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State Solidarity. —The fact that Con¬ 
necticut is a small State territorially, 
makes it easy for her farmers to meet 
in State organizations. Farmers inter¬ 
ested in some special branch of farming 
thus easily make the acquaintance of 
others from all parts of the State, who 
are interested in similar lines of work. 
Then too, the several State organizations 
have made -a special point of getting their 
members to meet, from time to time for 
the inspection of some farm where things 
of real merit are being done. The State 
Pomological Society was the first of the 
State organizations to push the idea of 
field inspection meetings and the State 
Dairymen’s Association and State Poul¬ 
try Association soon followed the example 
set. In opening the Farmers’ Week con¬ 
vention of five State •associations )on 
August 4, President Beach of the College 
said that the Summer meetings of the 
State Poultry Association, which had 
been held in the College for several years, 
were the forerunner of the present farm¬ 
ers’ week. 
Visiting I’oit.tkymex. —All Connecti¬ 
cut roads led to Storrs August 4 to 7. 
and even the roads leading all the way 
from New Jersey had their terminus at 
this Mecca. The poultrymen of the State 
felt especially honored in being visited 
by the progressive poultrymen of New 
Jersey. The tour of inspection from our 
sister State required two days on the 
road. Prominent poultry farms in New 
Haven. Hartford and Tolland counties 
were visited and tin* party of some thirty- 
odd. with half a dozen cars, arrived at 
Storrs on Monday afternoon. The key¬ 
note of the entire convention seemed to 
be the spirit of optimism as to the pros¬ 
pects for better days in farming. This 
was especially true of the poultrymen. 
President Ives in his opening address re¬ 
ferred to the generally depressed con¬ 
dition that the. poultrymen had felt for 
the past two years, but added that con¬ 
ditions had changed this year. He called 
ittention to the fact that eggs were at 
least 25 per cent higher than a year ago. 
while feed prices had advanced very little 
in that time. Prof. Kirkpatrick voiced 
the same sentiment, and referred to the 
fact that the period of low prices had 
been growing shorter each season for the 
last three years. 
New Data on Feeding. —Prof. Lewis 
of New Jersey spoke on “Protective 
Feeds.” calling attention to the discoveries 
of Dr. MoCullum of Johns Hopkins, and 
their bearing on growing young birds. 
He stated that the new growth factors 
called vitamines, found in milk and the 
yolks of eggs, indicated an unequalled 
feeding value for these, products. No 
poultryman today, he said, can afford to 
ignore these valuable feeds in starting off 
young chicks. Beyond these sources of 
vitamines. the only other source was the 
fresh, succulent, leafy parts of growing 
plants. Thus, he said, gave a feeding 
value to clover. Alfalfa, and even young 
grasses, which should never be overlooked 
in feeding young, developing, pullets. The 
other new data brought forward by Prof. 
Lewis were the outcome of recent feeding 
tests at the Vineland station. These he 
said showed two things, the importance 
of not forcing egg production at too 
young an age in the case*of pullets, and 
the proper proportion of mash feed to 
grain feed in feeding laying stock through¬ 
out the year. He said many poultrymen* 
in the past had not taken sufficient care 
to fit their pullets for the heavy drain 
to which they were subject. The experi¬ 
ments indicated that the best results were 
obtained by withholding part of the usual 
mash for pullets for about six weeks be¬ 
fore the pullets will become six months 
of age, and during that time feeding a 
large amount of grain. In this way the 
amount of body fat will be increased and 
a strong vigorous bird be developed. This 
body fat and body vigor will be available 
later to help out in heavy egg production. 
The professor said the proportion of grain 
feed to mash feed for laying stock should 
not be uniform throughout the year. 
While a larger proportion of grain than 
of mash was needed during the Winter 
months, this heavy grain feeding should 
be reduced toward Spring to about equal 
parts of mash and grain in March and 
April, while during the Summer season 
the proportion of grain used should be 
gradually reduced, until, in the late Sum¬ 
mer. less than half as much grain as 
mash should be fed. 
The PorxTRY Contest. —The egg- 
layiug contest lias no doubt put Storrs 
*‘on the map.” Outside the borders of 
her own State the college is better known 
for her poultry, work than for any other 
line. These contests have been running 
now for nearly eight years. This year 
lias been an “off year,” according to Prof. 
Kirkpatrick, a.' they are 11.000 eggs 
short of tiie average, and have lost 100 
more birds than the average of past years. 
This, he thought, was due to the bad 
conditions under which the birds arrived 
last Fall, due to poor shipping conditions 
and to the inability of the department to 
get and keep good help to care for the 
birds. , , - 
While these eoutests have been of 
value in helping to establish the merits 
of the breeds as producers, their chief 
value lies in the sidelights that the con¬ 
tests have brought out. Chief among 
these sidelights are the amount of food 
nutrients required to produce a dozen or 
100 eggs and the fact that fancy stock 
and utility stock are not so far apart as 
many would suppose. It appears that 
the best producers, ou the whole, are 
those that score nearest the standards 
put out by the various breeders’ associa¬ 
tions. In fact, so important has this 
question of the relation of fancy points 
to utility points become, that an effort 
is to be made by the Connecticut Poultry 
Association to establish a fancy-utility 
score card that will provide a means of 
harmonizing the differences existing be¬ 
tween the breeders of the so-called 
“fancy” and the utility strains of poultry. 
It is expected that this score card will 
come into use at fairs the coming Fall 
and Winter. c. s. phelps. 
Buffalo Markets 
►Still the exceedingly dry weather is 
upon us. People wonder how anything 
grows. The early potato crop has not 
materialized. Think of the middle of 
August and no potatoes yet. and none in 
prospect unless it rains soon. And all 
the time the eastern part of the State is 
deluged with rain. Only .53 inch in June, 
1.37 inches in July and .01 to August 13. 
Yet crops are mostly good, though some 
of them are pinched very hard. What 
are the climatic conditions that will give 
one part of a State a big exee-s of rain 
and another next to none? 
Potatoes retail at from SO to 90c per 
peek. The wholesale price is $7.75 to $S 
per bbl. Apples are in fair quantity at 
$2 to $2.75 per bu. Bears are $2 to 
$2.50 per bu., and fairly plenty. Plums 
are scarce at 30 to 50o per 7-lb. 
bkt.; grapes fair, at 30 to 35c for 4V>-lb. 
bkt. of Southern, with big home crop 
nearly ready. Beans dull, but still high, 
$4.50 to $0 per bu. Onions firm, $2.50 to 
$3 for homegrown, per bu. A Niagara 
County farmer reports that !ie has sold 
all his sweet bough apples for $7 per 
bbl.. and he thinks Winter apples may 
bring as much. Two years these sweet 
apples went to the hogs. The Western 
New York peach crop, he thinks, will 
bring $5 per bu. 
Southern and fancy fruits and berries 
are mostly scarce and high. Peaches are 
more plenty from the South than they 
will be from home. $3 to $4.25 per South¬ 
ern bu.; 25 to 35c per homegrown 7-lb. 
bkt.; raspberries scarce, 28 to 35c for all 
colors; blackberries. 2(» to 32c: huckle¬ 
berries. IS to 24c: currants. 23 to 25c 
for red. 28 to 30c for black, all per qt. 
Muskmelons. $2.75 to $3.75 for standard 
crates; watermelons, $25 to 880 per 100; 
oranges. $5 to $0.50: lemons. $0 to $8; 
California grapefruit, not as good as 
Southern. $5. all per box: limes. 50 to 
75c- per 100; bananas. $4 to $7.50 per 
bunch. 
Vegetables are strong and active at $3 
to $9 per 100 for cabbage: $1 to $1.75 
for string beans : $1.50 to $2.25 for cucum¬ 
bers : $2.50 to $3.50 for tomatoes; 20 to 
30c for spinach; $1 to $1.25 for white 
turnips, all per bu.: $3.50 to $4 for peas, 
per 1 1 -bu. bag: 25 to 30c for beets: 35 
to 05c for carrots; 25 to 35c for celery; 
20 to 30c for radishes; 40 to 50c for 
parsley, all per doz. bunches: $2.25 to 
$2.50 for eggplant: 20 to 30c for green 
corn, both per doz.; $1.75 to $2 for fancy 
lettuce, per 2-doz. box; $1.35 to $1.75 
per hamper for peppers. 
Butter is without change: 52 to 58c 
for creamery ; 47 to 53c for dairy : -Hi to 
50c for crocks : 44 to 45c for common, and 
29 to 30c for oleomargarine. Cheese is 
easy; 34 to 35c for all regular sorts. 
Eggs are quiet: 54 to 5Ge for hennery; 
49 to 53c for State and Western candled. 
Poultry is steady, except live is easier. 
47 to 49c for frozen turkey; 32 to 37c 
for fowl: 37 to 39c for chickens and 
roasters: 24 to 25c for old roosters: 38 
to 40c for ducks: geese not quoted. Live 
poultry 3 to 5c lower than dressed. 
Maple sugar is dull; $1.75 to $2 per 
gallon for syrup: 13 to 25c for sugar. 
Hay continues high, though much lower 
than some weeks ago ; $28 to $-”.0 for No. 
1 Timothy. J. w. C. 
Cominq Live Stock Sales 
Sept. 2—-New England Hereford Sale. 
New England Fair, Worcester, Mass. _ 
Sept. 19—Aberdeeu-Augus. American 
Aberdeen-Angus Association. Springfield. 
Mass. 
Sept. 19.—Second annual consignment 
sale of purebred swine. Berks County 
Live Stock Breeders’ Association. New 
Fair Grounds. Reading. Pa. 
Oct. 2—Imported Guernseys, F. S. 
Peer, Cranford, N. J. 
Oct. (>-S—Holsteins. Quality Holstein. 
Chicago, Ill. 
Oct. 8-9—Holsteins. Annual Dairy¬ 
men’s Sale. E. M. Hastings Co., Lacona, 
N. Y.. manager. 
Oct. 9—Central Illiuoi> Shorthorn 
Breeders’ Association. Paris, 111. 
Oct. 13—New York State Guernsey 
Breeders' Consignment Sale. Fernbrook 
Farm. Menauds Road, Albany, N. 5. 
Oct. 15—Guernsey*. Mrs. F. W. 
Strawbridge Bropby, Moorsetown. N. J. 
“Some members of the nobility make it 
a boast that they have never worked.” 
“Nothing much to boast of. I have men 
in my employ who can '’ay that.”—Louis- 
ville Courier-Journal. 
