The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-06
A. w. Sweet0n Reviews Va
riety of Important Agri-
cultural Subjects
WOULD HAVE MILK
PRODUCERS ORGANIZE
Favors More Farmers Clubs Like One
in East Jamaica-Gets People of Com
munity to Working Together-Agri-
cultural Extension Schools.

County Agent Arthur w. Swecton
has just issued his monthly news let
ter to the members of the Windham
County Agricultural association. In
part it is as follows:
Results of the Milk Strike.-During
the month OF October there was a very
extensive strike of the producers OF
milk for the Boston market. Owing to
the increased cost of feed help and
cows, the producers asked for a certain
increase in price and the Boston con
tractors refused to give it. As con
sequence OF this thousands of quarts
of milk were taken from the Boston
market and put into creameries ana
disposed OF in other ways.
In Windham county, Alden Broth
ers load a car of milk going from Brat
tlcboro to Bellows Falls. y A portion Of
this comes from, Chesterfield and
Westmoreland on the New Hampshire
side. The larger part of the Vermont
milk comes from Putney and East Put
tney, where the producers are organized
When the New England producers went
out on the first of October most of
these members went also, and tempo,
rarily sent their cream to the Amherst
creamery. During the month two large
producers meetings were held III Rut-
land and one in Putncy and the farm
ers held together pretty well. On the
9th of November they were anxious to
bring things to a head and they sent
II. w. Frost of East Putnev to Boston
| as their representative TO confer with
Secretary Patteo Of the New England
| Producers association and Mr.. Alden
the milk dealer who had been buying
the milk in this section. After Il
| lengthy conference with both parties
an agreement was reached by which
the producers who loaded on the Brat
/ tleboro car were to receive an increase
of six cents per eight and half quart
can or an average of SO cents per can
until March l, and the dealers pay the
/ freight. For March they are to receive
a sIX-cent increase over last year and
| possibly a little better. Aldens are to
| take all that any of these producers
make and hold them to the Massa-
chusetts standard for quality. They
| further agreed to take back all the
/ farmers who went out and give them
! the same price and treatment received
| by the others. This Is not quite as the
] producers asked for, but il is a very
substantial increase of three-quartcrs
of a cent n quart, which means consid-
cradle on carload of milk. 1t is very
! probable that an increase of three or
possibly four cents a can might have
! been secured if they had not struck.
but comparing this with the results in
other sections it is certain that our
milk producers melted at least two
cents can more than they would have
if they had not been organized. This
Is good business and we hope that the
| producers in Windham county will see
fit to organize in n similar way so as
to be ready for any developments that
may come in the future
! Agricultural Extension Schools in
! Windham Countv.-For the past three
winters the Vermont agricultural ex-
tension service has been holding their
so-ealled agricultural extension schools
in different towns in the state. These
schools are given without expense to
the community excepting that local
people are asked to furnish a heated