Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-09
Readfeld F. b. :,
Plans for 1929 '.s4tt-

me Kennebec Farm f,ure.,, pro-
sani planning meeting for this Wet.
wnlch Will be attended by County
nsent Clarence A. Day and Home
DC,s a Agent, Miss Helen
ia &, VIII De as follows: Tuesday, at
a.e Unlna Grange hall; Wednesday
a. AIpion, at the home of Mrs. Alto
WCnC;naugnlin; Thursday. at the South
Snina Library; Friday. at the Wind
scr Orange hall: Saturday at the
last winthrop Baptist church. These
meeungs start at 1880 o'clock in the
forenoon. are all day sessions and
are attended by both the men and
Women's divisions of the Kennebec
Farm Bureau
Next week, the following similar
meetings will be held: Tuesday, Jan
TO- at Benton Grange hall: Wedres-
gay, Jan. IL, at Litchfield Grange
nan; Thursday. Jan. IS, at Wayne
Grange hall: Friday, Jan. 10. at Mon
~, at Fayette Grange hall. the meet
ing which was postponed from Jan. 4,
because of the storm.
AT the all day program planning
meetings the program is as follows:
lComn4lttees report upon work &C
compilshed during the past year; the
county agent and the home demon
stration agent give accounts of work
done by the county: plans made for
work for the coming year; officers
and project leaders elected.
Last week, two planning meetings
were held. At the Readfield meeting.
were: Chairman, Joshua l.. Brown
secretary. Miss Mildred RUSSELL
Boys and Girls clubs leader, Mrs.
Mary A. Nickerson; crops. l.. S. Rus
sell: dairy G. w. Love; farm man.
agemcnt. w. G. Smith: orchard, A.
c. RUSSELL; poultry. w. A. Bourne.
The work which the men planned for
the year: One Boys and Girls club;
two lime demonstrations: four man
IRE supplement demonstrations; one
demonstration in hay fertilization;
fifty men will have their cows re-
TESTED for tuberculosis: ten men are
to plant mamoth New York Flint
silage corn: eight men will keep farm
accounts: Ave men will keep poultry
accounts: all DAY meeting will be
held Feb. 81 and the topics will he
farm management and labor saving
devices: members in the community
will purchase apple tree co-operatlvc-
ly. under the community planting
plan: an orchard fertilization demon
stration will be conducted, using nj
trate of soda rs n fertilizer: a meet
ing will be held in April for the pur-
pose of forming an orchard SCREAMING
ring: there will be an orchard picnic
in June: in tho poultry work. one
demonstration in selecting hens Tor
breeding will be given and ten neopie
have enrolled to cooperate: Read
field will also take part in the county
wide egg campaign.
The women's division of the Read
field Farm Bureau have chosen the
followinr officers for TIE ensuing
year: Chairman, Mrs. John Manter:
clothing project lo?der. Mrs. r.. =
Fish: assistant clothing leader. MIS-.
STANLEY Hight: food project leader;
Mrs. Leonard Cotton: household
management project leader. Mrs. r.
A. Prann. They voted to have the
following meetings: Feb. ?. petit
coat meeting: March 8. . foundation
pattern meCtin@: April Is ana j."
r,iIlinorv trainir~ training class: May
10. snrin~ millinery mcet'n"; june
Il. n onc-niccc dress meeting: two
meetings o, food values. Aug. . ard
oct. II: Nov. s. meeting on apple
! cookery
They also voted to ta''c part In tho
, countv-widc fireIcss cooker cannai"n.
Tho ladies aDonintcd to hoy" charge
of the different sections of the town
! in the Grolccs cooker C"rfnaiGr. are
90 follows: Mrs. r. \. Prann. Read
, field Cor~or. >Iiee fI''d"nu Russell.
lI-onts VIII: Mrs. N'~-cf Gordon. +" st
pondfcld: Nrrs Nellio rrarn. Feed
! fold dcnnt: Mrs. 7 nurn Cnonnr. S~'th
rood; Mrs, Otis Dunn, Dunn's Cor