Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-04-23
FARM BUREAU NOTES

There will be Farm bureau I
meeting at West Albany next Mon |
day night. 1t was originally planned |
that several n. +. NJ. 2. A. meetings |
should be held next week but as Mr.. !
Currier cannot be present they Will
not be held. At this meeting in AL
bany, a program of work will be
drawn up for the community. Every
live farmer should be there. He
knows what is needed to improve
farming conditions. Why not get out
and tackle problems right and organ
ize a community Farm Bureau.
There will be a meeting at North
Troy. Wednesday night, April S0th,
10 discuss ways of town improve
ment Prof. NJ. B. Cummings of
Burlington will discuss the seeding
and care of lawns and other features
for cleaning up a town. The county
agent will speak briefly.
Newport Organizes Community Farm
Bureau.
The farmers and housewives of
Newport community have a Farm
| Bureau program in charge of COM
mittee. This is the result of meet
/ ing at the home of W. B. Heyer on
April 18th. Farm Bureau work was
discussed at this meeting and COM
!
/ The program adopted was as follows:
obtaining Better Short-Time
/ Credit" in charge of A. E. True.
/ Draining Our Low Land" in
( charge of F. ]. Libby.
Boys and Girls Club Work" in
Making and Using Fireless Cook
ers." in charge of Mrs. H. F. John
charge of Mrs. A. E. True.
son.
c. W. Richmond was appointed as
community Farm Bureau chairman
and Mrs. A. E. True community Farm
Bureau secretary.
Westfield Organizes to Ship Live
stock.
Mud will sometimes hold up busi-
ness but it failed to stop the enthusi-
asm of six Center farmers Saturday
night when they made the trip to
Westfeld to talk over the cooperative
shipping of livestock with the farm
ers of that town. ]. w. Lunna,
chairman of the Center Livestock
committee, took charge of the meet
ing and briefly explained the object
P. S. Niles and E. n. Connal for fur
ther discussion. The county agent
and J. E. Carrigan of Burlington
. spoke briefly. The Westfeld farm
ers expressed the opinion that this
was a good move and put themselves
on record as in favor by electing the
following committee to be in charge
Paul Longevin, chairman, L. r. Mil
Ter and Elmer Stetson. After the
= meeting the Center committee and
Westfeld committee got together anC
discussed plans for running a survey
early in May to determine how much
livestock will be available to ship
| during the coming year.
Does Your Soil Need Lime?
. A soil testing apparatus has lately
; been installed at the Farm Bureau
| Office in Newport 1t viii be possible
to tell with this apparatus how much
: lime is needed to sweeten up Soul
soils. The county agent will be GLAD
. to test any samples of soils which
! are sent in provided the men who
send in these samples will agree tC
try out lime on at lease one acre ot
land. In other words, there is nc
; use in testing samples of soil for meT
who are just curious to know chow
their land tests" The Farm Bureau
stands for applied agriculture-hence
the reason for asking that men who
> have samples tested make some use
.. of this information. Men who do not
! know how to take a soil sample
,, should get in touch with their com.
munity leader, if there is one in theil
: community. All others call Farm
: Bureau office for assistance.
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Pomona Grange at Bloomington.
: Prospect Pomona Grange will meet
? with the Bloomington grange Thurs.
2 day, May l, and a full attendance i,
t hoped for.