Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 1, 1915, Page 8

D mezs ‘Actlvity Throughout The State During The Past Week. {The record of real estate transac- tions by warranty deed in the towns | ot the ‘State reported by The Com- mercial Record last week shows 354 males, with mortgage loans of $942,428, whilé during the same week of last (2o there were $57 sales with morigage | loanst of $981,660, and in 1913, 337 sales with mortgage loans of $875,510. During the past week eight petl- tlons in bankruptcy, with assets $4,45¢ and labllities of $12,613, were filed In this State, comparing With seven petitions with total assets of $7,220 and liabiltties of $40,050, filed in the corresponding week of 1914, eight incorporations for the ‘week have total capital stock of $330,- 000. Last year in the last week of the month there were 10 incorporations With total capital stock of $1,602,000. During the past week in the cities of New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury and Stamford, building per- mits have been lssued to the number of 133 for buildings costing $286,235, comparing with 100 permits issued in the like week of last year for bulldings costing $281,406. ‘Contracts awarded last week include residences In New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury and Naugatuck, bakery in Bridgeport, schoolhouse ad- dition in Bristol, clubhouse in Meriden, factory addition in Waterdury, church in Hartford, and many one, two and three-family houses in New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport and in the small- | er_cities ‘of the State. New projects reported for which plans are being prepared or estimated |include town building in Milford which |'will cost about $70,000, addition to | telephone building in Bridgeport, new telephone building in Meriden, resl- ! dence work in New [Haven, Bridgeport, |Hartford and Waterbury, brick epart- |ment house in Stamford, parish house {in West Haven, store and apartment | bullding in Hartford, two-family houses {in New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury, | Bridgeport, New Britain and Stamford, | and about the usual amount of smaller | work in varlous parts of the State, | " Norwich had seven sales of real estate last week to elght a year ago. The mortgage loans for the respective periods were $6,075 and $6,100. | In New London there were fourteen ! gales last week to five a year ago, while {loans for the two weeks were $17,798 | and $20,850, ; STORRS. | Four New Cottages To Be Erected For i State College. |, Dstimates will be received soon for four cottages to be erected by the Con- necticut Agricultural College. Two of them will be single houses with seven Tooms each and the other two will be twin houses with 12 rooms. They will be frame construction, with shingle sides and roof, steam heat, hardwood finish and other modern conveniences, They will be practically duplicates of those erected last year. BLACK POINT. Last vear five tennis courts were built, and this year a small club house adjoining these is being erected. It is a_wooden etructure, two stories in height. The first floor is to be used as a living room, which will be fur- nished in elaborate style. The second story is to be used for locker room. it is built on the Colonial style and is finished off in a green and white color - echeme. NIANTIC. Contractor E. K. Beckwith 1s to build a large up-to-date bungalow on the lot recently purchased of John Payne of New London, on Pennsyl- vania evenue. John Bogue is building a house on Pennsylvania avenue. New York, New Haven and Hartford shops, on North Maln street, also for the Max Gordon building on the cor- ner of Chestnut and Willow streets, and for the C. B. Rogers Co. build- ings on Thames street, all for The Hopkins & Allen Arms Co. prepara- tory to laying out their machinery for their large contract for Enfleld rifies, which this company has obtained, are being made by Architect C. H. Pres- ton. Estimates for Thompson Block. The plans and specifications for the large block at the corner of Mer- chants avenue and Hunters avenue, Taftville, owned by Dr. George Thompson, are being estimated by contractors. The plans are by Arch- itect Preston. The building has been previously described in these columns. Threo Story Taftville Building. James Greham's four tenement and three store building to be built on Merchants_avenue, Taftville, is .being estimated by contractors. This build- ing is to be three stories in height, with & two story balcony on the whole upper front. There will be a plate glass store front, hard wood floors, cypress finish. The plans are by Architect Preston. Changes at Y. M. C. A. Lobby. At the Y. M. C. A. this week work- men have been engaged in retinting the ceiling and walls of the lobby and the. brightening up of the rooms by this change is a noticeable improve- ment The ceilings were retinted a buft color, but around the walls this was replaced by a strip of _green, lending a pleasing variety to the for- mer. color scheme. Other improve- Hopkins and Allen Company Having Plans Made for-Addi- tional Manufacturing Space—New Tenement and Store Building for Taftville—Progress on the Majestic.- Floorplans and elevations for. the|ments and minor repairs throughout the bullding are also under way. Pouring Concrete Roof at Majestio. The size of James B. Shannon’s big Majestic building rather overshadows the amount of progress that is being made there, but as a matter of fact the force of fifteen men in charge of Foreman Edwin Smith is carrying matters along steadily. The concrete roof on the Shetucket side of ~the building is now being poured, and the last of it should be completed next week. With the concrete there is be- ing mixed a special compound mak- ing the roof waterproof, and the tests that have been made show that is an excellent preparation. The second floor of this part of the building is nearly all plastered, and one of the things to be done shortly is the pouring of the concrete on this second floor for the floor of the section that has been - already rented for bowling alleys and is scheduled to open early in the fall. The rough plumbing in the building is now all in. On the Market street side the con- crete work is done, the rooms are all plastered and further progress on it will be carried on along with that on the Shetucket street section. Contract for Yantio House. B. A. Kinne has taken the contract to erect a seven-room house for F, H. Tracy on Oakland avenue, Yantic. The ground floor plan calls for a kitchen 12x18, dining room 12x12, living room 12x12, with hall and pantry, and second floor plan calls for four 12x12 bedrooms with hall the length of the house, and closets. The house will be lathed and plastered, clapboarded and shingled with tar shingles. It will probably be ready for occupancy by Oct. 1. WATCH HILL, The beautiful villa just completed on Stnset hill for Mrs, Wm. R. Thomp- son, of New York, a daughter of Mrs. William Thaw of Pittsburg, is attract- ing much attention. It is the largest and most elaborate of the summer homes here. Constructed of heavy rough stone with massive walls, it has the appearance of a mediaeval castle. A cnarming garden protected by a cloister-like wall has been planted- by an expert, with full grown trees and shrubs of rare species to give the ap- pearance of age rather than newness. The site commands magznificient views in all directions.. The R. A. Sherman’s Sons Company of Westerly had the contract for building. “ Other new cottages have been com- pleted for Mrs. Annie B. McConnell of New York, the Misses Snively . of Philadelphia, Miss Ethel Burnet, and the Estete of Mrs. Clara Stanton of New York. CRESCENT BEACH. | A few | improvements have been made here during the . winter and spring. A mnew post-office has been erected, just east of the old one, and is now being equipped with modern fixtures. It is a two-story structure, the first floor being occupied by the post-office, while the second floor is being ‘converted into @ dance hall. Mr. Wheelers has remodeled and and enlarged his garage so that he is now able to accommodate at least forty cars. SOUTH MANCHESTER. Gustave Schreiber has the contract to erect a one-family frame house on North Main street in Buckland for Gus Magnuson. He is aleo_erecting two four-family houses on Wells street for The Manchester Realty Co. Truex & Keeney, 3 Spring street, have the contract for a new house to be erected at the corner of Cooper and Walnut streets, for Edward Carney, 62 Walnut street. It will contain four tenements of five rooms each. The foundation work for a new house on Bigelow street for Thomas Crockett is well along. It will contain two ten- ements of five rooms each. EAST LYME. There have been a great many im- provements on property here this spring, more than has been done for a great while. Penbroke Perkins is putting on an addition to the house of Alvah Morgan of Main street. George Wino is having his barn re- modeled into a garage. Capt. B. F. Eaton has been shing- ling a house and barn for Mrs. Geo. Smith of Niantic. Over 16,000 shin- gles have heen put on. QUAKER HILL. Work is progressing rapidly on the cellar for the new schoolhouse and this week will see the walls of the building going up. Three cars of brick and cement are at the Water- ford ewitch being unloaded. B L L L There is no more pleasing structure foday then an old Colonial mansion in a good state of preservation. The house herewith presented retains all the best of this old-time style of ar- chitecture, while introducing many re- finemerits and conveniences, to which our ancestors were strangers. The roof sloping toward the street, the small-paned windows with their solid board shutters, the severely _plain square panelled columns on portico and piezza, the heavy glass door, the wide central hallway extending from front to back of the house all are reminiscent of the days “when tnen lived .in a grander way.” The exterior wnay be developed in stucco or shingles, preferred. Bither is in perfect keeping, and which shall bs decided upon is merely a mat- ter of cholce. From the moment that n one enters the spacious vestibule, one realizes that here is something entirely “different.” ' The vestibule opens into the central hallway, at one side of which is the stately Colonial stairway with its imposing newel post, prim balustrade and austere settle. ~Oppo- site the stairway opens a cloak closet of unusuel dimensions, Wide French doors admit, on the right to the liv- ing room, on the left to the dining room. The living room extends the full depth of the house, being 14x24 feet. 'The predominant features of this Toom are the wide, old-fashioned fire- places, the two built-in bookcases in the corners with their iQueer little diarpond panes and the two French doofs of unusual width opening upon the broad piazza, 10x22 feet. This section is entirely separate from the rest of the house. On the opposite side of the hallway is the dining room, 14x13 feet. Be- side a china closet buflt on the con- ventional old-fashioned lines a swing- ing door leads to a large pantry, while straight ahead another door goés into the kitchen, equipped with twentieth century ~conveniences ' and provided likewise with'a good store closet. The kitchen opens into a rear pantry, which is a part of the central hallway, but cut off from it by a door. From this entry one may pass out upon a rear platform or down the basement stairs. The central hallway is to be found on the second story, but in abbre- viated form. On one side are two bed- rooms, 13.9x9.6. 13.9x13, on the other two more, each 14x11 feet, all lighted on two sides end each with a good- sized closet. Here are also the bath- room and a linen closet. The front part of the hallway has been parti- tioned off to form a sewing room, the entire front of which consists of a large group window. Closet room has not been overlooked here, either. This would make an ideal smoking room or den if preferred. A maid’s bedroom and an unfinished storeroom are on the third story. Arrangements have been made with the architects to furnish estimated cost of construction or any other in- formation desired regarding the house illustrated. They also invite our Good Progress Being Made on Mon- tauk Avenue Baptist Church. ‘Work en the erection of ‘the Mon- tauk Avenue. Baptist church is pro- gressing finely. The masons have be- E‘nnlfllubflck for the superstructure. he first floor 1s laid and the work will be rushed along now. Building Garage. Comtractor Woodworth, 1s erecting a ‘wood and concrete, for Frank g Felix at 320 Montauk avenue. Several Bidders. H. R. Douglas, Inc, J. A. Dolan & Co., Herbert Prentice, Marquardt Bros. of Groton, the H. Wales Lines Co. of Meriden and Norcross Bros. of 'Worcester are among the contrac- tors submitting estimates for the re- fectory at the Comnecticut College for ‘Women. Church Plans Ready. Plans drawn by Architect James Sweeney are now ready for figures for the proposed church building to be erecteq for the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Polish) of which Rev. Leon Wierzynski is pastor. The plans show an attractive design, the edifice being 53x88 feet, of brick, Gothic ar- chitecture, with a slate roof. Later on a convent and a parochial school will be_erected. The Guif Refining Co., which is building a station at the junction of Howard street and Pequot avenue, New London, is nearly ready to be opened for business. The station is to be of a modern type and arranged to carry 60,000 gallons of gasoline and kerosene. The station conmsists of a solid square of concrete on which are built garage, 24x40 feet, will also be erected end & It will have Plans are being prepared for & cob- blestone residence, 35x42 feet, to be erected for H. C. :Aborn. It will be of English_ style architecturs, with a tower. It will be finished in hardwood, have hot water heat, modern plumbing, fireplaces, mantels and other improve. ments. The building committes of the Con- gregational Church have met with George C. Clark of New York, repre- senting Clark_& Arms, architects, to consider the bids fo: & mew church. Those received wers all in excess of the amount available end wers re- jected. Plans will probably de revised and new bids called for. MIDDLETOWN. The general contract has been let By County Agent Activity of County Agent. Last week the county agent spent Monday in North Stoning.on _giving advice on farm management. Tuesday at Mystic, he worked with the exten- sion dairyman, advising the organiza- tion of a creamery. ‘Wednesday morning was spent in Norwich as- sisting the extension dairyman in the cow testing association and Wednes- day afternoon was given to return- ing farm survey records in Lebanon. Thursday was spent in Norwich, giv- ing a potato spraying demonstration. Friday was devoted to Lebanon farm survey records. Saturday was spent in the offico attending to corre- spondence, etc. This week Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the agent is spending in Lebanon, taking farm survey records, and edvising farm management. Thursday he will be in East Lyme, in conference with the superintendent of schools and supervisor of the East Lyme school gardens. Friday, he will be in Colchester, studying the com- munity and in giving advice as re- gards their needs. Saturday will be spent in the office attending to cor- respondence, etc. Growth of Calves. One of the most common mistakes made by the average dairyman is in his neglect of the calves. In the case of all kinds of live stock, the size of the young animal is determined by the care it receives during the first year of its existence. If a calf or a colt is stunted during the first year, it will never attaln the size that it ought. This is especially true of the dairy calf, h is usually raised by hand for two or three months and is then turned out to shift for itself with the older cattle. Some_ time ago we visited two dif- ferent farms where there was a very strong contrast in the method of rais- ing calves, with the result that the difference in_size” of the calves was almost one Tundred per cent when they were one year old. On the up- to-date farm, the owner made a D tice of keeping all of his calves until they were one year old. They were raised on separator milk and dry feed when they were\old enough to be weaned. As a result, one could scarce- ly tell the difference between these calves and those that had followed thelr dams. On the other farm, the dairyman followed the practice of feeding the calves milk for about three months end then turning them out to pasture with the older cattle, so tiat at the time when ordinarily they would have been weaned they had to fignt flies and to make their growth on feed to which they were unaccustomed. Anyone who attempts to raise helfer calves for dairy purposes will find it profitable to raise them well, or else to sell them. Profitable dairy cows are those that have the growth and vital- ity necessary for the work of produc- ing milk in quantitie: a Caponize in June. June is the best month for caponizing as cockerels so treated this month will be ready for the market next Feb- ruary when the demand is strongest and ‘prices at their highest tide. Caponizing has not been generally practiced, perhaps because of notion that the operation is ver: ficult. But after a little prac: the bird is properly prepared, th eration is very simple and easil formed, and is unattended by p danger’ {o the cockerel. The D of preparation should be not less than thirty-six hours, during which time the birds should be placed in a dark well ventilated coop, without access to feed or water. the intestines so they will be out of the way when the operation is per- formed. Full explanation of the method to be employed will be found companying the caponizing tool: Cockerels intended for capo should weigh from one and a half to two pounds. When ready for market, they should welgh eight to twelve pounds. The best breeds to caponize are the meat types, such as the Barred Rock, Wyandottes, Braham and Coch- ins. ' The Barred Rock is the breed preterred by many for this purpose. Capons can be raised successfully by the city man in his back lot as they do mot require the exercise and range 50 essential to the best developed fancy stock. Capons can also be al- readers to make suggestions for plans which they would like illustrated in the future. Please address all corre- spondence to The Bulletin. lowed to run with the hens without impairing the infertility desirable in eggs for marketing, as is the case with young cockerels. But the argument that should appeal most strongly to the producer is that the capon, with practically the same amount of care and expense, will bring from 50 per cent.to 100 per cent more on the market than the uncaponized cockerel. Marketing Sweet Cream. The season it at hand when there is a great demand for sweet cream for County Improvement League Data This is to empty | F. C. WARNER it too much trouble to deliver sweet cream daily. In most cases it is not necessary to do this if the milk and cream are properly handled from the time it is produced until it is delivered. The following points should be ob- served: 1. Use a covered milk pail or a self milker. 2. Previous to milking wipe the cow’s udder and flanks with a damp cloth. 3. Use a hand separator and separ- ats the milk immediately after milk- ng. 4. Cool the cream to as low a tem- perature as possible. 5. Do not mix night and morning cream until the last separation has been cooled to the same temperature as the first. 6. Wash end scald the separator bowl and tinware after each separa- tion. Separate as thick cream as pos- sible, preferably 35 to 42 per cent but- ter fat. Thick cream keeps better than thin, and more skim milk is left for the young stock. Cottage Cheese. Young lady student of -the Col- orado Agricultural College says: “My home is on a small farm two miles from town. I have found a practical way of increasing my none too plen- tiful income. We keep several cows and so have large quantities of sour milk which we formerly fed to the pigs. Now with very little effort and Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts 41,472,000 45,236,000 to 62,396,000 to June 23, 61,161,000 time I make this sour milk up into cottage cheese and sell it in town. It is made in pound bricks which sell at ten cents a brick, Customers were hard to obtaln at'first, but as soon as people learned about my cheese, 1 had all the customers I could supply. I make the cheese twice a week and deliver it the day it is made. In this way the cheese is fresh when it gets to the customer. Canning Vegetables. As one goes about the country it is surprising to see how few of our tarms make a practice of canning veg- etables, And yet there is, perhaps, no other way in which the housewife can more easily reduce the cost af living and at the same time give her fam- 1ly better food. In a certain small town in Colorado it was found that, during the past year, the two grocery stores sent out of the community over $1,000 to pur- chase corn, beans, peas and other canned vegetables, all of which might have been grown in that same com- munity. This is a typical case and it means that farm women who buy these canned vegetables instead of raising and canning their own. are making a serious mistake. The canning of vegetables is really a simple matter and many members of the Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Clubs are now learning the process. Mother-Daughter Home Canning Clubs are being formed in some com munities and many girls are now get- ting ready to enter the canning con- tests which will be held in many of the county fairs this fall. ‘When we realize how much of our orchard and home garden products usually go to waste, we begin to ap- preciate the significiance of this im- portant work of canning vegetables. ALFALFA. Brought Larger Return Upon Relative- ly Cheap Land Than Corn. According tocircular No. 113 of the Ohio station, one alfalfa grawer in Cler- mont. county, Ohio, upon relatively cheap land, reports the following com- parison between the sales of a corn and an alfalfa crop. The alfalfa in this particular field was 5 years old 38.33 bushel corn per acre @ $26.83 42.60 Gross profits in favor of alfalfa..$15.77 The labor cost for this season was $1 per acre for the alfalfa fleld. while the cost of the labor for the corn crop wes not kept, owing to the mons com- plicated nature of tho various Gpera- tions involved, although it 1s evident to any experienced farmer that it is sev- eral times the cost of the hay crop. The above figures were based upon a 5-acre corn fleld and 4%-acre field of al- falfa. Figures compiled by an official of the station show that af 142 fields of corn aggregating 1939.24 scres, grown in various parts of Ohio, the labor cost of growing an average acre was $1098. I nihe same way it was figured the cost of harvesting 31 flelds of elfalfa aggre- AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS 52 cents an acre planted with tested seed having been 6 hours. THE PROPER CARE OF MILK. Responsibility of Consumer as Well as Producer—Guard From Flies as From Disea: The milkmen have received more or less complaints relative to their inilk souring. There may be several reasons for this. Possibly the producer does not keep it at a low temperature: or it may be the fault of the consumer. The following is what the United States o i Es’ ? i i 35 i E L i i i the ground should be gone over with a hand cultivator. For the ground should be gone over with cultivator to kill all weeds the dust mulch. Once or twice di ing the season it will to go over the field with hoes der to stir the soil and kill tween plants in the rows. an easy matter to state when cultivation should cease. ber of weed sceds in the ground. The aim should be to keep the ground en- tirely free from weeds during the en- tire ‘season. Time to Spray. many potato growers. If one expects to get the guickest and surest results he will find it is most _effective to spray when the potato bug 1is in a very immature stage. Spraying with arsenate of lead when the slug has just hatched will be found to be ef- Tective for a considerable time after- ward, as this poison sticks to the leaf and is not easily washed off. If one walts until the slug is full grown he will have consumed the biggest part of the leaves of the plant. Every por- tion that he has eaten means an ex- cellent place for the blight to enter into the tissues of the piant. IMPOSSIBLE NOW TO PICK THE WINNER. American Breeds Are Fast Coming to the Front in Egg Laying Contest. The race for supremacy in the laying contest at Storrs, cannot yet be decided or even predicted. Heretofore the English birds have in a way sort of enjoyed an acknowledged superior- ity inasmuch as they have regularly ranked high each year. In fact Bar- ron’s Wyandottes were 3 close second in the contest last year and his Leg- horns were an easy first in the com- petition two years ago, but American bred birds are coming to the front. A Vermont pen of Rhode Island Reds have passed the Englishman's Wyan- dottes and @ pen of White Leghorns from Calverton, N. Y., bave passed the Englishman’s Leghorns. The total production for all pens in the thirty-fourth week amounted to 3977 eggs, 143 less than for the pre- ceding week but relatively 144 more than for the corresponding week last department of agriculture has to say in_its weekly news letter: With the advent of warm weather the care of the milk in the home be- comes more complex than during the late eutumn and winter. Heat to the extent accumulated by allowing milk to stand on a warm porch or in the sun is enough to start the bacteria in milk to multip’ying at a rapid rate and thus make it unfit for use as sweet milk, according to the dairy specialists of the department. The hot days also bring the flies, the great germ carriers, and the clouds of dust laden with bac- teria, which, when coming to rest on milk receptacies, may easily contami- nate the milk. Milk is regarded as a natural culture medium for bacteria, and the rapidity gatinz 140.41 acres was $374 per acre. From a considerable smaller number of flelds, regarding which it was possible t ire accurate figures, it was shown average cost of seeding an e of alfalfa was $5.46. Another field of 19 acres in ‘Athens county, seeded upcn over plow land, was rented on the shares and the ner's half was sold for $250 in the | field. The following year the first 5 crops were contracted for $300 hey grew, with the option of the rop upon payment of an ad- 5100. The season was €0 fav- it 'a fourth crop.was har- os producing $400 for the or in other words, & little over acre from the 19-acre field for e. CORN. —— Experiment Proves The Value of Thin- ning With Tested and Untested Seed. The Ohio Station conducted experi- ments during four seasons to determine the advisability of planting liberally and then, later, thinning the plants to the desired stand. Each vear four plots have been planted with untested seed, two by hand and at uniform rate of 3 kernels per hill and two, alter- nating with first pair, by planter regu- lated to drop a generous quantity of seed. After the plants have attained a height of & to 8 inches, the latter plots have been thinned to an average stand of 3 plants per hill. A similar comparison has been made each year with the use. of tested seed. In the untested secd the four-year average gain from thinning has been 847 bushels per acre. The averags ast | 821 per the owner's sl ice cream and other frozen products. As a rule the demand for sweet cream is greater than the supply even at the increased prices of ten to fifteen cents per pound butter fat. The reasons why more farmers do not take advantage of the extra prices for sweet cream is that they consider time required to thin an acre bas been 5.4 hours. Therefore, at 50 cents per bushel, the thinnin~ has paid for itselt at the rate of 78 cents per hour. In the tested seed the gain from thinning has been a little less—6.31 bushels per acre, but even this increase, at 50 cents per bushel, affords an hourly wege of with which the various forms will mul- tiply under the proper temperatures is astonishing. It has been shown that if a cublc centimeter (about one-half teaspoonful) of milk containing 10 bac- teria is kept at 68 degrees temperature for 24 hours, the bacteria will have multiplied into about 61,000. In the same milk, if held at 50 degrees the 8Towth of bacteria would be very small possibly as low as 40 in 24 hours. Milk which contains a large number of bac- teria is either not fresh or has come from a diseased cow or has otherwise been contaminated. Flies are possibly the most danger- ous bacteria carriers which are likely to come in contact with milk. These scavengers may convey the germs of typhold fever or other contagious diseases from the sickroom or excreta to the milk. Typhoid epidemics have been caused by flies spreading the germs. Milk should be guarded from flies as rigorously as you would avold exposure to disease. Direct sunlight on the bottle of milk warms it rapidly and increases the bac- terial content. Milk which is deliv- ered very early in the morning, say, at 4 a. m., and remains out of doors until § or 10 o'clock is very likely to become warm and less fit for human congumption than If it were taken in the house and placed in the refrigerator early in the morning. Milk should not be transferred from the original bottle into another re- ceptacle until just dbefore consumj ‘The bottle should be kept covered wil & paper cap or an inverted tumbler as long as the milk is in it. Milk deteri- orates by exposure to the air in the pantry, kitchen or nursery. House- wives are familar with the ability milk has to absorb smells from strong foods year. Dictograph Poultry Farm’ White Leghorns from West Nyack, Y., easily won first for the week with 59 eggs to their credit. Win Farm, Redding Ridge, Conn., an Brenfor¢ Farms, Groton, both White Leghorns, tied for second with 56 eg; each, while four pens, namely: N. W. Hendryx, New Haven; Branford Farms, 'Groton; A. L. Sonderegger. South Coventry; and Jas. V. Thomas, Ballston Lake, N. Y., all White Leg- horns, tied for third with 55 eggs each. The management of the contest is now ready to send out rules and regu- lations and entry blenks for the com- ing competition which will open next November. A’ good many _breeders have, however, been unwilling to wait and have accordingly sent along their entry fees o as to surely get their birds into the coming contest. Pens of White and Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, White Leghorns, Black Leghorns, have al- ready been accepted from breeders in Connecticut, _ Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Ontario, Canada. ana England. The ten leading pens to date are as follows: _Ed Cam, Hoghton, near Preston, England, White Wyandottes 1369; Hillview Poultry Farm, St. Al- bans, Vt, Rhode Isiand Reds 134 Tom Barron, Catforth, near England, Whits Wyandottes 1345; A. P. Robinson, Calverton, N. Y. White Leghorns 1274; Tom Barron, England, White orns 1371; F. M. Peasley, Cheshira, mni\mm Leg- horns 1269; Windsweep Redding Ridge, Conn., White Leghorns 1287; Jas. V. Thomias, Ballston N. Y., White Leghorns 1184; Pinecrest Or- chards, Groton, Mass, Rhode Island Reds 1167, J. Collinson, ~Barnacre, Tt oy % The ten leadmg Comnectiout pens to date are as follows: F. M, Peas- Island Reds 1086; Westport, White Leghorns 10%4; A. 8. , South Coventry, White Leghorns 1083. Middletown—Dr. O. Floyd Haviland, superin of that such foods should like fish, cabbage or onions. It is ob- vious, therefore, be kept out of the refrigerator which contains milk. Milk from the grocery store or bakery which is kept in a can, open - most of the time, and possibly without sane in this city, to succeed the late Noble, will come bere He is at present at the Park hospital on Long Is- on Juiy 36 » and all kinds of Farm Tools of the best makes and at the lowest prices. 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