Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-10-08
BARNARD.
What the Papers say of the Herald's
Article.

There appears in this weeks issue of ths
| West Randolph News very noticeable
article. IL is an advertisement OF th'
town OF Barnard. This town, as all thu
world ought to know, is distinctly of tn,
"hill" kind it lies on the ridge between
Quechee and White rivers, in the north
west part of Windsor county and has ex'
cellent farming land 1t has local I'm
provement society, and the organization
puts out the advertisement which coyer'
more than a page OF the paper. The ad-
vertisement is simply well written state
ment OF what Barnard is, what its people
have accomplished and what opportuni
ties it offers, followed by detailed offer oi
few farms for sale. The statement de-
clares, and with perfect truth, that the
soil will yield great crops, that the farm
ers of the.town have always made money
and that there is an opportunity for max
ing money now. but that SO many young
men have left the parts that farms are
more plenty than buyers. And state
ment of the usual facts In regard to the
abandoning OF land which ought never 10
have been cleared and the story is com
plete. Land OF this class, il will be un-
derstood, is either too high and steep for
profitable cultivation or too rocky. Bar
nard has some such land, as does nearly
every town in the state, which the axe Of
the early settlers cleared of the only crop
it ought ever to have had.
SO much for Barnard, speaking a good
word for itself and telling the truth in
stead OF whining And another matter
with the same moral came to hand in Rut-
land this week in the exhibition at the
fair by Mr.. Etc OF Mendon. Mr.. Etz
bought 51-acre farm OF the distinctively
and decidedly abandoned" kind on a
Mendon side hill for S51 hve years ago,
and this year showed a great variety Of
products which would have been thor
oughly creditable to the best farm In YER
mont. There were fine potatoes in great
variety and immense beets and handsome
corn and wheat and oats and so on thro'.
And these things were raised on that soil
not by fancy farmingn-by the process
es OF rich man who seeks the largest
possible crops without regard to their
cost-but by a man who was working for
dollars and didn't mean to let a single
penny or a moments time go TO the land
that was not to promptly pay. The exhi-
bition was a wonderful object lesson. lt
is a pity that it did not 60 to ali the fairs
in the state. Mr.. Etz telling farmers in
simple way what he did with that bit of
"bear PASTURE in Mendon and with the
crops in sight would do the state of YER
mont more good than all the "immigra-
tion commissions that could be invent
ed. II a similar exhibition had come from
Montana-if just such grain and vegeta-
bles and what not had been shown pro-
duced in Montana on land sold for II an
hcre-the whole farming population OF
Vermont would want TO pack up and hur-
ry TO such land OF promise. And yet the
things raised here are not only more valu-
able than in MontaEa because they sell
more readily and at much higher prices,
but because the climate is here much bet
ter to exist in and the things Vermont
has with its older civilization in a thous-
and wsys makes life better worth having.
''What do you mix your colors WITH"
stWith brains, sirl' roared Sir Joshua
Reynolds in answer. This story OF the
painter is an old one but it applies with
perennial force. The Vermont farmer
who puts brains and industry into his
business is pretty comfortable, thank you.
Rutland Herald.
The entire first page OF recent issue OF
the West Randolph Herald was devoted to
well written boom of the rugged town
OF Barnard, ana was a creditabie piece OF
work. Such an article is of vast actual
benefit to community, but it is seldom
that they are properly sppreciated.-Ar-
gus.
Over one full page OF the West Randolph
Herald and News last week, was taken up
with an article on the attractions and re-
sources of Barnard 1t certainly sets out
the town in an interesting manner.-Land-
mark