The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-08
CORN AND OATS MEETING.
Montpelier Board ef Trade Gives Good
instruction Through Show.

The corn and oats show at Montpelier
yesterday proved no less popular than
| former farmers meetings and there was
an attendance OF several hundred, near
~ every town IN Washington county
being represented There was large
exhibit of potatoes. corn, oats and home
made rugs. and those present found
much to interest them in looking over
the display.
o. H. Martin presided at the after
noon session and introduced r. s. Brig
ham of ST. AIhans whose talk was on
Commercial Fertilizer He said III
part; The state requires a license OF
every dealer in commercial fertilizer.
The money Is turned over to the ex-
pertinent station and men are sent out
TO collect samples which are analyzed
and reported upon in bulletins free to
everyone upon application 10 the sta
tion. The commercial fertilizer com
panies are not in business for their
health but to make money and it's not
their fault but the fault of our intelli-
gcuce if we buy low grade fertilizer
getting thereby great deal of dirt and
worthless filler"
The next speaker was A. A. Boreland
os the experiment station at Burlington,
who illustrated his talk with statistics.
charts and computation. lie discussed
principally balance ration for the dairy
COW, stating thrS the poorest roughage
in hay is timothy. Said he "Oats are
better and clever hay and alfalfa still
better There must be grain also.
cow must eat 20 pounds of oat straw
to support her a day and 30 or 60 OF
timothy hay. There should be about
pound of grain to every three or four
pounds of milk. produced. Corn meal
is good but little wide. Corn is high
Bran is good but expensive, so are oats.
Silage is cheap and there should be silos
on every farm"
w. +. McSparreu of Furns, Pa. spoke
briefly of the garden patch and apple
orchard every farm should have and
reviewed some of the mistakes of or
chard planters. Girls. calves. cows and
apples need sunshine for strength, said
he. Apples should take the place Of
other desserts and for the breakfast table
ought to supplant the orange, grapefruit
and fearfully made cereals. He closed
by suggesting the prize winning men
do the handsome thing by turning the
money over to their wives.
The prizes awarded were as follows:
Potatoes-First, Fl. H. Templeton, |
East Montpelier; second, Vaughan |
brothers, Middlesex; third, II. II. Tenn
pleton, East Montpelier; fourth, Joseph |
Bartlett Plainfeld; fifth, Goldie Craw- |
ford. East Montpelier, II years old.
Corn-First, James Young East Mont |
pelier; second, Addison Minott; Mont |
pelier; third. John Lawrence, East Mont |
pelier; fourth. Dan Fulsom, Waitsfeld; |
fifth. II. II. Templeton, East Montpelier. |
Oats-First, Fred Strong, East Mont |
pelier; second, Luther Wheeler, East t
third. George Williams, Ber-
lin. fourth, T.. f. Densmore. Middle /
sex: fifth, Ira Paine, East Montpelier.
Prizes for handmade rugs were an
nounced for the Board of Trade by A. j.
Sibley. who commended the exhibit made
in this "higher art of domestic farm
life" The prizes were as follows:
First, Mrs. A. c. Child, Moretown;
second. Mrs. Roxie Richards, Plainfield:
Sex; fourth, Mrs J.. c. Bancroft. Barre.
Mrs David Murray;
second, Mrs. Il. II. Templeton; third,
MIS- doStph ndIliclls IthlNNeiu.
Among rugs was handsome specimen
made by Mrs. W. c. Peck Of Woodbury.
Mrs Peck is over 20 years old and many
were heard regarding her
work. Another rug was made by a
woman over so years and another speci-
nen was colored, cut, braided and made
- years ago by Mrs. William Bancroft
The session Of last evening, though not
10 largely attended as in the afternoon,
vas of much benefit and interest. The
peakers were Andrew Elliott OF Gault.
Int, who discussed clover crops and ro-
alton; w. f. MeSparren, who spoke in
general of the farm and crop situation,
md J. A. DeBOer.
Fully 200 people were in attendance
t some Of the sessions during the aft {
rnoon and evening.