Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-10-04
FARM BUREAU NEWS NOTES
Market Bulletin to Be Issued Weekly
for Use of Members.

The Orleans County Farm Bureau
executive committee met at the office
in Newport September 26th, and
transacted a large amount of business
for the association. The agents re-
ported on the work being accomplish
ed. A market bulletin will be issued
weekly, the first issue probably ap-
pearing this week with information
that will be of value to the members.
Washington county has published
such a bulletin for some time and it
is filling real place in the Farm
Bureau activities. The membership
campaign which was conducted in Au-
gust was considered a success, as
about It's new members were secured.
Miss Goddard, the new home dem
onstration agent, met with the COM
mittee for the first time, and gave an
outline of the work which she is. es-
tablishing on permanent basis.
There was some discussion as to the
dues to be paid by women not belong
ing to homes represented by the fam
lily Farm Bureau membership, and it
was voted to leave the amount to be
determined by Miss Goddard and Mrs.
Bartlett, after consulting with the
women who were interested.
The annual meeting will be held at
Irasburg Tuesday, October II, the
most centrally located town of the
county. During the following two
weeks none of the Farm Bureaus OF
the state will hold their annual meet
ings and a schedule has been arrang-
ed so that speakers can be secured to
attend all of them. In accordance
with the schedule as arranged by the
Extension Service of the University
of Vermont and the Vermont Farm
Bureau Federation, the meeting will
be held Tuesday, October 18th. H. c.
Mckenzie, a farmer of Walton, N
Y, who is also taxation expert fo1
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton will come to Vermont to repre-
sent the Vermont Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton at the series of meetings. He
will attend all of the meetings and
will be accompanied by E. B. Corn
wall, president of the Vermont Farm
Bureau Federation. The Extension
Service will send out Professor Ber-
tina M. Terrill, head of the home eco
nomics department of the University.
The secretary reported upon a part
of the farm Bureau activities which
is not generally known-the legisla-
ly concern them. Especial gratifca-
tive work in which the local Farm Bu-
reau has cooperated with the state
and national federations. kilograms
have been sent by influential men of
the county and by the secretary of
the Vermont delegation in Congress
advising them of the wishes of the
local farmers on matters which direct
tion was expressed on the results of
the fight in the house over the potash
schedule of the new tariff bill. In
response 20 call from the state Of
flee, kilograms were sent to the Yer
mont representatives, and Porter H.
Dale, coming from the territory
served by the Orleans County Farm
Bureau, was among those who voted
to re-committee the bill with in
structions to place potash on the free
. list. This action meant a large saw
ing for the farmers. A special let
ter of appreciation and thanks has
been sent Congressman Dale in rec
ognition of his service.
The members at the meeting were
President Dutton, A. G.. Cheney, S.
B. Bates, B. J. Williams, C. S. Vance
E. NJ Sherlaw, A. R. Hudon, Mrs. J.
Fl. Bartlett and B. R. Buchanan.