Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-02-14
FARM BUREAU NOTES
The East Augusta Farm Bureau ,

| meet today at the home Of E. B. Stack
pole, East Augusta.
A three days poultry school will be
held on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day OF this week at Mount Vernon.
Two sessions will be held daily and
the school instructors will be o. NJ.
Wilbur, extension poultry specialist
from Orono, and c. A. Day, Kennebec
| Farm Bureau county agent. The
, school will be in charge of Mrs. n. 3.
Perkins. poultry leader Of the Mount
Vernon Farm Bureau. The program
| will include lectures, discussions. DEM
onstrations and laboratory practice.
The following subjects will be includ-
ed in the lectures and the open dis
cussions: Selection of breeding pen;
poultry housing in Maine; feeding for
egg production, poultry breeding and
management; natural and artificial in
cubation; the best methods Of brood
ing; the conservation of poultry ma
nure: marketing eggs and poultry.
Under the heading of demonstration
and laboratory practice will come the
following: Selection of a breeding
pen; how to Gull the non-producer;
treating hens for lice; poultry house
construction; computation Of rations
now in use by members of school: how
to diagnose disease in poultry; killing
and packing poultry; natural and ar
tifcial incubation; the best methods
OF breeding: marketing eggs and poul-
try: Gambling and grading eggs.
The mems division Of the Sidney
Farm Bureau has elected the following
to serve as officers for this year:
Chairman. c. A. Graves; secretary.
Mrs. Velina Ellis: accounts project
leader, G. w. Manter: crops, T. w.
Longley; live stock, F. W. Dyer; or
chard, George NJ. Graves; poultry.
Mrs. F. e. Blake. |
Tho work which they plan to do in
cludes the following: Six sweet corn
accounts; four farm accounts; two
lime demonstrations; one potato seed
tied herd work; milk testing circle; ST.
lage corn campaign; six men to grow
silage corn; pruning campaign: all-cay
orchard meeting April i: culling DEM
cnstration with Mrs. r. E. Blake; Gull
ing campaign; alfalfa test.
The officers of the Farmingdale
Farm Bureau mems division are:
Chairman. NJ. I. Parker; secretary, ".
J. Goodridge; accounts project leader.
William L. Helms: boys and girls
club, Mrs. A. A. Houdlette; crops, A.
A. Houdlette: live stock. Carl Pierce:
orchard. w. r. Taylor; poultry, w. J.
Goodridge.
The work which they plan to do in
cludes: Five farm accounts with &C
counts meeting to be held in March;
six lime demonstrations; ~ mammoth
flint silage corn growers; to take part
in orchard pruning campaign; have
grating demonstrations; two pruning
demonstrations; all-day orchard meet.
ing March at Farmingdale Town
hall; take part in county poultry GULL
ing campaign and hold all-day poultry
meeting at home OF B. L. Taylor.
The officers of the mems division Of
the Waterville Farm Bureau are:
Chairman and live stock project leader.
G. E. Wheeler: crops, Rex Frost; Or
chard. r. L. Penney; poultry. s. L.
Barrows.
The work the WatervilIe men plan
to do includes: Three farm accounts;
four sweet corn accounts: two lime
demonstrations: one certified seed oat
center; take part in county silage,
pruning and culling campaigns; hold
pruning and spraying demonstration
in orchard OF F. L. Penney in April;
hold poultry culling campaign.