The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-03
ORANGE COUNTY FARMERS
ASSOCIATION NOTES.
A pruning demonstration was held at
For Week Ending April 20.

A pruning demonstration was held at
the farm of George Goodrich in Williams
town the afternoon OF April %. Seven
were present and seemed much interested
in improving the condition of their or.
chards. With Barre and Montpelier mar
kets so near by, it seems to the county
agent that the towns OF Orange, Wash
ington and Williamstown have an excel
lent opportunity TO develop the apple or
chard as cash crop. As long as western
apples can be marketed in our Vermont
cities, we are missing great opportunity
to fill that market ourselves with an
apple far superior in flavor and equal in
appearance. This year in particular we
ought to strive to produce our best fruit,
because Montpelier is to be the scene of
the New England fruit show this coming
| fall
Five schools in Williamstown and
Orange were visited with G.. r. Beeman,
the school superintendent of this section,
on April 25 and 20. At these schools the
ragdol method of testing seed corn was
shown and explained The children were
much interested and many are planning
to test their fathers seed corn this year.
1t is simple thing to do and it may
mean the saving of many dollars, worry
and time if your corn is tested before
planting Other seeds may be tested
similarly Have you tested yours yet?
At the grange meeting at Waits River
the evening of April 26, the county agent
explained the demonstration work to be
followed in the county this year. The |
suggestion that committee be appointed |
by the grange to assist the county agent /
in handling demonstration work in that |
vicinity was followed and the following |
committee appointed: Fred Rowe, Frank /
Mutt and w. Fl. Richardson. An alfalfa I
demonstration is planned for on the farm
of Fred Rowe. Also a marketing com
mittee was appointed to see what could
be done later with cooperative buying
and selling This committee consists of
Ernest Locke, George Dodge and Frank
Carter. These committees are planning
to make their grange stand in the front
rank as an active force in the agricultur-
al community life of their section. Which
ia going to be the next grange to follow
suit?
On the last three days of the week,
conferences were held at Bradford. Chel-
sea and Randolph with Mr. CoryeIl. as
sistant state leader OF county agents, and
The local town delegates. The attendance
was not as large as hoped for but those
who were present gave encouraging re
ports of increased interest in the work /
If the county association in their local. /
lies Five hundred members for the Il
,ounty association before July /, 1916, II
md a demonstration in every town in H
he county is the present aim Of the as
ociation- Is your town doing its share II
o secure these results? III
A third factor influencing farm profits 4
IS indicated by the farm survey figures
# the 81 Randolph farms is diversity of II
usiness. The majority of our farmers are
depending on dairy products alone for II
heir farm income. With present prices, II
hose who have some cash crop or out III
ide source Of income either from maple n
ugar, poultry, lumber, or labor away II
rom the farm on the smaller farms seem IL
0 be making the larger labor incomes
arms having from 30 to 100 per cent of :
heir income from livestock averaged II
dor income OF $3.50 The Is farms hav- h,
x from so to 90 per cent of their income e,
'om livestock averaged a labor income II
S26l. Eight farms having from 20 to Il
per cent of their income from livestock W
yeuged labor incomes of $780, Eight h,
'rms having less than 70 per cent of
leir income from livestock averaged
Dor income OF $s46 This last group in F,
uded several farms selling hay and not L,
1eping enough stock or purchasing NJ
Tough plant food to keep up the farm A
nd were running out their soil prac- NJ
ce of course not to be advised even if it
'es bring profits for a short time But
lose farmers whose livestock income
as from 10 to so per cent of the total =
ere in many cases men who had some
sh crop to go with their livestock. In 4
e Newbury area, Is farms having only
le source of income yielding over 5000
r year made labor income of SOS. %;
rms having two sources of income, n,
36 and II farms having three or more
urces Of income yielding more than A
90 had labor incomes of $40 Averag-
: the figures for five farm survey areas 81