Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1918-12-06
ANNUAL MEETING
FARMERS ASSN.
New Officers Elected.-Reports
Read.
Speakers Making Addresses This Fri.
day Afternoon

day Afternoon.
The annual meeting of the Wind
ham County Farmers Association is
being held in Odd Fellows hall this
Friday
At the business session this morn
ing officers were elected as follows;
President, Everett f. Brown. Pom
fret Center
Vice President. S. H. Peckham.
Woodstock.
Secretary, F D Harrison, Wood
stock
Treasurer, W. NJ. Gallup, Wood
stock
The county agents report eonsid-
cred the following topics:
Food production. dealing with
campaign carried cut through series
of corn suppers in II towns in the
county.
Seed corn testing Over so sam
pies of corn were taken and sent to
the New Haven experiment station
for testing. One result was the sale
of about 500 bushels of seed corn
Labor: Few laborers were placed
on farms. but by far the best assist
ance given farmers on the labor ques-
ton was through the Boys Working
Reserve. Twenty boys were placed
on farms.
Extension schools: Two were plan
ned for last winter, one was held
with fair attendance and good results
as to corn growing during the past
summer.
Dairy: Dairy work consisted chief
ly in assisting farmers in figuring
their dairy rations and in working out
a cost sheet upon which the price of
milk has been based
Cooperative buying: On limit
ed scale this has been successfully es-
tabliShed this year in the towns of
Plainfield and Killingly.
Sheep Through cooperation with
the State college at Storrs, there is an
arrangement where sheep raisers may
rent pure bred ram This service
was used on several farms this year
Field crops Farmers have been
generally encouraged to plant more
small grains. At least two-thirds of
the farmers in the county raised n
small piece of wheat, running from
half to an acre in size.
Poultry: Ten poultry culling de-
monstrations have been held. Hens
handled numbered 1491, of which 453
were rejected as non-layers and low
producers.
Report also considers farm manage
ment and milk testing in which the
farmers are showing an increased in
terest
Miss Charlotte Embleton, home
economies demonstration, in her report
said That the potato canning cam
paign was carried on in six towns in
the county through organizations and
the public schools Exhibits were
made in store windows and nine de-
monstration meetings given.
Wheatless campaign: This YVES
worked through the oranges. Three
hundred signatures to abstain from
wheat were secured.
Wheatless suppers and demonstra-
tons were also given.
A canning campaign was success
fully carried out in every town in the
county, and twelve towns exceeded
their quotas.
Milk campaign was carried on in
different towns with success, meetings
being held and demonstrations of cot
tage cheese making given.
Eleven corn suppers were held in
different towns This was to teach a
wider use of corn as food.
Last winter an extension school
and food fair, held at Woodstock,
showed good results.
This years corn fair held in Put
nam showed an increase of "a entries
over last year in the home economics
department.
Nine sewing clubs, seven home &c
onomic clubs, six canning clubs and
two demonstration teams were organ
lied. Among other accomplishments
during the year was a household sur
vey to determine the amount of food
on hand as compared with the previ-
GUS year Out of so visited 81 re-
ports were received.
Miss Embleton also visited schools
in different towns and gave talks on
the care Of the teeth and skin. These
talks brought good results.
The meeting is being continued
this afternoon.