The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-08
Washington a nd Orange
County People Assembled
at Intercity Park
HEAD OF NATIONAL
GRANGE A SPEAKER
Appeal Made to Induce Will
son to Sign Da %ght Saw
ing App Bill

Thursday after .. that was attended
by about 500 P Sons, during which three
speakers of NJ Aial reputation discussed
subjects interesting to those who are in
the agricultural business. The audience
for the most part was made up of per
sons who came to the affair in their au.
tomobies.
The speakers were Oliver Wilson of
Peoria, ILL.,, master of the national
grange; w. A. Lloyd of the farm bureau
department of the department of agri
culture at Washington, D. c. and An
drew Elliott of Gait, Ont, of the Cana
dian department of agriculture, the last
of whom also gave demonstration of
cow Judging, there being three specimens
upon which he worked, defining the quail.
! tiles of cow that should be looked to
! if the farmer wants to secure the best
results from his investment. While his
| demonstration was for the most part
from the point of dairying, yet he told
some things about selecting a COW for
beef purposes.
The meeting was called to order by
George NJ Jones of Waitsfeld, president
of the Washington County Farm bureau,
who introduced Master of the State
Grange o. L. Martin of Plainfeld as
the presiding officer of the afternoon and
Mr.. Martin then introduced as the first
speaker Oliver Wilson of the national
grange. The latter entertained his au-
dience with history of the work that
has been done, ending with request
that 100000 kilograms or letters be
sent to President Wilson, asking him TO
sign the bill now before him repeating
the daylight saving plan.
Mr. Wilson is a member of one of
the oldest oranges in the country. he
| referred to the fact that seven men en-
| ployed at Washington, d. c., by the fed
/ eral government started the national or
| ganization from which the subordinate
| organizations have arisen. He claimed
that it is the only organization in which
the farmers can protect their interests,
| that it is necessity and that if the
grange is properly conducted with good
program it viii be better place for the
young people than joy riding He said
| it pleased him TO note the new idea of
| scientific agriculture and domestic econ
omy. These, he said, were born when
| the first grange was organized and are
part OF its program He said that in
| the schools children are being taught
| four-tifths material of no use to improve
| the child who wants to follow farming
/ The oranges should work together, he
said, that the maple sugar of the East
and the wheat of the West can be sold
to each other without the middemans
profit.
The work of the grange is now felt in
Washington. Twice has the repeal of
the daylight saving plan been carried
through Congress by its effort and now
the grange will use its effort on Pres-
dent Wilson, He said there are too
many lawyers in the legislatures; that
so per cent of the laws are made by
| lawyers and are not fit for anybody else
to use. He was warmly applauded when
he said lawyers are unfit to be legisla-
| tors. He advised his audience to look
out when the change in the high cost of
| living comes and not to get caught in-
| the whirl. He said the grange has
played no small part in the recent pro-
| hihition legislation.
Mr.. Lloyd, who discussed the work Of
the farm bureaus and the reasons why
they should be supported, divided his
| question in three parts, why there is a
| farm bureau; what farm bureau is;
and how 1t should be conducted" The
| organization has sprung from the grange,
he said. Its work had been neglected
until 1890, when something was done by
courses in state colleges and the forma-
tion of experiment stations The de-
partment was organized by taking a
little from different departments in
Washington and then farmers Institutes
were used but failed. The agricultural
press did good work bnt the farm
bureau, which was originated eight years
ago, has been the real thing. II would
not have developed so fast had it not
been for the war and there are now 2,400
of them in the country.
In addition to the big appropriation
made during the war; there is the Smith
Lever law. from which Vermont and
every other state receives help. He urged
the farmers to pool their knowledge in
the farm bureau and place thsir shoulder
behind it for the good ii does and not
for what they can actually get out of
it. 1t is the meeting of the members to
discuss and decide what are the best
crops to grow in different sections that
make the bureau worth while and ac-
compish something. He said the farm
ers leave too much for the county agent
to do and do not carry part of the load
themselves because Of lack Of co-opera-
tion.
Women should belong to the farm bu-
reaus, said Mr.. Lloyd, but the girls, hs
well as the boys, must be educated to
the fact that there is money in farming
or they will not remain at home or on
farms. Woman is not needed in banking
or mercantile business but she is a part
ner in farming to the fullest extent of
the word.
There were three cows present for the
Judging demonstration conducted by An
drew Elliott, who has been coming to
Vermont for nine years and has cut out
all other outside work excepting Yer
mont These cows were a Guernsey,
owned by Redfeld Phillips; Holstcin,
owned by f. b. House, and Jersey,
owned by Mr.. Benjamin. As to which
is the best kind of COW, Mr.. Elliott
said no man can tell which is the best;
it all depended upon the conditions which
surround the COW and the man owning