The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-20
QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF PRODUCT.

and comfort
QUALITY AND QUANTITY PRODUCT.
Not only in quantity of product, but also in quality,
does Vermont far excel in most of her farm productions
What State produces much maple sugar, or an
tcle of fine flavor color? What State or country
beats the butter producing record of Amasa Scott of
Craftsbuy-450 to $40 pounds per year per COW, with
feed of simply green and dried grass, and few roots?
Or that of G. S. Fassett of Enosburgh-27O pounds per
COW, for herd of twenty with only $340 worth of grain
to each COW! Who in the world beats Luke Fisher of
Cabot who, in 1890, sold from twenty-five COWS and
heifers S,270 pounds 376 pounds for each animal?
Where will you find, except in Vermont dairy regions
like North Pomfret and Ryegate where the annual yield
per COW is nearly 800 pounds for the whole community?
In fine wooed Sheep this State easily beats Spain,
Saxony Silesa in neness, density of wool and size
and vigor OF the animal. The mutton breeds, like the
Coswod, Southdown, Shropshire, etc., afford the finest
lambs for market and very profitable From flock
of twenty Cotswold VIM Gleason, of Barnet sold
in one year fortywo lambs that with the eeces of the
ewes brought $500.
Vermont Morgan horses are famous the world over
and need no praise" Their works do praise them"
CLIMATE.
The healthfuness of our climate is best attested by
the strength activity and full development of men and
animals The of our winters make good roads
they even the rough places and enable to get the
timber from the hills and mountains Our elevation and
wooded mountainous surface give us pure air. and our
springs and sparkling brooks give pure water. No
drouths or malaria trouble this region On the WHOLE the
climate is favorable to the best productions of the
perate zone.
POWER.
While there large lakes or rivers wholly in Yer
mont still the State magnfcenty watered and has
immense amount of water power mostly unused as yet
The range of Green Mountains running north and south
through the central part of the State forms the water
shed dividing the waters that flow south and east into
the Connecticut from those that flow north and west into
the ST. Lawrence by way of lakes Champlan and Mem
phremagog and those flowing southwest into the Hudson
On the east side there twenty streams that
assume the of rivers These, many of them orig
mating in ponds among the central mountains and flowing
rapidly down the eastern SLOPE afford though
not heavy powers for mills, There are also splendid mill
sites along the Connecticut.
On the west side of the State the rivers are not so
numerous but larger. The Otter Creek, Winooski
Lamole and Missisquo, with their branches, drain the
waters from nearly half the State. On the Otter Creek
heavy water powers at Proctor, Middebury, Ver-
gennes, and other places. The great falls on the
Winooski at Middlesex and Bolton almost wholly
wasted for want of mills while those at Marshfeld Mont
pelier Colchester and other points but partly used
There is much power running idly by the Lamoe and
Msssquo and the various branches of these larger rivers
On those streams emptyng into the Hudson from the
AS whole onefoulth of the available water power is
at this time used at ALL and that fonrh not fully utilized
While the main purpose of this paper is to encourage
Agriculture vet as an incidental benefit to farming we
should be glad to promote manufactures Manufacturing
villages and cities give the farmers in their vicinity
home market for their products they help to maintain
government, and make life social and pleasant
The great need of our State to-day is manufactures
more people, and more home investment of capital
MANUFACTURES
Although manufacturing establishments are not num-
erous in this State yet the of the scale works at
st. Johnsbury and Rutland the organ making at Battle
boro the making of pulp at Bellows Falls, Readsboro
and Middebury the woolen mills at Winooski, Hartford
Springfield and other Places the knitting factories at
Bennington, all go to show that fortunes be made in
Vermont in changing the abundant materials into
forms fit for use.
MINING QUARRYING.
No State is richer than this in ores, marble, granite
slate limestone and other useful and durable minerals
Mountains of marble uped all along the west side
of tie State from Dorset to Isle La Motte Valuable
ouarres are worked at Dorset West Rutland, Rutland,
Proctor Middlebury, Swanton and Isle Motte with
smaller ors at many other points At Fair Haven Cas-
teton Mortified and Montpelier fine slate quarres,
while at Barre Dummerston Ryegate, Hardwick Wood
bury and many other places granite of the best quality
found in immense quantities. The finest ofiron crops out
all the length OF mountains but is not much worked
at present copper is mined at Vershre and gold in linn
tied quantities may be found in the beds Of many of
mountain streams
In 1890 there were maintained in Vermont two thous-
and four hundred and ffty-two schools, making
the average distance from school another less than
two miles. Colleges, academies, normal schools and
high and graded schools less than ten miles apart
average through the State, all equipped with the best
of houses, well finished and furnished. The supervision
of these schools is in the hands of hua and competent
teachers and managers Truly grand and liberal edu
cationa system 1t only lacks attendants and perhaps
q Ettn rarmn nnncei In, matters of law.