Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 24, 1915, Page 8

BUILDING AND BUSINESS. Past Weel’s Reports Show Volume To Be Normal, The record of real estate transac- tions for the past week:in the Con- necticut towns reported by The Com- mercial Record shows 315 sales by warranty deed, with mortgage loans of $585,263, as against 287 sales and mortgage loans of $650,988 in the cor- Tesponding week of last,year, and 311 sales and mortgage loans of $713,843 in the same week of 1913. But three petitions in bankruptey with agsregate assets of $6,082 and liabilities of $10,797 were filed during the past week in this state. During the corresponding week of 1914, but fone petition was filed. ® The six new incorporations report- ed last week have a total authorized capital stock o0f$1,672,000, a record somewhat larger than last year, when there were seven incorporations with ut $35,000 total capitalization. The volume of building business as 'shown by the number of builaing per- 'mits granted during the week in the cities of New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury and Stamford, continues to be normal. In the week Just. closed in the above named cities $99 permits were issued- for structures costing $308,195. Among the projects for which new plans are reported are residences in New Haven, Hartford, Bridgerort, Stamiord and Waterbury, clubhouse in PBridgeport, parish house in Strat- ford, addition to dairy plant in Hart- ford, store and apartment block in South Manchester, bank building in Stratford, and a number of one. two d six-family houses in various parts of the state. Contracts have .been awarded for a "factory building at Hop River, res- ervoir at Seymour, addition to acad- emy in Milford, schoolhouse in New London, factory additions in Water- rbury and Bridgeport, residences in ‘Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford and New Britain, a number of three and six-family houses in Bridgeport, store and apartment block in Hartford, and in various parts of {smaller projects the state. Norwich had ten sales last AGTIVITY IN EASTERN GONNEGTICUT THREE TENEMENT BLOGK UNDERWAY Tenements. The erection of a three-story cement building on Lake street has been started by George E. Fellows & Co., and the walls are now up to the ground floor. Window and door frames for the basement have been placed. The building will have accommodations for three tenements. Walls Nearly Up. The brick tenement house being erected by Felice Pagano in the rear of his residence at No. 280 Franklin street is now nearly ready to be Cov- ered in. The walls are up to the roof level and some of the roof boards have been, placed. The dormer window frames are in position and work on the interior of the building has been started. Mr. Pagano is supervising the work. Changes Nearly Finished. The elterations to the building at the corner of Willow and Chestnut streets are approaching completion. The ground floor of the building has been remodeled into stores, the remodeling necessitating the building of a new brick front two stories. high. The stores have been wired and plastered, the windows have been placed in posi- tion and the doors hung. The building is owned by T. F. Burns, and altera- tions are in charge of Fenton Brothers & Co. At Work On Changes. Peck & McWilllams have been awarded the contract for the altera- tions to be made to the house on River aven¥ie, owned by John Ferguson and the alferations are now well under- way. The house is to be-changed into a three apartment building, each apartment to have six rooms and bath. The interior of the apartments will be attractively finished off, and there will the respective weeks being $17,400 and $6,500. At New London there were twelve sales last week to two a vear ago the for the weeks being { In reait éweek to six a vear azo, the loans for 00. mortgage loan GROTON LONG POINT. | | { Work is rapidly progressing on the cottage for Philip Heneault of Nor- i wich and it will be ready for occupan- fcy in a few weel { The Hemeny. $22,500 and $7, v cottage built for Mr. | Hemenway of New Haven, will be ! ready for the family about the middle of July. The office at Groton Long Point has been. greatly improved. The floor has been treated to a coat of staining, sev- eral Oriental rugs have been pur- chased and other decorative touches made. The bed of scarlet geraniums at the office door calls for a great deal of admiration from the many of the property owners of Point have combined to build a sea wall in front of their res- idences, making the locality appear much mora attra e, The fourth ariesian well has been put down to Y8 feet and still the work goes on. Several cottages have been piped for w in the past few days. Owing_t shortage of farm la- borers is gi attention to be hot and cold water, electricity and other improvements. It means many interior changes but only a small ad- dition. New Garage Started. Hyde Brothers, contractors, started on the erection of the garage for T. J. Fitzgerald last Friday. The garase is located in the rear of Mr. Fitz- gerald's residence, No. 58 CIff street. It is to be one story high, of frame construction with stone foundation and will be 27x29. It will be of spruce frame, boarded Wwith matched boards and will have accommodations for seven or eight maclines. Plasterers at Work. The alterations at the building owned by Oscar Dugas of Glasgo and located on Omeco street, at the junc- tion of that street with Lincoln avenue, are now approaching the com- pleted stage. The old store front has been removed and a new tenement front built with large windows. An addition has been built on the north side of the building and provides ac- commodations for several rooms. The rooms have been partitioned off, e has been put up and the| at work this week. hing Residence. The workmen are finishing up the handsome residence built on Lincoln nue for Mrs. Sarah McGee. The nds have been graded, cement labor saving devices. grown over with ‘cedars, and after walks have been laid and several trees Being Built of Cement Blocks in Lake Street—Progress On Buildings Which Are Being Remodeled or Made Into set out. The house is of-very at- tractive design, with red asbestos shingled roof and shingled side: Foresters’ Hall Improvements. At Foresters’ hall in the Chapman block on Franklin square a number of improvements have been made within the past few days. The ante rooms have been repainted and re- papered and repairs have been made. Roofs Nearly Replaced. The repairs at the Bailey building and Fox building on Main street are daily progressing and the rebuilding of the roof on the Bailey building is nearly finished. The roof-work on the Fox building is also advanced towards completion end the men now_em- ployed on the interior repairs. These buildings were damaged by fire-and water several weeks ago. Bowling Alleys In. At the Tiks' addition, the installa- tion of two bowling alleys has been completed with the exception of the placing of the electric lights for them. Two new pool tables and one new bil- liard table have arrived and have been set up ir the large social room which s the addition to the rathskiller. One of the two old tables formerly in use in the home has been removed into the addition to the rathskiller and set up there, so that there are largely in- creased opportunities for the members to emjoy billiards and pool. A con- crete walk has also been laid on the Park street side of the building and the grass plot that was torn up in the course of operations has been re- turfed. New Foundation In. The 2lterations to the building_on Main street, east side, owned by Ed- win Oldfield, have been started. The barn which is located some feet back from the street has been ralsed sever- al feet and a new foundation has been built under it. It is intended to have a modern building but it has not been decided yet just how the dwelling will be laid out. BOZRAH. Erected on Bear George Kahn, Cottage Hill by George Kahn has a four-room cot- tage, gable roofed end all shingled, erected on a 16x24 foundation which he recently blasted out of solid rock on a 40-acre tract of land he purchased from the Houghton estate a few years ago on Bear Hill in Bozrah. Three years ago Mr. Kahn started to reclaim a piece of land which had taking off the cedars he found the cel- lar of a house which had been buried for over a hundred years. Then he unearthed a fine stoned-up well and decided to erect the small cottage. When completed, the house will be lathed and plastered, have a 10-foot veranda and the cellar will be pointed up and cemented. All of the material used in building the house has been cut and dried from his own stock, as Mr. Kehn has about 400 acres of land, including some fine timberland. It is the second house on Bear Hill. The other is the home of G. K. Brush. (Although this cottage is described asyextends the entire length of the seat|is symmetrical, four bedrooms, 10x11.6, one of seven rooms, this number may easily be increased to nine if it is de- sired to finish off the two chambers on the third floor, for which provision hae been made by the architect. This cot- tage is particularly suited to a con- ventional city lot. Its lines, while g ing an impression of solidity, do not overdo this effect, while the slight overhang of the second story, supported by brackets, combines with the group window to give an air of quiet elegance to the eptire structure, accentuated by the stucco walls and chimneys and the shingled gables and roofs. Going up three easy steps to a por- tico, entrance is afforded directly into the living room, 24xi3 feet. At the ifront of the room an inside flower box of the triple window. At the left is a fireplace. A piazza, Sx13 feet, directly back of the fireplace, by an ingenious arrangement of French doors, can be made practically an integral part of the living room. In warm weather the doors may be thrown wide, making a direct through draft with the two windows directly opposite. In winter the porch may be completely enclosed with glass, thus affording a sun parlor, a conservatory or a retired nook when privacy and quiet may be desired. From the living room French doors lead to the dining room, 12x14 feet. This room is exceptionally well light- ed. A china closet occupies one cor- ner, while balancing it on the same side of the room is the door to the pantry, equipped with the customary china closet, cupboard, drawers and shelves. To the right of the pantry is the kitchen, 12x12, located directly beneath the rear w dows and is furnished with abple drain ‘boards. Besides the range is a large closet—all features that are sure to be appreciated by the housewife. The stairs going to the basement and the second story, while side by side, are entirely separate. A door half way down one side of the house opens into an entry from which both the basement and the kitchen may be The sink here is} reached. There is ample space in this entry for a refrigerator, saving tno kitchen floor from becoming tracked with mud by the iceman, The stairs from the eecond story end in a square Tecess communicating with the living room. Here is a good sized clothes closet. The opening may be masked with rope portiers, or left plain, as one’s fancy may dictate. _ The arrangement of the second story 12x116, 12x13 and 12x13 feet, being grouped around a large square central hall, the bathroom being opposite the head of the stairs. Just to the right of the bathroom door, but reached from the hall, is a linén closet. Bach Dbedroom has windows on two sides, | insuring comfort in the heated term, and each room hes iis own large clothes closet. Arrangements have been made with the architects to' furnish estimated cost of comstruction or any other in- formation desired regarding the house illustrated. They also invite our read- ers to make suggestions for plans which they would like illustrated in the future, Address all correspondence to Bulletin House Dept. BUILDING IN CONNECTICUT. Another Factory For Winchester Arms Company at New Haven— Other New Construction. The building inspector at New Ha~ ven has issued a permit for another addition to the plant of the Winchester Repeating Arms company. This is to be a brick and steel fireproof addition to the hydrolic plesss of tho company and will cost $70,000. Tt will be one story in height and cover an area of 455 feet Dy 73. Other New Haven buildings includes an addition to the newly completed plant of the Mysto Manufacturing company. which has let the contract for a new building of two storics of brick, 61x62 feet. Elsewhere about Connecticut industrial ~building continues brisk. The new factory o1 the Hartford Special Machinery com- pany in that city is 320x55 feet, one story_high, of brick, while the Ja- cobs Manufacturing company will add to its plant t three story brick struc- ture, 110x42 feet. A one-story build- ing of steel and:concrete 13Sx54 feet is to be built forithe Bryant & Chap- man company. At Bridgeport the American Chain company has let the Contracts for two additional buildings. a gate house and a garage and the Whipple & Choate company is adding a one-story building 57x70 feet. The Ansonia Brass & Copper company in that city contracted with the Aber- thaw Construction company of Bos- ton for a new casting shop 300 feet Dby 130. It will be built of brock and steel and §5 feet high. In New Bri- tain_the American Hoslery company is about to remodel its office building a new boiler room is to be erected for the American Paper® Goods company in Konsington and _the Trumbull Electric company in Plainville is en- larging its office building. _The Ex- celstor Needle company in Torrington is putting in a new power plant. SOUTH MANCHESTER. The plans are being prepared by Architect George B. Ruddell of Hart- ford for a new store and apartment block to be erected on Center street for Campbell McLachlan. It will be a three story brick building, 72x91 feet, withy pressed brick and terra cotty front, gravel roof, galvanized iron cor- nice and metal ceilings in the stores. The first floor will be arranged for four stores and the upper floors for 14 apartments, with steam heat, electric wiring and modern plumbing. Work will be started in a few days on the erection of a new bungalow at the corner of Parker and Porter streets for Dr. Frank B. Crane, Park building. The first floor will be ar- Tanged for five rooms and bath, and the second floor for two rooms and a large sleeping porch. It will be pro- vided with steam heat and all modern conveniences. A new house is to be erected on Oak street for Emil Brandt and Otto John- son, Ford street. It will be arranged for four tenements of four rooms each. The contract for the erection of a new house on Cooper street or Gott- leib Lehmann, has been let. It will be arranged for four tenements of four rooms each. There has ben awarded the contract for the new bungalow to be erected on Delmont street for Mrs. .William Nich- olson. Tt will containe six rooms, pro- vided with all modern conveniences. George T. Coleman has been awar ‘Homesteam Dominick Demico. It will construction and will conf ements. two ten- MIDDLETOWN. ‘Wells & Wilcox have been awarded the contract for the carpenter work and Salvatore Mazzotta the mason work for the new clubhouse to be erected at the foot of College street for the Middletown Yacht club. The building will be of e construction with & concrete and brick foundation and basement. It will cost about $12,- 000. Salvatore Mazzotta has been award- ‘ed the general contract for the addi- tion to the plant of the Middletown Laundry company on Court street at his bid of $2,622. The Lyman D. Miils company have the contract for the roofing. The addition will be 30x98 feet, one story high, built of brick. The Joseph S. Annino company have been awarded the contract for the ma- son work for a brick house to be erect~ ed for Vincenzo D'Elia. It will be ar- ranged for two tenements. i NEW LONDON. e ‘Blds ‘have Dbeen received for all the work required in the comstruction of the proposed refectory building at the Connecticut College for Women. At a meeting of the trustees of the Connecticut College for Women, held recently, it was voted ‘to secure bide for sound-proofing the basement of Blackstone Hall. Charles_R. Brown, foreman of the Niagara Engine Co, is erecting a garage in the rear of his house at 11 Woodbridge street. Antone Avellar has completed the construction of a new house on Rose- mary street. A'new house being built on Wil letts avenue extension for Erestus Beebe is nearing completion. 5 COLUMBIA. G. W. Gildersleeve of Conantville will do the mason work and Erwin Morse of Willimantic th ecarpenter work on the building at Hop River for the National Seat and Novelty com- pany, of which J. A. Kinsman is presi- dent. Tt is planned to erect a brick structure, one story high, 160x40 feet, with concrete floor. - A boiler house will also be erected. ROCKVILLE. F. H. Meyers has started work on the erection of a frame bungalow in Tal- cottville for Samue] Douglas. COVENTRY. R. O. Cheney, Jr., will erect a frame cottage at Lake Waugumbaug in Cov- en BUILDING OPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND. Statistios of building operations in New Tngland, as compiled by the F. W. Dodge company, follow: Contracts to June 16, 1915..$77,986,000 Contracts to June 16, 1914.. 78,553,000 Contracts to June 16, 1913.. 77,962,000 Contracts to June 16, 1912.. $1.579,000 Contracts to June 1911, 77,670,000 Contracts to June 16, 1910.. 75,917,000 Contracts to June 16, 1909.. 72,051.000 Contracts to June 16, 1908.. 40.228.000 Cdhtracts to June 16, 1907.. 63,311,000 Contracts to June 16, 1906.. 52.364.000 Contracts to June 16, 1905.." 48,304,000 Contracts to June 16, 1904.. 39,626,000 Contracts to June 16, 1903.. 42,694,000 Contracts to June 16, 1902.. 60,575,000 Contracts to June 16, 1901.. 58,457,000 County Improvement League Data By County Agent F. C. WARNER Work of the County Agent. 1 Last week—Monday was spent in ‘Waterford studying community. Tues- day the agent had a conference with State Leader Baker of Storrs. Wed- nesday, spent in Preston City and ed- dressed Bozrah grange in the evening on league work. Thursday, addressed New London County Pomona grange. Friday, studying crop rotation and po- tato demonstration in Yantic and Nor- wich. Saturday, office day, and ad- dressed_exercises at Montville Center school in the evening. This week—Monday, trip was made to North Stonington to advise farm in regerd to summer silage. spent in Mystic, work on Valley creamery _organization the extension service dairyman, Pro K. M. Busser. Wednesday was spent in conference with Mr. Herrick, cow tester for the Dairy Herd Improve- ment society No. 2, and starting in one farmer in standardizing his cream with the Babcock test. The coming week most of the agent's time will be spent in Lebanon .with H. F. Keyes, making a resurvey of the Lebanon district with farm eur- vey records for the year just past. Co-opérative Buying. Before New London County Pomona grenge, the county agent spoke as fol- lows: In considering the advisability of farmers undertaking more of the busi- ness in connection with the securing of supplies and equipment for their farms and homes, and, if o, regardin the methods to be used in doing the following suggestions are offere The economic distribution of farm supplies requires, among other things: 1—That the economic minimum_of store service shall be provided by dis- tributing agencies at reasonable cost, but that more service than that shall not be thrust upon consumers by these agencies. F 2—That both the' consumer and the distributing agency shall purchase for cash or its equivalent. 3—That the local store and all dis- tributing agencies between the manu- facturer and the consumer shall be efficient. When all three of these conditions exist, it is not worth while, in fact, it is unwise for farmers to give much thought to the purchasing problem, other than to assure themselves that they do exist, and to inform themselves on the subject as a sort of insurance that such conditions may continue to exist. When local dealers know that their efforts to serve well with mod- erate reward are being appreciated, they will be encouraged to continue doing so, ‘and discouraged from doing the opposite. And again, in communi- ties where consumers are willing to accept unnecessary service, and do not buy for cash or its equivalent, they have no just cause for complaint, even if the distributing agencies are somewhat inefficient, because much of this inefficiency may be due to their doing business on a credit basis, and to their undertaking to furnish too much service. Such a condition in a community would not, however, justify 2 monopoly on the part of the dis- tributing agencies accompanied by ar- tificial prices, but monopolistic condi- tions in local trade do not exist nearly S0 often as many seem to think. High prices are more apt to be due to the causes previously named. Just what is reasonable for necessary service is hard t6 determine. In the minds of some it consists merely in shipping goods which have been order- ed from sample or from information an order accompanied by cash, the | consumer to bear the expense of trans- n from his local shipping point and, in some cases, from the distrib- utor's shipping point. This is near the minimum. On the other hand, and at the opposite extreme, many consider that it includes the carrying in stock of a large supply of goods by the lo- cal stores, so that any consumer ma: at any time, be able to have placed e him for selection a number of different kinds of any particular arti- cle which he wishes to purchase, and en have the article chosen delivered him promptly at his home, subject final selection there, and to be paid y him at some future date when may suit his convenience. While ty people have come to accept this atter service as a matter of course, indeed to expect it, even though the article purchased consists of a bottle of shoe polish, a quart of berries or a spool of thread, farmers have not come to expect so much, although in most communities they do expect much more than the first named mini- mum service. In fact, in some com- munities they are coming to expect almost es much as do city people. The economic minimum of service is some- where between these two extremes and will vary with the section and local conditions. anifestly, the cost of these two kinds of scrvice is materially different, and the nearer we are able to keep to the less costly standards, and yet be efficiently served, the more shall we conserve our rural resources, It is to be hoped that farmers in general will not yield to the temptation to accept the unnecessary service which is con- stantly being urged upon them by com- peting tradesmen. It may be offered to them “free of charge,” but they may rest assured that in the end they will have it to pay for, and that in many cases, at least, they ill have to pay very much higher wages for the time of the persons who actually render the service than they themseives are re- ceiving in their own business. In communities in which farmers cannot secure from dealers the proper reduction in the cost of supplies, even when they are willing to limit the service afforded does not rise to the level of the economic minimum, there are a number of courses opened to i with a common shipping point, to join in sending an order to some available supply house. 2—With further experience and in- formation, such a group of farmers may usually get a better reduction on carload cash orders of such articles as seed, feed, twine, machinery, fuel, salt, flour, sugar, cement, building mate-~ rial, fencing, fertilizer, etc., because of being able to order in mdny cases di- rectly from the factory or producer, or from a source.of supply ‘very close to the producer. 3—If desired, this«group-of farmers may make available some-bullding at or near the local shipping point which would serve as a warehouse for stor- ing supplies in case the car arrives when the people are very ‘busy, or ‘he roads very bad, or in case part of the carload would not’be needed until'later in the year. 4—In some cases-where these ware- houses have been established it has Dbeen found necessary to appoint some- one to keep them open on stated days, afternoons or evenings of each week r month. Tn a few cases at least, these warehouses have gradually grown into stores'which were kept open most or all the days of the week. 5—Still another plan is to establish a farmers’ mercantile. corporation or & and supplying very much more service, the local dealer hes been seriously such as might be ords a mall order house, and they ars insisting that the reduction in the service and risk justifies the reduction in the price. Some such plan as these ought to bring the country and two people closer together and promote plans for improvement of the commumity as a ‘whole. The. department of agriculture has records to show that within the past year more than a thousand granges, Tepresenting more than half of the states in the union, have conducted group purchesing, amounting to two and one-half million dollars, with an house, and of which there re now more than 975 in the coumtry, it borne in mind that one of proper economy is necessary in ‘every stage of tde work. For example, it will usually be possible to secure for warehouse purposes, at e moderate rental, some old building that will be g00d enough to protect its contents from storm and intruders. The higher the rent. the more it will be necessary to add to the price of goods that are stored. By all means avoid raising money to buy a for this pur- pose until the business is well estab- lished and it is badly needed. In es- tablishing such a warehouse, it will be necessary to arrange for someone to be responsible for the material stored and to be on hand to open the buiid- ing when needed. This last cannot be 4t the pleasure or whim of any one or more of the ratrons, AGRICULTURAL ROSE CHAFERS. Serious While They Stay—Prepara- tions for Killing the Pests. Rose bugs or rose chafers are doing a great deal of damage. They do not stop with rose bushes, but are very serious on beans, vines and grapes. They probably do their most damage on grapes by eating buds end small blossoms. No method has yet been tried which has proved entirely suc- cessful under all conditions. The New York experiment station has tried many different methods and reports that arsenate of lead paste used at the rate of five pounds to 50 gallons of water with 12 pounds of glucose added for sweetening will at- tract the bugs and kill them within 24 hours. The formula recommended by the league in the past—four pounds of arsenate of lead and 1% quarts of molasses to 50 gallons of water, prob- ably should be increased in order to increase the efficiency of the mixture. Therefore it recommends that all who have this trouble epray with five pounds of arsenate of lead paste, two to three quarts of cheap molasses and 50 gallons of water. Rose chafers do not as a rule stay with us more than two weeks, but are very serious while in this section. HAY. Should Be Cut At The Proper Time For Feeding Value. Timothy will soon be ready for the first cutting and one should make an effort to see that the majority of the hay is cut at the proper time. The feeding value of any hay can be greatly lessened by cutting it too early or cutting it too late. The following is the analysis of timothy cut at the different stages: Crude Either Ash. Protein. fiber. extract. Timothy, cut in 'full bloom ...4.5 6.0 296 20 “Timothy, cut soon after bloom ...4.4 N o SR Timothy, cut ‘when near 1y ripe ...3.8 5.0 311 22 SQUASH BUGS. Practical Methods of Destroying Them. Practically all who have squash vines are reporting severe injury from the squash'bugs. They are flat and rusty black with a pungent odor. They lay their eggs on the leaves and stones of different plants, not necessaril squashes in clusters of from 12 to 50. The eggs are a brownish yvellow and can be easily discovered; they should of course, be destroyed. As soon as the eggs hatch, the little bugs go to the nearest squash vines and start sucking the sap from the leaves there- by weakening the plants and in serious cases killing them. These young buss may be killed very easily by the use of a nicotine sul- phate solution. Care should be ex- ercised to hit all the bugs with the solution as- it kills by smothering rather than by poisoning throush the stomach or by contact. Squash buss are not very serious in large planta- tlons because the same number of bugs have a larger number of plants to work on. 5 A very practical way in a small city back yard garden of controlling this trouble is to cover the hill with net- ting as soon as the seeds are planted or at least before they come up. In practicing this method, one should be careful to get the ends of the netting covered with soil so that the bugs will not crawl under. Another less practi- cal method is to Ppick off the individ- ual bugs, preferably in the early morn- ing when they are rather sluggish. A little kerosene on top of a can of water should be used for placing the bugs in. They can also be trapped fairly suc. cessfully by putting shingles near the hill ang going through early each morning, turning the shingles over and killirg all the bugs found. It will be found that the bugs will go under the shingles during midday to escape the ‘heat, go out to feed during the late afternoon, and return during the eve- ning to spend the night. Peach Leaf Curl Prevalent. Peach leaf curl is as serious this year as it has been for a ood many years. This is quite largely due to the cold spring weather and to the fact that people did not spray their trees with dormant spray as early as they should have done. All pomologists are agreed that leaf curl can be practi- cally controled by thorough spraying with strong lime sulphur spray before the leaf buds start to ewell The most practical thing to do is to pick off and destroy the diseased clusters when thinning peaches or allow them to remain unless very serious-and plan to stamp out the trouble the following spring by spraying early with strong lime eulphur. ‘Use Weeder and Harrow ‘After Sun is Out. Many -people who have mnot used weeders fear that by S0 dolng a great deal of their corn ls likely to be injured ana pulled out. This chance of injury can be practicaily eliminated by using the weeder after the sun has shown upon the plants for some lit- tle time. The plants are especially brittle in the early morning as the cells are full of moisture, due to lack of evaporation during the night, but they become less brittle as the sun shines on them. One should not put the weeder away after the plants have INTERESTS there is no implement that will save labor and accomplish its purpose so well as this machine. One can use this machine very satisfactorily until the plants have reached six or eight inches or even twice that height. Peach Borers Serious. Many peach trees are found badly infested with borers, which are stiil trying to carry a load of fruit. Trees /which have been set back comsid- erably by the borets should have two- thirds or all of the crop removed in order to allow the strength to go into bringing the tfee back into proper condition. If the trees are infected to a great degree, they should in ad- dition to having the crop picked off have more of the top growth re- moved than was removed in the spring. Time to Stop Cutting Asparagus. Market gardeners and farmers should, as a rule, discontinue at this time cutting asparagus for market. This is especially true on young beds. Strong, healthy old_beds can be cut for a while longer, but should not be cut clean. Cutting asparagus takes a great deal of the strength from the plant and plants will need all the time between now and fall to recover from the drain of the spring cutting and to store up enough to allow of cutting | next spring. Many of the small stalks of different beds are caused largely by late cutting so that the plants are in a feeble, weakened condition. Lime August Seeding. Many of the people in the country will undoubtedly seed a great deal of ir land to grass this coming fall. efore seeding, an application of lime, should be made. Those who plan to seed should make an effort to get their |lime as soon as possible so as to have jit available and applied as early as | possible before the time of seeding. Crop rotation is necessary to main- tain the productivity of the land, for it is a_well established fact that con- ! tinuous _cropping to a single crop re- duces yields. Low crop yields may be due to one or more of several causes. Among these are the depletion of cer- tain elements or compounds of plant food, the accumulation of toxic sub- stances in the soil, the increase of in- t pests, and atfacks of fungus end bacterial diseases. These may all be controlled to a great extent by suita- ble crop rotations. Weeds, which also greatly reduce crop returns, can be checked by the same agency. Definite experiments to determine this point have been made both in this country and abroad, with results pointing con- clusively to the ntcessity of cTop rota- tion to maintain the productivity of the sail. E Sweet Clover as a Soiling Crop. When cut green and fed to cattle the sweet clover is usually less palat- able than when fed as hay, although numerous instances have been noted where the freshly cut green feed has been readily eaten by stock. As a soiling crop it is best adapted for feed- ing to hogs. At the Ontario experi- ment station over 30 tons of green feed per acre were obtained in a eingle season. Alfalfa As a Soiling Crop. No forage plant will so conveniently give such good returns throughout the summer as alfalfa. The crop is ready to cut for solling as early as the first of June, and can be cut continuously until September. By beginning to cut early and arranging so that daily cut- tings can be taken through the ad- vanced cutting state, it is possible to have good succulent alfalfa throughout the summer. In good growing weather a crop will mature sufficiently for soil- ing purposes in 20 to 30 days. Flea Beetles. These are small black beetles the size of a pin-head or a little larger. They often appear in myriads in dry weather in mid-summer and later. They riddle the leaves of potatoes with small holes, and such leaves soon dry out or die of “tip burn” Arsenicals alone are of little use against flea- beetles, but the bordeaux-arsenical mixture is usually an almost perfect remedy. Fertilizing Potatoes. Do not use fresh horse manure on potato land, or manure from other ani mals fed on diseased, uncooked pota- toes. Do mot_use lime or wood ashes on potato land. Turning under a green crop, like rye or clover sod, is the ideal preparation for potatoes. WEEKLY<EGG PRODUCTION 1S FALLING OFF. High Record Was Made in The 27th Week, Corresponding to Last Year. The hens in the laying contest at Storrs have now passed perhaps the zenith of production. The best yleld to date was in the twenty-seventh weelc and since that time the weekly production has been slowly falling off. This agrees almost perfectly with the records last year, in which the highest yleld was made in the twenty-eighth week, after which time _production gradually dropped from more than 4400 eggs per week to only a little more than 1000 at the end of the contest year. A Ittle upward turn was taken @ year ago in the fortieth and forty- first weeks. It is believed that this upward turn will perhaps come earlier year, inasmuch as the summer made use of. It may be remarked in- cidentally that the rape which is now time saves mine” is A ir the leaks and save the Isvas essential In modern house slectricity is to lighting. We guaran- tee the very best PLUMBING WORK by expert workmen at the fariest prices. % Ask us for plans and prices. J F. TOMPKINS 67 West Main Street Robert J. Cochrane GAS FITTING, PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING, 10 West Main Street, Norwich, Conn. Agent for N, B. O. Sheet Packing. T. F. BURNS Heating and Plumbing 92 Franklin Street IRON CASTINGS FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY THE VAUGHN FOUNDRY €0 No. 11 £> 25 Farey Street — together laid 4120 in the thirtv-third week. This is 43 eggs less than- the preceding week, but relatively 85 more than for the corresponding last year. A Comnecticut pen and a Ma: sachusetts pen, both White Leghorns, owned by Windsweep Farm of Red ding Ridge, and James H. Lord Methuen, tied for first place with 58 eggs each. Branford Farm's pen of Leghorns were second with a yield of 57 eggs, while four pens, namely Storrs Station’s experiment Leghorns, George M. McMillan’s__ Leghorns of Springfield, Mo., Wh. H. Lyon's Lez- horns from Levanna, N. Y., and Bran- ford Farm’s White Rocks from Groton, Conn, all tied for third with 56 egzs each. The Salmon Faverolle hen No. of Ellicott City, Md., mentionel weeks ago as having tinuous score at that every day since thus record up to 50 eggs in 50 4 hen laid her first egg on February 5ih. From that time up to the end of the thirty-third week, a period of 136 davs, she has laid 122 eggs or a remarkabie average production of 90 per cer - tained for more than four end a half months. Thus this hen has only thir- teen days to tie and fourteen to surs. pass the best continuous record made four years ago by a Barred Rock that laid 63 days without missing. ‘The ten leading pens to date are as wollows: Ed. Cam, Hoghton, near Preston, England, White Wyandottes 994 1335; Tom Barron, Catforth near Preston, England, White Wyandottes 1330; Hillview Poultry Farm, St. Albans, Vt, Rhode Island Reds 1300; Tom Barron, Catforth, England, White Leghorns 1222; A. P. Robinson, Cal- verton, N. Y., White Leghorns 12 F. M. Peasley, Cheshire, Conn., White Leghorns 1216; Windsweep Farm, Red- ding Ridge, Conn, White Leghorns 1181; James V. Thomas, Ballston Lake, N. Y., White Leghorns 1129; Pinecrest Orchards, Groton, Mass., Rhode Island Reds 1118; Colonial ¥arm, Temple, N. H, Rhode Island Reds 1114. The ten leading Connecticut pens to date are as follows: F. M. Peasley, Cheshire, White Leghorns 1216; Wind- sweep Farm, Redding Ridge, White Leghorns 1181; _Branford _Farm, Groton, White Leghorns 1093; Merritt M. Clark, Brookfield Center, Barred Rocks 1098; Branford Ferm, Groto: White Leghorns 1077; N. W. Hend New Haven, White ~Leghorns 1068: Springdale ‘Poultry Farm, Durham, Rhode Island Reds 1056; Homer P. Deming, Winsted, Rhode Island_Reds 1046; George Bowles, Westport, Vhite Leghorns 1035; A. S. Sondereager, South Coventry, White Leghorns, 1025. Mowing Machines Horse Rakes and Hay Tedders and all kinds of Farm Tools of the best makes and at the lowest prices. Lawn Mowers and Refrigerators