Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 26, 1914, Page 8

YALE BOATHOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION START NEW CHUR BUILDING OPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND. Statistics of Building and Engineer- ing operations In New England as compiled by The F. W. Dodge Com- pany follow: Contracts to Nov. 19, 1914..$146,015,000 Contracts to Nov. 19, 1913.. 155,783,000 Contracts to Nov. 18, 1912. " 175,301,000 Contracts to Nov. 19. 1911 . 153,152,000 “ontracts to Nov. 19, 1910.. 140,440,000 1 Contracts to Nov. 19, 1909.. 147,155,000 erations. Contracts to Nov. 19, 1908.. 96,103,000 g Contracts to Nov. 19, 119,879,000 = Contracts to Nov. 19, e : 000 It will be some months yet before the Contracts to Nov. 19, 7121000 [ work on the new.Greek Orthodox Contracts to Nov. 19, 89,338,000 v i Sonttacts (opiov. a0 59,538,000 | church to be built on Convent avenue Cantact to Ny 10 195012099 | near Central avenue will be com- menced. Rev. N, Nekolenko said on Monday of this week that he thought the erection of the new church would be started right after Easter. The plans have not yet been completed but the general sketches call for a two story building with a steeple. The material of which the bullding is to be constructed has not yet been de- cided upon but the interior of thie new church will be fitted up with modern furnishings. The St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic society of the United States No. 111 incorporated have purchased two lots of land from the Shetucket company on Cenvent avenue upon which the new church will be constructed. Rev. Nestor Nek olenko the pastor of the Greek Orth Contracts to Nov. 19, 106,307,000 Porto Rico Cruise You will revel in the tropical richa e TR e e interesting sights and people, You will enjcy a b Dr. Lyman Ab me 1 than that of Italy or Southern California.’ charge of the work. Until _their new church is completed the Greek Orthodox people of Norwich will con- Alllg: Days $94 5 and tinue to hold their religious meetings -Expenses o up in their present quarters on Seventh New York to and sround the lsland and return to New York, including stops in principal ports where stcsmer may be used as your hocl. Sailings every Saturday.” Write for booklet. Address Cruising Deparirment NEW YORK & PORTO RICO S.S. CO. General Office. 11 Brosdway. New York or any railroad Ticket Office or Authorized Tourist Agency. street. . Foundation In. At the Thames Dyeing and Bleach- ing company’'s plant in Uncasville the foundation for the additional build- ing to be constructed there is now in and the frame work. will be well along soon. The building is to be 50 x 100 and of wooden construction cov- SOUTH MANCHESTER. E. L. G. Hohenthal & Son have started work on the erection of a new house on Ridgewood street, It will be of frame construction, 38x50 feet, and will be aranged for four tenements. John Mahoney has completed the foundation work for a house on Spruce street for Little & McKinney. The McRoberts house is to be moved to the new foundation. Charles Eckbert has work under way on the erection of a frame cottage for himself on the Middle Turnpike at Homestead Park. E. C. Elliott, Jr., has completed W. H. Card’s new bungalow in Buckland. Hé has also completed Arthur D, Hale's house at the corner of Main and Russell streets and has work well un- der way on James Trotter's two-fam- ily house on Lilley street. PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING SUPPLIES for Plumbers, Steam Fit- ters and Mills Th: Norw.ch P.xmbing ‘upply House Phone 12 Central Whart * MIDDLETOWN. At a meetinz of the members of the Middletown Yacht Club this week, af- ter considerzble discussion, it was voted not to take any action concern- ing the erection of a new building un- til after the annual meeting to be held next February. Linus Baldwin has been awarded the contract for a new house to be erected on Oak street for Stanley Behilling, Oak street, Tt will be 23333 feet, of- frame construction and will contain six rooms, with furnace heat and electric lights, The foundation will be of concrete. Wells & Wilcox has heen awarded the contract and have started work on the erection of a frame garage on Home avenue for H. H. Frazier, F..C. GEER, Piano Taner 122 Prospect Street, Norwich, Ct ‘Phona 611 g Call Up 734 WHAT YOU GET in PLUMBING is more important than what you pay. If we install the PLUMBING you're sure of the RIGHT system at a moderate price. A. J. Whol 'y & Co. 12 Ferry Street T. F. BURNS Heating and Plumbing 92 Franklic Street AT GALES FERRY Russian Society to Build on Convent AveuuhContnctrfor Lincoln Avenue House Awarded—Other Building Op- dox church in this city is in' general | CH AFTER EASTER ered with coprugated iron. Contractor C. M. Willlams is in charge of the construction work. Contracts Awarded. Contractor E. A. Kinne has been given the contract for the plumbing for the residence being erected on Lincoln avenue for Mrs. Sarah Mc- Gee, of Sherman street. The plans for the new residence were drawn by Architect ~-Charles H. Preston. The contract for the laying of the gravel roof and the placing of the metal cornices on the Sunlight build- ing on Franklin street has been award- ed to John O. Johnson. Progress on Theatre. A new theatre which is being erected in Plainfleld by. Contractor George W. Allen for a Baltic man, is now.well along and the roof work is being push- ed along. It is expected that the thea- tre will be ready for use by the firet of January. - Building Addition. F. Buoano who recently purchased the building at 426 East Main street is having an addition built on the south side which when completed will be used as a shoemaking establishment. The addition is to be one story high of wooden construction. The frame is now up and the carpenters are at present laying the floors. The addi- tion is about 13 feet wide and about 25 feet deep. There are to be two windows one either side of the en- trance which will be vestibuled. New Front Well Along. The masons are at present at .work putting in the . new .front _of- the Shields-Thumm building in Franklin street. The iron work of the old front has been replaced for the first floor and on the second where buff brick is being used the exterior work .will probably b e completed this week. There will be six windows across the front. Sidewalk Laid. ‘Workmen have been busy for several days putting in the forms and pour- ing the new sidewalk for the Thayer block the frames for the 'sidewalk lights having been previously placed in position. The walk across the driveway to the south of the building has also been rebuilt of cement. ® New Garage. Contractors have completed a brick garage for Everett B. Dawley at the rear of his home on Laurel Hill ave- nue, and are now engaged in the lay- ing of a concrete driveway from the sidewalk thereto. Yale Boathouse. Contractors are pushing along the work on the boathouse being con- structed at Gales Ferry for the Yale crews on the site of the old one. The week of November there were eight incorporations with.authorized eapital stock of $260,000,-and in 1917 six fn- corporations with capifal stock of $312,600.° . t, the large amoun sets and liabilities b Burr aterbury and Stamford show -~ease over the same week n ts were granted for buildings costing $421,780, which compares with 81 permits for Contracts awarded last week are for factory work in New Haven and Bridgeport, apartment house in New Haven, addition to theatre in Bridge: port, store and apartment buildings in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport, residence work in New Haven, Hart- ford, Norwalk, and Hartford, tenement blocks in New Haven, Hartford, Stam- ford and New Britain, and a _large number of ome, two and three-family houses in all parts of the State. There were nine sales of es- tate last week in Norwich to seven a year ago. The loans for the same per- l?dsl were $31,100 and $10,100 respec- tively. In New London there were five sales last week to six a year ago, mortgage loans being $12,792 $7,700 for the same weeks. - the and PROSPERITY LIES IN INCREASING THE NUBBIN Something Which All Corn Growers Should be Anxious to Get. A. P. Sanders, former secretary of agriculture in Ohio, says: “Add two ounces to the average Ohio nubbin and tons of prosperity will be added to the railroads, banks, elevators, milis, mer- chants; farmers, and some smali change to the preachers.” This same prin- ciple will surely apply® to the Con- ecticut nubbins, and the majority of the corn growers of this counity are most anxious to get the added two ounces. It is surprising to see what a small-sized ear is raised for an av- erage. With hills three feet and six inches apart each way and three stalks per hill there are 10,665 stalks per acre. Many of these stalks of the flint type will produce two ears, thus increasing the total number very ma- terially. With the average yield of 42 bushels, the average weight of each ear ‘would be 4.4 ounces with one ear per stalk. Surely the added two ounces could be produced with the best seed and treatment as the average weight of ear that is produced great- ly exceeds this. Thus the principle trouble Is poor stand, due largely to poor, weak seed. Travel around the county and it is easy to find numbers of farmers who have their corn hanging on the-eide of the barn. This may be satisfactory until freezing weather comes on and the snow falls. This resuits in the corn 'becoming wet and then being dried by the midday sun. From now on the corn should be placed where it will continue to be dry—otherwise it will likely become so weakened that poor germination or a weak root sys- tem will be produced, which in turn will produce barren stalk. Too good care cannot be given to the seed, as it is the most essential. A little care now will mean less replanting next spring, and finally mean as Secretary Sanders states, dolars to the farmer and prosperity to all FRUIT TREE PRUNING. What a Colorado Authority Has to Say About It. Pruning of fruit trees is a subdject ‘which is drawing out discussfon at this time of year. Prof. E. P. Sandsten of the Colorado agricultural college has the following to say with regard to last | pleted to AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS illiam H. Seyfried has nearly alterations and improvements or and interior of the house at 268 Bank street which he recently purchased. ‘The house purchased recently. by Mrs, George L. Chaffee at 271 Mon- tauk avenue has been reshingled and renovated inside and repainted and im; on the outside. tephen J. McMullen has let the contract to Oliver Woodworth for the reconstruction of the lower story of the house at 45 Bradley street into stores. There will be two stores with glass fronts and new floors. Three Garages. Edwin Cruise has a new Mr. Cruise is building holls structured garages at the residences of C. Hadlai Hull and Frank L. McGuire, both in Vauxhall street. Foundation In. The foundation has been completed for a new residence for Mrs. Gertrude @1 Cuflen at Connecticut avenue and Ashcraft road. The house gvill con- tain seven rooms and is to be built of wood with all conveniences. ous years. All apples In bins should be sorted immediately; poor apples, diseased aples, etc., should be re- moved and discarded. There are many farmers who should seriously consider whether the time is not ripe to dispose of their apples which have ripened so rapidly. Apples are ripening faster because of the warm fall and especially dry weather i which prevailed just before picking time, and also because of the fact | that many people allowed their apples ‘to ripen up more on the trees than they have done formerly- SPRAY MATERIALS. How It should be Cared for During the Winter. Several fruit-growers and farmers have varying amounts of arsenate of lead paste and consentrated lime sul- phur solution on hand. This is due to the fact that they ordered more than they really needed or did not have time to apply this material. Many are asking whether or not it will be of value next year. Both the paste and the lime swiphur but especially the lime sulphur deteriorate rapidly in value with age. The arsenate of lead be kept submerged in water, that 1 the water should never be allowed to evaporate so that the paste will cake or harden, and the paste should not be allowed to freeze. The concentrated lime sulphur so- lution if contained in the orizinal packages should not be touched ex- cept to place it down cellar or else- where, where all likelihood of freez- ing is removed. All packages, removed should have some cheap oil placed on top of the lime sulphur so that the air will not act on it. Air will break it down into its constituent elements, thus causing it to deteriorate quicker than will any other thing. All Iime sulphur that is kept over should be used stronger than is recommended satisfactory. It will be a good plan to send eariy next spring a eample of lime sulphur to the company that made it and ask for their opinfon of its value. ALFALFA. Tn all probability many of the. fall- ures made in attempting to grow al- paste in order to be well kept should | how- | ever, which have had eome material | and even then it will not always prove falfa, and to maintain stands after inspecting for the disease in the herds in and around that city. the few more needed to this As soon, as this troubie is | relative amounts of over efforts will be made to sign up |centrates. 1. The amount of dry matter. E factor we are able to regulate roughage and con- we mean hay y roughage corn fodder, silage and so forth and start operations with the cow testing.|by concentrates we signify the grains It is hoped that this first of the year. Science and the Farmer. Hoard’s dairyman gives the follow- ing editorial about scientific farming which perhaps explains the predujice Many farm idea and judgment concerning sclence and scientific agriculture, Somehow they have acquired the notion that to be scientific is to be theoretical, and not practical whereas the exact oppo- site Is the case. The sclentific man constantly limits his belief and his action to proved facts; to laws and principles that govern facts. Noth- ing is true to him until it is proved true. He has no room for traditions or notions handed down from father to son- He refuses to be governed by such consideration. What do the facts of farming teach? It is his constant study. He has learned to be a broad man, considerate of what others, as well as himself, know. He realizes the danger of being narrow and shutting his judgment and action up to con- clusions drawn from such a mental condition. The scientific man always looks up- on the farm and its problems as be- ing vastly bigger than he is: the un- scientific man always considers him- self to be bigger than the farm. scientific we do not mean being simply book learned. That is but a part of the real thing. The man with books or without them, who knows a fact and all it means, and all it requires, is truly scientific as far as he goes. But the trouble with the farmer is that the foundations of his knowledge and judgment are too much confined i to the little he does know, rather than {to all the knowledge of the facts that he might know. To that extent is he unscientific, unequal to the task that is before him. Out of that state of mind comes the prejudice he feels towards sclence agriculture. As long as that prejudice exists it is a veil be- . tween him and the truth. Farm Bureau Movement Growing Notice has receutly appeared in the the digestive organs so as to give the ts. l matter will be about the Orfllnn:‘l‘ly. in rations for cattle and is from foods classed as roughage and one third from concent two-thirds of the dry matter trates, the ra- tion will be bulky enough to distend best resul 3. Digestibility of the ration. A ter should be digestible. A little over two-thirds of the dry in the ration should be di- estible; that is the amount of total nutrient should be at least two-thirds 3. Nutritive ratio. By this is meant the ratio that the protein has to the carbohydrates and fats in a food. These are the three important ele- ments in every ration. The tissue while the carbohydrates furnishes the ~ Lthnlo into flesh and body ea 4. Variety of the ration. Very few of us would want to eat corn meal mush and molasses, day after day but how many of our farmers give their dairy cows any more of a variety than this would amount to. Variety stimulates the animal's appetite. This explains why we use so many grains in_our ration. 8. Suitability to the animale. The foods In the ration should be suited to the animal and to the purpose for ‘which the animal is fed. For example, wheat bran is not suitable for feed- ing hogs because it is too bulky; wheat be obtalned in production. With dairy cows palatability is easily secured by providing suculent food in the ration. The condition of the food has much to do with this factor. No musty nor food should be fed. . Cost of - the ration. Without & doubt this is the most important fac- tor to the farmer. However, the other factors must not be sacrificed for cost in every case- Rations are made up of grains furnishing the cheapest pro- tein, carbohydrates and total digestible nutrients. In the above ration corn or corn and Massachusetis papers of three new Improvement Leagues siarting. The movement is growing in all states. Also one bank.ng concern in another part of Massachusetts is about to ! start a bureau on its own responsi- bility and to stand the whole cost. If one concern can see its way clear to fiLance this whole work it surely ought to be worth the same to the various business represented in the rest of our counties. moved u%lu place, thus winning second and in this the third week they head the list with a yield of 46 eggs. Wind- | sweep Farm’s pen of White Leghorns rom Redding Ridge, Conn., easliy won first place in each of the first two weeks but now they have been obliged to drop back a little and came in second with a production of 41 eggs. | Merritt M. Clark's White Leghorn's i from Brookfield Center, Conn., and Hillview Poultry Farm's Rhode Is- land Reds from St Albans, Vi, tled for third place with 37 eggs each. The Storrs Experiment Station’s sour milk pen of Leghorns followed these closely with 36 eggs to their credit. The Experimental Pens referred to are managed in much the same way as they were last year except, however, that five different breeds are repre- sented instead of two as heretofore. One pen of each of these groups, name- 1y, Pdymouth Rocks, Wyandottes; Reds, Leghorns, and Light Brahmas is | fed the regular contest ration whereas its corresponding pen Is fed the same | ration with milk substituted for meat. The ten leading pens to date are as follows: Windsweep Farm, Redding Ridge, Conn., White Leghorns 137; Ed. Cam, Hoghton, near Preston, England, White Wyandottes 119; Storrs Exp. Station (Sour milk pen) White Leg- horns 94; Merritt M. Clark, Brookfleld Center, Conn., White Leghorns 91; coh meal furnish the cheapest carbo- hydrates, cottonseed meal the cheapest orotein, and middlings the cheapest total digestible nutrients. Because of the fact that ground oats at the pres- ent time are so reasonable we made up rart of the corn ration with them as they are nearly of the same value as far as carbohydrates is concerned and carry a much greater proportion of proteln. Bran is good for evry ration re~ardless of the cost on account of the beneficial effect it has of the di- gestive organs of the cow. It will be noticed that every cow that is giving her maximum amount of milk is al- ways rather loose and)to bring about this laxative effect we add a small portion of linseed oil meat. This ration should be mixed togeth- er and then fed at the rate of one pound of grain to three pounds of milk in the case of Jersey or Guern- sey cows and one pound for every four pounds in the case of Arvehires or Holsteins. Much money would be saved the average farmer If he would feed acording to milk production as many of our cows are getting more grain than they deserve and others are not getting as much as they would pay for in Increased jon. Seve: farmers of the county have saved anywhere from two to five dol- lars per ton feeding the about ration and you dairymen can do the same, Pruning Fruit Trees. Tt isn't much too early to begin to think about pruning and trimming our fruit trees. The apple exchange that the agent has done some work with in the last few weeks shows an astonish- ing lack of good fruit. The farmer that produces quality along any line never lacks a market- And don’t think that just because you spray once or trim out a few dead limbs that the product will be the best. The problem of triming and pruning, spraying three or four times, cultivation, fertilization spiling has been finished and the car. penters are now engaged in the ersc: tion of the bullding. BUILDING AND BUSINESS. What Developed In the State During ° Past Week. Sales of real by warranty dead in the Connectiout towns reported by The Commercial Record last week numbered 282, with mortgage loans of $608,750, which compares with 310 sales and mortgage loans of $772,857 303 salen and Joans of $565,633 ia ‘o o8 an ans 56,622 in like weelk of 1913, 7 i The five incorporations last week Robert d. Cochrane QAS FITTING, PLUMBING, ETEAM FITTING, 10 West Main Strest, Norwich, Conn. Agent for X, B, O. Sheet Packing. Phone 881 and :uz ity k’: Jnhfi W, i o 9 ng. £ aran- bty S P ilaionk | and GALVANIZED J F. TOMPKINS 67 West Main Street STETSON & YOUNG Carpenters and Builders FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY THE VAUGHN FOUNDRY CO No. 11 %> 25 Ferey Strest 23-23 WATER STREET, Contractors should get our prices for TIN, COPPER PIPING FOR STEAM HEATING Large stock of llll Smyplies always on hand SE.cll’-tz of HONEYWELY, Hot Water lsstlul J. P, BARSTOW & CO. Owners WORK before plac- NORWICH, CONN. winter pruning of fruit trees:— ‘The average farmer and fruit grow- er has very little conception of the proper pruning of fruit trees. It is generally done at any time during the winter season, when the tree is dor- mant. If no time is at hand it is de- layed for another year. This system of pruning is disastrous. The fruit trees should be regularly pruned, re- gardless of the amount of pruning re- quired. If pruning is done every year the tree wili fit into the habit of pro- ducing a certain amount of wood and fruit, and there is little occasion for severe pruning. If the pruning dur- ing the first three or four years of an orchard after planting is properly performed, there will subsequently be one of two years of cropping, may be attyibuted to poor seed, writes George N. Smith, in the Connecticut Farmer. It is pretty generally agreed that Grimm 1is preferably to all other of the known varieties of alfalfa seed. Ac- cording to the U. S. department of Agriculture commercial Turkestan seed is neither hardy in northern lati- tudes, nor adopted to the humid cli- mate of the East. The department states that approximately one-fifth of the alfalfn seed used in the United States s imported; and of this quan- tity, practically all comes from Rus- sian Turkestan, and that most of the imported Turkestan seed is used in the East. It would seem, therefore, that the extensive use of Turkestan seed is responsible for many of the fallures made in the growing of al- falfa. Farmers who have had uhfort- unate experiences in their attempes to seed. the kind of meed, it would seem wise to make cartain that the seed pur- chased is the very best seed obtain- LAYING CONTEST AHEAD OF LAST YEAR. In Three Weeks Leading Pen Has Produced 137 or 40 Better Than Hillview Poultry Farm, St. Albans, Vt. Rhode Island Reds 85; Albert Sond- eregger, South Coventry, Conn.,, White Leghorns 80; Obed G- Knight, Bridge- ton, R. I, White Orpingtons 79; Storrs Experiment Station, White Leghorns 74; Francis F. Lincoln, Mt. Carmel, Conn., W. Bentley, Windham, N, e horns 70. The ten leading Connecticut pens to date are as follows: Windsweep Farm, Redding Ridge, White Leghorns, 137; Merritt M. Clark, Brookfield Center, ‘White Leghorns, 91; Albert Sondereg- ger, South Coventry, White Leghorns, 80; Francis F. Lincoln, Mt Carmel, ‘White Leghorns, 73; Merritt M. Clark, Brookfleld Center, Barred Rocks, 67; Mrs. W. B. Whitlock, Warehouse Point, White Leghorns, 66; Merrythought Farm, Columbia, White Leghorns, 53; J. Byron, Wiilimantic, White Wyan- dottes, 52; George Bowles, Westport, White Leghorns, 50;: Brandford Farms, Groton, White Leghorns, 43. and handling the crop and a dozen oth- er things come into this process. Many will eay that it does not pay but if they could hear the prices that some of our most prominent fruit growers of the county are getting for their apples, they would all want to go Into the bus- iness. That brings up another pojint. Don’t ever be afraid of over pro- @uction. This condition of affairs won't come for a long time in New England if it ever does. And if you are a fruit grower, don’'t be afraid to encour- age and get your neighbor started In the fruit business. He will not hurt your market and by the cooperation that you can give each other in buy- ing, sellln®, etc., you both will be bet- ter off. The cooperation of the west has made them what they are. DR. F. W. HOLMS, Dentist Shannon Building Annex, Room A Telephone 523 Bulletin Gra” ate Veterinarian OFFICR Bailey’s 3table, 371 Main 8t Phone connection DR, C. B. ELDRED DENTIST Pointers WHAT TO BUY AND WHERE TO BUY DR. N. GUBERT GRAY|We are headquarters for Confestionery Ice Cream and ">8a Weater. We Stationery & ¥. 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