Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-05
ADDISON co. FARMERS MEET,
Largest and Strongest Assocla-
tlon In the State Addresses
by ENperts

Addison County Farmers Association
was held in the town hall in Middlebury
on Wednesday, with two sessions, the
first beginning at 10 a, m. and the
afternoon session at A5 o'clock, In
spite of snow storm which continued
a good part of the day there was a
large turnout Of people representing
most Of the towns in the county, and at
the afternoon meeting there were over
200 persons present, quite number of
whom were ladies'
President Il. B, Cornwall of Middle
bury presided at both the morning and
afternoon meeting.
The report of the secretary
was read by that official, E. L. Wright
of Weybridge and the reports showed
the association to be in sound condition
and to be steadily growing in member
ship and influence and to have bright
and prosperous future ahead Of it.
The matter of appointing town COM
mittees for each town was next brought
Iup for consideration, and after some
discussion a committee of three was
appointed by the chair to report later
in the day the names of three members
from each town in the county to form
such town committees who are to have
charge of pushing the work of the asso-
citation throughout the county, AT the
afternoon session this committee on
nominations reported and their report
naming three committeeman for each
town was unanimously and heartily
adopted.
County Agent Joseph E. Carrigan Of
Middlebury then submitted his annual
report, in which he detailed the years
work in his department and gave some
hopeful thoughts touching the future of
the association and of the work de-
sirable and necessary to be done for
the advancement of the aims and OBJ
jects of the association. His report
was listened to with manifest signs of
satisfaction and approval by all present.
Thomas Bradley of Burlington, State
leader Of County Agents, followed with
a brief address and made some peril
nent remarks in regard to the work
this association and the other county
associations have done and are doing,
and he stated incidentally that the Ad-
Olson County Association is the largest
and strongest county association in the
State. Mr. Bradley closed with some
suggestions in regard to the need and
desirability Of a better and closer organ
ization and urged the necessity of Civ
ing loyal and hearty support to the
executive committee and the advisory
council and their work.
This brought the forenoon session to
close shortly after u o'clock.
At the opening of the afternoon
meeting Secretary Wright gave in out
line and detail his ideas and suggestions
on the matter of a membership cam
paign. Such a campaign, he thought,
should be started and put in motion
without delay by the different town
committees and should be prosecuted
vigorously on all sides up to the time
of the next March meetings. Mr..
Wright's ideas were received with
great favor ard hearty applause.
County Agent Carrigan then outlined
a plan which he had formulated for the
establishment of an association eX-
change to be used and patronized by
the members, which exchange should
deal with the purchase and sale of
farm commodities and the employment
and handling of farm labor. His plan
would call for and indeed make neces-
sary the appointment of an assistant
to the county agent, whose business
it should be to remain all the time at
headquarters and take care of the work
as it comes in and to see to everything
that was required in the necessary
absence of the agent himself. Mr..
Carrigan's s plan was received with much
enthusiasm on all sides, and it was
moved and unanimously carried that
the whole question of the working out
of the plan and the perfection of its de-
tails be referred to the executive COM
mittee.
Mr.. Carrigan was followed by Richard
Pattee of Massachusetts, secretary of
the New England Milk Producers asso-
citation, who gave a highly enlightening
talk on the work of this association
during the recent milk war and in re-
gard to what the association hopes to
do in the future. He laid strong en-
phasis on two things which he thought
must be done before the dairy business
would be placed on an efficient and
profitable basis, namely, a thorough all
around investigation of the dairy bust
ness, so that accurate and reliable i'm
formation can be obtained, and that
greater efficiency can be procured in
both production and distribution. Mr.
Pattee's remarks were very favorably
received by his large audience of inter-
ested and attentive listeners.