The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-24
ORANGE COUNTY FARMERS
ASSOCIATION NOTES.
Report for Week Ending Oct. 81.

The county agent. in company with
~. NJ. Bicknell of Tunbridge, Guy Mox-
/ ley and Fred Waldo OF Chelsea and Carl
Monkey OF Randolph visited the national
dairy show in Springfield, Mass the first
| Of the week, going in Mr. Bicknel's Ford,
4 The trip was enjoyable both ways and
1 the show was well worth the time and
money required to see it. Those who
stayed at home missed a real treat if
they are lovers of good cattle. Lovers of
Jersey, Holstein, Guernsey, Ayrshire or
Brown Swiss were easily satisfied as
there were some excellent representative
of all these breeds The COW which at
tracted as much attention as any per
haps was Sophie 9th of Hood farm, the
champion long distance producer. The
national dairy show presented her a
special banner in recognition of her abll
ity. Even horse lovers enjoyed them
selves, as the horse show in the evening
was a treat rarely enjoyed outside OF
some big city The dairy division of the
Z. S. department of agriculture had an
educational exhibit in 10 cows picked up
in various COW test associations, giving
their last years records. 1t was typi
cal cAtAihPit VI Nilt laAJ SO bittH ioubtfh,
that cows cannot be picked by looks
alone for profit makers. The machinery
exhibits excelled anything ever before
seen in this section as did the cattle
Much interesting information could be
picked up at these booths. The state eX
hibits were popular with the crowd. The
Vermont exhibit was in charge of A. A.
Carlton of West Newbury. The boys
and girls exhibit was in some ways the
most interesting of any there. 1t showed
the possibilities of the future when these
present club champions are on farms Of
their own, Orange county was well rep
resented but not in the numbers | should |
like to have seen. From this last week
New England Homestead, ! note the fol- |
lowing names as winners from this coun- |
tv: Potato project, I'd prize to Alvair |
Ball Of Randolph Center for Green Noun
tain potatoes and Harold Poor of Brook
field and Gardner Green of Randolph Cen |
ter on Carmen potatoes; poultry pro-
iect egg exhibits, lst prizes to X. E.
Harrington of Randolph on Barred Plym
outh Rocks and to Ann Brockway OF
Randolph on Rhode Island Reds; farm
and home handicraft project, Sd prize to
ltdIOIu FOOT Oh DfOOhuelO on Stfu it1l-
,r. The Randolph Center potato Judging
tesm composed of Poor of Brookield,
Chadwick of Randolph and Melby OF
North Ferrisburg. won fourth prize.
Harold Poor was sweepstakes prize win
Ter for potato Judging Three boys,
George Brothers of Braintree, +, Hubbard
Wheeler of East Braintree and Joseph
)urkee of Randolph. exhibited corn
which was creditable to Vermont, but
10 Vermont flint corn as far as could
ind was prize winner, being unable to [.
ompete in maturity and size with the
tates farther south.
The county agent tried to list as many
f the Orange county farmers as he could J
md who attended the dairy show. This t
st now numbers over so and probably +,
rill have over 100 names when all are =
nown. This shows that Orange county :
) awake to the possibilities of show OF :
his kind. | think thar none OF those
ttending will regret the trip
Plans for this week include meetings