Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
More Butter the Cry.

War has been declared by the farm
ers of Vermont on unproductive cows,
and the next Legislature will be
asked to appropriate money for car
rying on the battle and reaching the
goal-more milk and more butter.
Approximately two hundred and
lightweight thousand cows in this
state must show what they can do
pretty soon, or be transported to
other climes.
Like every other movement of the
kind, this one requires funds and
general cooperation. With this end
in view the Vermont state dairy test
association was organized during the
recent Farmers week proceedings in
| Burlington, and the state is putting
into effect its first lesson from Den
mark, where the cows are said to be
giving their owners all the butter
they can conveniently handle-just
double the amount produced in 1892,
when COW testing was inaugurated
there.
The initial organization of the kind
in this state was formed at White
! River Junction year ago, and, al
though it is too soon to get much of a
line, on the result, they are proving
satisfactory. There are now seven
COW testing associations in Vermont,
and the members contend that sum
should be allowed by the state for
carrying on this work, thus making
it possible to place someone in charge
of this movement. They argue that
the appropriation for forestry was
seven thousand held in reserve for
any case of special need, and think
their own important plan deserves
fully as much, if not more, considera
ton.
Vermont is second only to Wisconsin
in this movement in this country, and
surely an appropriation of this kind
would prove of more material benefit
to the state at large than some OF
the expenditures authorized by oul
MISUNDERSTANDING Herald.
Proof Plenty.
| Up-to-date the Mead papers have
not answered a single one of the
points raised by this paper against
his candidacy. Why not show that hi
is strong and vigorous, in the full pos
session of those powers now tina
have made him so successful in bust
ness and every walk of life? It il
: not what he has been that interest
the people of Vermont now. 1t i
what he is. Is he capable of tn
same strong constructive work, tn
same attention to details the capaci
J ty for the hard grind that is incum
bent upon governor of this stat
) now, who is to be anything NOR
than a mere fgurehead? Abuse O
those papers that question his pres
ent strength of mind and body. hon
estly believe he is too old for the la
borious work required now of Cover
nor, will deceive nobody. Prove tina
7 your man is capable of being the kin
: of governor Vermont demands.
Morrisville Messenger.
Perhaps the best answer to tn
above is an enumeration of fe,
: things that DR.. Mead is doing ever
a day. It is perhaps true that no pub
q lie official in Vermont for the pas
ten years. with the possible excer
ton of Governor Proctor has bee
d able to demonstrate by his dali
d routine such capabilities for executiv
performance as Lieutenant Goyerno
:, Mead.
DR.. Mead reaches his office at
C o'clock and devotes the morning {
!. the details of the business of tn
:, Howe Scale company, a concer
, whose annual sales aggregate tn
Il sum of 81. 365, 900. We say "details
: and the word is used advisedly, as
> daily survey of the business come
directly under his eye. He can ca
y every man in the works by name
e knows the minute details of a pIar
d that covers Is acres of ground an
= has the essentials of the business :
: his fingers ends.
The Howe Scale company consume