Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-12-17
WESTMORE

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| A live bunch of men gathered at
| the West Side schoolhouse Thursday
night to line up program Rawson
| Calkins, the chairman, explained the
purpose of the meeting and then cali
| ed on Mr.. Emerson, who is In charge
of the Wool Marketing project in
| Barton, for few words. 1t was
| felt that this wool proposition was
good one for the sheep men in West
more and Irwin Robinson was elected
to work on this project. The chair
man was also instructed TO appoint
another man the other side of the
lake to assist Mr.. Robinson Follow
ing s brief talk by the county agent
on what is being done in other CON-
mGnities, the following projects were
lined up:
/. Cooperative Wool Marketing, Ir-
win Robinson and one other ap-
pointed by chairman
2 Lime and Clover, l. E. Rash.
3. Dairy Improvement with special
refer ence TO registered sireS, Levi
Robinson and Rawson CaIkIns.
WEST GLOVER
A good crowd attended the meet
ing at West Glover on Friday night
The weather was favorable and the
roads in good condition. The meet
ing opened with a piano solo BY Mrs
| Stevens. The chairman, B. R. b.
chanan. then briefly discussed the
state and national Farm Bureau feI
Grafton, concluding with an outline OF
the program adopted for the COM
munIty. Carl Bean then stated that
quota of five registered bulls had
been set for West Glover for
the year and 20 date two registered
| bulls of good backing have been plac-
| ed in herds where the bulls had no
records before and two registered
| bulls without records have been plac-
/ ed in herds where a scrub or a gra e
/ bull was used before. Chas- Virgin
| laid emphasis on the use of lime and
/ stated that he-had secured at least
eight men to use lime this corning
year. Working with Mr.. Buchanan,
| the local exchange representative, or
ders for over so tons have beer 81
cured to date aside from what have
been turned in directly TO the mana
ger. Nelson Stevens gave his expert
ence in using lime (25 tons) and ap-
piled to a 15-acre field that had been
seeded down at least three times to
his knowledge with poor results, sor-
rel and other weeds making up most
of the catch This last spring after
lime had been on this piece q year he
had tremendous growth of clover.
Mr.. Buchanan outlined reasons for
keeping farm accounts and before
the meeting was through over ten
men agreed to keep Farm Bureau ac-
count books this year. Clyde Vance
then stated that some work would be
done on improving the oat crop, prir-
cipally in the matter of varieties. Mr.
n 2
-lduet, and after a few remarks by bir.
Shaw, manager of the exchange: Mr..
Robinson, principal of the Orleans
high school and the county agert,
the meeting broke up to make good
use of the refreshments served.
An Error
In the last issue of the Farm
Bureau News mention was made that
. certain Maple Sugar company was
getting under way marketing
scheme that did not augur well for
the benefit of the farmers. Since
then the editor OF this News has dis
covered that he was misinformed on
few points as to the policy of this
company. 1t has always been the
purpose OF the News to put facts as
they are pointed out, whenever it
seemed pertinent, any plans or
schemes which worked to the disad-
vantage OF the farming interests of
this county The proposition OF this
company Is as follows: Steel drums
viii be furnished by the company to
the farmers for their syrup, payment
to be made according to the price of
sugar II sugar sells at 19c the COM
pany will pay s1-5O per gallon for
syrup; 25c sugar viii make syrup
worth $500 per gallon If an ad-
vance IN price is made before June l.
1920, the farmers viii be paid this
Increase Sugar will be accepted but
the farmers furnish the package: a
farmer may sell his syrup to other
concerns provided he pays this COM
pany for their steel drums No re-
quIred contract Is asked of the farm
er.
However, the editor reiterates his
opinion made in the last issue that if
the farmers would cooperate In mar
ketIng their sugar crop they co1ld
obtain a much higher price by selling
direct 70 Some concerns that could
use several carloads Only recently
! an inquiry came to the farm bureau
Office from a western concern about
a supply OF sugar and syrup for next
! spring Less than two weeks ago a
man who lives In ST. Louis stated
that there were q number of concerns
: IN that city that would be glad to get
I IN touch with some farmers organic
! atoms that could guarantee 70 fur
nlsh them supply of high quality
! maple products each year It's worth