Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-07-14
COUNTY WIDE FIELD DAY
Farm Bureau, Grange, and Business
Interests to Cooperate.

At meeting of the Orleans county
Farm Bureau Executive committee
held in the Spring, it was voted to &C.
cept the invitation of Glover com
munity to hold county wide field day
in that place some time in August
The committee in charge consists OF
three members of the Farm Bureau
the Master of the Pomona Grangs
and one business man each from thu
Newport Chamber of Commerce, tina
Barton Improvement club, and the
Orleans Improvement club. The
committee viii meet in the near fn-
ture and formulate plans. This is the
big out of doors event of the season
There will be something doing every
minute. Plan now for a day off and
take in this big countrywide field day.
It is hoped that very soon a county
! club leader will be procured to help
the boys and girls of the county grk
ready for the fall fairs and train thu
teams which are to represent thu
clubs at the state fair. Several can-
didates for county leader are under
consideration and it is probable that
one of them viii be appointed to the
position within a month.
| Meantime the clubs are working
splendidly and planning to 'tBezt
| their Own Record" which is the ciuh
Bloomington village has set its gar
den aim at 800 profit, and its can
ming aim at 400 quarts, the Mem
| phremagog Willing Workers club of
| Newport is holding meetings regular
ly and the president, Helen Heyer.
reports caps and aprons made and =
good bit of canning done toward the
| 200-can pledge; the Busy Bee club OF
Bloomington Center is pluckily "car-
| rying on" with work and meetings IN
spite of the fact that they have had
no leader since Mrs. Leslie -Duttsn
moved away in the spring. The
Brownington Jolly Juniors and WIZ
| ing Workers are also very busy rzis-
ing food and canning, cooking and
sewing SO that they may have bigger
and better results for this year.
Considerable interest is being shown
about the county In the Holstein Calf
club and already three boys have pur-
chased calves with money procured By
note from the bank. These boys ara
Floyd Norway of Newport Center
and the Swanson boys of Browning
ton, and are without doubt, the proud
est young chaps in the county -
members in the county contain thesz
expressions which bear the real cluh
J since I've joined the club than / did
sentiment: 81 love canning better
before" and 'It's fun to work for u
club" This spirit, combined with
the energy and grit which the cluk
members are putting into their work,
is sure to get big results which VIII
J speedily repay Gilpin, Hunt & Co.
and the many contributors for the ef
fort put forth to procure funds fnr
the club leader.
It is impossible to summarize the
results of the Farm Bureau member
ship campaign TO date, since not Al
of the communities have been heard
from and none of the communities
have made a complete report Thu
incomplete report shows 509o increae
of new members which fact would
indicate greatly increased member
ship this year.
: Due TO various causes some OF the
committees were delayed in getting
the campaign under way and SO It L
made necessary to carry the cam
; paign along into July. There is need
in some sections of a little more ae-
: tive energy on the part of the CHE
! m;ttee If the quota is to be reached
1t is interesting to note that the
, greatest success is resulting in those
. committees which have adopted and
carr: ed out a real community Farm
: BurtGu program. This would ind5-
: cate that If the We rk is to be success
: full and obtain the active support Of
the majority of the farmers it mus1
be based on local problems which are
being attacked in an organized way
by the local people themselves
There is still a chance TO get PEN
! nant for your community showing
that your quota was reached
:, Is your community TO be IN tbz
black list or viii you be able to pre-
sent your pennant of accomplishment
at the annual meeting7