Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

for her table. The average boy anf
girl should be instructed In those sub
jects with which they will have to b'
Identified all their lives.
In several of the states the shor'
course In agriculture is reaching mors
people and doing more good than an.
other one branch OF their agricultural
work. In Wisconsin hundreds TAKE
that course annually. The college has
more applications than II can accom-
modate. Governor Hoard spaks In the
modate Governor Hoard speaks In the
most glowing terms of the work thai
is being accomplished by this shor'
course in agriculture. Minnesota was
the first state, a few years ago, 10 OF
fer 10 her daughters the same advan-
tage in her school Of agriculture tha'
she offers to her sons. To-day large
share OF the states give these courses
why should not Vermont be In the
list? why can we not have another
dairy school? Because we have nc
building In which we can hold such
courses Because Vermont Is almost
the only state in the union that never
has appropriated one dollar for build
ings in connection with its agricul-
tural college, While some OF the
states have appropriated hundreds oil
thousands of dollars, In New YORK
only few weeks ago. Governor Odell
signed bill appropriating s25O,OOV
for another building at Cornell. Ner-
mont is not keeping up with the other
states I'm her agriculture, or agricul-
tural work.
But few know or realize the posi-
bIlities of the soil. II II is profitable
for an individual TO adopt the most
up-to-d date methods. it is equally as
profitable for a state. To show what
can be done let me quote from the
New England Farmer OF May 4:
Twenty years ago a professional
man Of Philadelphia, who had been
brought UP on farm, inherited 10
acres of worn-out land which would
support only one COW except in sum
mer. The recipient OF the inheritance
was about equally exhausted from too
close attention to professional BUSH
ness. He went back to the SOIL
speedily regained his strength on the
Is acres, and to-day owns the most
valuable practical" farm of its size IN
America. The farm now supports the
wear around two horses, a lot of pigs
and poultry and 40 high bred COWS.
The milk is mostly sold for fancy
price to a consumptives' hospital the
little farm pays a profit Of several
thousand dollars year, and the own
er has refused $4,000 an acre for It,
IAN expert OF the agricultural de-
partment is quoted as saying that this
mans methods, If generally and intel
lgently followed would be annually
worth forty TO fifty million dollars to
the dairy interests of this country"
Several of the states have buildings
that are called Morrill, halls" This Is
true of New Hampshire, the old New
York Cornell building, and of Iowa
Nevada. Tennessee and I presume
several others. Why should not Yer
mont. the home of our distinguished
Senator Morrill,, have a building ded-
icated to his memory? We need the
building. We need dairy school. We
need a short course In agriculture and
domestic science where hundreds OF
our boys and girls who cannot spare
the time nor money for full agricuf-
tural course can spend few weeks
studying the principles pertaining TO
their life work, thereby enabling them
10 become better farmers and better
home makers. e T. smith