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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
POMONA GRANGE PROGRAMME
A Sample Suggested by the Lecturer
of Michigan State Grange.

10 a. m.-Open in the fifth degree.
Business session.
Open in fourth degree.
Reports of subordinate oranges, giving
increase of membership during the year
and improvements made for increasing
the comforts and attractions of the
grange hall.
RECESS.
1:30-Song service.
Welcome-By any officer of the enter
tanning grange.
Response-By any officer of Pomona
grange.
northumberland Demands of
Today" from the viewpoint Of
(a) The educator.
(b) The business man.
(c) The farmer.
I'D The clergy.
Song.
Talk Us the Outlook For Farming
More Promising Than In Times Past?
Why?"
Paper-"To What Conditions May the
Term Intemperance' Be Applied Beyond
Strong DRINK"
Music
EVENING PROGRAMME.
1880 p. m.-Conferring fifth degree.
Open in fourth degree.
Address by state speaker.
Reports of committees.
Singing by grange.
Close in form.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.
The National Grange Takes a Position
on CoIleqe Sports,


on College Sports.
The committee on agriculture of the
last national grange meeting incorpo-
rated in its report the following minute
on certain sports at agricultural col
leges, and it, together with the report,
was adopted. The committee said:
1--WE regret to note the tendency in
our agricultural colleges to increase the
amount of time spent in intercollegiate
football and baseball and the apparent
increased Importance given to these
sports. We believe that at no distant
day all of our educational institutions
will take a different stand on this sub
ject from what they now do. We wish
to go on record as being opposed to
intercollegiate football in our agricul-
tural colleges. especially when it inter
feres with the work in the agricultural
and mechanical departments of these
institutions. And we also oppose the
using of money either directly or in
directly for athletic scholarships that
has been appropriated by state or ma
ton to these institutions. History
teaches us that where agriculture is
nourished that nation has prospered.
1t also teaches that where sports and
amusements have flourished and crowd
ed out honest labor that nation has de-
cayed. Can the colleges hope to escape
the doom of these nations?"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04

distinguished assemblage is called to
order. He wished to view at close
range the retrogression of those famous
highways and to see il the speeding
automobiles worked the same damage
there as they do in the United States
and study the remedial work that is
being done.
Director Page has already learned in
this country that by the tractive force
of the rubber tires of the speeding motor
car the surface binding dust of rock
roads is drawn from its resting place
and is sent swirling to the adjacent
fields. Inasmuch as the integrity of the
macadam road rests absolutely in this
rock dust, which acts as a binding and
surfacing crust, dissipating of the sur
face leaves the road nothing but mass
of loose round stones. The tests held,
especially those on the conduit road near
Washington, D. c., prove this conten-
ton absolutely, and he carries with him
wonderful collection of photographs
taken during the progress of those tests,
by lightning-like cameras. These pic
lures will be submitted to the congress
assembled. being but the contribution of
one savant, for it is not assumed that
America alone has solved this problem.
The greater question that will arise
will be how to overcome the effect of
automobile traffic on hard roads without
in any way restricting the automobile or
preventing its development. Two solu-
tions there are to that question. One, to
find a material of which roads may be
made which create no dust, or, secondly,
to so treat the roads already constructed
that the dust will be retained upon them.
That, of course, is now being done in
many parts of the country by spraying
with calcium chloride and through the
use Of various bituminous preparations.
1t goes without saying that the en-
forcement of temperate speed on our
roads will serve to materially diminish
the damage resulting from the tractive
force of the rubber tires of the auto.
Hitherto the formulation ofilaws limit
ing speed of automobiles in. Vermont and
other States has had directland almost
exclusive reference to the safety of the
public. Hereafter, however, the conser-
walton of our highways as well as the
safety of human life and the protection
of property will be the grounds for the
enforcement of legislation regulating the
speed of automobiles. -Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
Auto m obiles and Good Roads.

The people of Vermont, who have only
recently begun the most modern system
of permanent road construction, and
who are even now studying how to ex-
tend this highway improvement, are
confronted by new problem as are the
the residents of other States and other
countries as a result of the rapid intro
duction of the automobile. This prob
lem involves the effect of autos moving
at a high rate If speed, and it is one
which must be speedily solved if crushed
stone highways are to be saved from
serious injury.
Some idea of the extent and signifi-
canoe of this problem can be gained
from the announcement that Logan
Waller Page, director of the Office of
public roads of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, who has been
especially commissioned by President
Roosevelt, is on his way to France to tell
the highway engineers of the world just
exactly what, in his opinion, the auto
AiOchO 40 oOihS W Vic hidSdudll tHOI-
oughfares of civilization, and what
should be done to counterfeit its destruc-
tive effects.
President Roosevelt summoned Direc-
tor Page and conferred with him about
this latest and most startling highway
problem. He learned that an almost
incalculable amount of damage is being
done daily, and then he informed the
director that it was his wish that the
United States be strongly represented at
the coming International Road Congress
in Paris, and he asked for the names of
two other experts to contribute informa-
ton at that great gathering. Mr.. Page
named Colonel Charles s. Bromwell,
superintendent Of buildings and grounds
of the District of Columbia, and Mr.,
Clifford Richardson, nationally famous
as an authority on bituminous road
material. They were appointed, and
Mr.. Page was named as chairman Of the
delegation.
Although this congress will not assem-
Bile at Paris until October II, Director
Page decided to sail three days since, it
being understood that he would person
ally inspect some of the roads of Eng
land, Germany and France before the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
FASTER THAN 2:1O.
Hundreds Have Been Sent Under
the Wire in Time That Would
Win Most Races.

New York, Aug. 2s.-Ncw that the
1908 trotting season is under sway, it
will be OF interest to trotting horsemen
everywhere to know that during the
last twenty-four years EFT horses have
been driven to records of 2:10 and better.
Jay-Eye-See, driven by Ed Withers,
first covered mile in 2:10 in 1884, and
the following year the great Maud S.
m ade her record Of 2:Osi. driven by Will
liam Blair. She held the record until
1891, when the California mare Sunol,
driven by the late Charles Marvin, COW
cred the distance in 2:OsA. OF these
27s horses twenty have been driven to
their records by Ed Geers, ten by John
Dickerson and nine by Scott Hudson.
Lou Dillon, of course, made the fastest
miles and still holds the record, her mile
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
RAILROAD PRESIDENT SPEAKS
Charles n. Mellen's Vigorous Speech
Before this National Grange Calls
Out a Resolution

Out a Resolution.
The president of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad was in
vited to address the national grange
ut Hartford at the public meeting held
on the evening of Nov. 49, There were
numerous other speeches on that occa-
sion, but President Mellen's was the
one that made his audience straighten
up In their seats and take notice. He
likened the attack on corporations to
drunken mans debauch, condemned
the brass band methods employed, said
the investigation ordered of his road
was instigated by stock gamblers, as
serted the holdup in Massachusetts
was for the purpose of blackmail,
showed that 1t is not q rich mans
panic, but the losses must be borne by
every man, woman and child, and
closed with a tribute to ]. Pierpont
Morgan and others who had so much
to resent In the scant consideration
their efforts In behalf of the business
interests Of the country had received
lat the hands of those In authority"
and who had put that all aside and
had done so much In so short time
and SO effectively.
1t was a scathing speech, replete
with irony and invective, and it wasn't
quite relished by the leaders of the
grange. Had they known what Pres
ident Mellen was going to say on the
occasion probably he would not have
appeared on the programme. What
the grange thought about 1t may be
gathered from the following resolution
which was adopted at the first session
held after the speech was delivered:
Resolved. That the members of the ma
tional grange do not wish the impression
to go abroad that the statements made
by all the speakers at the public recep-
ton last evening are portion of the
+ grange creed. A railroad president was
invited to speak, and the members cour-
teously listened to his prepared address
with many innuendos susceptible of varied
construction, some of which would place
our Order before the world in false
position. The national grange, at its first
session after said public meeting, desires
to publicly declare 1t Is not responsible
for the statements or expressions in said
address above referred to.
Resolved. That the national grange firm
ly and unflinchingly stands on its declara-
ton of principles in opposition to all
trusts or combinations that use unfair
methods to exploit the people.
Resolved. That we wage no warfare
against railways or any other corpora
lions that conduct their business along
lines of fairness, and We further declare
It to be the fixed and determined prin-
ciple OF our Order that all men or cor
porations. rich or poor great or small,
shall obey the laws of our country
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
WILD BIRD PROTECTION.
The National Grange Believes In Pro-
tectina Our Feathered Friends.

The following resolution was handed
up to the national grange at its Hart
ford session from the Connecticut state
grange, and it was approved by the
national body:
Whereas, 1t Is conclusivey shown that
the wholesale and widespread slaughter
ing of wild birds throughout the United
States is a positive and dangerous men
ace to agriculture through deprving the
farmer of the aid of the creatures that
would otherwise destroy harmful insects
and the seeds of noxious weeds we re-
spectfully and earnestly request the ma
tional grange to urge on the various
state county and subordinate oranges
throughout the country that they make
this matter an important department of
their general work and In every way
strive to create a sentiment and initiate
and enforce legislation in behalf of the
protection of the feathered friends of the
farmer, so necessary to his welfare and
such an attraction to country life at large
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04

of l 1854 still standing. Major Delmar is
next in 1854, and Cresceus is third with
a record of 2 1924.
Men who have driven five or more
horses in 2:l0 are: Ed Geers, twenty /;
John Dickerson, ten Scott Hudson, nine;
Myron McHenry, six; Charles DeRyder,
FIVE; Henry liter, Ed Withers, Lon Nc
Donald and Alta Mcdonald, five each.
Other drivers that have made good rec.
ords as drivers of 2 10 trotters are George
Saunders, Ben Kenney, Roy Miller. Mil
lard Sanders, Bud Doble, Douglass
Thomas, Gus Macy, Harry Stimson,
Jack Curry, Charles Marvin. Mike Bow
erman, Thomas w Murphy, John Kelley,
H. C. Moody, Billy Andrews, w. G.
Foote, Crit Davis, A. l.. Thomas, KNAPP
McCarty, Ed Benyon, George Starr,
David Cahill and W. L. Snow.
c. &c. Billings, E. E. Smathers and
II. K. Devereaux are the champion
drivers of wagon ecords-Troy Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER a. 1908.
AZ Year.

From every section comes the welcome
tidings of prolific crops. Corn and cotton
never before promised such abundant
yield. The hay crop is already in the
loft or in the stack, and the quantity is
simply enormous, surprising that OF any
former season of which there is account
Much of this plenty is due to improved
methods of tillage, and it is fact that
we are just beginning to develop real
farmers in this country-men who yearly
augment the yield and at the same time
increase the fertility of the soil. That is
a process of which our fathers were ig-
norant, and they abandoned vast acres,
to be given over to bramble and fennel
but their descendants are retaining
them and making fertile and profitable
fields of them.
Some thirty years ago man in South
Carolina grew on single acre of ground
IS barrels, or 275 bushels, of corn. The
fact was well established, and the Orange
Judd Company paid him large pre-
MUM on it. Judd builded wiser than he
knew, and, stimulated by that contest,
there are many farmers in our great corn
belt growing 80 barrels per acre of that
king of the cereals
This Righteousness comes of crop rota-
ton, thorough and frequent cultivation,
and selection and adaptation of seeds
and the triumph of the corn farmer in
increased yield is bound to come to the
wheat grower, the cotton planter, and
the hay cropper as well as to every one
that delves intelligently and diligently
in the soil for living, not emitting the
fruit grower and the domestic stock
raiser.
The farmer prosperous, all other classes
must necessarily share the resultant ben
eft. Abundance brings cheaper living,
which makes greater consumption, which
makes more production. These create
prosperity.
In addition, it is graduation that never
before was the mackerel catch so enor-
nous as in this good year 1908. That too,
will cheaper living, despite the tariff
duty on that excellent fish.
And, by the way, when they come to
revise the tariff, "by its friends" will
somebody tell us why a mackerel is
taxed and lobster is free? Can it be
because the laborer eats the mackerel at
a frugal breakfast in the early dawn,
while the millionaire eats the lobster at
sumptuous supper after couple O'Clock
in the morning? Perhaps.-Wa shington
Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04

1891 he was secretary of the state
grange; from 1891 to 1903 he was mas
ter of the state grange; from 1899 to
1905 he was lecturer of the national
grange, and two years ago at the At
lantic City session he was elected mas
ter of the national grange. He was
secretary of the New Hampshire
grange state fair for ten years and of
the Concord state fair for three years
and secretary of the New Hampshire
state board of agriculture from 1887 to
the present time. He was governor of
the state in 10000. He is a thirty
second degree Mason.
AS executive officer of the New
Hampshire ola Home Week associa-
ton he has done more than any other
one person perhaps to make the Gran
lite State the summer home for thou
sands and has made the abandoned
farms to be once more profitable acres.
Since his election to the chief Office in
the Order of Patrons of Husbandry he
has become familiar figure in every
grange state In the Union and has pro-
NOTED the interests Of the grange by
public addresses, by the written page
and by his personal influence, particu-
larry in Washington, so that today the
Order is stronger than ever in member
ship and has a potential influence at
state and national capitals exceeding
that which 1t has ever before attained
Worthy Master Bachelor won re-
election on his merits.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04

Under the present system Of repre-
sentation in the national grange, New
York. with 10000 members, has just
the same voting strength as Minnesota,
with fewer than 1000, or Kentucky or
Missouri. with about the same number.
In way it's all right, and in another
way 1t isn't ]. W. BARROW.
The exemplification of the ritualistic
work was never better than this year
The first degree was exemplifed by
New Britain Conn grange officers,
the second by a Cheshire Comm team,
the third by a ladies' degree team from
Keene, N. H.; the fourth by ladies'
degree team from North Brookheld.
Mass. The fifth degree was beautiful
ly presented by Central Pomona de-
gree team of Connecticut and the sixth
by the officers OF the Connecticut state
grange. This work, particularly In the
lower degrees, cannot fail to be an In
spiration to all who witnessed II, and
through them the various subordinate
oranges here represented VIII be In
cited to improvement In this very I'M
portant phase of grange work
NJ. Lafousse, being completely ruin
ed and having resolved to commit
suicide, tried It first on his reflection
N the glass to see what 1t looked like.
-Pele Mele.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
An Essay EXCHANGE.

The lecturers of New York state
grange and Michigan state grange have
recently instituted what is termed an
essay exchange. 1t is for the purpose
OF assisting subordinate grange lectur-
ers and others. Essays are prepared
by competent writer's upon various
grange topics, and these essays are at
the command of the subordinate lee
turers for their local grange work.
Mrs. #. d. Saunders of Rockford,
Mich, and S. ]. Lowell of Fredonia,
N. Y, will doubtless be glad to fur
nish further information to any one
who may desire it concerning this es-
say bureau.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
Ireland Takes up Forestry.

Ireland has awakened to the national
value of her forests, but so late that
radical measures will now be necessary
to make up for past neglect. A Com
mission, appointed by the Crown to in
vestigate the condition of Ireland's for
ests and to suggest measures for better
ing it, has just made public its report.
The Commission became convinced that
there was imperative need for afforesta-
ton on large scale, that the time had
come when the "let alone" doctrine ap-
piled to the woods could no longer be
endured.
ously urges the adoption of a large
scheme for the State to plant about
100000 acres with forest trees. This,
with the 300, 900 acres of existing forest.
would give Ireland 100000 acres of
forest land, an area which the Commits
sion considers essential for the agricul-
tural and industrial requirements of the
country. About 10000 acres of this
would be purchased by the State in
mountainous and rough regions and
managed as state forest, while 100000
acres, chiefly in small blocks, would be
planted by the State, but managed by
private owners or by County Councils.
The facts that under the Land Purchase
Acts much woodland formerly held in
large blocks is being sold in small par
GELS and numbered, and that there is now
opportunity for the government to ac-
quire woods and land suitable for for
ests, make it specially urgent for the
State to take immediate action.
To show that such a scheme of land
acquisition and planting is not imprac-
ticable, the Commission cites the case of
Denmark, an agricultural country half
the size of Ireland. which, since 1881,
has increased her forests by $4,000
acres. Another case is that of little Bel
GUM, which, in spite of her dense agri-
cultural and industrial population and
already large forests, has added 10000
acres to her forests in the last % years.
Though Ireland is particularly suited
in soil and climate for the growth of
forests, and some of her area is much
better adapted for forests than agricul-
tural crops, yet only 306,00O acres, or
one and one-half per cent. of her total
area is forested. Bulletin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
HON. N. J. BACHELOR.
Re- elected to the Highest Office In the
Order of Patrons of Husbandry.

Re- elected to the Highest Office In the
Order of Patrons of Husbandry.
Hon. Nahum ]. Bachelor. reelected
master OF the national grange, has
been a prominent figure in New Hamp-
shire politics and agriculture for sew
eral years. The old Bachelor home
stead at East Andover, N. H.. was
cleared from the wilderness by his
great-grandfather, and the original
house was built In 1882. The farm has
been in possession of the descendants
of Captain Josiah Bachelor ever since,
though by various purchases OF ad-
joining land It Is now an estate OF 800
acres.
Worthy Master Bachelors grange
career began when he joined Highland
Lake grange at East Andover, n. H.,
in 1877 and from 1870 TO 1888 he was
master of that grange: from 1sss tn
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-04
Another Governor Granqer.

Governor r. S. Woodruff took the
highest degree in the Order of Patrons
of Husbandry at Hartford on Nov. 10
In speech at public session he said:
In thirty-fve years since the power OF
the grange began to express itself in
agriculture we have made more rapid
strides than in 100 years before It came
into existence. The grange is getting men
together frequently and prohtably. 1t is
making farming a business. and this bust
widespread until agriculture reaches the
very highest standards OF modern bust
ness control. until the farmer is as much
man of business as the manufacturer.
the banker and the tradesman, until the
influence of the grange is realized by the
government of every state in the Union.
% that legislation will lend every assist
ance to facilitate the fuldllment OF agri-
cultural science.