The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-03-02
ORANGE COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION
Extracts From the Reports of the Coun.
ty Agent and Treasurer, Respectfully
Submitted to the Farmers
of Orange County.

| The county agent, Jackson Demary, a
graduate of Cornell university and farm
reared in New Hampshire, was engaged
on July o, 1913, and since that time
has been actively engaged in informing
himself on the needs of the county and
| in rendering assistance to farmers when
ever possible. The agent has been ham
pered to large extent by the topog-
raphy of the county and the lack OF
unity in the social and business inter
ests caused by such formation.
In the period from July to February
or about seven months, the agent has
visited every town in the county, in
Guiding the villages located in them and
endeavored TO introduce himself to a
number of farmers in the vicinity. There
seems to be great deal of uncertainty
regarding the agent and his relation to
the county, largely manifest in con-
ception that he is an agent for some
thing to sell, which is precisely what he
is not. The agent is an employee of the
department of agriculture at Washington
and his only business is to aid farmers
OF rural communities in anything per-
tanning to their business or in assisting
in lettering social conditions. The cost
of the county work aside from the
agents salary is borne by the towns and
amounts to the individual farmer to Is
cents on each 81 900 of assessment, The
agent cannot visit every farm at once
but wishes all who consider that
he may be of assistance to notify him
at his office.
The work OF the agent is difficult to
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not enter upon it in time TO arrange for
any crop experiments or demonstration
of fertilizers. Seven cars of lime have
been disposed of through his efforts, at
a saving to the members of the pool of
some $500 under the cost of single tons
without reckoning dealers profit. Two
cars of chemicals have been arranged
for and possibly as much more before
the winter Is over. The lack of cross
county railroad facilities prevent as
much Importation of such goods as is
possible elsewhere. A number of oranges
have been visited and the work explained
only few have invited the
agent to talk to them. Some attempt
has been made to interest different sec
tions in COW testing work but not enough
response has been received to justify
the formation of an association. The
agent spent some time helping to re-
organize the Randolph association and
secured tester for the -Newbury- Brad !
ford association. The small herds in the
interior of the county are bar to this
helpful aid to the dairy farmer, although
the cost is but SIS year per herd. The |
milk shipping along the railroad is i
against the testing for butter fat.
1t is the agents purpose during the
coming spring to attempt considerable !
work in the pruning and
grating of apples, and he wishes all
those who have an orchard to get in
touch with him as soon'as possible. The
many thousand seeding apple trees
throughout the county may be rendered
profitable by top working,
Twenty meetings of various sorts have
been held, having a total attendance of
200. Two farmers Institutes at Chel-
sea and West Newbury which were we'll
attended in spite of severe weather.
Four meetings in connection with the
state forester at Thetford, East and
West Topsham and Chelsea. The hand
ing of the farm wood lots as a steady
source of income is worth the attention
If their owners. The agent would like
% connect with those oranges where he
las not been able to visit as 1t affords
In opportunity to explain the work of
county agent.
Respectfully submitted,
jackson Demary,
Agricultural Aren't Il