The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-29

eral club members won prizes on pet
stock exhibits in the pet stock building.
One feature of the exhibit under the
grand stand was the display of about 3oO
cans and jars of fruits, berries, meats,
vegetables and jcllies. Included in this
display were several individual exhibits
of 30 to 40 cans each. and all looked as
appealing to the appetite as like work
done by experienced housewives.
The No. , school in GuilfOrd, taught
by Mrs. Edith Quinn had a wonderful
display of garden products and school
work, which included penmanship, a
collection of As kinds of Vermont woods,
collection of knots, sewing, canning,
etc. In fact the display includes articles
in every class specified for boys and
girls club work. The display of. the Al
giets school, taught by Mrs. Clarence
Shaw. also covered a wide variety of
work by the pupils, including vegetables,
needlework. school work and the like
4 similar exhibit was made by the Yer
display of penmanship being particularly
noticeable. The prizes for school eX-
hibits were awarded in the order in
which they are named.
Aside from the school exhibits there
were many individual exhibits. They in
cluded garden produce of nearly every de-
scriptiOn, crOcheting, sewing, knitting,
embroidery, darning. sdressmaking' pieced
bed quilts. braided and crocheted rag
rugs. a collection of butterflies, mounted
In the cooking department of the club
work were. found delicious biscuits, bread
corn bread, pies, cakes, cup cakes, cook
les, etc.
Pupils from the Austine Institution
had a large and varied display of their
handicraft ranging from hemstitching to
the building of window boxes. Their eX'
hibit included drapery curtains, hem
ming, dresses, aprons, embroidery, ma
chine darning. underwear, hemstitching
knitting, braided rugs, drawing and col
oring by the first year art class seating
chairs, baSketry, waste baskets, book
racks, bootblack stands, bird houses and
window boxes.
In addition to the exhibits by the boys
and girls, two sleeping rooms were ar
ranged and furnished to give the girls an
opportunity to see the difference between
a desirable room and one which is unde
sirable. The first look at the rooms was
sufficient to convince the spectator which
was the desirable room for the club girl
The Windham County Farm Bureau
also occupied section of the hall and ex
hibited n display of fruits and yege-
tables, showing apples which had been
sprayed and some which had not. a
potato buster was included in the exhi-
bit, as were large number OF statistics
showing the farmer how to make hi;
farm pay better, profits. 4 chart also
showed the present membership of tbs
Farm Bureau in Windham county to be
61S, each town being marked plainly with
the number of members enrolled.
The exhibits were not confined to boys
and girls of Windham county, but there
were several from Cheshire county IN
New Hampshire.
The Farm Bureau membership list is
as follows: Athens IL, BrattlebOro %
Brookline 10, Dover -, DummerstOn u
Grafton 3, GuilfOrd 30, Halifax 80, ia
maica Is. Londonderry II, Marlboro "a
Newfane 24, Putney As, Rockingham SO
Somerset o, StrattOn o, Townshend II
Vernon &c. Wardsboro 20, Westminster
46, Nottingham ., Wilmington y, Wind
ham 81: total. els. =
The agricultural extension service o
the state exhibited posters with mucl
information of benefit to the farmers
and photographs of boys and girls club:
at their work.