The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-12-13
LYNDON CORNER
ACTIVITIES
THEN AND NOW
Farm Bureau Meeting
Emphasizes Local
Industries

What's the matter with Lyndon
Corner?
Lyndon has one Of the largest
Farm Bureau memberships of any
town in Caledonia county, and yet
at the meeting there in the ser
les of Farm Bureau conferences
only a bakers dozen of members
remembered the date and were
present.
The meeting was held at Grange
hall on a cold day, but everything
was comfortable, for Little
Henry" Stone had a roaring fire
and everything in shape for a
profitable meeting Enterprise
Grange, thanks to the generosity
of the late Theo. N. Vail, and the
actual enterprise of its members,
has one of the best headquarters
in the state. 1t is true to its name
an enterprising grange, and in the
past year has received 80 new
members, making a total member
ship of something like IT'S. H. f.
Foster is the present master and
the affairs of the order are in pros
porous circumstances. A s,Ivice
tag on the wall of the hall is a
reminder of the service and loyal
ty of its members during the world
war. 1t has six stars and one of
them is of gold in memory of Clin-
ton Laducer who died in France.
Mrs. Mary Wetherbee is
president of the Bureaus Home
Economics department. She was
unable to be present at the meet
ing, and so the grouping for the
coming years project had to be
postponed. Miss Gilfillan expects
to have the usual activities started
later on.
County Agent Barnes has four
fine reels of moving pictures pro-
vided by the Department of Agri-
culture for the occasion, besides a
quantity of screen photographs re-
presenting farm projects in var
ious parts of the county including
some of local interest. Pictures
showed the good effects of spray
ing for kale on the farm of Arthur
Simpson in East Lyndon. One pic
ture showed the collection of kale
from a rod of ground where spray
ing was omitted, the other the
product of the same sized plot
where it had been sprayed. The
first looked like FL big stock of
grain, while the second was hardly
big enough for d buttonholc bou-
quet. X. H. Chase at East St.
Johnsbury has been much pleased
with his try-out of vetch and oats
as greenfield crop, while Arthur
Simpson has satisfactory results
from planting rape and oats. Po-
tatoes in Walden; turkeys in Shelf
field; chickens in Barnet; alfalfa
in st. Johnsbury Center; sweet
clover in West Burke were all
shown and urged as profitable
cash crops. Representatives. elect
Simpson was among those present.
He is a live-wire in profitable cat
tie growing and will 90 to Mont
pclier resolved to represent active
ly the best interests of the Yer
mont farmers in general and Lyn-
don farmers in particular. Other
active members present at the
meeting included Carl Jones,
Clayton Hoffman, George Whip
pie.
Secretay Hallett of the Ex-
change talked the feed and chemi-
cal and seed proposition over in
dividually with the members. Lyn-
don members are large patrons of
the Exchange, buying supplies of
both seed, feed and fertilizer by
the whole carload
The school children were invit-
ed to attend and ENJOY the moving
pictures, but by SOM mistake the
invitation was not received in sea-
son for the necessary arrange
ments to be made. There is big
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