The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-27
MONTPELIER

Harold Bailey, of the commissioner q
agriculture's office, who has been In thi
part OF the state for the last few day
inspecting potatoes. finds that the hick
DRY tussock, a form of the caterpllla
family has visited this part of the state
This pest is eating the foliage oil I'll
apple trees. He does not expect the dam
age will be great this fall but they 60
coon for the winter and next Angus
will commence their devastation. These
like Others of the caterpillar family, ar
poisonous, causing itch where they toucl
the flesh of the human being
Commissioner of Highways s. b. Bate
left this morning for the road through
Smugglers' Notch. He has n gang o
about 20 men working on the Stowe sid,
of the notch. The state appropriated
$4,000 to be expended this year on the
road and he plans to build the road from
the spring house on the Stowe side as far
as possible towards the top of the noun,
tain, which is about three.fourths of a
mile from the spring house II he can
accomplish this this season it will give
a suitable highway to the top of the
notch for automobile and other traffic
and will be step in the direction of
opening up this bit of Vermont beauty
| to tourists.
Amos Eaton and Harold Bailey, who
have been in the county representing the
federal government inspecting potatoes,
have met with good success. They have
been locating the farmers who have clean
crops and find that in Berlin, Williams
town, East Montpelier and Calais there
are some of the farmers who have excel
lent crops. Their purpose is largely to
obtain data as to where the federal gov
eminent can advise buyers of seed that
the potatoes of the right kind can be Sc
cured. They obtained quantity of in
formation and incidentally they urged
the farmers whose crops they inspected
and found clean of disease to save the
best of their crop for seed purposes, in
stead of selling it this fall, the idea be.
ing that a first-class potato seed will
bring forth better fruit than culls, and
it is more often that these are planted
than that the best of the crop is pre-
served for that purpose. The federal
government wants TO be able to advise
farmers in other parts of the country
where they can secure seed. Last week
Messrs. Eaton and Bailey were In Aroo-
stock county, Maine, where they found
that the farmers are growing about 1875
bushels to the acre while in their inspec-
tions here this week they have found |
that the farms they visited produced |
more than that for the most part, nearer
$50 bushels to the acre
Rev. Z. w. Sharp, superintendent of
the Montpelier district of the Vermont |
Methodist conference, arrived here on
Wednesday and for the next two weeks
will make his headquarters in the par
sonage in this city. He has two weeks
work in the territory surrounding Mont
pelier, so this will be convenient place
Tor his headquarters and then he wants
10 look after the work in this parish
Next Sunday morning Miss Butler, who
vas in Mexico during the trouble with
his country, speaks upon her experience
yetting out of the country in disguise
'lr. Sharp speaks in the evening
The result of the first days efforts on
he war library campaign in Montpelier !
vas very successful and gratifying to
hose conducting the campaign They :
eceived $3.50 for the work which was
one in the outlying districts of the town
nd expect when they reach the business
ection the reports will indicate large
mount of money and if the proportion
ttained in the first day is kept up Mont
eliers quota of $500 will be obtained by
nd of the week.
The first OF the wheatless days under
he regulation of Food Commissioner
ames Hardness met agreeable results in
lontpelier Pierce & Clark's bakery
lade large quantity of bran bread, so
llled, which was sold early in the morn
lg, showing the many families were to
D their bit in the wheat matter. None
the other bakeries in town did any
hing along this line. At the hotels
hte bread and other substitutes for
hite bread were displayed with the aim
lat the patrons of the hotels and res
.urants could make their own choice of
Derty bread or their regular pastry.
Bob Anderson of New Haven, Conn,
rives here Friday and with Champion
Gorge Mckee of the Montpelier club
i'll play match in which two men
jim IAdHuoipH VIII participate FTludY
ternoon. An l8-hole match will be
aged Saturday afternoon Mr. Mckee
ID Gordon Johnson, professional, of
arlington, will play Messrs Fraser and
hnston of Barre at the Barre links. -
Holden Farrar of the Wasp is expected .
me Saturday for a day with Mr. and 10
RS. w. III. Farrar, his parents. q
Secretary of State Frederick Fleet it
'od, who was in the city Wednesday. pt
id that the licensing of automobiles fir
$ reached the 1900 mark and that the
mber win go well towards 10000 be- VI
re the season closes The correspond r.
re on automobile matters is very heavy m,
his office. no.
by
Mrs. Grace Breck of Mortified is visit ret
, with Mrs. c. d. Waters. gu
W. II. Jeffrey, state probation officer, pa
) returned from cleaning up matter ;
Burlington. He also visited St. Al