Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-08-31
TO VISIT ALL "A COUNTIES
Scope of Agricultural Extension
Service Enlarged.
Only Six Counties Touched by Demon
strntor Before. Orleans, windsor,
Franklin, Rutland. Caledonia,
Orange; New Demonstrators.

Every county of the state, instead OF
the half dozen of the past-Orleans. Wind
sor, Rutland, orange Caledonia Frank
lin-wil be covered by the farm manage
ment demonstration work of the agricul-
tural extension service of the University
of Vermont, which began at Enos-
burg Falls on Monday Fuzzy 1000
records will be taken, as compared with
half that number during the is months
ending July l this year. so that a fairer
average can be reached not only as re-
CARDS the progress of one year but of
two years and one-half. and previous dis
crepancies corrected. For the first time n
member of the federal department of
agriculture will accompany a member of
the federal extension service. +. A.
Brown, acting agriculturist in charge of
farm management demonstration. will ac-
company Walter ]. Tubbs the new dem
onstrator Of the service.
Mr.. Tubbs, who halls from Moravia,
succeeds VI. C. Wilson. who has gone over
! to New Hampshire as county agent lead
En- The new demonstrators is a graduate
of the Cornell College of Agriculture.
where he studied under DR.. G. + Warren.
head Of the department Of farm manage
i
pert of the United States in his specially
| Mr.. Tuhhs was an instructor under Dr.
Warren before coming here.
| At the Franklin county center he will be
aided ny G. L. Tiffany, county agent, as
we'll as by Mr. Brown. Their work there
will be a sample of what they will do in
| every county they visit. The county farm
bureaus will in each case cooperate with
| ln Il 4rntA NJ - H.,
Vermont for a month only, however.
Farmers not familiar with the object Of
this work might he informed, says the d.
rector of the service, that any records OBJ
tanned will he kept entirely confidential
| 1t isn't the purpose of the service, either,
to tell the farmers what they ought to do,
but to show them what some of their fell
lows. with no special advantages over
them, have done and let them draw their
own conclusions.
The records of 70 to 100 farms are made
after careful investigation records being
based upon the reports and estimates of
the farmers themselves. who are expect
ed to know more about their own capital.
land capacity and production than any
body else could know. The service has
certain definite ideas as to what Is and
what makes 1arm SucceSSful. "A prOfit-
able farm business" 1t says in announc-
ing some conclusions from records of
farms about Enosburg Falls secured in
1914. pays all running expenses and in
terest on the capital invested and returns
the farmer good pay for his years work
in addition to free house rent fire wood
and farm produce for his family living"
There are four factors taken into ac-
count: l. The size of the business, as
measured by the capital invested; .. Quail
ity of the livestock upon it: 3. Diversity
of production, in respect to field and orch.
ard crops. dairy products, etc: 4. Cror
yields. Thus far each of these factors has
been counted as equal in arriving at the
so-called labor income or amount left the
farmer after all expenses including inter.
est upon the investment are paid.
The following table is Instructive:
COMBINED IMPORTANCE ALL FOUF
FACTORS.