The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-04-11
FARM COMMUNITY MEETINGS
Are Proposed to Be Held in Every
Town of Washington County.

Town of Washington County.
The executive committee of the farm
bureau met at the farm bureau once
| Tuesday to consider the resignation 81
the county agent and to choose a sue
eessor. II was also the vote Of the
executive committee that the agents
activities appear in the papers Of the
county each week.
| The volume Of stock which is being
shipped by the department Of co-opera-
| tive livestock marketing seems to oe
increasing each week. This week there
were about 20 cows tmost OF them con-
demned r. B. cows and about lOo
calves were shipped from the county.
Spraying bulletins were sent out 70
PIG farmers Of the county who request
| ed information on this subject through
the recent farm bureau QUESTIONABLE.
THESE spraying bulletins contain nearly
fall the information necessary IN con
trolling the ordinary pests and as
eases of farm crops such as apples, po-
tatoes and garden crops.
Arrangements are being made LOT
community meetings to be held IN eV-
lery community Of the county some
time within the next month. AT these
Meetings very attractive program
will be carried out consisting OF IAN
tern slides and brief talks on plans Tor
local and county farm bureau demon
STATIONS, moving pictures OF at least
| two reels showing the various phases
Of agricultural activities which viii be
both instructive and entertaining, talk
by specialist from the state college
on some special farm problems and a
farm bureau speaker The latter VIII
be farmer member from outside OF
the county who is familiar with the
activities of both the state and nation
al farm bureau federations. Meetings
have been definitely arranged Tor the
first week as follows;
East Montpelier, Monday evening,
April IL; Mortified, Tuesday evening,
| April Is: Thursday evening, April 20,
Plainfield; Friday evening, April u,
Waterbury and Waterbury Center;
Saturday evening, April y, North
Montpelier. 1t is hoped that there will
be large turn out of farmers at these
!, meetings in every community
Because Of the time of year the mil
lincry project is at present the most
popular. About IL communities are TO
/ be reached with this project in the next
, Ifhree weeks.
An all-day millinery meeting was
held at the church vestry at Roxbury
, on April 6. Twenty Women attended
!. | the meeting. Eight hats were worked
on during the day. One new hat was
. made and the rest were cleaned, re
blo,.bkd and retrimmed. Wherever II
is@5dvisable old material is renovated
and utilized
Two meetings have been held latel,
with club on the Barre road. In,
first meeting was held at Mrs. Clarence
{ Dodge's home. At that time dress
e form demonstration was gwen In
: other meeting was held at Mrs. Arthur
G Young's home and sewing class WA
2 held Different short cuts and essen
\ tials such as bound button holes an'
. set in pockets were taught, also nu
merous decorative stitches.
The women have shown so much IN
tercst and expressed so much apprecla
tion for the work that efforts are to b
e made to have large number OF iarn
; bureau members attend so that pro
e gram Of work may be adopted ans
more meetings held in that community
About seven communities have nov
chosen the nutrition course for thel
work during this year. This course y
study Of the different foods, thei
Q function in the body, proper prepare
! ton. cooking, etc.
Fifth lesson of nutrition course wa
: held at Marshfield. The subject unde
discussion was combination for meals
Each member present figured out mum
Der of calories needed per day and ar
10 keen account this week of the aver
age number of calories eaten and com
pare the two. The calorie idea q iced
y ing the family IL not necessarily to b
practised strictly but more to instrue
then have the women become familia
: IN how to calculate calories in cas-
I they have TO prepare special diets. IN
!, MA aiming of special diets viii be take
: up at the next meeting which Is tn
last enc of the series.
y plans are now under way for extend
n ing club work in some form TO ever
/ community where il has not been pos
! sikle TO reach before this. Livestoe
.. work will be extended to Cabot, Wa
e terbury Center, Roxbury, East Mont
d pelier and later to two other commit
u mites.
Six Roxbury boys are TO have III
first pure bred Berkshire pig club
a the county, and plans are being mad
5 for the pigs to be sent from prom
&c nent breeder in Massachusetts, With
r the month. Poultry work will be ear
ID ried on in Waterbury Center, Roxbur
le and East Montpelier with emphasis o
the Matching and housing of the pure
bred stock, care of chicks and cullin
= work to be carried on under the pou
try specialist. The dairy specialist, NJ
81 Judd. viii help the calf club member
r start their judging work for the yea
during the latter part of April an
during MAY and these boys, from clul
in Narshfieid. Duxbury and probabl
Cabot. will hope TO have Judging team
II which can compete with other teams
v, the state at the fairs ,tnis fall. Thei
ne are now IL members of the Hill an
II Valley Calf club Of Marshtield wit
eight boys owning or about to ow
= fine pure-bred calves. which were o.
!. tanned from some of the best herds
y the state, through the interest of Sc
eral dairy breeders.
One of the first clubs of lis kind
~ the state. IL not the first, will be q
Farm Account club TO be started
PlainfieId during this month. Membe
Of this club will have the rather uniq'