Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 1, 1917, Page 9

NORWICH-- BULLETIN, - THURSDAY,- -NOVEMBER 1, 1917 BUILDING ACTIVITY IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT ——————— —= Contractors Pushing Along Work Progress Shown on Dwellings m;i Factory Buildings—Altera- tions and Additions Being Made to Structures in City The outstde work on the house of 1. E. Browning on the New London turnpike in Norwich Town is near- ly completed. The house is of wood construction and is two stories high. It will have eight rooms and it-is ex- pected that the work will be finished before snow flles. Contractor W. C. Young is doing the work. Raising Roof on Balitic Building. W. C. Young has a force of men at work raising the roof on the building W owned by Nolan Brothers in Baltig. The building is about 30x30 feet. The roof is to be raised three feet. When the roof is raised there will be three rooms and a bath addad to the second floor. & Erecting Large House on Fishers fs- land. Contractor W. C. Young has had a force of from 12 to 18 men working on the large new house of Captain Dean Tilford on Fishers Island. The outside work on the house has been finished and the men are now doing the inside work. The building is ex- pected to be completed in' about two weeks. Alterations to Main Street Block Com- pleted. Contractor P. J. Sweeney has com- pleted the alterations to the second story of_the Bushnell block on Main streat. The petitions have been torn down making a larger room. The Main street front has been cut through and several large plate glass windows put in. Shingling Lafayette Street House. The workmen are now shingling the house of F..J. Langenbach on Lafayette street. The structure has been board- ed up and the lathing has been com- pleted. Contractor Kinney is doing the work. Seven New Boxes in Post Office Lobby During the past week seven new boxes have been placed in the lobby of the post office. Three of the box- es are 13 by 32 inches, just double the size of the largest box used before. The other boxes measure 13 by 10 in- ches. The old size boxes were not large enough to accommodate the in- creased mail of some of the patrons. Window Frames Set in West Side Building. The window frames for the addition to the Blue Star Overall company on West Main street have been put in place and the walls have been raised several feét above the ground. Con- tractor Ambrose Suilivan is doing the work. Garage Nearly Finished. The roof for the garage of Dr. Thomas A. Crowley on Williams street was put on Wednesday. The garage will be finished in about a week. Laying Taftville Storehouse Roof. The brick sides for the Ponemah Mill_storehouse- in Taftville have been raised and the beams for the roof have been placed in position. The workmen are now laving the roof. ContPactor Torrance is doing the work. Repairs to Ponemah Mill Barn. ‘crkmen from the Ponemah Mill have been engaged for the past week in repairing the company barn on South Front street. Concrete floors have heen placed in the stalls and new stanchions have been put in position. BUILDING AND BUSINESS. Decrease Pn Bank Clearings—ilLittle New Building. The clearings of the Hartford banks for the past week in comparison witk the same week of last year show a decrease of 13.6 per cent. and those of New Haven for the same period a gain of 10.5 per cent. Sales of real estate for the past week, as shown by the number of warranty deeds filed-in the cities of the state reported in The Commercial . Record. numbered 491, as compared with: 514 in the same week of last year. Mortzage loans' for the week totaled $979.500, comparing with $1.501.311 in this week a year ago. Petitions in bankruptcy last week pumbered thrae. with assets of $1.411 and limbilities of 34,940. A year ago in the same week eight petitions, hav- ing total assets of $14 673 and liabiH- ties of $109,995, were filed in Connecti- ant. New companies were formed during _— WILLIAM C. YOUNG Sucecssor to - STETSON & YOUNG CARPENTER and BUILDER Best work and \ materials at right prices by skited labcr. Telephone 50 West Main St M. A. BARBER. Machinest and Engineer Steam Engine Repairs PLUMBING AND GASFITTING With or Without Gas Attach- ments but Always EFFICIENT and ECONOMICAL—~ MODEL RANGES We furnish Repairs for all makes of Ranges A. d. Wholey & Co. 12 FERRY STREST T. F. BURNS Heating and Plumbing. 92 Franklin Street IRON CASTINGS FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY THE VAUGHN FOUNDRY CO é Nos. 11 to 25 Ferry Street ROBERT J. COCHRANE GAS FITTING, PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING Washington Sq., Washington Bu i Norwich, Conn. Agent For N. B. O. Sheet Packing Phone 581 MODERN PLUMBING is as essentlal in modern houses as elactricity is to lighting. We guaran- tee the very best PLUMBING WORK by expert workmen at the fairest prices. Ask us for plans and prices. J.F. TOMPKINS. 67 West Main Street the past week to the number of nine, as against six in the last week of Ccteber last year. The capital stock of the concerns for the past week amounts to $176,500, while Jast year the total capitalization amgunted to £25,000. . ‘Bullding permits have *een issued in the past week in the cities of New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Water- bury, New Britain and Stamford to the number of 132, for new construc- tion work to cost $252582. Last year ia the same cities. during the corre- sponding wesi;, 200 permits were is- sued for new construction work ta cost $904,826. Contracts awarded last week in- clude one and_two-family houses in New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury, | Stamford, Ansonia and New London; jrower house and several government buildings in New London, residence werk in Greenwich and Waterbury, fectory additions in Hartford and Wa- terbury; several frame houses, public garage and smaller work in Spring- field; factory addition, public garages and a number of contracts for frame liouses in New Haven and smaller work in various parts of the state. Listed among the new projects of tne past week are schoolhouses in Milford, hrick church in West Haven. factory additions in Stamford, sesi- dence work in Greenwich: brick business block and many frame houses in Waterbury: three school- hcuses in_Hartford, factory construc- tion in New Britain, residence work in New Haven, addition to grain ele- vator in Norwalk and the usual run of smaller work in various parts of the state. Norwich had rine sales of real es- tate last week to six for the corra- eponding week last year. The mort- zage loans for the respective weeks were $7.900 and $18 525. In New London there were six sales for the past week compared with 17 a year ago. Mcrtgage loans last week amounted to $28575 and a year ago the amount was $53,62 NEW LCNDON. Waldo Street Hou: The contract has been given to Percy R. White. for the erection of a house on Waldo street for Louis Le ing. It will be of frame construction, 25x32 feet, arranged for two families, with five rooms for each. Division Strest Hou: - Joseph Willams is doing s> rough plumbing in the new houme which Jos. V. Sousa is building for kimself on Division street. The hoyle will be 26x42 feet arranged for two families, with six rooms for each, and provided with all improvements. | Improving Gardner Strest House. | James Fowler is doing thg mason work, Murray & Maher the plumbing and the Hopson & Chapin Co. tw heating in connection with the exten- eive improvements which the Wood- worth & Jenney Co.. are making in | Arnola Co. of Washington, D. garages, | ) the residence oi W. K. Sheffield on Gardner street. SUBMARINE BASE. Building for the Government. Excavations are being made at the submarine base for the group of Luildings to be erected by the U.S. Government, ‘for which the R. ' H. as the contract. The buildings will con- sist of barracks machine shop, offi- cers' quarters, storehouse and ordin- ance buildings, all of brick and wood. and costing ~ about $800,000. The tuildings will be heated individually by steam. New Power House. Bigelow & Nichols, 45 East 42nd St., New York, were the lowest bid- ders for the proposed power house and machine shop to be built at the sub- marine base for the navy department. Tre building will be 95X250 feet. two stories high, and - the cost will be 2bout $200,000. MIDDLETOWN. Mylchreest Bros. have completed the brick work in connection with the ad- dition to tha office building of the Frisbie Motor Co. on- College street. It is about 50x30 feet, the present tuilding being raised an additional sicry. The foundation has been com- pleted by H. S. Moore for a brick a d:ition in th rear of the buildiry which_will be 64x50 feet. H. Moore has the contract for the mason work for two frame cot- tages “which are being erected in Cromwell for A. X. Plerson. T. H. Sellew of Cromwell is the contractor. They are now nearly ready for plas- tering. BUILDING CPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND Statistics of building and engineer- ing operations in New England as ccmpiled by The F. W. Dodge Com- pany follow: Contracts to Oct Contracts to Oct Congracts to Oct. Centracts to Oct. Contracts to Oct. Centracts to Oct. Contracts to Oct. Contracts to Oct. Contracts to Oct Contracts to Contracts to Contracts to Contracts to Contracts to Contracts to Contracts to Contracts to $165,226,000 145,268,000 139,205 000 139,413,000 159,222,000 146,817, i;{:,gsz Wg 35 271, 89,62 1,3‘80 111,517,000 100,433,000 90,792,000 78'816,000 87,893,000 101,746,000 97,123,000 13121919 19 19 | 24 24, 1901.. CULL YOUR PULLETS. E Before They Start on Their Worthless Career. Why should pullets be put in the iaying houses for winter production and fed high priced feed when their present external characteristics indi- cate that they will at- best be onmly indifterent producers? There are such pullets in every flock. However #0d the majority may be some are sure to be below the standard. It has peen plainly demonstrated by the poultry department of the C necticut Agricuitural Coliege that the siackers can be cullea from a flock of laying hens. The removal of 8137 glacker hens flocks totaling 7,556, resulted in a very slight drop the average egg production from 30 eggs per day the week before e demonstraticns to 2,018 eggs per day the week after the demonstra- tions. The drop was no more than should normally ‘be 'expected at this time of year. Why not cull some of those would- be slackers before they start their worthless career? It is not possible tc call a flock of puilets as closely and accurately as the same flock could be culled at the end 6f the laying year, but many of the inferior birds can be removed to- the decided advantage of the owner. Methads of seiection are similar to |tiose used ‘in culling old hems ex- jcept’ that moult and color of shanks, |beak ard earlobes cannot be consid- jered. Vigor, vitality, maturity, ca {pacity ~td quality count. Vigor, vi- tality and maturity can really be con- sidered as one. Birds that are strong, grow rapidly and mature early are the niost vigorous. Such birds are usual- Iy characterized by =~ rather short head, bright red comb, prominent eyes, pump body ard strong ‘carriage with lezs reasonably well apart. Capacity is absolutdly necessary be- fore a pullet can make anything like profitable production. As the pillet pears laying condition, the develop- ment of the ovary and oviduct require considerable room in the body cavity. The digestive tract must also éxpand 2 both eize and length in order to digest and assimilate the addl- tional amount of nourishment re- Guired for both maintainance and pro- Guction. The bones of the body being foft and loose Jointed, allow the breast bone to be force downward and forward. The pelvic bones are also forced apart by the contents of the body. A measurement of this capac- ity may be had by considering the distance between the pelvic bones and the distance across the abdomen be- tween the pelvic bomes and the rear erd of the breast bone. The exact measurement will vary with differenit breeds but a pullet ready to lay should show a width of two to three fingers four Sngers. between. The pevie Monce r ween vi Ty - 2 the pelvic bones Quality is that thin woft skin tex- ture and pliable condition of the bones which indicates health. A profitable pullet must be in good condition. A reasonable amount of flesh or reserve energy is necessary to carly a bird through cold = weather production. Quality is easily distinguished by the ccndition of the skin over the breast bone and abdeminal cavity. Also the pliableness of the pelvic bores and the prominence and pliableness of the two -lateral processes of the breast bone which lie either ‘side ‘of the Lreast bone and help to suport the abdomen. The pullets whiel lay first may be picked out by the general devslopment described above and by the width and color of the vent. The vent color He- gins to fade out whité before any other part of the body and a few days productions will make a considerable © Oivaie host o ven a of pullets all the sam. age and reared under favorable come i 1 YOU DEMAND GOOD CEMENT GOOD SAND AND GRAVEL ARE JUST AS "l’OITAfiT. Ail Our Products Are Graded and Washed and Cest no More. Deliveries by C. V. R. R. and by Water. : THE NEW LONDON SAND & STONE COMPANY 85 STATE STREET: NEW LONDON, GONN. | ditions it is easy to pick out the best and eliminate the slackers. Flocks of different ages with no way of distin- guishing each lot are rather hard to cull but careful study will tell you whether immature pallets are young, cr older onés stunted. Any indivi® ual that is out of condition or back- ward in growth will be just as back- ward in payinz rd bills this win- | ter. Keep only godd stock but learn t5 piek out the good birds and keep all of them. They will pay you well— R E. Jones, Extension Poultryman, Connecticut Agricultural. College. CLEARING THE PASTURE. Time to Remove Brush In Order to Give Cows Better Chaace. Sheep and goats can live on brush and shrubs. A good dairy cow can rot. Only moss and lichens can live on_stones.. Good cows and good pas- tvre is a combination difficult to beat. Now is the-time to think of removing the brush from the pasture lot, gath- cring In piles and burning it. - With ihe high price of coal some of the larger stuff can be trimmed out and used in the house stove. In clearing up that stone pile or tiiose loose stones in the pasture, don’t haul them to some out of the way coa ner on the farm, but pile along tse rcad ready for crushing when the new town road is built. A hundred rods or a half mile to the road is no farther than a ‘hundred rods or a half mile t. some rarely visited back lot, and there is the double advantage of cheapening the cost of road construc- tion and offering an inducement, how- ever slight, for better roads in that neighborhood. Then with the land cleared and room for grass to grow, use lime (2009 1bs.) and possibly a little acid plosphate (109 to 200 1bs.)) and make the poor grass mood and the gvod grass better. Such-treatment will last five or six years. Lastly, with less ‘brush and stones, and more grass. do not overgraze. As Governor Hoard has said, “If you hzve pasture enough for ten cows keep twenty. You will get almost as much milk and have more cows. M. F. Abell, Cennecticut Agricultural College. STORING POTATOES IN LIME. Many people are storing potatoes this year who kave never stored po- tatoes in any quantity before. As a result there is much uncertainty om the proposition and many questions arising. One of these is whether or not air slackei jime should be use either to sprinkle over the potatoes or to_pack them in ¥ There is no need for using lime at all. Potatoes properly stored will or- dinarily keep and if for any reason they tend to spoil the air slacked lime will not prevent the loss. Other peopie have asked whether or not there is any special wood that should be used to make the bins seem- ing to have the idea that certain wood will cause unpleasant flavors. o fears need be entertained how- ever. Any wood that is _availlable may be used without fear of comtam- inating the potatoes. The essentials for potato storage are ventilation, darkness, and a tem- perature between 34 and 59 degrees. ERIDGEPORT MARKET PLAN A SUCCESS. Reports from the fruit and vege- table growers of Bridgeport indicate that the plan of employing a market specialist to report dafly on market ccnditions. is, with ‘them, a decided success. This 1S the result of two months of experience and represents o thorough trial of this method of conducting their business. There are ai least three other associations in tke state which have exp: a de- sire to p@t in this eervice. It repre- sints one of the most important steps taken to improve marketing condi- tions.—Guy C. Smith. - TQ HAVE HEALTHY HOGS. Savergd — - parasites, and pneumonia | | Cholera, ‘fare some of the worst troubdles hog whnwflnthm“m they are commonly - . with the hogs more or less. Pneu- monia may be prevented by keeping the hogs from taking cold. Hogs are kept for years on the same lct—generation after generation—un- tii the soil becomes saturated with the different parasites and their eggs With such surroundings a hog is cer. tain to be affected. The animals loo= serawny, and cholera is blamed for their condition. 3 Sanitation is the foundation of suc- cessful hog-raising. A hog iot should te plowed frequently, and thoroughly piowing or spading shouid be done at least a foot deep before the ground freezes this fall. The soil cannot be n.ade too rich to grow the best aspar- agus, o do not be afraid to spread a very heavy covering of good stals: manure all over the plot early in the winter. As soon as the soil-is fit to cultivate next spring, work: in the roanure thoroughly and deeply. ¥or growing green asparagus shoots, which are now being generally pre- ferred, set strong one-year-old plants of some good variety like Palmetto | 4 feet apart. Do every part of the ork well, give clean culture, and continue to fertilize heavily, for a gcod stand of asparagus means eignt to ten annual crops without reset- ting. Cut only very Jightly the vear after setting: the second year. moder- ately: then full cuttings in following years. No garden .can now be con- sidered complete without a' thrifty supply of asparagus. BARRED ROCKS FINISH = FIRST AT STORRS Carry Off First Honors in Sixth Annu- al Egg Laving Contest. The sixth international egg layving contest at Storrs was formally closed with the laying of the last egg late Tuesday afternoon by Rhode JIsland Red hen No. 322, from Attleboro, Mass. A pen of Barred Rocks that plodded alongz in second place for more than fifty weeks finally finished first. Wh. te Leghorns were in second and _third places for the year. Barred Rocks fourth and Rhode I=? nd Reds fifth. All five prgvious contests were won by either White Leghorns or White Wy- andottes. Twice the honors went to England, then to a Pennsylvania pen of Teghorns. Connecticut and Rhode Jsland bhad their turn and now New Hampshire stands at the hend of the list as can be seen from the sum- mary below. These New Hamnshire Barred Roeks entered by Applecock Farm of Fitzwilliam not only won in the contest just ended. but thev have set 2 new high record for Plymouth Rocks as no pen of this breed has been able to equal their record in any previous competition. The 1,600 birds in the contest were of nine different breeds and varities and represented sixteen states and two a’lied countries The combined weight of ail the hens was less than two and a half tons and yet they laid over ten tons of eggs. In other words, the average vield of 163 eggs for cach hen was more than four tim her own welight. The grand total for all pens was 163,387 eggs which is the largest number of eggs ever collected at Storrs from the same number of hens. This record is 1,000 eges ahead of last vear's contest and more than 11,000 ahead of the contest two years aeo. The subioined table shows the num- ber of birds in each breed, the aver- aze annual individual egg yield. . and the average for all varietles engaged in the contest 90 Rarred Rocks ..... 160 White Wyandottes 210 Rhode Island Reds 169.2 163.6 158.4 167.4 430 Whiis Leghorns “aed 110 Miscellaneous . 1000 Average for all breeds ..163.4 Barred Rocks also won highest in- dividual honors. Merritt M. Clark of Brookfield Center, Conn., laid more eggs than any other one-hen in' the comtest. Her record for t'\> year is 277 eggs. the best bird of the breed ever trapnest ed at Storrs. Tom ‘Rarron’s disinfected. <Every two or three years| White Wyandotte, No, 268. from Cat- the lot should be changed to a new |forth, England, was the best in her location. A hog is mot dirty in its habits. If given half a chance it will keep clean. : One thing few persons know about a hos: it requires twice the breath- ing space for its weight as a horse or a cow. A hog can stand only heA! the exposure. Tts fat may seem like & blanket, but the bléod is the heat of 21l animals. -A hog gets chilled easily because of the poor surface circula- tion, contracts pneumonia, Jies, and cil“olel'l is credited with another vic- tim. A simple remedy for worms is a mixture of wood ashes, salt. and air- slaked lime; mixed about egual parts. I+ will not do the hogs any injury if ailowed to eat all they wish. Th mixture will also help to tone the system. ALFALFA FOR SHEEP. Alfalfa, if carefully féd and pas- tured, is one of the best roughages for sheep. The ravid increase in the pro- auction of alfalfa in the United States during recent years has resulted in a more careful study of its possibili- ties a8 a food for all classes of live stock. Formerly it was used primar- ly as a cattle feed, but now it is used as a feed for herses, swine, and_sheep. ‘When alfalfa is pastured, great care should be taken to prevent bloat. If the alfalfa has become woody or is inixed with other grasses the danger is somewhat lessened. Before turning the sheep on aifaifa they should be filled up on hay, fodder, or other roughage, and turn out oniy when th plfaifa s free from moisture of any Sheep should ncver be allowed to pasture more than a short time the first day.. The Jength of time should Le increased a little from day to day until the sheep are accustomed to the feed. Flockmasters have found that it is never safe to give sheep free ac- cess to an alfalfa pasture. The amount of alfalfa fed will al- ways depend or the price and the amount available. When it is cheap and plentiful and other roughages are scarce, alfalfa cculd compose the ed- tire ration of the flock. On the other hand, when hay is scarce and high in price, the ration could be made up of straw, fodder and like roughages. In experimental trials, averaging 100 days each, alfalfa was compared to timothy and prairie hay. The lots fdi alfalfa’ made greater gains and re- quired less feed per 100 pounds than did those fed prairie and timothy hay. DOUBLE USE OF HOTBEDS. 1 _always make it a practice to try to_have the pits for the hotbeds Qug before the ground freezes. The pits can then be rcofed with refuse lum- Dber, poles, or brush, and a covering of straw or corn stover placed over all 1o bar out fros: and snow. Then in February or March, it is an easy job to fiil the plts with manure and place the frames and sask in position. The frames can ba constructed amd the sash got ready under cover during leisure winter deys. ese same hotbed pits, I ° fing, make excellent storage for eabbage, celery, and other vegetables and even for -apples and tomatoes, provided first-class_drainage s arranged for the pits. If you have never made use of hotbeds, try cne or more as an ex- reriment and enjoy early green. stuff a month or more before the garden- ing season opens. The help of having an abundance of early plants for the garden that can be started and rooted in the hot- beds is alone worth the trouble of pre- paring for the hotbeds.—S. Thorne in Farm and Fireside. s PREPARE FOR ASPARAGUS NOW. sl 7 ‘No farm and farmer worthy of the name will’now ‘continue to be with- out an asparagus'bed for home use | paragus’ tops, potato and beet class with the .score of 263 eegs. A. Allan’s Rhode Island Red No. 463 from Newport. R. I, was high in_her group with a fotal for the vear of 249 eggs. Wilitop_ Foultry Yards' White Leg- horn, No. 786 from Suffield, Conn, was at the top in the Leghorn division with a vield .of 246 ezgs. Over 165 sndividual _birds. inciuding Barred. White and »1ff Rocks, White and Buff Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, Leg- horns and Orphingtons laid more than 200 czgs each during the vear. The following list shows the twen- ty best pens in the order of their pro- duction, also their records for the vear: 6 Applecock Farm, Fitzwilliam, N. H., Barred Plvmouth Rocks 3 A. P. Robihson, Calverton, N. Y. White Leghorns . 4 Windsweep Farm. Redding. Ridge, Conn. White Leg horns Merrit M. Clark. Rrookfield Center, Conn., Barred Plymouth Rocks . 1991 A. AHan. Jr. -, Rhode Island Reds . 1990 1. O. LeFevre, New Paltz, N. 1967 1950 1936 2119 2090 2022 Y., White Leghorns Hillton Poultry Yards. Suf- field, Conn., Whi Lezhorns. . 21 Cloves & Sullivan. 'Hartford, Conn., Ruff Wyandottes 78 E: A Ballard, Chestnut Hill, Penn.. White Leghorns ... Braeside Poultry Farm, Stroudsburg, Penn, White Terhorns £ 5 F. M. Peasley, Cheshire, Conn. White Leghorns Clifford - 1. Stoddare bridge, Conn., White Leg- horns . o : Windsweep Farm, Redding Ridge, Conn. White Leghorns A. B. Hall, Wallingford, Conn. ‘White T.eghorns . - -ank R. Hancock, Jackson- le. Vt, White Leghorns .. Obed G.” Knight. Brighton. R. 1. White Wyandottes ... . George A. Standard, Ottawa, Kans, White Leghorns . % Pequot _Poultry Farm, S port, Conn., Rhode Island Reéds .. Agricultural” _ College, Lansing, Mich., Plymouth Rocks €9 Will Barron, Bertle, England, White Leghorns . 1826 DANGER OF GARDEN REFUSE. Should Not Be Allowed to Rot on Ground Nor Edges of Garden. One of the worst sources of disease and “msect trouble is the refuse which sccumulates around the edges of gar- dens. A great many of our sucking in- sects, such as thrips and sucking Leetles of all types winter in the grass and weed hedges which are bound to occur -on the edges of the garden. Worse than this is the source of in fection caused by allowing disease in- fected eabbaga. roots, celery toputasa ops etc., to be plowed under in the fall or left on the garden. - - Expert opinion more and more comes to the belief that humus in the soil can be kept up by better methods than that of utilizing the garden re- fuse where it was growing. All such refuse should be raked off from the garden and either burned or put where it will not be a source of in- fection. - The humus content of - the so0il can be kept up by using cover crops, and will be donme more scienti- fically with less danger to next year's erops. ¥y o A vel common and easy way of adding humus to the soil during Oc- tober is to take all the leaves. from the lawn and dump them on the gar- den. Shade tree leaves have abso- lutely no- met| of injuring the soil and they very. seldom carry infections which will be harmful to garden prod- ucts the next year. Pine needles are the only leaves which should be avoid- ed as a source of humus for _the 1921 1917 - 1902 Wood- 1897 1890 1889 1881 1855 1845 . 1833 East Pl L A Hen No. 9, owned bv | Owing to the continued increase in the cost of pro- duction, we are compelled to advance our Electric Power rates. B Commencing December 1, 1917, our interim Elec- tric Power rates will be as follows Next 1,500 kw. . .- cents per kw. .e.. 3V cents per kw All over 2,000 kw. .......... 21, cents per kw. These rates are for electric energy used in any one month. Minimum charge per month $2.00 for the first horse- power connected and $1.00 for each addi power connected.” THE BOARD OF GAS & SIONERS OF 'IHE CITY ne uvse for them, but it should be condemned as a sign of waste in sub- urban parts of the city er in thej country, where: such clean svholesome | things as autumn leaves can be util- ized for beding or the covering of Lerennials in the garden. Orchard Refus: Some of our Connecticut valley or- chardists are complaining because the apple maggots are getting worse in their orchards. Recently one orchard- ist stated that each year a different variety of his apples had become in- fected with the apple maggot such that now he believes he might as well cut down his orchard as try to go further in the business. The control of the apple maggot is not vet in hand by anyone. It cannot be irradi- cated, but it ean be controlied to some ! extent. Most of she complaints re- garding the spread of apple maggots have come from people who utilized their small apples, cider apples and drops for feeding hens and hogs or simply have left them under the trees. There is no better way to encourage the prosperity of these pests tnan to allow the infasted aples to remain on the ground. Each orchard should have a pit witere all pruning refuse | s dumped, as well as brush that has accumulated and dried during the summer months. All -the cull apples from the very smallest drop the size of a strawberry to the very largest King should be dumped over the bank and burned. Many times these apples which are harboring the apple mag- got are fed to the hens and hoss, | and though a great portion of them is eaten, likewlse a large portion is left in the marure and this in turn is carried out to the orchard and makes a perfect home for the dormant stages of this insect. This treatment is not e penacea for insect evils. but is a step which is absplutely essential if one wishes to make progress toward per- fect apples. FARMING AND ACCOUNTS. Extension Service of State College Ready to Give Help. Farming is fast becoming recog- nized as a business and in order to realize the best possible returns it is nccessary to have absolute knowledge of the business methods which apply to it. Keeping farm accounts and using them affords the greatest single opportunity to secure this knowledge. Farming is'no more a royal road to success than any other business and 1t takes as good judgment to make a success of it. Many farmers have as much or more capital invested than the . average merchant besides having a self-suppbrting home which is in- timately associated. The merchant considers’ the investment in his busf- ness from a standpoint of whether it will bring him more money. There- fore he must krnow what he is making it he is able to tell whether a change is paying or not.. For such informa- ticn he keeps accounts.. Just so Wit the farmer. only where the merchant is forced to close his doors through poor business methods the farmer is able to stay ia the farming businsss A much longer time because of the fact that it continues ‘to furnish him- self with food. fuel and sheiter. Successful farmers will tell you that some system of accounts are ab- solutely essential in carrying on their Eusiness and practically .all farmers will agree that “accounts” are a good thing, but the farmer who doesn't know, or worse yet. don't care, or won't try to know, is one who has a poor understanding of his affairs. A farmer can wock day after day on the farm and fail to detect items which in a record book becomes conspituous. Farm accourting is not a difficult matter. In fact it is often the short time reduired causes’ it to be over- Jooked. Most farmers evén though they be awake to the necessity of ae- counts arranze to enter receipts and exrenses together and make their dis- t¥outions and summaries on rainy Gays. Simple farm accounting, rightly veed, make a valuable part of every farm business. - ional horse- ELECTRICAL COMMIS- OF NORWICH, CONN. —————y freight ra wiil ing £o that all who need zers should order imme y the advanta of ver r Recent papers orm the inte neree on has “rehe castern re request for cent rease. This will doubtedly be it is fa the railroads, in of the creased operating crease of 15 per cent car of lime even on the rate would amount to There is also bound to be of cars later on so that wants to be : e of havi or lime when it is necdc crops should order at once FALL FLOWING. om- incre rted, as view Time to Get Ready Next Year's More attentior the practice of of developing effic: bor as advantages fers. tie hard the average scems to be each year. For t should begin now next year's secding 1elieve the labor seems evident t Horse Jabo costs fuily as much man ¢labor Lecausc of the lare amount of time that hor work. Fall plowing he t horses busy and so ce the Farmers who practice fall plowing not only have a better distribution of labor but are able to fit the ground earlier in the spring which is a m terial advantage considering the late- ness of the past planting season. With much of the work of plowing out tke way the extra labor required dur- ing certain critical seasons will be re- auced. Frosts on the late plowed fields increases the fertility. Fall plowing often secures a better crop. Another advantage of break- ing up the soil in the late fall is that it exposes to the wintering insects their natural eremies and to the fayorable weather which will grea reduce their numbers.—B. W. McDo 21d, Extension Farm Managemenf De partment, Connecticut Agriculturnl Gollege. n in shorta ome of CHEAPER FEEDS — SAVE GRAIN. The first effect of h is”to decrease’ intérest The competiticn of two_ doll and two dollay wheat is driving many a dairy farmer to sacrifice his herd, and many a stock man to sell his corn instead of feeding it on the farm. ‘Cattle must rot be allowed to com- pete with man for the grain crops. America needs cattle—not to_ con- sume the. grain on the farm. but to convers grain refuse and roughage into meat and milk. . The United Agriculture sa G sfioveling grain ind: livestock. - Feeding grain to me: imals with a lavish hand is responsi- ble for one of the gr feed loss- USE Department of time to quit to fodder, silage. and pasture cheapest feeds and will .carr: slong with a minimem of g More extensive use of rou the cattle ratior will, rel immense quantities of grain .for an “con- sumption and still maintain the cattle propulation of the .countr: An Effective Remedy, You may have observed, as we have done, how intensely loyal to the Uni- ted States pro-German editors of se- ditious _new: s become the mo- ment they are placed under arrest. — New Orleans States. An Explanation. Possibly the naval operations in the The extension service of vour state agricultural college will help you get started right. if you wish an acceint beok or any cther assistance—B. W. McDonald, Extension Farm Manage- ment, Connecticut Agricultural Col- lege. LIME AND FERTILIZERS. There is every probability that the Baltic were caused by the neces: giving the German fleet somothing to do besides mutiny.—Chicago Herald. Danbury.—The * Pahquioque club will arrange t> open the traps afte 1he bird season closes, on Nov. 23, and continue the contests for the Du Pont trophy and the beginners’ trophy which were started last summer after the hig RAISE POULTRY—PRODUCE EGGS By P. G. HOLDEN. HE high price of feed and the high price of poultry have combined in causing farmers to greatly reduce their flocks and as a result we are facing a serious shortage in poultry and eggs at a time when they are badly needed to help feed the world. ‘We must not forget that while feed 1s high and while poultry brings good prices, nothing else costs so little to raise on a farm as chickens, and that eggs are bringing such high supply. . prices we cannot afford to shut off the source of thelr Large flocks of poultry are needed on every farm, and every farmer should keep his young pullets, which wiil soon be his best layers. methods in handling poultry and in marketing eggs. Enormous Wasts In Eggs. Toosters. Avoid wasteful Get rid of the The waste in eggs in the United States every year amounts to nearly uo.mooo. It is estimated that 17 per cent of all the cggs produced in this country’ become unfit for human f0ood beéfore reaching the consumer because of careless methods of handling. We should help to prevent this loss by prnduflng infertile eggs, by not let- ting hens nest on the damp ground, by keeping the nests clean, by not washing the eggs, by being caretul not to crack them while handling, by gathering egzs dally, by storing them in a cool, dry place and by: marketing them at least once a week—twice a week if possible. Few people understand that eggs are almost as perishable as meat or milz. same class of food, but because they are enclosed in @ hard) shell, many of us they stand J noed e think poultry and eggs. We must produce and conserve them. any kind of treatment.