The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-15
ORANGE COUNTY
FARMERS ASSN NOTES
Notes for week ending Mareh N.

Notes for week ending March IL.
The Piermont- Newbury Cow Test as
ISOLATION has made three attempts TO
have their annual meeting this winter
and each time has picked stormy day.
| Thursday, March o, was their third at.
tempt and although only few could get
through the deep SHOWS 10 be present,
they organized for another year. In or
der TO obtain little more m9neg to
work with, l4-cow minimum herd was
adopted as the lowest number TO be
eligible to the association, The required
number OF cows is almost secured and
they expect TO continue work from April
/. AS an illustration OF the need OF
keeping records in our average dairy
herd, the following, taken from the 1914
report OF this association, might be OF
interest. Twenty.siX herds completed
the years work. Thirty-one per cent of
these had all their cows paying for keep.
Sixty nine per cent had cows which did
not pay for keep. In 10 per cent OF the
herds the average COW in the herd did
not pay for feed and in 81 per cent OF
the herds the average COW did not pay
for keep. The total cost of keep was
considered as Sl5 per COW above the feed
cost and was taken from New York
survey under similar conditions to ours.
Talks were given this week at Fairlee
grange and Randolph grange. At Fairlee
grange Thursday evening" the work of
the county association was discussed TO
about So Saturday evening the results
of the farm survey taken last year in
Randolph were discussed at the Randolph
grange.
The week of March 1918, the county
agent expects to be in Union village at
an extension school arranged co-opera
lively between the Windsor and Orange
County Farmers associations for the
first three days and in Brookfeld at a
grange meeting Thursday evening. Out
side Of March q and 20, no dates have
been scheduled for the rest OF this
month. ANY section desiring a meeting
during this period may arrange for such
by application to the county agent.
The keeping of farm accounts is a
topic many farmers are interested in be-
cause they realize the Importance of such
a record of their farm business and as |
vet have not had a satisfactory method I
for keeping such records. Ordinary book
keeping methods are too complicated and
require too much time for the average
farmer without Office help or time of his
own. From the method OF taking farm
survey used by the federal
department. OF agriculture has been out
ined method of keeping farm accounts {
which is simple, easy to keep, and places
he figures in such form as TO enable the
armer at the end of the year to care
ully analyze his business from them. ]
Since these records are in the same form {
s the farm survey records. it also gives I
i'm chance to compare his farm bus d
ness with those of section such as the
area, which is being handled in q
his way in this county. The records y
onsist OF an inventory at the beginning y
nd end OF the year Of the real estate, t
machinery. supplies on hand i
nd cash on hand TO get at the total cap a
.al used and for interest charges, and t
hen the receipts from crop sales stock i
roducts, livestock, labor and miscella s
eous receipts from which are subtracted a
expenses for labor, repairs, feed, horses, e
aeds, fertilizers, taxes miscellaneous ex e
enses, depreciation on buildings and Il
lachinerv, decrease in feed and supplies a