St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-10-20
VERMONT NEWS.
Experiment In Forestry .


Halves, went to Burlington, among the
first announcements to be made from his
office was an offer to visit the forest or
farm land Of and give advice, relative to
it's management, to any citizen or prop
erty owner in the state. DR.. William
Stanford Stevens of St. Adams is the
first citizen to take advantage of this
offer. In August, under the direction
of Mr.. Halves, a forest working plan
was made for 900-acre tract owned by
Doctor Stevens at East Enosburg. This
property embraces wood, pasture and
meadow land. The object at which this
plan is aiming is to bring all classes of
land under a definite and permanent
system of management, and so arranged
and specified that the presence or time OF
the owner is not necessary to its fulfil
ment. This plan is to extend over a
period of 10 years, namely to 1919, at
which time all woodland will be improv
ed through reproduction cutting or i'm
provement Trimmings; and all over
mature, part of the mature, the dead,
dying, suppressed, and less valuable
species will be removed. Thus the forest
area will be improved and so established
that it's future value will be enhanced by
increased reproduction of the more
desirable species, and an increased rate
of growth resulting from the removal
of unnecessary competition. All the
pasture land will be planted with white
pine and Norway spruce. In carrying
out this plan all wood and pasture land
is divided into ten equal areas, one
tenth of the woodland being thinned each
fall and winter and one-tenth of the
pasture land planted each spring. The
receipts from the Trimmings, and a
numbering operation now in progress,
will cover the cost ofplanting. Thus
the land is placed on an improved basis
and a valuable investment made, all
funds being obtained from the sale of
timber now standing on the tract.
Accompanying this plan is a map of the
tract, upon which the areas to be
treated each year are Indicated The
duties of the state forest office do not
cease at the completion of the written
! plan, for each summer the trees will be
marked for cutting in the fall and the
contractors work inspected, both during
the cutting and the spring planting.
This same work will be done for any
land owner in Vermont, the only ex-
pense being that necessary for travelling
and field expenses.
Evidently Was Murder.
A. G. Stone, grand juror of the town OF
Wallingford, who has been conducting
the inquiry into the death of Miss Mary
!. Johnson, whose body was found at
her home at East Wallingford recently
says that the collection of evidence has
been completed and everything still
points to the guilt of Robert Eddy, now
J in the house of correction at Rutland fol
liquor selling. Unless something unex
pected turns up Eddy's case may RES
: until the grand jury sits next fall as hi
: present sentence is sufficient to keep hin
, in Jail until that time. The authoritie
: have accounted for Eddy from the tim
e he left the southbound train at Wallng
] ford in an intoxicated condition Satur
: day evening, Oct 8, about seven o'clocl
S until night Waterman saw him running
e from the direction of the Johnson hous
j. at four o'clock Sunday morning. No on
= knows when the murder was committe
s. but it was long enough before eigh
e O'Clock Sunday morning so that the bod
d was cold when found. Eddy has a
n ready served term in Jail for feloniou
!" assault beside other offenses. A specs
session of the grand jury was summone
b for Monday to consider the case. A
k though Eddys sentence on the liquo
r. case will run until after the next regula
lie meeting of the grand jury it is though
lie that he has too much liberty in tn
Of house of correction for a man who
re suspected of so grave an offense as tn
r killing OF Miss Johnson.
ie A Rotten Court House.
T Sheriff Godfrey of Bennington has ru
81 out OF cuspidors for use at the cour
ID house. The rule has been for some tim
AZ to use one spittoon for each leak in tn
a. roof, but the number of leaks have got
1e ten way ahead OF the number of cusp
~ doris and the sheriff is not authorized t
~ buy another carload. Judges Kent an
a. Mattison were in Bennington last wee
> towatch the progress being made on til
~ new plumbing. They have decided t
70 punch another hole in the roof to furthe
ventilate the courtroom. The presen
rx, number of holes is deemed insufficient
~. 1t was proposed to them to apply til
state rules for light and air in COW
r. stables to the court house and jail bu
ba they refused on the ground that the LAY
-. strictly specifies cows and does not sa
re anything about human beings. Tt
a., judges also examined the cupoa. TT
- frame work is found so rotten that
ar won't hold nails so that it will be impo
he sible to repair this. They think it wi
IN be cheaper to let the cupola fall off int
&C the street than to take it down ar
ed when it goes deputy sheriff will be d
cd tailed to hold an umbrella over the no
he during sessions of court.
to States Attorney Was Dazed.
The absence of the States Attornt
no and the dispatch of a message to the A
at torney General to come to Rutland ar
res take charge of the States bushes
lg. created a small sensation in Rutlar
ne County Court Thursday, when Iud,
ms Zed S. Stanton declined to pronoun
sentence on the three hfth-class lcens
in who already had pleaded guilty to Il
Inc charge of illegal selling of liquor. Fl
CT, lowing the announcement friends
ate States Attorney ]. c. Jones made
)re search for him. He was discovered
or length in store on Center street in
lily dazed condition and unable to give
clear account of himself
las
The Charles Downer of Goshen has offer
nd the state deed OF his large estate
$" that town to be used for reforestrat