Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-03-21
OPERATION IS
FARMERS THEME
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Nations, and wanted the people never
to forget the greatest lesson of the war,
which was the great strength and good
that could come from cooperative ef-
fort
c. W. Wilson, Superintendent of the
State Industrial School at Vergennes
was at this point asked by President
Cornwall to entertain at the piano and
he gave two amusing sketches in song
while he sat at the keys, which greatly
pleased the audience.
President Cornwall expressed the par
ticular appreciation which the meeting
felt toward Fred L. Porter of Crown
Point who had had considerable diff
Guilty reaching here from across the
Lake. Mr.. Porter, who is one of the
most prominent farmers in Essex Coun-
ty, New York, and who is not only pres
ident of the county Farm Bureau there
but also head of the New York State
Federation of County Sheep Growers
Association, made a short but interest
ing address on the problem of wool
marketing and the work of the Farm
Bureau Mr. Porter told how only a
few years ago Broome County, New
York, boosted of the only Farm Bureau
in the northeastern section of the Unit
ed States, but today they were either
established or in view almost every
where, with something over 1900 of
them now at work throughout the
United States. He was an enthusiast
over the work of the Bureaus and of
the Farmers Exchanges Essex Coun-
ty, which has the distinction of growing
more wool than any other county in
New York State last year had been
able, he said, to sell its wool at the rate
OF GO cents a pound For the past two
years. the Essex County sheep growers
had tried the cooperative marketing
plan and were well satisfied as to its
results. The fact that Mr. Porter's re-
marks were of particular interest to
Addison County sheep growers, was
evidenced after the meeting when a
number of local sheep men buttonholed
him and reported, to their chagrin, that
the best prices they had been offered
as individual sellers was around 40 cents
a pound
The concluding speaker of the after
noon was Superintendent Wilson of the
Industrial School He suggested, for
one thing that the people of the county
were welcome and possibly owed 1t to
themselves as a duty to inspect their
institution at Vergennes and he regret
ted that comparatively few had paid
the institution a visit Mr.. Wilson's
topic, however, was the success of last
seasons canning enterprise at the
school He told how an old abandoned
kitchen room had been fitted up es-
pecially for canning work and with a
special cold water and steam equipment
whose entire cost did not average more
than four and one-half cents per quart
for the more than four thousand quarts
OF ioodstuffs which were canned
Through the assistance of Miss Emma
Fuller as Home Demonstration the
school had been well instructed in the
cold-pack method and Mr. Wilson read
a list of statistics OF things canned
which really. made a stupendous show
ing. There were not only the more
than four thousand quarts of canned
goods, but hundreds of gallons of salt
ed green stuffs in barrels and crooks
As result, the school the past year
had not bought single can of canned
goods, and still had in its store rooms
enough of its own products to last all
of the present year.
The school had been so impressed
with the saving that the same thing
will be done next season, and Mr.. Viii
son himself was such an enthusiast for
community effort in this line that he
strongly hoped the community can
ming plant would be, as is proposed
established in several towns in the
county this coming summer.
Just at the conclusion of the meeting
President Cornwall brought to its no
tiCe the fact that the community can
ming plant in Middlebury would re-
sumo operations next summer the de-
mand for it having been plainly shown
A Slight outlay was necessary to make
the canning building, which is one adj
journing the local milk station, more
fitted for its purpose. 1t was proposed
to put in a concrete floor, and Mr.
Cornwall said that if sufficient funds
were raised to provide the material
for the concrete, interested farmers
would gather some time before the
canning season and have a bee" for
the laying of the new floor
The general officers of the Farm
Bureau hold over another year, but a
new list of Town Committeeman was
presented by Frank ] Hubbard of the
Nominating Committee and was unani-
mously approved.
The Farmers Exchange after the gen
eral session also held its election Of
officers. B. o. Wales of Weybridgt
was reelected president, Will Jackmar
of Waltham, vice-president, and Ralph
A. Elliott, secretary-treasurer. F. H
Rawson was newly elected as a direct
or, and Harry Belden of Shoreham was
reelected to the board.
Manager Elliott addressed the meet
ing for few minutes on the business
of the Exchange, and declared that
while seed dealers might make as low
or lower prices than the Exchange this
year, it was merely test case, and that
the farmers should stand by the Elk.
change which would eventually save
them money He asked for more gen
eral support and after the meeting