The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
Windham County Agricultu-
raj Association Meets
Here Today
A. w. SWEETON, AGENT,
MAKES HIS REPORT
Members of Committees Also Speak
Stress Laid Upon Dairying Problem
Foot and Mouth Disease Kept Out
of State Thus Far


The second annual meeting of the Wind
ham County Agricultural association
opened this morning in Festival hall
at 1115 o'clock with about 30 mem
bers present and Matt J.. Divoll OF Rock
ingham, president, presiding. The morn
ing session was given over entirely to re-
ports OF committees, the treasurer and
the county agent, A w Sweeton of
Brattleboro. Adjournment was taken at
the close OF the county agents report,
until this afternoon, when officers were
to be elected
The report of the treasurer, c. T. Stick
ncy of Brattleboro, showed total receipts
of 81 Pol % and a balance on hand of
Sj7.11. The resources of the association
in cash and bank deposits, as Of the date
OF March >. We're S423.23. The report
was accepted,
j. II. Ware Of Townshend spoke briefly
for the committee on roads, telling of the
gradual and steady Improvement
". G. Belinap Of Bellows Falls was
heard briefly, reporting for the press
committee saying that the county press
Is always ready to aid in the spreading
of the agricultural propaganda
Wholesale Prices Too Low
senator 4 4 Dunklee of South Yer
non, for the dairying committee, felt that
the state in general was to be congratu-
lated upon the fact that careful work
had kept It free thus far from the foot
and mouth disease T. c. Tenney of
Dummerston, OF the same committee,
hoped to see a cold storage plant built
here in order that farmers might be able
! to get a fair price for their farm stufis.
| He declared that nine times out of ten
ont lo
a fair price for his goods at local markets
| A. w. Sweeton, county agricultural
agent. said that since his last report the
| association had been working almost en-
tirey along three lines: Apples, dairying
and hay. Forty pruning demonstrations
were given, II spraying demonstrations
in the one week when It was possible to
make them, and one budding demonstra-
ton In addition number of talks on
that and allied subjects were given before
Oranges and other bodies.
The subject of damying has been found
upon investigation to reveal the fact that
many farmers are Keeping cows at very
small profit per COW and some at no profit
at all. The West River Valley Cow
/ Testing association with 80 cows scat
tered all through the valley lasted a year.
but was too cumbersome to handle and
this past winter it was dropped and two
other organizations, one in the south end
Of the county, the other in the north,
were organized with about 800 cows in
the two.
Dairying ought to be the main thing for
farmers in this section, but it is a branch
of the farming industry in which the profit
is very small because of the fact that the
big dealers in Boston pay what they
please for milk If the farmer viii not
p / - l, :, 1. l
: problem of the New England farmer Mr.
Sweeton believed that good creamery
where fancy butter and the best of cream
were provided, would in the end prove
more beneficial to the farmers Of a sec
!, ton.
: Hay Yield Too Small
Speaking on the subject Of hay. he sale
that the yield of hay was by no means
what it should be. Over 200 samples o
: soil taken from different farms in tn,
e county showed in almost every instanc,
L that the land needs. among other things
lime. This is especially true of the hill
farms where the soil is heavier He spok
/ of the fact that two different concern
:. that are grinding lime have made rat
! of S3.22 ton in paper bags at Brattlc
> boro and 20 cents more at Bellows Falls
By farmers combining to buy this in caI
:. load lots it is possible to obtain it a
y these low figures. In the last few week
over 200 tons have been bought in thi
manner in this locality.
Mr.. Sweeton then sketched briefly plan
of farmers in different sections and feat
ures of the work Of the association tn
past year, speaking especially of the tw
automobile trips taken by> large parties t
to the agricultural college and truck farm
in the vicinity Of Amherst Mass, whic
were especially beneficial to those maxim
le the trips
IS At the afternoon session the report {
Ii officers were made and the following off
to GERS We're elected for two years:
It, President, Matt L. Divoll, Rockingham
ne vice presidents, a. A. Dunklee of Sout
lie Vernon. G. NJ Tuttle of South T4ondol
I'd derry, Henry Frost of Putney; treasure
er G. l.. Stickney Of Brattleboro; secretar
g Carl S. Hopkins of Brattleboro; execu
er tive committee, Arthur Radway Of Ne,
~ fame, w. z Abbott of Bellows Falls. /
he b. Clapp of Brattlebero, w S. Fem
M Westminster and John f. Piddock of Sa
st tnos River
on Thomas Bradley, state head of coun
ed agricultural agents, and James Corye
his assistant, were present and address
the meeting.
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