Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-05-28
FARM BUREAU NOTES.
Plans for Membership Drive Rapidly
Heading Up.

About fifty men and women at
tended the first district Farm Bureau
meeting at West Charleston Monday
night. This was the first of series
of three meetings to be held in prep
aration for the membership campaign
which begins Monday. President
Dutton of Bloomington opened the
campaign with a few remarks upon
the coming membership campaign:
Miss Pierpont and Mr.. Carrigan of
the Extension Service and Miss Pet
tit of Washington all gave brief ad-
dresses on the work of the Farm Bu-
reaus in this state and in the United
States. A roll call showed that II
committee members from that dis
trict were present. The opinion of
the meeting seemed to be that every
effort will be made to cover the terri
tory and make the county quota of
| 1000 members a reality.
The boys and girls club at Brown
| ington Center will give an entertain
ment Friday evening, June 9Th. j.
| D. Whittier assistant state club lead
er from Burlington will give an ad-
| dress at that time.
Commissioner E. S. Brigham of
Montpelier will be in Newport We'd
nesday night, June 4th, to talk on,
| Benefits to be derived in draining
our low lands" Mr.. Brigham has
drained large areas on his own farm
in st. Albans and has some very
practical points. This meeting will
| be held at either School hall or
Grange hall.
| Community chairmen are getting
their communities lined up and prep
arations made for the Farm Bureau
membership drive which starts Mon
day According to the general plan
worked out, each community will
endeavor to "put over" the drive on
some one appointed day. The cam
paign will open up in the southern
part of the county June I'd. Follow
ing are the towns that are scheduled
for the first three days of next week.
Monday, June I'd, Craftsbury, South
Albany and Greensboro.
Tuesday, June Sd, Orleans, Albany,
Wednesday, June 4th, Bloomington
and Glover.
A community chairman for the
women's drive called the Farm Bu-
reau office recently and said, eve
may not be able to cover all the ter
ritory on the day set for the drive
in our town, but we will run the drive
and get our quota just the same even
if it takes a little longer"
Anotherchairman said, "Due to the
work of the Farm Bureau in helping
farmers to solve this livestock prob
lem, / look for a greatly increased
membership in this section"
And still another chairman said, "If
all we have got to do is get all the old
members and 20 new ones to meet our
quota that is an easy job. don't sup
pose there will be any harm IN get
ting as many over the quota as pos
sible."
Each community has a quota as
signed. The chairman in the COM
munity which gets the largest mem
bership in proportion to it's size will
be asked to give report at annual
meeting of Farm Bureau in October.
Not merely to get a certain quota
of members, but to completely cover
the county and give every farm man
and farm woman an opportunity to
Join the Farm Bureau, is the object
of this membership drive. Two differ
ent people have recently remarked, 81
never Joined the Farm Bureau be-
cause no one ever asked me-" No one
should be able to make such a state
ment after the drive is over.
The quota of members assigned TO
each community is worked out on the
basis of rural population in that
community as follows.
Quota