Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 9, 1914, Page 8

- New Bnglander is to bring himself to & kRS s O et B | ©0; e t in ythi; ‘hatever. He looks upon the r -the very same eyes the | said: to look, in altural prodigies. ‘told that a watermelon ‘its vine on a western hill- éd down and hit the house, drowned the whole family in ‘he is half inclined to be- “thinks that everything from seeds will grow out there if ‘the seed is dragged over the fields, He seems to believe that when , the farmers want some corn all they have to do is to drive out on the prairie and ‘load up the carts. And, on the other side, he is skeptical of-all claims for 'Ng; England. Try it on any gath- something of & business man, and go out work as the man does whe es cloth, or shoes, or newspapers. STRAWBERRY BEDS. By D. L. HENDRICKSON. b bed of yours are strong and healthy, it will pay you to renew it. When the earth is soft from a recent.rain, mow the bed and chop out all grassy growth with a sharp hoe. Burn all this litter as soon as it becomes dry, as well as the mulch; both may be raked out from between the rows and burned in the aisles. Then with a one-horse plow, throw a furrow from each side of the row into the center of the space between the rows. Cultivate this mid- dle about every ten days with a fine- toothed cultivator. Hoe the plants in the row often; in fact, keep them just as clean as newly-set plants. Stimu- late the plants by top-dressing them with nitrate of soda—two.applications of seventy-five pounds each per acre. In December, .spread the bed ‘with rot- ted stable manure, which ‘furnishes ‘both fertility and a mulch. If the. bed is rank with weeds or grass, plow it and plant to late sweet corn or set to late tomato plants. grins and the disgusted scowls. 2 The run of real New England farm- ers have not yet become reconciied to the fact that they can raise more corn to the acre than they do in any of the star corn states of the West, and beiter eorn at that. But in ten years there ‘was but one Western state (Ohio) that sexceeded New England in corn yield, and that by only .3 of a bushel per scre.. Of six “corn states,” so called, New Xngland exceeded their ten-year average by 3.4 bushels to the acre and it exceeded the average of the United States by 9.3 bushels per acre. %, New England is some on corn, as we note by the record of a youth of Mass- achusetts, who raised 127 bushels to the acre, or the New Hampshire man wha_got 133 1-3 bushels to the acre, or the ,other~New Hampshire man who harvested over/100 bushels to the acre 1ro; & 40-acre Iot. One hundred | bu of corn, with the fodder, is worth in New England in the neigh- borhood of $1256— sometimes more, and sometimes a bit less. Where is the ‘Western corn farm that will produce | $126 per acre, right in the midst of a | market that is always eagpr for more? | A Comnecticut man raised 112 bushels | of 1 corn on an acre, and boy beat with 121 bushels. A s fic’'test of one man’s crop showed that it $66.76 per acre actual net it, with every possible expense L up to it. This is a rate,that T make a man with a hundred acre corn patch rich in a few years, or £ n half of it. Sixty-five hundred dollars a year from 160 acres is pretty .for the New England farmer. And the best thing about it is that he | can do it, if he will, and if he has the corn land. If he has not the corn Cutting Timothy Hay. Timothy is at the best stage for cut- ting when it is in full bloom, writes a correspondent of the Rural New York er. If‘one has a large amount of grass of the same grade to harvest a begin- ning should be made a little before the best stage for cutting, 'so as not. to lose from being over-ripe. If the day.| is bright and breezy I proceed as fol- low: I etart the mowing machine about 9 o’clock in the morning, and stop the same’'as soon as I think there is sufficient grass cut to handle dur- ing the day. If, however, 1 have sus- picion of foul weather I stop the ma- chine before I think there is half enough down, as it is better to secure one ,or two loads of hay thoroughly well made than to have twice the quantity partly spoiled with a rain shower. hour after starting the mower. If the timothy is very heavy it is given a second tedding, going in the opposite direction. Then about noon I start the rake, and about an hour later com- mence hauling and clean up the last swath before 7 o'clock in the afternoon. After the hay is in the barn the lat- ter is tightly closed at night. There igw no dnmgeur of he{::ixtxg ox; moldinghln land, and hes any other one of the |the mow If the timothy is cut when more than 67 varieties of New England | the bloom is on the head, and mowed he can still get rich, if he will do } 8Way Wwithout any rain or dew on it. have done. The hay will come out in the winter t need not be assumed that every | Pright green in color, and it will be man plants corn is to get $65 per | WOTth almost as much to feed and the scre profit. They won't. They don't. |Stock will relish it almost as well as can, if the conditions are right, | 8Tass it was made from. There is a oy W e o T o | forether, | A\ Idder works metter I " 0] to oo that the conditions are IEnb P it takes just two swaths of ihe mower, and a rake is more satisfactory when it is wide enough to gather in three swaths. This, of course, re- raises around 2,000 bushels of | hay must be handled quickly, every year and uses the stover his silo.” He figures that the stover ys for raising the corn and that his 9 bushels are all clear profit. It ineans $1,500 of clear profit on per_ bushel. He does not sell it, but feeds it to k and gets his meney in pay for and pigs. In mid Massachusetts a ‘man made $50 per acre on his corn. It -be thought that I have been selecting prize corn flelds to mention, and I have. There is no reason why .all_corn should not bé as good as the ize fields, allowing for different land. e prize fields were the ones that gave s big profits. But let us take an ex- Am was not a prize fleld: at not pilanted or raised with of making of it a prize fleld. assach: MULES ON THE FARM. —Are Cheaper to Feed. first farmer in Semerset eounty, Malne, | to undertake systematically the - ing of mules. Hig venture is not the result of any theories or preconceived due to some very satisfactory experi- Mr. Stevens admits that he has had a liking for mules ever since the first saw some on a circus team when a boy. The first good opportunity to own one came his, way only a few years ago. It was such hard work to buy one mule that Mr. Stevens made up his mind to invest in a jack and“ raise enough to make it worth while. He went out to Ohio so that he could see what he was getting and came home with a jack carrying a liberal warrent. That on failed to make good, how- ever, so Mr. Stevens went to Ohlo again and made a satisfactory ex- change. But by that' time the mule fever had gotten such a hold on Mr. Stevens, that he was not satisfled to come home with just & jack. To make the trip worth while he bought a mate to the mule he already had and also a Jenny. After working his mule team through summer and winter, Mr, Stevens was more enthusiastic over them than ever. The pair weighs 2100 pounds, and Mr. Stevens says that even at their age of four and three they are egulva'ent to mature horses weighing 2400. They are quick on their feet, easy to handle anG considerably cheaper to feed. They will grow a good bit yet, and when matured will be'as fine a farm team: as any man need ask for. Last, but not least, the' pair of mules have only cost Mr Stevens about the price of one first-class heavy western horse as they come to Maine through the ordinary trade. chanels. Mules are said to live to a refimrk&hly old age, and to be milk and pork. practically immune to “the various iils Corn ,_-pl fine, clean ¢rop to raise. | Of the' flesh with which horses are Almost all the work may be done from | afflicted. Mr. Stevens expects to see the seats of machines, The land can |2 004 many of them in Maine within ‘he_plowed with a sulky-plow, the ma- | the next few years. nure pn‘ti on :’ith a spreader, the har- z rowing done with a harrow., which the LISH LEGHORNS farmer rides, the planting dome by a S & = MAKE NEW RECORD. horse pll.nterihtha cultivi e same e hnsking don s machine. ~About i che formor “has | Featurs of Thirty-fifth Week of-Egg 10 do with his hands is to cut the stalks ing Contest At St 3 and nun“than to the silage cutter. Loy L S ere is a large amount very good The chief feature In the thirty-fifth corn land in New England that is not | week of the Laying Contest at Storrs ‘mow utilized for that erop, There is [was a new high weekly egg record mo%g in it, from around $20 acre up | made by the pen of English Leghorns g3 & £ 1 ; grass He plowed it and to oorn, giving it only ordin- Nature was on his side, and fall he found that he actually champion field of corn—I123 of shelled dry corn to the His lend was not remarkable. it only ordinary treatment. the corn that really took a se, &3 he entered it after he was all to harvest it, and when he had ‘been for some weeks ignorant of its ggw England farmers are raising mmore and more corn each year. The al- most universal use of the ensilage for feed has promoted the raising of corn. or that feed it was for many years oustom to uss green corn, with the ears not grown. But after a while ripe corn became to be used, the ears .being allowed to nearly mature and belng cut into the silo. Then some- hody, discovered that the fodder of dead-Tipe corn makes good silage after the ripened ears have been taken off; and aomebody discovered that the fodder was worth as much for feed- ing as the cost of growing the corn, Ieaving all of the corn for profit, which the prudent and thrifty farmer feeds to cows and hogs and takes his pay in sqees { ¥ : as we have seen, It is good | owned by Tom Barron. Up until this time 61 egzs has been the best yiel that any pen of ten hens in the con test has beem able to produce in any one week until this English pen raised the mark two eggs by laying 63 last week. Second homors for the week were won by Gleaview Poultry Farm, Rockville, Conn., whose White Leg- horns produced 53 eggs and third place goes to Branford Farm, Groton, Conn,, with 52 eggs to their credit. There were a total of sixteen pens ‘that laid 49 eg®s each or more during the week or a yield of 70 per cent, an experimental pen of White Leghorns owned by the Storrs Station laid 56 egs or a yield 30 per cent for the week and the English pen already referred to made the top notch record of a 90 per cent yield with their 63 eggs for the week. This is considered - truly satisfactory- efficiency for -summer ion. The total yield for all The Charm of Youth | | for just as much inamanasit does in & woman. In business it is often c-:::l Youth If the plants in that old strawberry | I start the tedder about one | quires two horses, but it pays, because | 1309 Neale Maine Farmer Prefers Them to Herses | Brundage, Danbury, Conn., §. C. Rhode. eral months and at the end of that a cold and it soon rids the system of any catarrhal tendencies. Over Ten Years Ago. *“I would not be without Peruna. ‘Although it was over ten years ago that I first gave you my festimonial, I am of the same opinion as when I wrote it, and give you the privilege to use it as you see fit. I still use Pe- runa when I think it necessary. I am | recommending it to m§ neighbors l ‘whenever a.chance occurs.” | Still Praise Peruna. Peruna is undoubtedlyea splendid medicine for the stomach. A great many péople after years of searching for a remedy finally try Peruna and are cured. This remedy is especially helpful in cases of weakness of the stomach. Those who prefer to take tablet@ instead of liquid medicines can get Peruna Tablets. Mrs. K. BE. Woodruff, of New Haven, Conn. X The awards for the month of June have been made as follows: The blue ribbon or first prize was won by the pen of English Leghorns with a yield of 249 eggs. The second prize was captured by Charles N. St. John of Greene, N. Y. with a pen of White Leghorns that laid 236 eggs for the month, P. G, t of Wallingford, Pa., beat out G. A.\Cosgrove, West Will-' ington, Conn., by one eg and Wwon third place with a yield of 235. i Tom Barron, the Englishman whose | name has been so often mentioned in! connection with laying contests and | whose birds are now leading the two chief American competitions also the laying contest in British Columbia and | in still another contest in England, is now on his way to America and will be in Storrs the last three days in July at the time of the Connecticut Poul- try Association’s fleld meeting to dis- cuss with Connecticut and other breed- ers the process of feeding and breed- ing by which he is able to produce such wonderful layers. The ten leading pens to date are as follows;” Tom Barron, Catforth, "Eng- White Wyandottes 1463, Francis F. Lincoln, Mt Carmel, Conn. White Leg- horns 14186, Merrythought Farm, Columbia, Cenn, White Wyandottes Bros., Apponaug, R. I, White Wyandottes 1291, Tom Barron, Catforth, England ite Legherns 1288, Cecil Guernsey, Bast Cobleskill, N, Y. White Leghoras 1306, A. B Island Reds 1205, Dr. J. A, Fritchey, Hagrisburg, Pa., S. C. Rhode Island H. C. Stevens of Norridgewack is the | Reds 1154, P. G. Platt, Wallingford, Pa., White Leghorns 1150, Bennie Brook Peultry Farm, Saratoga, N, Y., ‘White Leghorns 1182, The following is a list of the ten notions about these animals, but is |leading Connecticut pens: Francis F. Lineoln, Mt. Carmel, White Leghorns ence running back over several years. | 1416, Merrythought Farm, Columbia, ‘White Wyandottes 1809, A. B. Brun- dage, Danbury, S, C. Rhode Island Reds 1205, Branford Farm, Groton, ‘White Leghorns 1146, Glenview Poul- try Farm, %ockville, White Leghorns 1091, Frederick M. Peasley, Cheshire ‘White Leghorns 1028, D, J. Ryan & Son, Bridgeport, White Wyandottes 1028, Frederick H. Benton, Wellingford, White Plymouth Rocks 1027, A, B. Hall, Wallingford, White Leghorns 1020, Mrs. K. E. Woodruff, New Haven, ‘White Leghorns 1016. EIGHT ARCTIC EXPLORERS THOUGHT TO BE LOST. Two Parties of Stefansson Expedition Not Heard From. Ottawa, Ont, July 8.—Right mem- bers of the Stefansson Arctic expedi- tion, who were believed to be A on | Wrangel Island, off the coast of Alaska, | with the rest of the Karluk month ago, are now thought to be lost, according to a report which Deputy today from Captain Bartlett in Nome. Bartlett commanded the Karluk. The previous report, from which it was inferred that the .whole party had reached Wrangel Islamd, neglected to mention two parties of four which set out ten days after the Karluk sank— one for Herald Island and the other for an unknown shore, dimly discerni- ble through the Arctic night. Neither panied the first party returned and reported ped by water three miles from shore. Four men were left with pro- visions on the edge of the ice, waiting for* a chance to land. That was the last heard of them. The four were Officer Alexander Anderson of Inver- keithing, Fifeshire, Scotland; Second Officer Charles :Bartlet, Seamon John Brady and Seamen Archibald King, all of Victoria, B. C. - Beuchat of Paris, of the expedition; Alister Forbes Mackay of Edinburgh, the surgeon of the expedition, who Shackleton on one of his expeditions L. Murray of Foxfleld, Hantz, England, the oceanographer of the expedition, also a Shackleton man, and Thomas Morris, a sailor. This party was seen a week later by an exploring expedition from: the main party, which reperted that Beuchat's hands were frozen and he refused offers of assistance and !Danger obs ‘Drink Habit Men who drink to excess are in con- stant danger of losing health,- position, business, family and home. also liable to meet with serious acci dents, or commit crimes while under Minister of Marine Desbarrats receivedl | 1 | | i at progress had been stop- | e seemed to be in poor shape, but that ! 1 party, ! which was reported safe more than a | of these parties has beefi heard from. | Thé supporting- party which accom- | The second party consisted of Henry | the ‘anthropologist | {he pens amounted to 3134 which is a | the influence of liquor that will ruin | bare two eggs under the yield for (he | their lives. ~Drink habit has filled our | | preceeding week., thid period there were thirty-four individuals, in | FPotter’s flelds” with criminals, luna- | the contest that proved to be every- day-in-the-week layers and they in- cluded Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, ‘R. 1_ Reds, :Leghorns, Orpingtons, Campines, and “Hens.” . Another interesting feature of the week are the changes in the ten lead- | Jabit Treatment - ing pens. Bonmie Brook Peultry F: Saratoga, N. Y. and P. G. Platt, Wall- ingford,” Pa., both' ers of White Leghorns took their place g the and in a7 pens outl Neal Institute, iy ,"m e v jails, penitentiaries, almshouses and tes, paupers Realizing this, will you continue to drink or permit your husbands and sons to deo so until they are heyond hope? It is your duty to give them medical treatment — The Neal - Drink which will remove the craving and necessity t drink in three days, without the use of hypo- jdermic injections, and restore them to sober, sane lives. nd them to the Chapel ' St. and forgotten = dead. CL; { ] 1 { - New | | The New Outing H: - Have _\Arriv‘ed»’ ~ You Are Invited To ~ OPENING DISPLAY TODAY somed again—it is in full lower with the newest 3 PANAMAS, SOFT STRAWS, BLACK VELVET, WHITE AND BLACK SATIN AND SOFT WHITE AND COLORED FELT HATS ) —ALSO— A CHOICE LOT OF PRETTY UN- TRIMMED CHIP AND HEMP HATS IN BLACK AND WHITE. Inspect This First Showing of .Outing Hats transportation back to camp. ,That | was the last heard of the second party. ‘ On Feb. 24 the main party of 14 { white men and several Esquimeaux | left their camp at the scene of/the wreck and set out for Wrangel Islang, | which they reached on March 17, after | a struggle of 16 days over the ice. Captain Bartlett, with an Eskimo, left, | seeking help. It took him 17 days with a dog train to reach the Siberian coast at & point about 50 miles west of North Cape, after a jourmey of 150 mliles, From his landing point Bartlett made a 50 mile journey on land to Emma Harbor, where he was subsequently picked up by the whaler Herman, Captain Peterson, A letter from Peterson states that Captain Bartlett was in bad shape. On the long sledge journeys his hands and | feet had been badly frozen and he was suffering greatly, Bartlett, apparently recovered, is now at Nome waiting for the American re' enue cutter Bear to take him with su plies to Wrangel Island. When Ca tain Bartlett left Wrangel Island the 13 men who remained were apparently in good shape. 2 Sihce navigation will not open until the end@ of August, no word of the|huge audience attending the confer- parties can reach civilization until}ence of the Association for the Pre- fall. 1\‘enliun of Consumption by telling 0 X AR {them that they were practically all CROP FORECASTS. | tuberculous. He said: | " “If with the aid of radium and & Government Announces Expectaticns | microseope I cnul? look ?i[d the chests iti | of the audience am addressing, In S Sl 1 o, {90 per cent of you I should -discover {a small focus or area of tuberculosis,” Washington, July 8.—Forecasts of the total production of the nation's principal crops, interpreted from Te- | ports of the conditions of the crops on July 1, were announced today by the department of agriculture as follows W{’nter wheat, 655,000,000 bushels; spring wheat, 275,000,000 bushels; AMEND HOME RULE BILL. | First Question Regarding Ulster Ref- | erendum Carrjed 158 to 35, to- | London, July S—The committee stage tal wheat crop, 930,000,000 bushels: |of the bill to amend the Jrish Home corn, 2,868,000,000 buskels; oate, 1,201,- | Rule bill opened today in the House 000,000 bushels; barley, 1,000,000 | 5t Lords, and will oceupy three days. bushels; white potatoes, 356,000,000 ; The first (Snionist amendment, to efim- i bushels; sweet Dotatoes, 50,000,000 | jnate the clause of the bill providing bushels; tobacco, 738,000,000 pounds; | for a vote to be taken in each county flax, 18,000,000 bushels; rice, 23,000,000 | of (ister on the question whether it bushels. should be excluded from the opera- tions the Home s Y ile bill, was car- Ninety Per Cent Tubercuyjous. 3 S Leeds, England, July $§—Sjr William Osier, regius professor medicine at Oxford University, today startled the 2 { ried by 158 in 640 shecp &n/ { - the prifiter always ' picks is Not “Pi”, Mr. Printer, but P-l-E. 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