The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-04-06
with the county fair and the teachers'

institute.
Il had all the scholars / could take
care Of sighed Principal Brooks, at
the end Of his day Of talk. "They we're
intelligent and attentive. Their ques-
tons were to the point So were the
answers.
good many folks used to have an
idea that Massachusetts wasn't an ag-
ricultural state" he would begin. Man
ufacturers We're thriving and drawing
the young people from the farms. The
West lured The older generation got
discouraged, All that il changing The
abandoned farm will soon be thing Of
the past. I
I'VE can beat the world with our
products. Already we ship lettuce, to-
matocs and eucumbers to Chicago at
high prices A bushel Of cucumbers rails
ed In Massachusetts dollhouse is worth
as much in Chicago as the product of
WI acre Of Minnesota wheat. This is
the greatest onion place in the country
that ought to make the other states
weer.
AS for this better farming special.
one purpose is to encourage the farm
crs TO compete with the West in every
thing. Mr.. Herbert Myrick, editor &
the New England Homestead, was
Western man. He had seen such train
run there.
He wrote to the agricultural school
Of three states and to the railroads. an
all agreed to cooperate. G. G. Gibbs
president Of the New Hampshire College
OF Agriculture; DR.. y. L. Hills, director
Of the Vermont experiment station; Nj
g. G. Seavey and | were appointed .
The Boston & Maine fur.
nished the steam and we are raising the
wind, but that doesn't mean that the
farmers must reap the whirl wind
The four ear train was made up and
equipped at the Amherst experiment sta
ton, The trips real beginning was at
Mount Hermon.
Mount Hermon is school settlement
founded by Dwight L. Moody. -Four
hundred boys there study everything
from arithmetic to agriculture. Every
son of them has to do two
ioars' physical work q day. A wealthy
chinese lad TINT had never lifted a hand
without the help Of servant was set
% sweep the kitchen the first day. There
ire boys here from Norway, Scotland,
Brazil and Japan.
The dairy produces $50 quarts of milk. |
The boys and their teachers drink that
iaily and cry for more. They till 1000 |
icrcs. One year the boys cut 400 900
eet Of timber off the land. Their star
'ow JIG a whole canning factory. She
las to be MIXED four times dey.
The boys of the agriculture classes
md their teacher, Mr. Tompson. went |
Town 70 meet the train. Prof. Harry |
hayward, their director, is one of the /
men who is showing the way to the
Exclamation Of New England's abandoned
arms.
The zoo farmers that had driven In I
rom miles arosind saw four ordinary |
passenger coaches with strins OF white
10th along tleir sides, lettor with Tie
nb'ects TO be discussed within. In the
ear car it was the soil and fertilizers.
'cxt came dairying, then horticulture
nd INSECT pests, and up near the sInok.
ng engine, naturally, tobacco.
The crowd entered at the back door.
ound seats, litseaed TO short lecture.
sled ucstions, filed up to see ire OK.
ibit at tie front CT tie car. went out.
lde, visited friends, had their pictures
aiken, all ID an hour or less, ana then
nd minute to spare. 1t reads like
Joke, but it isn't.
The instructors make few ideas so
lain that even a city man can under.
tand them. This gives the farmers con.
dence and They win write TO the ex.
crlmcnt stations for other points and
onsult the reports that are sent 20
hem. Not few women came. They
ere not all wives. Some Of them were
nc farmers themselves. One woman
ave the instructor new ideas on Che
allure Of raspbcrries.
Hatfield took the most interest in
&c tobacco car. where A. d.. Shannel
the United States department Of ar
culture told how Hatanid sent OFF
500 cases Of tobocca In March. She
responsible for onc. third az the states
'odnct Havana seed tobacco IA larrelv
Used there.
This farming IL "a sesioas bu.inesa
here Is Just enough Of the lighter sort
eep the wheels from getting stuck
tie rails. In tie tree ear IS an enor.
ovs model Of q gypsy moth II looked
~ c1ouyh 10 one farmer.
when tley went out after that !
'ecimen tley got a whopncr," he said.
Z | shorld see one OF them on nv
I'm I'd sfoot it, The moth was a. /,
& as a cat.