The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-06-27
SOMERSET FARM BUREAU
MUCH INTEREST
Ways In Which This Organization Can
be Helpful

The organization started by the As
representative farmers who met in
Skowhegan June 5, is being perfected.
The Somerset Co. Agent r. NJ. Stiles
Is meeting small groups of farmers in
each community or town to explain
the purposes of the Farm Bureau and
to find out which towns are interested
in extension work. To date such
meetings have been held In the towns
named below and the following men
are interesting their neighbors in the
movement: st. Albans-F. n. Vim
ing, d. S. Emerson, Fred Lucas, Verne
Merrill, Oriel Cole, A S. Bradford;
Cambridge. B. LaBree, Seth Ham.
Sumner Ham, Stanwood Moore, A. w.
Bailey; Canaan-G. W. Weeks, M. d.
Withee, F. ], Tibbetts, c. F. Horne, S.
Bean; Solon-A. c. Head, Fred Ma
COON, l. L. Brown, John McCollor,
Josiah French; Fairfield-Harry Stew
art Frank Newell, Arthur Ellis, A. f.
Horne, George Jones, n. w. Tozier,
A. NJ. Braun, Leo Winslow.
A Farm Bureau will multiply the
ability of the County Agent more than
ten times and will enable him to meet
all of the calls for assistance along
different lines that come from the va
rious neighborhoods. A brief sum-
mary of the things Farm Bureau can
do in any community are given below:
Building demonstrations in poultry
houses, home made silos, self-feeders
for hogs, etc. They stay in your
community after the county agent is
gone. You may know their cost and
money for other farmers, they will
for you Demonstration meetings to
prune or spray apple trees or pota-
toes, treat Seed kill and pick poultry,
etc. These meetings are on the farms
and the results stay in your com
munity to meet the test of time.
Comparisons between different kinds
of seed, as oats, silage corn, selected
potatoes, etc. You can watch these
growing thru the year and know which
is the highest producing seed for your
town. 1t costs no more to produce
60 bushels Of oats than 80 bushels.
Small neighborhood or town meetings
to figure balanced rations or fertilizer
formulas, kinds OF lime to buy. etc.
You can easily figure out what you
are buying, why you buy it, and how
much you are getting for your dollar
at these meetings. You can save
dollars on your fertilizer and double
your crop of clover if your land
proves to need lime. Boys and girls
agricultural club work. Work which
is enthusiastically endorsed in every
town where it has been done must be
good for your boy and girl, and the
other boys and girls in your neighbor-
hood. 1t makes the right kind of lead
ers out of our boys and girls. Ex-
tension Schools, practical three day
meetings at which the farmers gather
around tables and figure out the best
forms of fertilizers to buy, the best
rations for COWS, swine or poultry, the
cheapest and most efficient sprays,
etc. These schools are intensely
practical. Meet some Of the commu-
nifty, town and county needs. Every
community, town and county have
some needs which no existing agency
is we'll adapted to handle. No or
ganization job in the country has ever
been too big for a strong Farm Blu
reau to tackle. Provide communi-
ty committee thru which the majority
of farmers in your town can be
reached quickly and easily with in
formation of value to them. A Farm
Bureau News bulletin is issued month
ly giving timely helps on cheapest
and best dairy rations, sprays, fertil-
izers, kinds of lime, and other market
information. Seed, animals, etc, for
sale or wanted can be listed free.
If these things interest you, join the
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