Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-11
EXPECT LADY DEMONSTRATOR
carriaan Believes Addison County
Stands Good Chance.

carriaan Believes Addison County
Stands Good Chance,
For the first time since the Salisbury
and Mddebury Farmers Clubs were
organized the two organizations held
a joint meeting last night, BY count,
there were hundred present, about
equally divided between men and
women, Hospitality accommodated in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. julius o.,
Seeley about midway between the
centers Of the two big farming com.
munities. A dozen or more autos were
parked on the big front lawn and as
many more teams hitched in the barns,
having brought many of the young farm
ers and some of the older ones from
both towns together for the first time,
From the moment that the gathering
assembled until it broke up late in the
evening there was serious talk Of con-
ditions which the war had imposed on
the farmers wife. County Agent
Joseph +. Carrigan, first addressing the
ladies, told of the efforts they were
making to get Lady County Demon
strator here. If the S25, O0O 600 federal
appropriation We're passed, as he be-
lieved it would be, he said that Vermont
would probably get six Of the county
demonstrators which were proposed, and
he.declared there was every reason to
believe that Addison county would get
one of those six; and possibly do so
within the next month.
Speaking to the men in an adjoining
room, Mr. Carrigan pleaded for patriotic
cooperation in the matter of seed sup
| ply. The county was short by hundreds
Of bushels of the wheat seed that was
wanted to sow IN the next week or ten
days, and the seed couldn't be had.
Mr.. Carrigan knew of one farmer who
had several hundred bushels, had sold
some and sowed some, but still intended
to keep $50 bushels in his bins enough
now to feed only $50 men for year but
enough to feed over 1900 men for a year
if put into the ground. 81 would say
that those who hoard wheat at this time
come pretty near being Pro-German"
said he
H. B, Cannon, who is stationed here
by the Dairy Division of the Department
of Agriculture to make some study of
milk production, delivered an interesting
talk on the nutritive value of milk
When war crowds us to the wall said
he, milk is the last thing for US to give
up, He believed farmers should use
more milk in their own homes. He
urged that every effort be made to keep
cows up to weight and healthy, what
ever the cost of feed
f, B. Cornwall, President of the Adj
Olson County Farmers Association and
of the Middlebury Farmers Club, who
presided, 4 urged that farmers should
adapt themselves to eating a greater
variety of things and thus be in posi-
ton to economic on one thing when its
price went up by substitution of some
other, as rice for potatoes. Particular
ly he urged farmers to train their child
rem in this respect.
Fred Cloyes of Lexington, Mass,
whose old home is near here, told of the
extent to (which Massachusetts was
alarmed. over the food shortage and how
many, wealthy persons were converting
fine lawns into garden area. He be-
lieved. Vermont did not fully appreciate
the real situation.
After the problems of the evening
had been wrestled with, Mrs. Cassius
Seeley supervised an abundant dispen-
sation of ice.cream and cake-57 kinds
of cake, each kind little better than
the others.