Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-24
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.


Tho Farmor,' Meeting ut Greensboro
Vermont Attractions.
At the farmers meeting a. Greensboro
Mr.. Swear spoke in the evening on "Tho at
tro C ions of Vermont Our excuse for iu-
troducing his subject is: There is a feeling
among cur people Of unrest and dissatis-
faction. and that other sections offer greater
advantages to young men than Vermont.
Thi. feeling has encouraged our young poo
pie to go away and every now country has
ia Is holp from our state, IN many Of
the latter 20 from here and arc glad to work
back and ere doing so to c greater or less
degree. There hns been feeling growing
that the State would have 10 no turned over
to lis original forests. Westerners have a
faculty Of making people believe that there
is he best part of the world, while err
montars have been too willing to admit our
disadvantages and too free to speak about
them This has boon seen in tho hoin' and
the children reared under this dos rna ma
turally look outside Of Vermont II find q
more prosperous country 20 csiajll their
homes. With this condition OF air1Iis
have taken some pains to looS up stat tics
and find out what Kind Of n standing er-
mont has with .hor States.
While we have not been in tho habit of
estimating Vermont worry highly as an agri-
cultural state We find that rs corn grow
ing State she stands second in the number
OF bushels OF corn per acre; "a. tie Same
with buck wheat. hsth with oats, third with
potatoes and tit:h with barley. No other
state compares with all the States like
Vermont, and rs to maple sugar she stands
at the head. These figures show Vermont
to be quite State agriculturaly. In horses
our State stan Is well and il Vermonters
/ los ia
have been at the head for tte,r basis of
good breeding was The choice mares taken
from Vermont In sheep it is conceded
that Vermont leads the world in Spaii ih
| mcrino. We imported a sheep here from
Spain that would shear from, five to seven
pounds and Vermont ski, climate, feeling
and breeding has brought it up to the high
| type of the Vermont inerino oil the present
day. More money has boon brought into
the State from this industry III proportion
10 the capital invested than from any other
source.
In the dairy business wc are only about
% years old, yet at Iars Vermont carried
off the first prize IN competition with The
whole world on butter. These things could
not be possible unless orr fccl- r. rich
and our climate such as could CIV con5tltu-
ton aud viGor and the fullest development
to both men and ANIMALS.
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