The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-11
ORANGE COUNTY FARMERS
ASSOCIATION NOTES.
Notes for Week Ending Sept. 8.

Meetings were held this past week OF
jefferson hill, Newbury and East Brook
field. The work OF the farm bureau ant
the projects for the coming year were
discussed at the first to group of in
terested farmers and plans for work
made with the East Brookfcld Farmers
club
The new board of directors of the farm
bureau met Saturday at Chelsea and
chose the following for oiiicersi
President--F. o. Bicknell, Tunbridge
Vice.president-Nelson Bailey, Wells
River
secretary-C. A. Wilcox, North Tibet.
ford.
Treasurer. II. Bickford, Bradford.
II was voted that the following pro.
, jects be adopted for the coming year and
that these be in charge of one of the
members OF the board of directors;
Dairy project, f. o. Bieknell; legime
project, C. A. Wilcox; organization pro-
iect, Nelson Bailey; home economies pro.
ject, +. II, Bickford; cash crops project,
G. L. Haywood
This coming week meetings are TO be
held at Peth and Randolph Center Mon
day and Tuesday evenings to discuss the
result OF the farm survey figures
Wednesday evening at the schoolhouse at
West Fairlee Center to discuss the or
ganization of a farmers club; Thursday
and Friday evenings at West Bradford
and West Newbury Farmers clubs, to
discuss, with the assistance of Miss Hold
en-, from the Vermont extension service,
the plans for the home economics pro-
ject; and Saturday, the Williamstown
Farmers club picnic.
The county agent also plans to visit
soy bean demonstration plots, to which
are invited any farmer interested in
learning more about this new crop The
schedule is as follows Monday, p. m,
w. w. Sutton's, Peth; Wednesday, 2 D. /
M. H. Z. Heston's, Post Mills; Thurs
day, 10 a. m, VIII Gove's, | p. m, Carl
Thompsons, and p. M, Norman Min
ards, all Bradford; Friday, 10 a. M,
c. o. Sawyer, Topsham; l:30 p. m,
r. n Longmoores, Jefferson hill; p. m, |
John Tyler's, West Newbury; Saturday, |
$3.50 a. m, R. S. Flanders, Orange; p. |
m, Charles Riddles, Willamstown; 4 p.
m, c, w Grams, Williamstown.
For the week ending Sept. % the fol
lowing tentative schedule has been made
out, subject to revision: Monday, Sept.
II, A. NJ. Smiths East Randolph; Tues.
day, Sept Is, Union Village Farmers'l
club; Wednesday, Sept, 10. j. S. Sleep ;,
er's, Vershire; Sept. 20, STAFFORD
Last spring there was a large demand
for good seed corn for husking which
could not be filled by A No. seed. To
prevent a repetition of this every corn
grower should select his seed corn this
fall from the field. Properly grown and
selected seed win often produce Is bush
lis more of good corn per acre than un
selected seed from the same field. As
me bushel of seed will seed four acres,
hat means 90 bushels more corn, worth
It least $50, as a result of saving care
ully selected seed corn. With this in
mind. isn't il worth the time to go
through your field and select the best de-
'eloped ears from good stalks We want
ize, well filled, ears, and early maturity. ]
f we can get two ears on stalk both !
veil developed, we want these. A good i
way to select is to go through the field q
With bag on your shoulder, picking off q
he good ears, carrying them to the end t