Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-10

grant, with eliminating competition,
with over payment to railroads. with
ignoring routing directions, and with
undue favoritism. The service of an
express company is primarily termi-
nal service, concerning the collection
and delivery of articles, AMI by an
arrangement with the railroads TIE
express companies extend their se.vi, e
to widely different points. 1t appears
that the express companies have been /
largely increasing terminal charges |
where articles were transported long T
distance. Naturally a higher charge
is made for transporting an express
parcel over long distance than over
shorter distance, but the terminal
service is Identical in the two cases.
It apears, however, that on 5000
mile haul the express companies have
made the terminal charge rs times as
large as when similar package is
transported Is miles. The petition
filed against the companies is published
in full in the Boston Chamber of Com
merce News and it makes mighty
interesting reading. The Springfield
Union, after reviewing the charges,
comes to this conclusion: 1.-The ex-
press business seems to be a grab IN
which both the railroads and express
companies get all the traffic will bear.
And because of the close relations that
exist between the one and the other.
neither class of concerns is disposed to
complain about the other Brattle-
boro Phoenix.
Making Agriculture More Popular.
New York City is getting ahead of
Vermont by establishing the study OF
agriculture in some of the public
schools, the move being made in the
l hone that the field of agriculture
e shall become so attractive to the
4 little city children that they shall de-
e sire to take up their life in the coun-
t try and thus relieve some of the con-
e gestion of the great city. Meanwhile
S Vermont children are getting a prac:
;. tical demonstration of the agricultural
0 life, whether they will or not. The
n only advance which we do need tt
e teach them is, not agriculture. but sci
n entiic agriculture. 1t the youngel
S generation can be taught to see that
/. agriculture is not merely a drudgery
ID they will be induced to take up thel
lie lot in their native state and thus re
s tain for the old state much of its right
e full sturdy blood. The new courses
lc inst being arranged for the Lyndol
IN Institute through the generosity o
j. Theodore N. Vail, the telephon
u man, constitute about the first NOV
Id for popuEarizing the study of agrlcul
~ ture. Of course, the state has ha
of the Vermont Agricultural college
en- with it's excellent experiment station
O. at Burlington for some time; but 1t
not possible for any GOES sderable PEI
centage to, take advantage of the OF
portunities offered there. That tn
s- new courses will prove popular
"a shown by the following statment fro
IS, the Ludlow Tribune :
Word from Lyndonville is to tt
is effect that many inquiries have bee
m. received as a result of the newspapt
zee talk about the proposed agricultur
rg department in connection with Il
ny Lyndon Institute. made possib
if through T. N. Wallis generosity. II
ed, work of preparing suitable quartz
ed. for the new students is being hurrie
vor and it is planned to have everything
ra- readiness by the opening of the IL
per term. Many Vermont boy shou
red avail himself of this chance for PEA
tu- teal training.
ally Other schools in Vermont may
hey expected to follow the same lines,
lar soon as the funds for the new We
var are Forthcoming. Vermont will Fl
per. it to her advantage to 1ncre;
ak schools of this sort.-Barre Tim