The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

year From the forest we harvest $40 900 worth an
nuay and from many other the soil yields value
and comfort
QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF PRODUCT
Not only in quantity of product, but also in quality,
does Vermont far excel in most of her farm productions
What State produces so much maple sugar, or an ar
ticle of fine flavor color? What State or country
beats the butter producing record of Amasa Scott of
Crasbury-450 to GAO pounds per year per COW, with
feed of simply green and dried grass and few roots?
Or that of g. S. Fasse of Enosburgh-27O pounds per
for herd of twenty with only SO 40 worth of grain
to each COW? Who in the world beats Luke c. Fisher, of
Cabot who, in 1890, sold from twenty-five COWS and
heifers S,27O pounds, $40 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 300 pounds for the whole community
In fine wooded sheep, this State easily beats Spain,
SaXony or Siesa 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 ewes VIM Gleason, of Barnet sold
in year fortywo lambs that with the feeces of the
ewes brought $500.
Vermont Morgan horses are famous the world over
and need no praise Their works do praise them"
The heathfulness of our climate is best attested by
the strength activity, and full development of men and
animals The SHOWS of our winters make good roads
they up the rough places and enable us 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 malaria trouble this region On the whole the
climate is favorable to the best productions of the tenn
perae
WATER POWER.
While there no large lakes rivers wholly in Yer
mont still the State is magnfcenty watered and has an
immense amount of water power mostly unused yet
The range of Green Mountains running north and south
through the central part of the State forms the water
she'd dividing the waters that flow south and east into
the Connecticut from those that flow north and into
the st. Lawrence by way of lakes Champan and Mem
phremagog and those flowing southwest 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 also splendid mill
sites along the Connecticut.
On the west side of the State the rivers not
numerous, but are larger. The Otter Creek Wnooski
Lamole and Mssisquoi with their branches drain the
waters from nearly half the State On the Otter Greek
are heavy water powers at Proctor, Nddlebuy, Yer
gennes, and other places. The great falls the
Winoosk at MiddleseX and Bolton almost wholly
wasted for want of mills while those at Marshied Mont
pelier Colchester, and other points but partly used
There is much power running idly by the Lamoile and
Msslsquoi and the various branches of these larger rivers
On those streams emptyng into the Hudson from the
southwest part of the State mills are more numerous.
AS whole not onefouth of the available 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 yet 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 State to-day manufactures
more people, and more home investment of capital
MANUFACTURES
Although manufacturing establishments not num-
in this State yet the Of the scale works at
St JonsbuIy and Rutland, the organ making Bratte-
boro, the making of pulp at Bellows Falls, Readsboro
and Mddlebury, the wooden mills at Winoosk Hartford,
Springfield and other places the knitting factories at
Bennngton all 90 to show that fortunes be made in
Vermont in changing the abundant raw materials into
forms fit for
MINING AND QUARRYING.
No State is richer than this ores, marble, granite
Mountains of marble uplfted all along the west side
OF TIE State from Dorset to Isle La Motto. Valuable
quarries worked at Dorset, West Rutland, Rutland
Proctor, Middlebury, Swanton and Isle Motto, with
smaller orks at many other points AT Fair Haven Cas-
tleton Mortified and Montpelier fine slate quarries
while at Barre, Dummerston, Ryegate, Hardwck Wood
bury and many other places granite of the best quality is
found in immense quantities The finest of crops out
all the length of our mountains but is not much worked
at presents copper is mined at Vershre and gold lin
tied quantities may be found in the beds of many our
mountain streams.
In 1890 there maintained in Vermont two thous
and four hundred and fty-two common schools, making
the average distance from school to another less than