Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-06
POMFRET FARMERS CLUB.

Hampshire in general lacked potash, OF
course there are exceptions.
POMFRET FARMERS CLUB.
The Fourth Annual Meeting of this Or
gnnization- Interesting Occasion.
The fourth annual meeting of the Pom
fret Farmers club was held at the town
hail. February 10. The meeting was open
ed with music by the choir and c. +.
Thatcher, president, in the chair Sumner
Sherburne spoke upon improvements" In
our own town farmers buildings are rapid
ly being repaired and highways cleaned.
The farmer who would get ahead must use
brain work rs well as muscle. The herd OF
cows which average only 80 to 40 is
not the profitable one. 1t costs no more TO
keep a COW producing 800 pound, per year
than the one producing 100 pounds The
same is true regarding sheep fer mutton or
wool. lie thought in the near future the
time honored churn and butter worker
would be bunished to the attic and a now
process of butter making talio their place.
Edwin Allen thought the creameries would
soon lose favor and that there would be n
cry for dairy butter. Music by the choir.
About 200 sat down to table spread 10y
farmers wives.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION
Opened with music followed by the cleo
ton of officers: President, j. q. Sherburne:
first vice president, Andrew Harding; sec
ond vice-prcsiIent, Z. 5. Jackman; secre-
tary, NJ. II. Wheeler; treasurer, {. II.
Vaughan. The new president, j. G.. Sher-
burue was then introduced ani after a few
remarks from him Rev z. Mcmillan gave
an address on "Bruins.' lie sad brains
should be fully developed 10y common sense.
| Tho farmer Should exercise common sense
in developing his farm; should never put OIL
/ till tomorrow what ought 20 be done to-
/ day; 90 at it and do it at once, would have
| every farmers boy attend college, not neces-
aarlly an agricultural college, but should
| attend rs companions with other boys in
other walks in life. The farmer should
educate himself not only in the ways of the
! farmers but also in the ways Of other pro
| fessions. Give the BOYS and girls equu
rights and pleasure of other classes of peo-
| Pile. Should the boy show any signs OF
taste for chemistry, or machinery or cleo
tricity, spend dollar for apparatus for hin
TO experiment with.
Next came 'l{ecollections of farming by
| D. V Ransom. He compared our modern
| implements with those used 50 years ago.
linen ploughs only ploughed one way, tork'
We're strong enough TO hit stones, hay wa'
cut ny mana, ana the sickle used TO cu'
grams; OFTEN lrosts would come before Inc
haylng was done hen sugarlng came
the trees were tapped with Inc augur, th'
! sap was carried by mana ana boiled IN ket
Ties. STOCK was poorly housed and led nc
grain barely hVed through TIL spring
Nheep sheared about TWO pounds OIL WOO
per mead About the only income wa
from fat cattle and hogs. The nearest mar
ket was Boston butter sold at from 90 &
II cents per pound. There were t'' ier
newspapers and farmers seldom cou4I at
ford but one, some none at all.
Judge Miller was called upon TO give
remedy for hard times. lie couldn' giv'
hard times Keen Mt work the times ara nj
right; never better than at the present date
H. T. r. ATWOOD spoke on '"rneral I'm
proFemen's lie believed III ih"rougl
draining OF wet lana ana pc~lha up stone
ana putting theIh INTO stone walls Doesn
believe IN fertilAers' make the manure rals
all necessary crops.
Horace Lockwood SAID the success OF on
farmer means success to his neighbor'