Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-12-11
The Community Plan of Work.


The following article is from the last
number of the Orleans County Farm
Bureau News
A farmer said to the county agent
the other day, 81 wish we might do
something in my town. 1t seems
dead at this end of the county" The
county agent explained to him how
several communities were working
out their problems, with each man of
the community committee looking out
for some special line of work. The
idea appealed to this man. 81 would
like to see something worked out for
a local livestock shipping organiza-
ton" he said. "Lots of stock for
sale and look at the prices we get.
We ought to do something about
keeping better accounts of our milk
costs, too," he added. Two pieces of
work suggested by that one man! AS
soon as the epidemic is over meet
ing is to be called in that locality to
talk over the situation, place a COM
munity committee in charge of the
work the farmers want to see done
and then go ahead and do it. Wheth-
er it's a livestock shipping associa-
ton, a cooperative laundry, or keep
ing milk cost accounts, so long as it
is community problem, it remains
to be solved. And that is where the
Agricultural Association plans to
put all it's effort from now on-find
out the problem of each community
and then work through committee
to solve those problems. It doesn't
mean that the man that doesn't be-
lieve it pays to keep purebred bull
will be forced to keep one; and the
woman who doesn't believe in freless
cookers won't have to make one. Such
people as these will soon see that it
does pay.
The community plan of work gets
somewhere. 1t is little that the
county agent or the home demonstra-
around visiting $500 farmers or farm
homes in this county! Figure even
at Is visits day how often you
ought to see either of them in the
seven months that car can be run.
But with live community committee,
and live farmers and farm women
back of the community committee,
big things can be done. The county
agent and home demonstration agent
will work with the committees. Plans
will be made for pure bred bull club
in one community; for a freless
cooker campaign and farm manage
ment club in another; and in still
another the farmers want to get to-
gether and buy power sprayers to ex-
terminate ka1e by spraying with iron
work interests the majority of the
rural people. It is business propo-
sition. It is democratic for before
that plan of work is definitely decid-
ed on every farm man and woman in
every community will have a chance
at the meeting held in their town to
say what shall be done.
This plan is working in other coun-
ties-in fact, Farm Bureaus
have been organized in some counties
on this plan and lot of work has
been done before county agent and
home demonstration agent could be
hired. That is real Farm Bureau
organization-just what we need here
in Orleans county. Chittenden coun-
ty is working on this plan. County
Agent Peaslee and Mrs. Harrison, the
Home Demonstration Agent report
ago various local problems were dis
cussed and before the meeting was
over the Farm Bureau was asked to
assist the people in that community
to develop community cooperative
laundry, to assist the women in the
use of more household conveniences;
to assist the farmers in the growing
of more clover, and increasing the
practice of keeping farm accounts.
Some definite problems to be solved
there, similar, no doubt, to many
which we want to see solved here in
many communities of Orleans county.
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