The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-27
WASHINGTON COUNTY FARM
BUREAU ASSOCIATION.
Report for Week Ending Nov. rs.

The balance of the week has been spent
at Burlington in conference with the
other county agents of the state and
with Director Bradlee and Assistant
County Agent Leader Coryell On the
way to Burlington the county agent
stopped at Richmond to attend the meet
ing Of the Richmond Farmers Co.opera-
tive association. A detailed account of
the meeting will appear in this issue.
Fl The conference of the county agents
was very successful, inasmuch as views
/ were obtained from all sources and much
real work was accomplished. The county
agents were welcomed to the university
by short addresses from President Ben
ton and Dean Hills, after which the
county agents were divided into 10 com
mittees, each one of which had a separate
project to discuss and present to the
meeting. Committee on publicity work.
committees on orchard work, hogs, sheep,
dairying, soil improvement and several
Others took one whole day in threshing
out the problems that applied to each
county III particular and the whole state
in general. As a result the chairman of
each committee submitted to the confer
ence a detailed set of resolutions which
they recommended be adopted by all the
county agents in carrying ON the work
of their respective farm bureaus. These
resolutions will be discussed more com
pletely later Mr. Lloyd from Washing
ton ID. c., who is in complete charge OF
the county agent work over the whole of
the United States, was present through
most of the conference. He went over
the problems very carefully with us and
wee obtained many new ideas and meth
DDS to apply in our work. Mr.. Lloyd ex
planned the system of county agent work
in the United States, which employs
800 men at present, 300 of whom are
county agents. He spoke very eneourag
ingly of the success of the farm bureaus
and discussed with us the best ways of
working with the farmers organizations
in the different counties.
Mr.. Coryell from Burlington attended
with the county agent Saturday after |
noon meeting of the North Montpelier
Farmers club held in East Montpelier. |
This was a second organization meeting |
and the membership which was started |
at North Montpelier early in the fall I
with Is has now increased to over 80 !
and is still growing. The purpose of this
farmers club is to study in an educa-
tional way some of the problems that I
the farmers are up against the solution
OF which will mean much to them, such
as studying out what are the best kinds
of corn to grow for silage and to per
feet method of purchasing feed, fertil
izer and seeds comparatively. Mr.. Cor
yell cited many instances of successful
clubs and demonstrated that in the sue
cesstul clubs the work of the club must
be left to the farmers themselves rather
than depending entirely upon the county
agent for material with which to keep
them going. He. urged that the club
make ont years program of work along
these lines The East Montpelier club
is at present working to IN rease its
and probably the first thing
that will be taken up in the club will be
the study of chemical fertilizers, hcw to
mix them, and then system wi be ar |
ranged whereby the material can be pur-
chased co operatively, as is done al pres {
ent in many aowns and communities.
Z. n. Abbott /
County Agent. /