Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-10-20
FARM BUREAU MEETING
Continued from page one,

eo men and women, who have had the
advantage OF many years work made
possible by the Agricultural Colleges
Our Farm Bureau Organizations and
the agricultural interests are Tho
best In the world and are being looked
70 Dy all foreign countries. i'm tha
organizing of similar systems. Miss
ward drew from the 1920 census two
facts. First, from the figures show.
ing a slower advance in rural ponu-
iatlon than city population; twenty
per cent more young women leave the
farm, than young men, a fact which
Is very evident to show the need of a
home worker, In the person of a Home
Demonstration Agent in every Farm
bureau Organization. Second. that
the Nneteen-Twentieth Century Book
did not give any occupation In the
place OF the Home Industry. The
speaker felt that the farm home wo-
man was occupied one hundred per-
cent of her time, or in other words.
no rest from occupation"
Last year Miss Ward sent out ten
thousand questionaires to the farm
homes and women of the country. re-
celvlng In reply questions TO be ans
wered by the u. S. d. A. Home De-
monstration Agent, TO throw light up
on the problem of the present farm
homes and its women. This piece of
work IS now in the hands of the prin-
tiers and will soon be attainable from
State Demonstration Agent. Miss
Pierpont, and the Farm Bureau office
Miss Ward urged the placing of the
home on an economic and efficient
basis with the rest of the farm. Bet
ter farms have got TO mean better
homes, and therefore, more attention
TO the study of the 1-o1aa - necessary.
The <@-ts for this arc made pos
sible by the study of a Home Demon
stration Agent, who can give her full
tyne and efforts for the benefit of
every home. The Home Demonstra-
ton Agent, makes possible the pool
ing Of GOOD housekeeping methods.
She emphasized the necessity for wo-
men taking part in the organization
of the Farm Bureau, to get their
own policies and interest considered
as q part of more successful agricul-
ture. The work of the Club Leader
viii all be for naUght, Miss Ward
says, If rural homes are not provided
20 hold the boys and girls from going
TO higher salaries, and city life, where
drudgery Of q different sort does
not seem TO properly present itself to
their youthful minds.
Home equipment is the secret Of the
farm homes, just as well as farm
equipment Is me secret of more sue
cessful farms. Life, Liberty and pur-
suit OF happiness are the three ele-
ments that make for the essence Of
the American, I've have secured the
first two, but seem TO have overlooked
the last one" Miss Ward says.
Miss Charlotte Pierpont, State
Home Demonstration Agent of Yer
mont, then gave q few words on the
work of other counties for the move
ment TO help out the women by the
Farm Burau. Three of the counties
have Demonstration Agents, Gale
donia, Windsor, and Washington, this
bein made possible by the get
ting together of the women and OBJ
tanning three hundred members, so that
a Home Demonstration Agent might
be secured for their own County. Miss
Pierpont said that there was large
need of this work in Orleans county,
and that organization was already, as
shown by the interest in obtaining
specialists from Burlington for Home
Demonstrations. She urged the form
ing of a committee in communities
where these demonstrations were held,
To keen records of the work accom-
plished. and sent 70 the State
office. She asked the men and women
attending the meeting TO spread the
word given out there, and the placing
of a goal for 1921, a House Demon
stration Agent in Orleans County.
w. z. d. Rummel of the American
Farm Federation was present 10 give
the people news from this organlza-
ton, and the work being done through
out the country. He had talked our
ing the month of August TO 10000
farmers In New Hampshire, Maine,
and Vermont at twenty-five held
meetings. and had returned because
urgent requests from Vermont, ad-
dressing FIVE counties here during
his short trip. Mr.. Rummel said that
he was not here looking for money,
but rather, syked that the Farm
Bureau Organizations in every county
in Vermont and New England IN
general, be as rock ribbed as the
country round about, making possible
later on, organization OF the farmers
for more successful farms, making
agriculture not only return costs, but
a profit, and he quoted the fact OF
such organization being in debt, when
agriculture reached the magnitude OF
Two Hundred and Fifty Billion Dol
lars in the United States, twenty-five
Billion Dollars being produced eacn
year. placing it foremost IN the m
dustries of the country. He said
that there was something rolling up
in the West. and in old New England,
that will take hold of things with a
Bull Dog grip, TO place agriculture
beside business. 1t is the duty. OF
every farmer to do his duty by HIM
slf and assist in the running OF TINS
farming business, which is the farm
er's own. There is no dearth Oh brains
and ability back on the farms, as
shown by the fact that sixty percent
of the business men were born on the
farm. "Let's keep them on the farm
saws Mr.. Rummel.
A little of the work OF the Amer,
can Farm Bureau Federation was
pointed out by Mr.. Runnlel, IN tn l
surpressing of the Nolan Blll, tnrougl
1 the expression of 545,OOO farmers :
against this bill, and only 25c0 for Il
I in Sal Counties in the United States
He said that the bill was not dead
/ but would nver come TO lgnt, So Iole
as that organization which he repre-
sented had two feet to stand on. An
/ IT, ,rrr1v-Ir ,f fbp organization, was