Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-11-15
Delayed Reports from Annual Farm
Bureau Meeting.

Owing to the lack of space for the |
past few weeks the Monitor was I'M
able to give to its~readers the valu-
able information contained in the re-
ports of leaders of certain projects, at
the annual Farm Bureau meeting at
Irasburg October II and this issue is
carrying that of j. III. Bartlett of Or
leans on Program of Work" and j.
F. Niles, Derby on "Crop Improve
ment."
The reports follow:
REPORT OF PROGRAM OF WORK
COMMITTEE 1922
]. H. Bartlett, Orleans, Chairman
Mems Program
In submitting the Program OF
work for the coming year your COM
mittee has endeavored to outline
! plan of activities which seems to best
meet the immediate needs of the
| farmers of this county. Our rec
| concentrations for the different pro-
jects are as follows:
Farm Bureau Organization
! Believing that an active local COM
! mittee is essential for the success of
Farm Bureau work in any commune
ty. we recommend the continuation
| of such organization work" until
every community in the county is or
ganized on a sound basis. We sug-
gest the holding of local neighbor
hood meetings in the intrest of the
may not always find it possible to
Farm Bureau even though the Agents
attend.
Regarding Membership campaign
work we recommend that the Execu-
tive Committee carefully investigate
! h. Ill
from our own county can be found
/ who will handle any solicitation for
members that may be necessary in the
future. AS for membership notes I'M
paid thus far this year, we strongly
recommend immediate steps be taken
to get these items collected through
the banks according to the original
understanding with the members.
Dairy Improvement
For this project we recommend that
major efforts be directed on uniform
county wide project, believing that
the interest stimulated and publicity
, received will develop greater inter
st in all livestock improvement pro-
jects.
We recommend that this one pro-
ject be the Better Sires-Better
! Stock Campaign which is already in
auguarated on a nation wide basis
We also recommend that special
attention be given the organization of
! Cow Test Association.
The development of other local
projects is left to the discretion of the
Agents and Local committees
Soil improvement
Realizing that systematics crop ra-
tations accompanied by proper fertil-
| ization are essential to successful
crops we make the following recon-
mendations suggesting that efforts be
concentrated on the growing of le-
games by
1. More general use of regular
crop rotation.
2. The systematic application of
lime with each rotation.
3. The use of more lime spread
ers to properly distribute lime and
fertilizer.
a. The general use of acid phos-
plate to supplement barnyard man
ure and lime.
5. The use of top-dresing chemi-
Gals on grass lands where barnyard
manure is not available.
The committee also recommends
that Investigation be made of the
value of Fertilizer Salt when applied
TO hay lands.
Crop Improvement
Now that corn variety tests con-
Quoted for several years have demon
strated the superior value of three or
four varieties, we recommend that in
the future, more effort be placed on
getting farmers to use these varie-
ties. We further recommend that
demonstrations on the thickness of
planting be established.
We also suggest that further CO.
operation with seed dealers be encour-
aged with the idea of getting the APP
proved varieties of seed corn on the
market in every town.
We recommend the continuation of
seed oat variety work by demonstra-
tons and by securing an increased
number of farmers who will use the
better varieties.
We further recommend that more
emphasis be placed on the name gar
den and that it be made a partner
ship proposition between father and
son, mother and daughter.
Farm Management
We believe this project should be
continued in interested communities
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