Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-22
FARM BUREAU Notes

fAh!a EUnEnu MUlES
The farmers at Clinton held their
community planning meeting last
Saturday at the Grange hall and
among other matters they voted to
have a poultry culling demonstra-
ton, to form a community milk test
ing circle, to have a sileage corn
demonstration, and to order q car
load of lime. The following were
chosen to have charge of the various
projects for this year: j. J. Glenn
ents: crops, L. A. Monk; livestock,
w. E. Knight; poultry, Wilbur Holt;
lime, L. F. Rouhdy. County Agent
c. A. Day of the Kennebec Farm Bu-
reau was a speaker at the meeting.
The women of the Clinton Farm
Bureau organized for the first time
at the meeting, e'ecting the follow
ing in charge of the several projects:
chairman, Mrs. Marcellus Cain;
clothing project leader, Mrs. G.. Z.
Marcia: household management
leader, Mrs. G. ID. Simonson: foods
project leader, Mrs. G. w. Wakeley:
''Betties," Mrs. J. J. Clements. The
women voted to hold five meetings,
one on the fourth Wednesday of
every other month. These meetings
will be as follows: Millinery, in
March; fireless cooker demonstra-
ton, in May; salads demonstration,
in July: Betty" demonstration, in
September; foundation pattern
meeting, n November. Miss Helen
l.. Clark. home demonstration agent
, of the County Farm Bureau, was
present at the meeting Saturday.
At the Grange hall at West Gardi-
ner the women of that community
will hold foundation pattern meet
Ing today. The wo.nen's division of
the Farmingdale Farm Bureau will
hold q Betty meeting Wednesday
of this week at the Town hall.
Miss, Louise Whitcomb of Orono.
extension instructor in Home Eco
nomics at the University of Maine,
and Miss Clark, home demonstration
agent OF the Kennebec Farm Bureau,
Will conduct food school at Mon
mouth on Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday of this week.
Member of the Kennebec Farm
Bureau from various sections of the
county have notified County Agent
Z. A. Day of their intention to at
tend the legislative hearing before
the committee on agriculture at .
o'clock next Thursday afternoon on
the matter of the resolve in favor
OF cooperative work in agriculture
in the State.
seventeen communities in the Ken
nebec Farm Bureau roster, are plan
ming to conduct II boys and girls
agricultural clubs during the coming
year This includes all the commune
ties where there were clubs last year
except Vienna which has not yet held
their community planning meeting.
Six communities where no club was
formed last year are planning work
for this year. Those are Belgrade,
Benton, Riverside, Sidney, Wayne
and East Winthrop.
The projects of the boys and girls
clubs are sewing, cooking and house.
keeping, canning. garden, sweet corn,
pig, potato and poultry. The club or
ganization becomes stronger each
year. In 1920, three clubs Uncle
Sans Thrift club. the Chicapocopi
club and the Minnewawa club secured
standard club charters and Uncle
Sans Thrift club and the Chicapoco-
pi club won the national seal of
achievement.
A great deal of interest has devel-
oped at the community planning
| meetings in milk testing circles and
IA communities are planning to start
in the near future. One at Mt YER
non is already at work and the men
at Benton, China Village and Vassal-
boro Center are about ready to begin.
The Kennebec Farm Bureau has
recently received from r. L. New
| dick, secretary Maine Seed Improve
ment association. check for $40 as
the winner of the first prize in their
Farm Bureau offer last year. The So
ciety, through Mr.. Newdick, congrat-
ulated the Kennebec organization up
on its good work and extended thanks
for the support which was given to
the show.
The host of Kennebec county
friends of George A. Yeaton Of Chel-
sea. for nine years agent in Oxford
county, will learn with regret of his
resignation because of ill health.
While there, he did excellent work,
and made reputation for himself as
one of the leading orchard authorities
in the State. All welcome Uncle
George back to his home county and
hope for his speedy recovery.