Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-10-05
WORDS OF A PATRIOT.
PENNSYLVANIA NOT IN GLASS WITH
OLD VERMONT.

A Green Mountain Boy Makes Some Conn
parisons with Interesting III cures of Ad-
Olson County Neutrality-suspicious. state
Poor Place in which to Live.
The Mller's Review, trade publica-
ton issued from Philadelphia, recently
had an article on Vermont written by one
John Stark, in which he told of the
alleged decline of Industries ana hard-
ships of life in this state. g. l.. Russell
of poultney saw this article and took
issue with the writer. Here is Mr.. Rus
sells retort:
note John Stark's letter in last r.
view on Vermont, I'd like to know in
what part of Vermont he got so well in
formed about the resources and products
of this state; 1t certainly was not on the
west side of the Green Mountains. We
have a one horse creamery here at depot
that averaged last June over 5000 pounds
of butter day, and cheese factory
making 20, 900 pounds of cheese, nearly
ten tons and half, last June. One year
ago last May, | sat in my buggy Just
south of Whiting Depot in Addison
county, and counted 100 stack of hay
that averaged from six to ten tons per
stack and every barn full. This was in
Otter creek valley. Many farms Of from
GO to 100 acres keep from II to % cows
and teams. and turn of from $1,000 to
$500 a year. Most of the houses are
two story, modern, Is to lG-room houses,
that cost from $1,000 to $4,000. many
of them; the cellars alone cost more than
the average Pennsylvania farm house.
while a $4,000 to $1,000 barn can be
shown to average every two miles. GER
tainly for - miles north. east, west
and south. | never saw handy barn.
dwelling or mill in Pennsylvania: still
| don't say there are none. and there
are 80 for sale there to one in Yer
mont.
The mill where ground $1,000 BUSH
c'S in one year earned on custom alone
the last seven wears | ran it over Sl5.-
600. You might 60 across Pcnns ylvania
from east to west and not find one that
could make such showing This was
in Rutland. VI and three other mills TO
compete with 4 friend of mine runs a
81 steel grinder in Bristol VT. with a
80 h. D. ga-o'cnc engine: a'>o runs a
Sullivan cob Cru-hcr Last winter one
week of busy grinding he ground 4G
tons of custom and II ton, OF merchant
feed, making - tons in less than 80
hours. The threc-run custom grist mill
at Nc~gcnues. Vt, often has 600 bushels
and over of custom cverN Saturday for
months. besides 1000 the other five days.
ANY quantity of Gust nm mills average
$4,000 to 10000 bushels Of custom Il
wear: and to compare them TO the old
tumble-doWn rat-trap- | saw AL over
Penn, vlvania white spending over $50
looking for a mill in Pennsylvania
say they are n comparison. | could
grind barrel of corn in - mills | can
name, while the ave-age Pennsylvania
mill was getting the gri-l 10 the mill.
have seen con,i ierabe of Gods
green earth. and | have yet to see the
average farmer in Vermont beat in the
convenience AMI improvements with
which hc i surrounded. And when YOU
compare our Vermont farm dwellings
with their many modern improvements,
Penn~ vlyania j. not in it.. | used to rise
up in my wrath. white living in Calf
ornia, when the poor, shift'ess people
began to pity the people that livcl in
Vermont Then I'd tell those ignorant
haysec1s they knew nothing of the
comforts of life. living in things they
called houses set upon blocks with a
fireplace in one end--ou,y two room, in
the house. rough boards. not even bat
toned for the sides of the house, floor
cracks one-half to three-fOurlhs inch