The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-02
WASHINGTON
COUNTY FARM Blu
REAU ACTIVITIES
As Carried Out During the Past Year
Have Been Sum
married.

married.
There are twenty-five organized
boys and girls clubs in Washington
county at the present time represent
ling the following projects: one calf,
one pig, two poultry, three garden,
seven sewing, three cooking, one can
ming, one farm accounts, one handi-
craft, one pig and potato, one potato.
Thirteen Of these clubs will become
standard clubs at the end Of the club
year in November, an increase of nine
over last year.
This means that each club which re-
'ceiycs its charter signed by the sec
rotary Of agriculture at Washington
has had local leader, that they have
held meetings regularly since they
were organized apd have carried out
their program under the direction of
their local leader and the club agent,
with the help Of specialists; have had
one or more demonstration teams in
their club TO show the work they were
doing; that they have had one or more
exhibits of their work and that at
least 60 per cent of the members of
the club have kept and handed in
records Of the work they have done.
Twenty club winners in the county
received county and state prizes for
the work done last year, as shown by
these records, at the end Of the club
year. Two Of these were state cham
pions The eight first prize winners
received free trip to Burlington last
June to the state achievement day,
attended by one hundred bows and
girls from the state of Vermont.
Six demonstration teams attended
the state fair, winning two first prizes,
one third, one second and two fourths;
$l32.50 won IN all; $50 by calf club
members
One hundred forty -one dollars and
twenty five cents was won at the Dog
River Valley fair at Mortified, in
II teams demonstrated and
exhibits Of live stock, crops, cloth
ing, cooking, canning and handicrafts !;
were double that Of last year. The |
Total amount won by club members
.his year in prizes is as follows: 80, !
county and state prizes from State
Bankers association; 1890, state I
air premiums; $l4l25, county fair /
premiums; so. maple sugar record
,rizes. Total s33275. This does not
cunt money earned by Gibbs in va
ious ways as by floats, local prizes,
" giving entertainments. etc.
Aside from state and county fairs
everal clubs have given or are to
1--WE demonstrations and exhibits in
heir local communities. at county
eId day, etc. Thirteen clubs earning
harters or seals viii hold achieve
nent days in their own communities Il
his fall.
Other far reaching effects of the
FORK done by the boys and girls can
OF be estimated in a year and half /
I work or in several years, but some
cal results have been shown this /
ear, as shown by the following in /;
tancess
Purebred stock has been introduced /
several communities, / members Of /
he Marshiield Calf club have purebred
lives, as result of this years work; {
4 demonstration team has given It's {
on feeding and care Of I
lives four times in public. once at i
ate fair, where the boys took eight I
lives. winning S55. They were able
do this through the interest of ". i
Martin Of Plainfeld, who gave half /
car TO- transport the calves. The E
ioneer Pig club of Roxbury bought I
K purebred Berkshires this spring, i
king out notes at the bank for SIS b
,iece. Interest Of parents and COM il
unity has been aroused in both of a
ese places through the means of the t
nb work done. t
One canning club champion, II years
A, has canned 1870 quarts so far, only n
70 quarts Of these products being e
nqht. She is also sewing club h
ember and won $40 at the county o
ir on canning and sewing work. v
Two clubs gave an entertainment a