The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
BETTER ARMING"
SPECIAL TRAIN IN
BENNINGTON
Large Audience at Grand Army
Hall Last Evening
ADDRESSES BY 4 SPEAKERS
Crowd Went to Station After Meet
ing and inspected Agricultural
College Exhibit.

The Better Farming" special train
which has been making tour Of the
Rutland division of the New York
Central road, arrived in Bennington,
the terminus of.the trip, Friday after
noon. The coming of the special had
been thoroughly advertised and dis
cussed and the train at once became
an object OF inspection.
Grand Army hall was filled to its
capacity in the evening when the in
door meeting was held and the audi
ence was given an opportunity to
listen to four enthusiastic speakers.
That the intense interest of the
speakers in their work communicated
itself to those in attendance was well
evidenced by the large number that
went to the station at the close of
the meeting to see the exhibit.
Because Of the limited time at
their disposal the speakers made but
brief addresses but every one of them
had fund OF ideas at command
and there is not the slightest doubt
that the meeting will be productive
of results here in the future.
b. Walker Mexican, ex-secretary of
the Maine board of agriculture, was
the first speaker. Mr. McKeans top
ic was THE Care and Housing Of the
Dairy Cow" and most OF his talk was
devoted to the proper building of
stables for the average farmer. Mr..
Mexican insisted that 1t was just as
easy TO produce clean dairy products
as those that were tainted with dirt
and that there is more money In
properly caring for a COW than in al
lowing that most useful animal to
suffer through poor housing and feed
ing.
State Forester A. F. Halves told his
audience that A No. white pine is
selling today for 500 a thousand feet
and in his short forceful talk must
have convinced many of his listen
ers that timber in the future Is going
to be a profitable crop. There are
thousands OF acres In the state he
said, comprised In the so-called
abandoned farms and the area that
have been denuded OF the natural tree
growth which planted to white pine
seedlings would make at least
growth equal to thousand feet
every year per acre. Such tree
J planting would add the worth of a
4 thousand feet OF lumber each year TO
/ the value OF each acre OF white pine.
! Trees are furnished by the expert
ment station NJ cost and the forester
showed that the planting is not an
expensive task.
Prof. J. l.. Hills, dean Of the agri-
! cultural college, gave n short, ener-
getic talk on What the Agricultural
/ College Is Doing and What IL Wants
TO Do" He endeavored TO point out
to his audience the excellent opening
offered to young men OF the state at
/ the agricultural college After a
struggle OF over 20 years the college
now has an attendance OF SO stud
ents and yet Prof Hills said that he
today has more places for graduates
than he has graduates TO I'LL them.
The single young woman who took
the course, and who attended the
college for the simple reason that she
wished to learn how to better assist
In the conduct OF the home farm on
which she lived. now has an excellent
position under the government at
Washington.
NJ Il. Cummings. professor OF agri-
culture. furnished the humor for the
meeting. lnterspersed with some ex-
collent stories he attempted to
awaken his audience to the possibili.
ties OF apple growing In state,
which he said. possessed every natu-
raj condition required but which to-
day lacked only the trees planted apd
cultivated according 10 modern meth.
DDS.
In adiournIng the meeting the
chairman called attention to the oh
legation which the people OF the
state owed the Rutland division OF
the New York Central railroad. The
Better Farming" special had been
equipped by the agricultural college
nj Burlington but the train itself had
been furnished by the railroad com
pany and had been operated over
the entire route without expense "a
the institution.