The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-06
ORANGE COUNTY FARMERS
ASSOCIATION NOTES.
Notes for week ending Dec. 2.

Three Farmers clubs met this past
week, Monday Evening Farmers club,
Peth; Chelsea West Hill; and Washing
ton. At Pe.h, the men discussed the
principles of cooperative buying and
made plans for taking up the co-opera'
tive buying OF chemicals and seeds. The
ladies discussed Christmas suggestions.
After these business discussions, very
enjoyable hour was spent in entertain
ment At the West Hill club, c. C.
Mann, instructor in agriculture, Chelsea
high school, brought out some valuable
points regarding feeding dairy cows, dis
trbuting sheet of feed values, which
could be used in making up ration. He
emphasized particularly the high fertil'
izing value of some of our high protein
feeds. The county agent led discus
sion on the use of the valuable bulle-
tins ON feed seed and commercial fertil-
lzer inspection, which are issued annual
ly by the state experiment station. The
ladies discussed Christmas suggestions
and lowering the cost of living. The
meeting in Washington was the first OF
the newly organized club of that place
The interest was much larger than at
the preliminary meetings. After the
business meeting, the county agent dis,
cussed the commercial fertilizer situa-
ton and gave suggestions regarding their
purchase either as mixed goods or chem
icals. A committee made up of Yorkus
Ordway, o. f. King and j. A. Partridge
was appointed to see what could be done
about making up cooperative order
for chemicals.
The Vermont experiment station is
sending to its extensive mailing list the
following three bulletins, which ought to
be in the hands of every thinking farm
err. A careful study of the information
there given may mean saving dollars
to YOU in the more economical purchase
of feeds, seeds and commercial fertilizers.
Bulletin 1877 gives the results OF last sea-
sons analyses for protein OF the various
feeds sold in the state. As 1t was found
that one in six of the brands sold last
season failed to live up to its protein
guarantee, it is well worth our while to
know what feeds did so. This bulletin
also has popular article on the oat
crop. Bulletin 1913 takes up commercial
fertilizers in the same way giving their
analyses and guarantee side by side for
comparison. An article on tillage is val
liable, as by proper tillage the fertilizer
bill can be materially reduced. Bulletin
goo gives the result of analyses of seeds
offered for sale last season: These have
not come under state law until recently,
SO we need to post ourselves on what
the law requires and how the firms live
up to these requirements. When the
state goes to the expense OF finding out
these things for us, isn't It up to us to
make use of the information soigathered,
when the knowledge may mean the saw
ing of both time and money! Any who
do not receive these bulletins may do so
by sending their name to the Vermont
experiment station, Burlington, Vt, or
to the county agent. These and all 9TH
err bulletins issued by the station are
free to the people of the state.
For the week ending Dec. 3, by sched-
ule is as follows
Dec. 5-North Tunbridge grange.
Nov. 6-South Vershire Farmers club.
Dec. 7-(afternoon) Chelsea exchange
(Eyening) Williamstown Farmers club
Dec. S-West Topsham Farmers club
The week ending Dec. Is, meetings
have been scheduled for Peth, Dec. IL;
Union Village, Dec. IL; West Bradford,
Dec. 10; and arrangements are being
made for Waits River, Dec. IA, and
Orange, Dec. Is. AT all these places,
the county agent plans to give an illus
trated talk on plant food.
Summary for week ending Dec. 2:
Days in office .................. 20
Days in field .................... 20
Meetings held NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Attendance CONGRATULATIONS. 10
Letters written Observation-Disclosures. ID
Miles Travelled LII
Edward III. Loveland,
County Agent