St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-01-10
Current Press Comment
About Vermont Farms.

Current Press Comment.
About Vermont Farms.
According to the Atchlsou, Kan
Globe, Vermont is not so bad a farmin
state as some people think. Here
what the Globe saws:
In broad way it is true that tn
richer our acres and the more open tc
easy culture, the less they produce. Th,
state OF Kansas was designed by tn,
Almighty to be one vast garden. On tht
other hand, most of New England and
the greater part of New York state was
apparently designed to produce nothing
but trees growing wild. And yet to the
acre the rocky and mountainous little
state OF Vermont in 1900 produced forty
bushels OF corn to every acre planted to
that crop, whereas Kansas, rich from
border to border, produced but nineteen.
In the same year Vermont produced 90 S
bushels OF wheat to the acre and Kansas
but seventeen. The general average of
the production of corn to he acre for the
whole United States was 20.3 bushels to
The acre Far as this was below the pro.
duct1on OF Vermont and also below that
OF New York state (32 bushes). it was
four bushels above that OF "fat Kansas"
by the federal census OF 1900 it is shown
that in 1899 the value of all the crops
produced IN Kansas was $11.40 to the
acre, whereas the value of Vefmont's
crops to the acre was $26.9O.- Barre
Times.
The st Adams View.
The city attorney in Barre has decided
that the council had no authority to |
make curfew law. That being the |
case, Curew will not ring tonight. ~
Montpelier Journal.
We have better way than that here
In st. Adams. Our council makes cur.
few law and scares all the little children
and some OF the grown folks with threats
OF severe discipline, and then after a little
while does not even sound the curfew at
all. Not only that. but it persists in
looking that dead letter ordinance full in
the face day after day and will neither
enforce or repeal it. We are giving our
youth an object lesson in civil govern.
ment. We are demonstrating to them
with peculiar effectiveness, because EN-.
ployIng an example specifically directed
10 their attention, that some laws are to
be enforced and some are not. 1t is well
to teach children this early in their
experiences so that as they mature into
the responsibility Of full grown citizens
they can employ the freeman's right to
pick out such laws as they want to obev
and ignore Others st. Adams Mes.
senger.
How they Feel in Barre,
SO we are not to have a curfew law.
after all. Rutland has one, but it isn't :
Burlington has one and good
results are claimed from it. Burlington's
law is by special provision of its CITY
charter. st. Adams has curfew ordin- l
ance, but does not even sound the curlew.
after brief trial OF the law. Curfew
avs are often found impracticable
parents are not in accord with
{. his is the reason Tor its failure in
Rutland and St. Adams, and if there is a
1ot a strong desire on the part of the u
parents OF Barre Tor such law, the ask !,
re, OF the next legislature for power to y
make such an ordinance would be
waste OF time Barre Times. a
Barrels Hospital Project. <
Barre is trying to start a hospital Il
und. This is one OF the practical WAYS a
n which philanthropy in Barre NAV f.
how itself. A hospital run properly is a b
ource OF great benefit to CITY or town b
mo It's surrounding country. Hospitals t
ire oeing recognized more and more bv
ordinary people, as the best place to a
nave serious cases treated, as scientific e
appliances may be had more readily. i,
Lie depends upon the speedy use of such i,
tnngs many times. The best OF luck to Z
the project in Barrel Bradford Opinion. II
The Bellows Falls Times saws: "Some Q
Of our agricultural friends want apticul.
ture taught 10 the public schools. II the d
public schools taught everything that II
every body would like to have them teach o
the youth OF the state would be earlulIy !,
ana wonderfully educated. The farmer
would give them little agriculture. the Z
machinist little mechau c.. the ca pep.
Ter httle carpentering and so on. The e
sood OLD accomplishment Of correct read =
'ng' writing and spelling would be Il
wholly lost sight ot."- Rutland Herald, a
And Good sIeiRhiug Too. +
1t somebody had taken the Mains IN h
oeen in the past two months-and had
stuck up some orange blossoms at ire.
4uent intervals it would have been hard
TO tell whether this was California or
Vermont.-L Montpelier Journal. =.
:, gratifying evidence of progress in II
vermont comes from the almost imam. q
mously expressed opinion OF candidates q
to the fleet that Vermont's examinat;onS 10
or ADMISSION to law, medicine, phar. st
macy ami dentistry are about the iffest Ct
5 m''dr pr positions in New England,
ne rqu'reI standard OF efficiency in n'
'nese professions can scarcely be raised OF
90 nigh Quackery in any line of work nj
d pubic menace, especially is this true 81
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