The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-06-29


never noticed before. Most of the work
fell on the teachers, who deserve much of i
the credit for the success of the contest. |
The support given by The Reformer and /
other parties was much appreciated. Co
operation of this sort will work wonders
when single effort would amount to little
or nothing
In 1914 a corn-growing contest was
planned for the boys in Windham county !
There was little time available for work
ing this up, but it was hoped that num-
Der of boys might go into this without |
much urging The result was that only |
enc boy carried his half acre of corn |
through to maturity. Roger Aiken of Put !
ney deserves the credit for this and as a
prize he received a free trip to the meet /
ing of the Horticultural society in Rutland |
in November, 1914 There seems to be |
the need of much personal work to make
a corn-growing contest a success in Wind |
ham county.
POTATO GROWERS ASSOCIATIONS. |
We need more cash crops on our hill farms. |
Apples and sugar are good as far as they
go, but they are not enough If we knew
where to sell them, potatoes might be
made something of the cash crop that
they are in Maine The climate and the
soils on hills are adapted to this crop,
|
In the town of Windham potato grow
ers' association has been organized for the
purpose of helping its members to market
| their potatoes 1t is made up of about 80
members, nearly all from the town of
| Windham. When their potatoes are ready
/ for the market in the fall the members
will send one of their number down to
some Massachusetts city to look up a mar
lzet for the one or two carloads that may
be ready. The members shipping will
share the expense of this sale at so much
per bushel.
If they find that they can do so to ad-
vantage the members may raise seed p0ta-
toes for the southern market There
seems to be quite an opportunity to work
Iup a business along this line. The asso-
citation has ordered a car of chemicals and
a car Of lime for its members, and other
| supplies may be purchased in this way.
The officers Of the Windham Potato
borrowers association are: President, NJ
H. ingalls,, Windham: secretary, II. l..
IGould Chester, r. f. ID.
This subject of organizing and the rails
ing of seed potatoes has been discussed
publicly in the town of Wardsboro, VIII
mington and Dover, as well as Windham,
but thus far the latter town is the only
one in which they are organized and in
shape to do business
FORESTRY. Although not usually con-
: sidered as such, lumber is a farm crop, and
: in this county it is a very important farm
crop. 1t requires long rotation, but new
: ertheless the prosperity of our next gen
} Grafton viii be much affected by the way
in which we handle our forests now
: Valuable timber trees should be kept
coming on our forest lands This means
:, proper cutting, and planting when neces
: sary
} To further this object the Vermont for
: estry service has co-operated with the
i county association and 10 forestry confer
5 cnces have been held in as many different
!, parts of the county. Assistant Forester
{ Chandler has conducted these conferences
e which have been held out in the woodlot
5 and have included discussions on cutting
j planting, thinning, etc. Attendance a
these meetings has been fairly good anC
) considerable interest has been shown IL
t this matter.
# This spring the Extension service an,
/ the Forestry association will furnish PIN
(, seedlings to he planted in conspicuou
II place beside the highway, to serve as
J demonstration There viii be at least tw,
$ of these demonstration plots located IL
L Windham county.
II AGRICULTURAL a L 7 o NJ O B L
, lTOURS. During the past summer tw,
7 tautomobile tours have been taken b,
/ Nindham County farmers \ party of g.
IS mostly from Westminster, took oneida
le trip down into Massachusetts,, visiting fou
II large tobacco and onion farms and tn
$ Massachusetts agricultural experiment sta
&c ton The farms visited were as follows
e. Connecticut Valley Onion Company, Deer
s field; Leslie Swift, South Deerfied; Be
: den Bros, Bradstreet; and Lemuel Graves
III fWhately The afternoon was spent at tn
N experiment station in Amherst Anothe
Is party from Brattleboro and Vernon spen
I, the whole day at Amherst and left in tn
ID afternoon without having seen all to b
seen there. On these trips the officials {
rs the experiment station and the proprietor
q of the various farms showed us aroun
~ with the greatest courtesy. The trips wer
"a pleasant and instructive. One man wante
AZ to go again the next day. Another ma
II said. This a great lesson.
IS FAIR EXHIBITS. The county assoeiatio
5 has arranged an agricultural exhibit at eac
~ of the three fairs held in the county. TIL
exhibit has been made up of specimens
Mt various crops grown under various trea
lg ments 1t has been the aim to make tn
d. exhibit instructive and to serve as a den
e. onstration of what may be expected frol
a certain treatment of certain crops.
ne time and room allow, this feature may
ne made larger and more useful each year.
On FARM PRODUCTS SURVEY. Upo
e- the request of some of our farmers nun
% Der of merchants have been INTERVENE
IN in Brattlcboro and Bellows Falls for til
IL purpose of ascertaining in what ways tt
h. producers of our county might better SUI
ply the need of the consumers of the coul
on ty, both as to the quantity and quality
oh farm Dro6iptS
nd The replies given by these merchant
lc- have brought out many interesting fac
of and the suggestions and criticisms sho
he much uniformity. The supply of the var
,r- Gus products varies considerably from Sc
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