Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-01-07
TO FILL THE FARMS.
LATEST SCHEME TO RECLAIM THE
ABANDONED"

company Already at Work.
New Epgland's abandoned farms are
to be reclaimed, restocked and reoper-
ated on plan that is, primarily, philan-
thropic, and, secOndarily, commercial.
corporation has been formed with the
secretary OF the New York Wool Ex-
change at its head to purchase arabic
land and farm buildings in the states of
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, and to resell both on
such terms rs to attract purchasers in
large cities and so relieve the congested
centres of population. it is in no sense
a colonization scheme, and its practca-
biity is attested by the Endorsement of
John Wanamaker, of Mrs. Ballington
Booth, Nathaniel 5. Rosenau, manager
of the Hebrew Charity Fund; Colonel
Ethan Allen and William r. Sessions,
secretary of the Massachusetts, State
Board of Agriculture. The New York
offices of the company will be opened
in the st. James building, Broadway and
Twenty-siXth street.
For a quarter of a century or more the
rural population in the states of Vermont,
New Hampshire, Connecticut and parts
of Massachusetts has been steadily dwin-
dling-not because the fields have lost
their fertility, but because the young
men, instead Of sticking 10 the farm as
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city life, and gave up the ploW and har-
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taken 10 aFoiu ueallhS WIN lhe VICIOUS
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WHOSE savings grow 100 SLOWLY III 'he
merge co'llPel'''on Vi CITY me nilau-
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proPoIt'on oi tne purchase money, ana
the p"'auce WIN oe carrIeu on ponu ana
mortgage lor leh OF twenty years at D
per ceu' per a1huul, anu no bonus Will
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