The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-18
MAY EXPAND WORK.
Continued from Page II

Following the election of officers, which
was the first business of the afternoon,
Thomas Bradlee of Burlington, state
leader of county agents, spoke of the deVel-l
opment of the work in the state. lie made
a point of the fact that what concerns
the farm concerns the indoors and what
concerns the indoors concerns the farm
outdoors. He nut emphasis in the organ
ization of boys and girls clubs and home
economics with the Farm Bureau, lie
also emphasized the Importance OF a paid
leadership. He referred to the success or
the Farm Bureau organization as COM
pared with Grange work, saying that there
would be sections where Grange work
would be strong and sections where 1T
would be weak. He also spoke of the
benefits of cooperation in marketing.
+. r. Cornwall of Middlebury, New
/ England representative of the National
Farm Bureau Federation. was then intro
| duced and gave an exceedingly interesting
talk on the growth of the national Federa-
| ton of Farm Bureaus and stated that out
| standing among the efforts of the fedora
| ton had been the work in regard to the
report of the tax commission on the recent
| freight increases. He explained that
| through the efforts of the committee
| headed by Mr.. Thorn, who was employed
| by the National Federation OF Farm Bu-
| reaus to represent the farmers with an al
| |0WalCp OF SlU.bBD 10 UG uStu III III
| duct of his investigation, the plan OF load
| ,ng the entire railroad rate increase upon
| he farmer by a 20 per cent increase in
| rreight rates, with no increase IN pasSen-
| ger rates. was changed to a much lower
| Increase in freight rates and a proportion
ate increase in passenger rates. rms d.
gided the burden over the people more
generally and saved every farmer IN the
country about $40 a year. ~
ADo+hor outstanding nIpPp of work said
he speaker. was that of the tax commit
zee whereby. in brief, Mr.. Mckenzie of
New York state. representing the Amerl-
ran Farm Bureau Federation, was able
to show the tax commission that to do
away with the present excess prOhts tax
and replace it with a tax on every indlvld-
lal would be placing an unreasonable bur
len upon the producer and would come
llmOst entirely out of the living wage of
he working population. The present eX-
'ess profits tax comes at least in part out
| # profits and does not fall so directly upon
he living wage of the worker.
In closing Mr.. Cornwall recommended
hat the Windham County Farm Bureau
adopt such a financial budget as would
AnabIe every farmer in the county to take
part in the state and national Farm Blu
rpau federation movement should he de-
sire to Join. With the dues of the Ma
sional Federation at 30 cents Il member
nd the dues of the state organization 81
a member it would mean that the s. a
ear previously charged would be made
uate to carry on the work Of the COuHty.
The discussion regarding the increase in
membership fee followed Mr.. COrnwalFs
ak.
The report of Treasurer c. /. Stickney
3howed the following receipts: Member
ships, ST0I: town assessments. 81, 1913 ;
state of Vermont. 5000 state of Vermont
II account Of Miss Swift. S3S.33: W. =.
Frost. advertising, etc, S959.5I; ii. l..
Bailey on account automobile expense,
t31.j0. Total, S3.47J.S3.
DisburSementS-AliSs Pierce, postage,
}12: Miss Swift, SILT; Chamber of
commerce. account telephone. $ 1853
Vermont Printing Co., S753.S0; T.. l..
IHldreth K Co, S12.76; Houghton & 81
mOnds. 1851 e:.S. Hopkins, S6.43; Man
'ay Bros. 60 S2oO.4F: f. "a Putnam
ms. Co. S6S.J6; Adirondack Co. signs.
S19,3S: d. F. Belleville. $500: Clapp <
Zones Co. Sf629: Roberts Auto Co,
Los; Vermont State Farm bureau.
DDS: W. Z. Frost, salary and expense,
HI 1,9O6-22; account overdrawn, $79I7
Peoples National bank. interest, S21.12;
ash on hand. Dee. II. 1920. S27109
III Total. S3,475.S3.
liz County Agent w. T. Frost submitted
MS report, which in its first part covered
he origin Of the local Farm Bureau. told
now il is governed. and how the 1926
progrma of work was drawn up. 1t men
Toned the field day in Towushcud. the
automobile tour in August. and stated
hat the membership in the mems depart
nent reached 3IS the past year. The re
1ainder of the report. with the exception
a statistical summary, follows
"ProductiOn.-In- past years the Farm
bureau has done much toward making tn,
Droverbial two spears grow where on
rev before. Present day conditions maxi
t seem that other lines are more impor
ant, but due to the real need for gettin;
'ur potato crop back on a sound basi
your officers felt that the production worl
should be carried on as regards this croT
"Following the experiments ]conducte,
he previous season to ascertain the caus
II the generally poor yield of potatoes i
his section, it was found that our mai
difficulty arises from the use of poor seed
IN consequence, the Farm Bureau brough
INTO the county a carload Of the best stat
certified seed potatoes that could be pun
chased. This we distributed among II
Farm Bureau members. and. with pract
"ally no exceptions, all were well please
with the crop produced. Another seaso
Will see this better potato seed stock avail
able to. every farmer in Windham count
w. by distribution from the hundred or NOR
helds where they were grown this season
The work in cooperation with tn
state department for the development of
seed potato industry under the state cei