Familiar names echo in Bennington County Farm Bureau history
Grace Smith and John C. Page recount the Bennington County Farm Bureau's 60th annual meeting and a look back at early Agricultural Society minutes from 1848, Grange era, and the rise of county agents. The piece lists presidents from 1916 through 1975, noting families like the Harwoods, Hardys, Leaches, and Beebes, and highlights the bureau’s role in extension work, cooperatives, women’s activities, and war-era efforts.
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Bennington County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Grace Smith
Bennington County Agricultural Society
UVM
Vermont
The
Grange
America
Land Grant Colleges
Bennington County
James Leach
Rupert
Howard
North Rupert
Walter Shaw
William Teachout
Arthur Johnson
Arlington
Arthur
S. Everett Harwood
Harwood Hill
Bennington
Earl Taylor
Manchester
Marion Hardy
Walter Niles
Jim Mckee
Old Eastern States Farmers Exchange
Agway
Tom Hay
Joe Carrigan
UVM College of Agriculture
Russell Tinkham
Shaftsbury
Tinkham
Fred Lomberg
Sandgate
Fred Stone
Lomberg
Shaw
Walter Beebe
Dorset
Treachout
Walter
Ernie Hard
E.J. Hurlbut
Nellie Hulet
Burr Phillips
Ernie
Everett Lillie
William Burrington
Leland Beebe
Beebes
Leaches
Howard Hill
Sunderland
Ira Whitney
Stamford
Albert Horst
Fritz
Bob Graf
Donald Laurie
Clyde Bryant, Sr
Bernard Whitman
Alvan Lawrence
Merritt C. Morey
UVM Watchman Wins Grand Champion at Morgan Show
UVM Watchman, a four year old stallion bred at UVM Morgan Horse Farm Weybridge Vermont, won Grand Champion at the New York International All Morgan show. The University of Vermont group showed four horses earning 16 trophies and ribbons with Balch Davis Lantman Curnen among participants.
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Syracuse
UVM Watchman
UVM
Morgan Horse Farm
Weybridge
United States
Donald Balch
University of Vermont
Vermont
Balch
UVM Trophy
Davis
AVM Watchman
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John C. Page
UVM County Extension Agent
Harwoods
Mattisons
Hurds
Harringtons
Grange Hall
Mediterranean
China
Thayer
Main Street
Watchman