion per acre, veith Iroqueis, TIl., and Whitman, Wash, tailing it with the lowest production per acre, while | Whitman and Iroguois lead in pro- duction per capita and Lancaster and Los Angeles drag at the. lowest end of the ecale in per capita production. Naturally, one wouid think that a county which got the biggest crops per mcre. would be likely to give the biggest results per mdividual. A glance at the census fizares of population, however, shows forth the explanation. Los Angeles, for instance, is the most populous county in all California, THE SEVEN GREAT AGRICULTURAL COUN- (Written Specially fbr The Bulletin) , most of them city residents and, there- with over half a million inhabitants,’ AMERICA fore, not engaged in agricultural pro- duction. The one city of Los Angeles alone has 319,000 inhabitants. Whit- man County, Wash., on the other hand, has but 33000 inhabitants, is almost wholly given over to farming, hasn't a city in it with so many as_3,000 people. Similarly, Lancaster, Penn., has 167,000 inhabitants, with several cities runming from 50,000 down: while Troguois, Iil, has buf 35,000 peo- ple, with nothing larger than a village in its boundaries. It makes a big difference with the figures of production per head when you have to divide the total in one case among 500,000 people, nine-tenths of whom never touch a farm tool, or, in another case, amon~ only 33,000, nine-tenths of whom devote all their time to farm work. While it is undeniably true that “figures don’t lie”, it is just as true that you've got to find out exactly what they say or you may deceive Yyourself. Nor is there any reason why we of the east should feel any sense of dis- grace because a California county, Los Angeles, totals the highest- gross production of the eight banner coun- ties, while Aroostook, Maine, reports the lowest of the eight. In the first place, the principal crops of Los An- geles’ are oranges, lemons, and the like,—rather hizh-priced fruits; while the main stay of the Aroostook farm- ers is in common, plebeian potatoes, which sometimes ‘cost the consumer enough, but seldom bring the producer | high prices. Again, while Los Angeles has over 500,000 Aroos- | took but Los Angeles has a climate which its residents brag about as the very finest in the world with twelve months of summer every vear, while Aroostook sticks its within shouting _distar Labrador, and is un pleased if it gets-as much as consecutive months without a freeze- up. If the names on the map afford a ju. criterion, Los Angeles is three- q cultivable while two- thirds if not three-quarters of Aroos- took are ¥ and mountains. That the eastern farmer should an area with so much waste land under such unfavorable conditions of climate, pull the county up even to membership among the first eight is a notable achievement. derness,—woods and lakes in nd Of course, Illinois will put up a big | brag because four of the nation’s best eight counties are in its limits. Well, let it. Its four prize winners lie prac- tically in a hunlh right in the heart of the famous “corn-belt”; a broad stretch of rich, black-soiled garden land; a prairie with anywhere from fifty to five hundred feet of fertile | dirt below it: so level that the 'ma shows one railroad running seven five miles across three of the counties named in a line as straight as if drawn by a ruler. Vhen the farmers of a bleak, cold, -solled Maine county, most head Y | producing quality, three | of | i Did you imagine that the farmers the country were using, for instant about $§,000,000 worth perannum of cottonseea oil cake, not for feeding, but for manuring alone? About ninety per cent of all the sulphuric acid produced in this country is used to making superpHosphates, and the do- mestic output has increased in tweiv years from 3,000 long tons to 303,000 In ten vears, the output of phosphate jrock has doubled, amounting to about , 3,000,000 tons in 1912. Altogether, taking all the sorts in a bunch, the United States produced for the use of its farmers $104,000,000 worth of commercial fertilizer in the year for | which figures are at hand—an increase {of over $50,000,000 in five years. This, 1n addition to what we im- ported. And we bought from Chili more than $20,000,000 worth of nitrate of soda, alone. I'm not digging out these figures, | just now, with any purpose of preach- {ing a sermon about commercial fer- tilizers. Time enough for that on some other occasion. But it surely is i significant that the production of ar- tificial manures should be doubling in this country in five years. Doubling in spite of the fact that the price is constantly climbing. It looks as if some farmers, somewhere, were using 1 the stuff and making it pay. They wouldn't keep on calling for more and more at this rate, if they didn’t think they were getting their money back from it. Nor would the manufactur- ers increase their production if there wasn’t call for it. | 1 don’t know,—haven't the figures at hand to tell me—but from some | scattered items which have come un- der my observation I am strongly in- clined to believe that the Aroostook Dotato-growers, for instance, are us- ing commercial fertilizers rather free- ly,—a good deal more freely tham the | corn-growers of La Salle county, Ili- nois, we'll say. And they are getting an average return of $23 _an acre, while the boys out in La Salle think $17 an acre something to brag about. One thing is certain: you can empty {a sofl of its fertility, i. e. its crop- in course of time, {Just as surely as you can empty a quart-measure of water by pouring it out. When the quart measure is full you don’t need to put any more water in it: when the soil is new and full of fertility you don’t need to spread arti- ficial fertility on it. But when they're both emptied, something has got to be done. You've got to pump fresh water for, the one and put on fresh fertility for the other. Where are you going to get that fresh fertility? That's the whole question. You must get it from some- where, or your farm will peter out. | Shail it be barn-yard manure frem your own herds? Or shall it be gyp- | sum from Nova Scotia? Or shall it | be phosphate rock from Florida and | Tennessee? Or shall it be potash from Germany and nitrate of soda from Chili? Or lime from Dunburg? You { must have something. You want the thing which will cost you the least, in | proportion to the crops it produces. | Which and what shall it be? | As Tve said, over and over again, [(ha\‘ is a question which each farmer must make his own soil answer for | him alone. And the only earthly way 1 can see to get that answer is to bvisiting various cities and towns have found from experience that it is wise to drink good beer, rather than water. “Good beer is always pure and never i bacteria. . contains harmful and disease breeding It provides the needed liquid nourishment ; Thel:émous Select Stock faoer Baif Stock Banquet Ale Oa draught everywheré in New England. Your dealer can supply BREWERY BOTTLING for home use. in the purest aswell as most palatable form. “BEST BY FAR" The new mumdm building is nn‘ny completed, wi dedicated last ‘Wednesday. IM devoted to the purpose for which it was constructed. It is a substantial and magnificent bullding, a credit to the architect, the bullder and the city and a monument t6 Mayor Bryan F. through whose char- acteristic progressiveness the muni cipal building became a reality at this time It cost a big pile of the peo- ple’s money and it is believed the peo- ple have recelved full value for every dollar expended, although it is believed the building could be duplicated for a much less sum of money. A satisfying feature of the building lies in the fact that it was designed by a New London architect, built by a New London con- tractor and, so far as was possible, the money spent in the construction of the bullding was handed out to New Londoners. That is as it should be and it demonstrates that no bullding is too small and none too large to be handled by local contractors and local architects. | designed the new Manwarring build- ing, the new Plant biulding and their construction is by New London con- tractors, as was also the Plant man- sion at Eastern Point and other pri- vate mansions in the vicinity of Gosh- en Point and in the Pequot colony. It is to be hoped that all things be- | ng u..e local contractors will be (o ered, yes, even favored, when contract is awarded for the buildings of the Connecticut College for Women, architects that is to be in charge of the construction of the college build- ings, is a New Londoner, was born | here and went through the graded schools and graduated from Bulkeley before taking up the study of archi- tecture. It has been anmounced that bids for the construction of three of the buildings will be opened next Mon- day, and that New London contractors are among the many bidders. And it would be gratifying to the people of New London who generously contri- buted to the college fund if the con- | tract, was awarded to & New London firm, one of responsibility and with financial backing sutficient to carry on the work without a hitch. There are such building firms in New London, and their bids should be the favored ones, provided there are no great dif- ferences in the estimates. It would be a setback to the pro- gressive spirit of New London to have the contract go to some out-of-town firm that might be specially favored by the architects. Here in the country the opinion prevails that contractors in New York are generally favored by the architect firms of that city, but that may not be the case with the firm of architects of which the native New Londoner is a member. It will be disappointing if the contract for the construction of the college buildings is not awarded to a New London firm. Even the contract for the construc- tion of the Connecticut state pi which involves an expense of $1,000, 006 which was planned by a New London- er, was awarded to a New London contracting firm, and the sub-contracts also went to New Londoners, and the state will get the full value of the liberal appropriation. This work progressing satisfacorily and demon- strates the ability of local contractors to handle bigger jobs than the con- struction of college buiidings. It is a foregone conclusion that the new Y. M. C. A. building will be designed by a New London architect and built by New London contractors, and this | building, like the Plant and Manwar- | ing buildings, will probably be larger | than any single building in the college group. New London Is ably represent- ed on the board of trustees who will probably see to it that the New London Dbidders get a square deal. The ing the Baldwin-Comstock combine as op- poced to the Mahan-Landers combine, in the preliminary contest for the noms- inations of United States senator antl | governor of Connecticut, with Mahan pitted against Baldwin for the senate nomination and Landers and Comstock for the governorship. It is clearly a democratic skirmish and there will be battle formation at the state conven- tion, when a candidate for the United States senate will be nominated in convention for a first time to be bal- loted for directly by the people. As governor, Mr. Baldwin by placing re- publicans in the highest salaried places at his command did not make many political friends in his own party nqd it is believed there will be an anti- Baldwin delegation at the convention that will have considerable power, es- pecially so if the established party rule prevails In_sending as delegates the meimbers of legislature, very few of whom ‘are the political friends of the governor. So at this distance, with Mahan and_Baldwin as candidates for the senate, Mahan is slated as the win- ner, but his election is an entirely dif- ferent problem. is some gum shoe campaign- Mahan knows, as does everybody else in the state, that even as strong a candidate as himself cannot be elected on the democratic ticket in Connecti- cut, provided the republican party is united by the corraling of the trouble- | some large herd of Bull Moose, that have already commenced leaping over the barbed wire enclosure of republi- canism. _ But is it believed that enough of them have seen the error of their way, been convinced that their deser- tion meant democratic success, simply that and nothing more, and will re- turn to the republican fold father than serve as allies to the democratic party. With Baldwin disposed of, Com- stock has no chance for the guberna- torial nomination, for the same politi- cal crew that wrecked the Baldwin craft would sink the Comstock boat and its crewe deep in the political seea. Comstock is close to the governor and was perhaps instumental In getting just a few of the good-paying appoint- ments for democrats and probably banks on the support of these demo- cratic office holders and will probably work them for all they are worth in the political game. Comstock is & veteran in the game of politics, but his methods are so well-known to his political opponents that they will not be effective. It will probably dawn up- on Messrs. Baldwin and Comstock that they have been plaving a losing game in_politics and that they might as well take hold of the long rope and draw their sled. The political indications bili secured by the nf-. and 4 action gentle Beecham S Pills Sold everywhere. In boxes, 10c., 25¢. mmhwdww.u New London architects | One of the members of the firm of ' Will be {he next governor. going on throughout the state by | from a demoecratic standpoint just at this stage of the game are that F. Mahan will be the democratic idate for United States senator lll( George F. Landers the democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut. While the republican leaders are smiling at the political antics of the democrats, they are at the same time busied in quietly healing the breaks in the party and many of them are con- vinced that party success would be better conserved if there were some slignt changes in the directorate of the party in order to make sure success at the polls in the coming state election. {1t may be that those who are respon- sible for the eplit in the party will take 2 tumble and retire for the good i of the party. That is the fervent wish of the New London friends of Senator | Frank D. Brandegee who are desirous ‘of securing his nomination and r election. He has served his state well and has succeeded in attaining a front rank position that only comes after { long experience in the upper branch of ! congress and Is won through merit and { efficienc If it should come to pass that the | twe leaders of the political parties in { New London, Brandegee and Mahan, should be pltted against each other the result of the vote in the city would be among the most interesting of the | election returns. There is more_ad- i vance political interest in New Lon- ‘don as to whether Brandegee or Ma- han will be the next senator, than who The result of the yote in New London would not cause much heavy betting but it would be a ter to one shot Comstock | would not lead the republican candi- | date governor in New London, and the ‘betting would be even with Landers in the running. Tolland County STORRS Getting On Wlth Amory and Gymna: ium—President Beach To Spend Vacation In the West. The éoncrete foundation for the new standpipe is being put in, under the direction of Prof. C. A. Wheeler. The outside wails of the armory and gymnasium are nearly finished. Twe iron girders for the floor are being put in place. Has Gone West. President C. L. Beach has joined his wife in Kirkwood, Mo. He will spend his_vacation in_the-west. Miss Ethel Fitts and infant san Kenneth have returned from a visit In Ware, Mass. Mrs. Rogers is entertaining Miss Gordon of Hartford. Miss Edna Shepard of Fitchburg, Mase., is visiting Mrs. H. D. Edmond. Dr. and Mrs. Newton have left for their vacation. Dr. Rettgar of Yale university with his family are oc- cupying the house for the summer. Washington County, R. 1. RICHMOND Two Local Students Graduated from South Kingston High School—Road Commissioner Appointed. Commencement exercises of the South Kingston High school were held in Hazard Memorial hall Thursday, June 18. The program follows orchest invocation, Rev. . Reynolds; chorus, Ilaf Tryg- vason, Grieg, school: address of wel- come, A. A. Griffin; essay, The Pan- ama Canal, Attmore Edwin Griffin; chorus, In Spain, Glee club; essay, The Life and Work of Mary Antin, Annie Bertha Congdon; chorus, June Song, Bucalossi, school; essay, Oscar ‘W. Underwood, Francis Joseph Mc- Grath; chorus, Darkey Lullaby, Dvo- rak, Glee club: essay and valedictory The George Junior Republic, Mary Clarke Tucker: violin solo, selected, Luther Emerson Caswell; presentation of diplomas, Hon. Sumner Mowry: chorus, March of the Toreadors, from Carmen, school: benediction, Rev. C. P. Redfield; music, orchestra. Among the graduating class of 16 were Henry D. Hoyle and Andrew W. Moore of Richmond. Baccalaureate Sermon. The baccalureate sermon to the class of 1914, South Kingston High school, was delivered by Rev. J. W. Forbes at the Peace Dale Congregational church. Short Paragraphs. Fred W. Smith and Miss Mary E. Brown were Sunday visitors at Charlestown Beach. William H. Kingsley, who has been ill for a number of weeks, is slowly improving. Miss Florence Milner has returned, after spending a few days in Provi- dence. Andrew Moore was a guest recently of Attmore E. Griffin at Salt Pond, Wakefield. William A. Wilcox of Westerly was a recent business caller in Beaver River Valley. Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Hendrick of Wickford Junction were calling on relatives in this vicinity Sunday. William J. Dawley is the owner of a new automobile. John J. Cottrell and family, Miss Mary Brown and Fred W. Smith were of an auto party which motored to Woonsocket R. I, recently. The Beaver River school closed June 19 for the summer. The Sunday school connected with the Baptist church at Shannock held a very successful children’s day concert Sunday evening, June 14. Tompkin’s Wild West Circus visited Shanonck Wednesday. Luke C. Holley has recently been ap- pointed road commissioner by the town council. WEEKAPAUG TR Cottagers Arriving for the Season— ‘Mrs. Butcher in Germany. Mrs. L. C. Sanford and family New Haven have ardved at Wyncots | cottage for the summer. Miss Minnle Theilacker has arrived at Birds Nest camp and is getting it in readiness for Mrs, George McLeod of Philadelphia, who will occupy the camp_this summer in the absence of Mrs. Howard Buteher who has gone to Germany for three menths. Mrs. H, A. McComber has returned home, after & pleasant visit with rela- ives and friends in Weserly. Mrs. Rehert Scott and children of Philadelphia are guests of Mrs. Scott’s mother, Mrs. Charles E. Morris at East Cote cottage, Miss Jane Tuttle of Hartford arived Thursday at Bayfleld, James Fletcher has purchased a nice pair of black horses to use in his bus- iness. ROCKVILLE Miss Ethel Kenyon of Hope Valley, attended church here Saturday and was a guest of her aunt,"Mrs, Jeared T TANIMATED WEEKLY A NA % SQUEAK, Comedy W BEST SHOW IN A LONG TIME—3 ACTS—VAUDEVILLE and r.n.\-lh.auu&mhuhhnvw Funny Picture, also FANTOMAS THE MAN IN BLACK—4 PARTS PICTURES DE LUXE _ALL BIG FEATURES TODAY CYRIL SCOTT in “THE DAY OF DAYS 4 REEL FAMOUS PLAYERS DRAMATIC MASTERPIECE 4 REELS MUTUAL MOVIES BOYLE and CRAIG. = EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE IN “TESS OF THE STOR COLONIAL Tho ‘Voice in the Wilderness. Countess and the Burglar. A Snakeville Epidemic. . .One od Head and Ma's Suitors Matinee So—Always Cool and EMPRESS OF IRELAND DISASTER .Two Reels Featuring F. Bushmueh KEYSTONE COMEDIES “The Big Singing Favorites ' COMING MONDAY, TUESDAY WEDNESDAY M COUNTRY,” 5§ REELS THEATRE Thrilling Selig, Feature Drama Wild Succession of Roaring Events and Over the Fence is Out Comfortable—Evening 10c Quality Is Porch Rockers, Chairs, Grass Rugs Cool, Comfortable, Attractive. Prices at a very comfortable tem- perature. REQUISITES 62-66 Main St., Norwich No housewife ever regrets buying a CRAWFORD RANGE—Recommended by America’s Best Cooks. Couch Hammocks Are the Comfort Ham- mocks. nomical Hammocks too, for they’re substantial as well M. HOURIGAN Economy They are the eco- $6.00 buyl an exceptionally Finn Block, Jewett City G. Barber at Ferncrest. John Lewis and family of Volun- town were callers at E. C. Kenyon's, Sunday. Misses Eilla and Lucy Palmer have been camping the past week with the Camp Fire girls of Hope Valley at Clark’s Point Mrs. Jared G. Barber has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. William E. Hammond at Wickford a few days this week. Emory C. Kenyon made a trip to Quonocontaug beach Monday, taking down a load of furniture for parties there. USQUEPAUGH Pastor Returns from Boston Conven- tion—Family Clambakes Planned. Dr. S. C. Webster and son, George, of Westerly, and Dr. George Webster of Chester, Pa., were callers here on ‘Wednesday. Miss Sallle Levceh of Providence, who spent last week at The Maples, returned home Sunday evening. F. K. Crandall of Westerly caller here Wednesday. Rev. C. H. Palmer returned home Monday, after attending the Northern Baptist convention at Boston last week. Mrs. Mary McConnor and Mrs. Anna Wells attended the circus at Hope Valley Monday. Mrs. Collins has gone to Maine to visit relatives. Mrs. Eva Webster has finished her school year at Point Judith, and is | caring for her mother, Mrs. Sarah | Franklin, who has suffered with rheu- matism for geveral weeks, but is bet- ter. Attended Picnic. Allie Kelly and Master Edward C.| Kenyon attended the school picnic at Beaver River. Mrs, E. L. Stmmons visited friends | here one day last week.’ Mr. Sullivan of Providence is visit- ing his daughter, Mrs. Mary McCon- nor. Mrs. Bert Stanton returned to her | home at Hope Valley Tuesday, after a ! week's visit with her parents, Mr. and | Mrs. G. Palmer. Herbert Lord of Providence spent Sunday heere. John Loftus suppiled the pulpit here Sunday. Hardy Kelly visited his father at ‘Wickford Sunday. Mrs. Richard Bristow and children spent Monday and Tuesday at W. Young’s. There are to be several flmlly clam- bakes here this year, as usual, Miss Helen 8. Lamond has finlshed her school at Kenyon and is spending her vacation with her parents, J. S. was a meh milk, with malted ‘ablet form, also, HORLION’S*’—at %‘t u”.l ‘without IL Allo knnp ‘Iblnll)rhkl-‘clluu—mm-lw Lamond and wife. C. C. Kenyon of Ashaway was a vis- itor in this village Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bray of Lafayette spent Sunday at T. T. Loche's. ~ HOPKINTON Pupils’ Piano Recital Well Attended. A pianoforte recital was given by the pupils of Mies Jennie Louise Blake Tuesday evening at her home on High street Ashaway. About fifty people were present and the exercises were well rendered and thoroughly enjoved. Mrs. Roger W. Lewis visited friends tmn New London over Sunday. A strawberry supper was given by the Second Seventh Day Baptist so- clety at the home of Walter D. Kenyon Tuesday evening for the benefit of the pastor, Rev. A. E. Witter. The attend- ance was large from the surrounding villages. Dr. J. Riley and family of East Greenwich visited at the home of Lew- is F. Randolph, Jr., Tuesday night. LOUIS DESSART, ARTIST, DEFENDANT IN SUIT. Ciaim That He Failed to Paint Picture on Time. Louis Paul Dessart, the well known artist, having a handsome summer res- idence at Old Lyme, is made the de- fendant in a suit for $2,500 brought by Arthur Hanna Folsom and the Folsom Art galleires of New York for an al- leged breach of conmtract. Property to the value of $3,000 of the defendant in Old Lyme was attached Wednesday af- ternoon by Deputy Sheriff J. H. Tubbs. The plaintiffs allege that on April 25, 1911, they entered into a contract with the defendant to paint ten pic- | tures to be delivered to them, two each year for five years, and that in case of failure to deliver the pictures befors April 23 of each year the defendant was to forfeit $1,000 for each picture. The plaintiffs claim that Dessart has failed to keep his contract by not de- ; livering the two pictures this year at the stipulated time. ‘The defendant claims, however, that Just prior to April 25 he asked for and Teceived consent of the plaintiffs tp be allowed a short time longer in which to give the two pictures this year a few finishing touches and that the pictures were delivered a short time after the specified time. The papers in the suit are returna- ble to the supegjor court of New Lon- don county the first Tuesday in Sep- tember. Mr. Dessart is one of the best known artiste in the country and bas ac- quired cpnsiderable fame not only in this country but abroad by his work. in form—dissolves extract, 1 than tea or em& in trdning The best diet for Infants, Growing Chil and the Aged. It nguu with the weakest di‘ufion. it .,z‘m'" A =2'¢'-“—'