Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-07-22
TO DEVELOP VERMONT
Reading Pond Trout Club Has a
Great and important Scheme to
Carry Out.

The purpose of the large real es-
tate purchases in the towns of Read
ing and Plymouth is now made pub
lie and the scope and Importance OF
it will readily be seen.
The Reading Pond Trout Club
was organized March ID, 1908, un-
der the laws of the state of Vermont.
1t includes the following subscrib-
ers: Edward r. Buck, Windsor,
John q. Sargent, Israel Balch, E.
S. Hall and Mrs. Anna Hall of Lud-
low, for the purpose of;
''Cultivating fish and game, &C
curing by purchase or otherwise
owning, holding, constructing, con-
trolling and managing reservoirs
ponds, brooks, tanks, weirs, houses,
parks and picnic grounds around the
same, and shy and all other property
and estate, real or personal property
or convenient or suitable to be used
therefor or Herewith, and doing,
conducting and performing any and
all acts and things necessary and
convenient for the due conduct OF
such business"
The capital stock OF the corpora
ton, originally $4,000, has been in
creased to $4,000, which is hel Id bI
men ueep1y Interested in the devel-
opment of Vermont. AS the needs
of business require it may be still
further increased. The club has ac'
CURED $500 acres of woodland
meadow, pasture and tillage land in
the vicinity of Reading pond. 1t is
situated in a general way in the
northwest corner Of Reading anC
the northeast corner Of Plymouth
and includes the tract of land begin.
ming with the line OF Fred Warren's
farm and extending as far north as
the Story lot on the summit of Mt
Moses. Reading pond and Reading
brook are therefore pretty well sur
rounded.
In pursuit Of the propagation Of
game fish, 10000 brook trout have
already been deposited in the brooks
and pond which, of course, makes
it private preserve when posted
in legal manner. Game of various
kinds will be preserved on these
extensive lands, not only the famiL
lar fauna Of Vermont but the larger
game as well.
The larger plans of the club, and
those in which the public is directly
interested are, however, along the
lines of scientific forestry and farm.
ing. 1t is not designed that these
lands, which include some Of the
best and some Of the worst in Yer
mont, shall lie fallow, says the Lud-
low Tribune. On the contrary, the
forests, in the first place, are to be
managed on the best modern and
scientific principles.
Competent men will be in charge
of the lands and the operation Of an
piled science to the forestry prob
! lem will be watched with COnSidera.
BILE interest.
With press and public newly in
tarAstad IN the forestry problem. the
unusual advantage Of practical OBJ
iect lesson on a large scale, operated
on strictly business principles-for
the corporation is composed Of bust.
ness men who will make it pay
is something that must be of practi-
cal, permanent benefit to Vermont.
In farming, too, advanced ideas
are to be applied. The acreage in
cludes such a wide variety of soil
that practically every line of agri-
culture possible in Vermont will be
taken up.
Thoroughbred and fancy stock
raising will be part Of this great
scheme. Cattle, horses, sheep and
poultry of the finer strains will be
bred and raised, not for ornament
but with the business policy of the
corporation always in view, to Sc
cure the fittest and most profitable.