Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-15
Want a Law with Teeth"

Fifty representative citizens and
county and local officials from differ
ent parts of the state were present
last week at the conference called by
Gov. G. H. Prouty at Montpelier, to
discuss the subject of standard weights
and measures and the matter was left
with the governor to appoint a com
mittee of five to draft a bill to be con
~sideredlby the next legislature, which
will include the appointment of state
sealer of weights and measures. The
report of F. S. Holbrook, special rep
resentative of the bureau of stand
ards, department of commerce, Wash
ington, showed that 40 per cent of the
scales in Vermont were incorrect and
IS per cent of these were short weight.
Liquid Measure was given when the
law called for dry measure and the
consumer was cheated and honest COM
petition stifed. Print butter was
found one eighth of a pound short and
onions, potatoes, and apples from two
to five pounds short or a bushel. At
the meeting were Mayor Burke of
Burlington, P.~W. Hazen of st. Johns
bury, Henry w. Clement of Rutland,
and a committee of business men rep
resenting the Montpelier board of
trade. L. A. Fischer of Washington,
chief of standards, was also present.
Henry F. Field of Rutland, former
state treasurer, spoke of the inefi-
cheney of present law, only four COM
plants in twenty years having been
prosecuted. The consensus of meeting
favored more teeth" in the present
law or a new me-.
Lyndon Institutes New Department.
Az 5onouo+Ao mill +olLn p1ono io
Lyndon Institute, beginning with the
~portunity made possible by T. N. Vail,
an agricultural and industrial school is
to be added. This department will fit
young men to take up farming as a
business and to use thought and method
in their work, and the course will
cover two years of nine months each.
A farm will be set aside, where
practical work will be done, and the
theoretical work will be done at the
institute. Any resident of Vermont
eligible to any approved high school
will be admitted here and the expenses
for each school year are estimated at
S162-tuition, $36; board and room,
$108; books, about eighteen dollars.
Any student of the agricultural
department may also take any subject
in any other department of the Insti-
tute, or any student in the institute
may take subjects in the agricultural
| department, by consent of the director
of the agricultural department and
the principal of the institute. The
courses of study offered in the new de-
partment are very comprehensive, the
following being some of the subjects
considered: Elementary agriculture,
farm crops, soils and manures, breeds
of animals, animal breeding, feeds
and feeding, diseases of animals, farm
poultry, elementary botany, plant
diseases, farm dairying, butter max
ing, milk production, fruit growing,
vegetable gardening, greenhouse
management, home decoration, farm
forestry, farm management, arith-
metic which includes work in common
and decimal fractions, measurements
of areas, capacity of bins, contents of
silos, and other work of value to the
business farmer, agricultural chemis-
try agricultural physics, bookkeeping,
with especial regard to the keeping of
farm accounts, civics, a study of the
legislative, executive and judicial de-
partments of our town, county, state
and national government, drawing with
relation to the planning of farm
buildings English entomology and
economic zoology, physiology and n.y.
giene. practical work including the
care and construction of practical
buildings, the familiarizing of the
student with the uses of small tools
and the learning how to make simple
repairs on farm implements and farm
buildings.