Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 8, 1916, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) One of the extreme western agri- cuitural experiment stations reports, as if it were of vast importance to dairy farmers, a recent test of skim- milk in_caif-feeding. A.nenrdinc to the summary which I have seen the experimenter took two lots of four calves each, TFor three weeks they were both.fed alike on whole milk fresh from the cow. Then they were separated. Not No. 1 yvas “fad 8§ pounds whole milk and 8 pounds skim milk daily, while No. No. 2 was given 16 pounds of skim milk dally to which one pound of boiled flax- seed was added as a substitute for the cream fat skimmed off.” When the calves were, five weeks old both lots were given clover hay and a grain ration composed of equal parts of bran and whole oats, with one-tenth weight of linseed meal -added Well, when the calve: were six months old “several experienced dairy cattle breeders pronounced the calves in Lot No. 2 equal to those of Lot No. 1. One in individual merit and dairy development.” -Sho! Ain’t that jest a leetle too wonder- ful to credit? Furthermore—*“It cost $19 less per head to feed the skim milk calves to - the age of six months than those fed balf whole milk.” Say: what about the ordindry New England price for a six months’ old heifer caif from an ordinary cow on an ordinary farm? I don’t mean fancy pedigreed stock such as we common pmu a day, which is four pints or quarts apiece. A.ny helfer calf-I've ‘ever with, if I should offer her two quarts of milk, not for all day, but just tvr breakfast, say, would drlnk it dry in twec bunts of her head ‘three shakes of her tail and fllen say, in unmistakable calf language, “Yep, the sample’s all right; now give us some!” The last heifer calf | gaised took an average of from six. to.eight quarts of milk every morning for breakfast, and from four to six quarts every night for supper, and ate clover hay or green grass most of* the time be- tween, according to tle season, and whether she had to be kept stabled or could be pegged out. She’s the cow I'm milking now. She is in her seventh month of lactaticn; gives me a pint a day to drink; puts some “in the dog’s and cat's dishes twice a day; furnishes plenty of cream for our twice-a-day _cCoffee, sauces, desserts, etc., and fills the pans with enough to make about five pounds of butter a week, in addition. She is neither coddled nor kissed goodnight. She gets good mixed-grass hay, all she wants; sweet cured corn stalks twice a day, all she'll eat up clean; bi-daily messes of pumpkins or roots; is sta- bled nights; has the run of the barn- yard and a small pasture lot days with plenty of sheds to get under if it storms; goes to the brook for water, even when she has to wade through ordinary snow to get there; never has had a sick day nor a sore teat. She didn’t cost me “$19” to raise to six months. When she was a year old Wuul own thing Should Have Been State street in New London is to be a model “white way” in the near future, and other improvements are to follow by the removal of all over- head wires except the trolley wires, and all can be done at a saving over the present rates by entering into a five years’ lease with the Connecti- cut Power Company, and in addition there is to be a reduction of fifty per cent. in the rate charged for elec- tric lights In the several city depart- ments. The city has been paying $94 a year for one type of street light, $77.50_for another type and $19.50 for incandescents. Under the new con- tract a more powerful light than any of the arcs will be furnished for $70 a year and the power of the incan- descent lights will be increased with- out added cost. The unsightly poles in State street will be substituted with ornaméntal iron poles and ~ be used jointly by the troiley and the electric light companies. It is planned to place fifty of these poles in State street each to be equip- ped with three strong lights, a clus- ter more powerful than any of the present arc lights which will be placed much lower than the lights now in use and the street will get the full benefit of these lights, leaving it to the stars above to light.the sk Mayor Rogers advocated the lease for hayseeds can't afford ‘ot buy or keep, but just ordinary cows and calve: If one of these lots cost $19 a head less to bring to six months than the other, then both must have cost a 800d deal more than $19 a head. Considering the price which an cr- dinary yearling heifer brings at the farm, wouldn’t the ordinary farmer stand to save about $19 more by knocking every heifer calf on the head as soon as it was born, rather than follow this western wiseacre's wonder- ful plan? What is there new or remarkable, when you come tc think about it, in raising calves on skim milk? In my part of the country, butchers demand that calves Wwhich are to be vealed,at four to six weeks old be fed whole milk and ail they will take. They will not buy. for veal, calves fed even partly on skim milk. Meat isn’t good, they say. But calves which are to be raised are fed on skim milk almost universally. Now, ‘T cun 'remember how my fath- er, fifty years ago, used to take the heifer calves he intended to raise from the cow as soon as' they were born. They were given mother's milk, as drawn, untli that milk became fit for dairy. use—-the eleventh milking was his rule. Then they had it diluted with skim milk in steadily increasing ratio till, at two weeks old, they were Fettmv no whole milk at ali. Nor were hey given any “boiled flaxseed” or “iinseed meal” A little “hay tea” was steeped iwice a day to add to their skim milk,. both for the purpose of warming it and_of encouraging their taste’ for hav. Clover was put before them.as soop as their teeth. were cap- able of business; and I've seen ‘em eat- ing it like hot cakes before they were four weeks old. But I never.knew. my father—nor any other farmer—to limit a srowing calf to two quarts of milk a day, whether whole or skimmed or fortified with grein. These eight unhappy wm.rn calves, you'll notice, got 16 pounds of skim milk. for, one lot of four and eight pounds €ach of whole and skim milk for the other lot of four, daily. A pound ‘of milk is about a pint.. That is, each lot of four got 16 pounds or CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED with local applications, as they cannot’ reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in’order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internaily, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. u.||‘5 Catarrh. Cure is not a gquack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the bnngnyumu.n- in this country for yen:l al is a regular prescription. It s the best tonics known, camhlned 'llh the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous sur- faces. The perfect-combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Pr J. Dnl.. Toledo. o. - Sold by dru Take Hall's Family e for coetss pation. Many ‘People Don’t Know. A sluggish liver can cause a person an awful lot of misery. Spells of dizzi- ness, headaches, constipation and bil- lousness are sure signs that your liver needs help. Take %!‘ King's New Life Pills and see how they help tone up the whole system. Fine for the stom- ach, too. Aids digestion. Purifles the blood and clears the complexion, Only 25c at your druggist. nb potash i ‘Droven that lar than are ordi "ourselves. To Progressive Farmers : Due to the great European war, there is practically in this country available for lzfieult purposes. is scarcity makes those commercial fertilizers which depend on potash far too expensive for the majority of farmers. ‘conjunction with farm nmomf:o!mmkmmmfiu I thought of selling her. But $13.50 ‘was the best offer anybody would make for her, even then. I thought she was worth more and so kept her, which was one time that I guessed right. She was and is worth more—a good deal more. But if I'd had to buy whole oats and bran and linseed meal and flax- seed for her when she was a calf, and boil the flaxseed .and weigh and e other things and gen- nkey” with her after the fashicn described by this truly re- markable western experimenter, doubt- less I shouid have got so tired of her before she was a vear old that I'd have sold her for less than $13.50 and been glad to see her tail-end disappearing down the dusty road. P’m not a dairyman. I keep but one cow, because that's all we need for home ‘supply of milk, cream and but- ter. I don’t profess to be adept in dairy lore nor expert in dairy man- agement. But, as a mere amateur and onc-cow man—which is perhaps an even more opprobrious epithet than ‘one-hoss farmer”—seems to me this wonderful experiment of this west- ern experimenter comes pretty near to being what I've heard called “pop- pycock.” Perbaps doesn’t affect you that way, but it is actually irritating to me to ‘have, some fellow who wasn't born when I was having to earn my own living off .the farm, undertake to give me “points” about something like calf-feeding. Such a man would cbnsider himself capable of teaching his erandmother how to suck eggs. And, if his teaching consts in going through such a rigamarole as is out-west chap advises, with such an outcome as he reports in the way of costs, then the irritation takes on a shade of ugliness. The trouble with too much of the advice we farmers get is that it doesn’t fit. We're most of us out of the kindergarten stage, and don't need pap so much as we do spon- dulix. There are a thousand farmers who can raise calves and keep dairy cows and get good yields of rich milk where there is one farmer who can get faair pay for his calves or his cows or his milk. Just at present the help we want is not so much in being.shown how to..increase production as in being shown how to get renumerative prices for what we already produce. ‘When the. minimum price - for his milk to the New England farmer is reported at $1.10 per hundred pounds, and the minimum cost of producing the milk is correspondingly reported at $1.0911 per hundred pounds, it oc- currs to a man up a tree that what the farmer needs is not so much knowledge of how to get more milk as knowledge of how to get a better. price. We need less advice upon how to suck eges or raise calves, apd more help in getting what our goods are worth. Just at present, the marketing problem is the one which, from the farmer's view-point, demands first attention. It is the one which we are, as a class and by reason of our conditions, least able to tackle for It is the ome wherein economy students and practical bus- iness men could -give needed and ap- vreciated assistance. Instead, they seem to think ummfi!flm% m nd phosphoric acid ractically act in the place of potash ! they, 1 five years as he stated that under the plan the lighting service would be greatly improved and the city would save by the new method, which car- ried a reduction in rates, the sum of about $2000 the first year and $2700 each succeeding year, or a total $12,800 during the life of the con- tract. All of which sounds well, and perhaps is well. While the people glory in seeing State street brilliant- iy illuminated, and rates reduced for the city departments, which means a saving of the public money, but so small that it will never be noticed by the taxpayers, as there will be no re- duction in taxes by the saving, still there are some whyp believe the street light committee and the members of the ccurt of common council ought to have done just a little something to- wards getting a lower rate for the in- gividual consumers of the gas and electricity, and perhaps a little more considerafion, too, from the officers representing the big Connecticut Power company. s a whole will Before this company took over the local property the conditions to the individual consumers were much bet- ter than at the present time ,and the company that was absorbed by the Connceticut was a money-maker for the stockholders. That company en- couraged the use of its products, by putting in gas stoves, for instance, at cost and connecting the stoves with the gas mains free of cost, to make market for the product, and this was not done at a loss, and there were many rules that “were of benefit to tha consumer, and now all have been changed for the benefit of the com- pany. The time for renewal of the lease has come, and in order to get one for a five years team it was absolutely NE_W LONDON AND HER WHITE WAY New Lighting System f:meSum—Miu That Some- dividual Comumm—AldermenTlltonHedth Depart- ment and Inspection Work. - of | adviee and a tflo‘m‘"& THE FARMER. DonetoGetthbforl'fi- 3 necessary for the some inducement, people, but to the proper through the city’s repmsn'htl’vu. the gentlemen who have the authority to enter into the contract in behalf* of the city. It is a safe bet - that the glowing offer of the company is not made at a loss, which goes to show that there was some profit under the present plan. There is more improvements tg come in the matter of electric light- ing, and the lessening of the cost of production, and if the people ‘as in- dividnals cannot: get the benefits the city should. There ought to be a clause in that agreement which would provide in substance that in the event of the adoption of any improved meth- ods by the company during the life of the contract, that would lessen the cost of production that the city re- ccive that benefit without any extra cost. In other words have the com- pany bound to give the public the benefit of improved methods, just as has been done.in connection with the proposed new contract. The council authorized the street light committee to enter intcr a flve years lease with the Connecticut Power company, and to accept the inducements offered by the company. And all is well so far s. the city is concerned, and the company, too, for that matter. <ompany ml-k mot /te, tfin ‘whole Aiderman William J. Harrigan, who came from Norwich to help govern New London, has placed well in the van for integri honesty and an earnest desire to serve the city faith- fully and well. He happens to be chairman of the health commmittee nd was a warm advocate of the two ordinances that provided for increase pue ‘I90WO Y edY oYl JOo LIe[es oyl ur which were disapproved in city meet- ings. Just by way of getting a little sarcastic cut at Alderman Alton T. Miner, a fellow marketman, and the leader in opposition to the raise in salary, at the ccuncil meeting Mon- day evening, Mr. Harrigan stated for the benefit of Mr. Miner that the sal- ary of Dr. John Terrington Black as health officer was $1000 a year flat, that the 'pay of Inspector Pennell was $8) a month and Inspector MeGinley's pay was $70 a month, and that Miss Merriam, the clerk., received $40 a month: that the health committee had fixed that pay of the assistants and would see to it that they were paid regularly Alderman Miner appreciated the thrust and asked in relation to the fees. Alderman Harrigan replied that between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. there were no fees, but when. the officers of the health department were called-out for inspection duty after 5, someone would have to settle with the inspec- tors and it would not be the city. Alderman Miner then asked if any- hody can get meat inspected free from & a. m. until 5 p..m. and Alder- man Harrigan replied that for at least once Alderman Miner was correct. And both are democratic members. This Is evidence that there is no po- litics in the court of common council of the city of New London, but not very good evidence. Toliand County COLUMBIA s Church | Helds Annual Meeting and Roll Call—Mr., and Mrs. E. E. Ly- man Receive Friends on Holiday. The annual church meeting, supper and roll call was held at Yeoman's hall Friday evening, Dec. 31st. An excellent supper was served from 7:30 to 8.30, after which the annual busi- ness meeting was held. Rev. T. N. Owen was chosen chairman. In the absence of the clerk, L. E. Winter was chosen clerk pro tem. The usual re- ports were heard and accepted. The clerk’s report showed the present ‘membership to be 134 of which 58 are males and 76 females. There were 7 additions to the church in the past [ year all by profession, 8 removals, 6 by death, 2 by letter. The ages of those removed by death were 45, 80, 82, 85, 82, an aggregate of 469 and an average of 78 1-6. Infants bap- tized 4. The treasurer reported from contributions for the various benevolent ' objects amounting to $186.07, a little less than our quota under the apportionment plan. The Ladles’ Aid Society reported re- ceipts for the year, of $303.14 and dis- tursements of $289.94, balance in treasury $13.20. The ladies also re- port $471.93 on deposit in a Hartford Savings Bank. The Woman's Mis- sionary Society reported a membership of 23. Receipts for the year * $52.81. Paid out $60.50, balance in treasury $1.31.° Mention was made of the urg- ent’need of a larger membership. The | Eccleciastical society’s _report showed recelpts to have :been’ $1051.06, ex- penses. $945.39. The election of offi- cers resulted as follows: Treasurer, L. E. Winter, pastor’s assistant for two years,: A.-A. Latham; church commit- tee, E. P. Lyman, A. A. Latham and F. A. Hunt." Remarks were made by L. E. Winter, extending a welcome in be- half of the parish to Rev. and Mrs. g)wsn to_their new fleld, which were applly responded ‘to by 'Mr. Owen. Formal -resolutions were read by the clerk " and ‘adopted “unanimously, " ex tending a hearty welcome to Rev. an Mrs. JOwen as: they take up their du ties .and :labors. “The roll call followed. - Those -pres- receipts _ | ent ‘6r responding- by letter or mes- sage were 85. Those absent or not responding 49. The remainder of the evening was spent in a social way. . and ‘Mrs. E. E. L’mn.n kevt‘opa'n day from 3 to 5 Columbia friends and neighbors. In _evening they gave a reception to people of the town. About LETTERS FROM TWO STATES litor Friday and Saturday of last week. The W. S. S. E. Ladies’ club met with Mrs. Raymond Squire on Thurs- day afternoon of last week. The meeting of the Saxton B. Little Free Library Association will be held next Monday evening. Sunday School Reorganized. The Sunday school was reorganized last Sunday. The officers: chosen for the ensuing year are: Superintendent, Herbert P. Collins; assistant superin- tendent, Llewellyn Latham; secretary and treasurer, William M. Wolff; as- sistant, Howard A. Rice. The secre- tary's report showed that 51 sessions of the school were held during the year with a total attendance of 3158 and an average attendance of 61 9-10 against 71 5-10 the year prveious. The largest attendance was on Children's day, June 13, when 182 were present. The smallest was on August 22, when only 35 were present. ‘The - present membership is 84 against 101 a year ago, a loss of 17. There are about 20 members in the Home department and 8 names on the cradle roll. e school has contributed during the phst year $105.23, expended for supplies-and other necesary expenses $43.62, leay- ing a balance of $61.61 in the treas- ury. Vital Statistics. The vital statistics of the town for the past year are marriages, 4; births, 15; deaths, 15. Mrs. Kate Wolff has a crab cactus that has at present about one hundred and fifty buds and blossoms. John ‘Bogue of Hartford is visiting at Mrs. James A. Utley's on Colum- bia Green. Mr. Bogue wids severely wounded by the accidental discharge of his gun while out after cons one evening last fall and for several weeks was at the hospital. STAFFORDVILLE, Mrs, Julius L. Browning was taken ‘to the Johnson hospital last week for treatment. Mr. and.Mrs. Omer -Cdoley have commenced housekeeping - in one of Mrs. Valll's tenements. 5 Mrs. Frank Belcher, her son Earl ‘and her niece, Miss Bertha Belcher, spent a few days with relatives in Bouth Coventry last week. Rev. E. H, Tunnicliffe, who has been il at the home of his daughter in’ ‘Ware, Mass., is better, and returned to his putorate here last week Fri- Mrs. John. Rishton and' ~daughter, Mrs. Lila Tallman, were guests of Mrs. James Roberts in Orcuttville a few days last week. Mrs. Tallman re- turned to her home in Somervill | Perilous Walking—Blue Crane Caught .ahul Committes Moste—Town Cotin: oil and Probats Business—Churches’ Annual Mmlm The quarterly meeting of the ‘dmol comkm THE BELMONTS &nguib. Musioc and Whistling THE COWARD 33 WITH FICKLE FATTY'S FALL—2- . Keystone with Fatty ™ Arbuckle . pr recei: Do e e Chapla st Hemfln; COMING MONDAY—Big Bill of Triangle torn Cltr has n-lcnod to u-m salary. ‘were ord pllll to the -mount o! $154.08. l"rank M. Crandal ted to-take the school census. 3 Tl&nw}r‘n council at its mont{:z meeting Monday . afternoon lppgln Harbm B. Le‘wl‘ inspector of build- enyon, appraiser on the . town erate births and deaths. were ordered paid to the amount nt sm 05. Probate Business. In the probate court the inventory and appraisal of the personal estate of C. Angeline Barber, deceased, was received and ordered recorded. Receipts of distribution of the es- tates of Amos ,P. Barber, Edward Barber and Lydia L. Kenyon were re- celved and ordered recorded. Howard ‘M. Barber was appointed administrator d, b. n. c. t. a. on the estate of Paul”M. Barber, deceased, and Frank Hill was appointed ap/l praiser. Edward M. Tillinghast was appoint- ed administrator on the estate of his late wife Elizabeth S. Tillinghast. The second account of Viola M. Bur- dick, guardian of the jjrson. and es- tate of her miinor son, George L. Bui dick was allowed and ordered record- ed. The last will and testament of Wil- liam M. Chapman, deceased, was re- ferred to February Tth next with or- der of notice. The petition of Elizabeth H. and Katherine R. Tillinghast, minors for the appointment of their father Ed- ward M. Tillinghast as their guard- ian was referred to February 7th with order of notice and citation. Churches Hold Meetings. The annual meetings-of the First and Second Seventh Day Baptist churches were held in their_respee- tive. meeting houses Sunday, Jan. 2nd. The First church served a turkey and chicken pie dinper in the parish house at Ashaway at the noon. intermission. Frank M. Hill was elected one of the trustees to succeed his father Frank Hill resigned. Union “Service: Union services are being held dur- ing the week of prayer in the villages of the town. The public schools opened for the winter term-Monday morning. Robert Plummer and family about to move to Bridgeport, Ct. Mrs. Sarah F. B. Hood, former post- mistress at Ashaway, is ill at' her home on High street. Walter C. Brown returned home to Warrenville, Monday. Mrs. Brown will remain here & few days longer. WEEKAPAUG Ninety-8Sixth Birthday of Mrs. Abbie Langworthy — Saunders ~ Family Moves. 5 -m-—d —£—— el Today - COL 0 NIAL = Matinee 5¢ _—-——————u—-d—‘!——.— IF -Lewis and Ethel Grey Terty: in Reel Feature. you were poverty-stricken, a ‘Wealthy ' Woman: gave you $10,000 to marry her erring Daughter-and giveyour 'name to another Man's chuid; ithie - wifs for whom"you* were: “Bought” continued her, out her ulv;tlon and yo and’ ice frozen hard, but the milder air of Wednesday softened it some and the rain fterwards took off most) of it. Poet and Air Pilot. A brildant seaman of many accom- plishments is Admiral Mark Kerr, who s Teturning to England after two years' service with the Greek Navy, having been. “lent” . to Greece in 1813. .The son of an admiral, he served in the Naval Brigade. during the Egyptian war in 1882, and in the: Sudan campaign nine years later. . i Not only is Admiral Kerr - one of the most distinguished officers in the British Navy, but he is the first flag officer to qualify as an air_pilot; se- curing the - Royal -Aero Club cer: tificate with a Sopwith seaplane in|| July last year. He is also a _good horseman. One afternoon. at Malta he rode five winners out of peves faces, while his personal try i iilustrated by the fact that he holds the Rbyal Humane Society’s medal|, for life saving at sea. . ; Poetry, he once ‘confesed, is his weaxness. He .is the author of two yolumes of poems dealing with .the domantic aspects of the British Navy, and has several other books, essays, etc, to his credit. ‘If Greece should join the Quadruple Alliance Admiral Kerr's services in bringing the 'Hel- lenic navy to- its present pitch of per- fection will be bitterly’ remembered in, Berlin. ‘It is Admiral Kerr who Las. been’ mainly responsible for the jurchase of battleships by Greece, an act which brought down' 'upon his 20 KNOWN "LA!‘R" Seat Sale Wednesday, Jlnu-ry- 12th, 4 RS A- M henrl a _particularly Jenomoua attack ‘German ~ political agents some time before the outfim.k of war. Tit-Bits. are Saturday Afternoon and Evenmg SPECIALS FRESH PORK SHOULDERS, b. ... SMOKED SHOULDERS, Ib. ROAST PORK LOINS; Ib. ......... SAUSAGE MEAT, 2 lbs for. BEEF LIVER, 2 lbs'for. .....5% Messrs. Dorothy and Ruth Abbott who have been visiting their grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Noyes, have returned to their home on Fish- ers Island. Miss Olive Pendleton has been en- tertaining her aunt, Mrs. Thankful Nye of Wakefield. oNinety-Sixth Birthday. Mrs. Abbie. Langworthy. her 96th birthday, January 5th. Langworthy is enjoying very health for one of her age. Mrs. Alice Saunders spent Wednes- day afternoon at the Macomber farm. Claude Saunders and family recent- ly moved from the Tucker house to their own home at Woody Hill. Albert Langworthy and grandsen, Cliffcrd Langworthy were callers in o 1 this vicinity Friday afternoon. RICHMOND passed Mrs. good cmmw. STORE" in a Trap. People have not dared to venture out very much on account of the ter- rible ice. Several slipped down: and |, ‘were. injured. Joseph C. Kenyon is back with his daughter, Amy S. Weaver, for the winter. Mrs. F. Smith returned to Newport Friday for a while. Silas ‘Woodmansee_was a caller at the Moore Homestead Tuesday. Blue Crane Caught. A blue crane was caught in a trap in_Beaver river recently. ' Mrs. George S. Jame; keep about the same. Grip is prevalent in this locality. Everett R. Moore, has been confined to his house for a week with grip. John W. Smith was in Providence the. latter part of the week. o5 e Bl el USQUEPAUGH Mrs. Eva Webster has returned to| Point- Judith, to’ her school duties, after vluiunx her mother, Mrs. Sarah| Franklin, over the holi S, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. ‘ebster, ~ Jr., of North Badon, are visiting at Dr. Kenyon’s. . Mrs. R. Carpenter has returned to her home at New York lm.llm a wsfik‘l rs. seems to "Miss Reba Collins returned to New | .York . Monday - after ' spending the H. Palmer’s. E. C. D. Kenyon spent Wednesday in Providené¢e on ‘business. Dr. and Mrs. Webster of We by, village Wi ‘holiday at Rev.