Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-04-06
Must Find Remedy.

The strike of the international Pa
per Company's employees at Livermore
Falls, Me-, got so noisy that the mill.
tia were called to assist the sheriff.
TheUnited States is a free country
and one good feature about it is that
it is free for all. 1t is high time that
the periodical clash between large
corporations and labor unions is not
controlled By method that will make
possible so much annoyance to those
who want to work. How would it do
for the labor unions to invest some of
their money in the companies with
which they are continually at war.
| They would then be on the inside
looking out as we'll as on the outside
looking in.-Windsor Journal.
Dustless Highways.
The permanent highways beirg
built in Fair Haven are admitted by
| all to be a great Improvement upon
the kind that were built by the
grandfathers and great grandfathers
| but when it comes to the matter of
dust it is a mooted question whether
there has been anything gained by
the change from dirt to macadam.
The stone used for topping the
roads in and about this village when
pulverized by the attrition to which
it is subject is as fine a substance as
it is possible to produce and the least
bit of friction stirs it into cloud OF
dust that penetrates everywhere and
makes life anything but pleasure tc
those who are obliged to be upon che
busy streets of the town.
Just how to overcome the nuisance.
for it is a nuisance, is the problem
that now confronts the business mems
association. 1t is understood that
organization is about to wrestle witt
it and if it does there will be some
thing done and that right soon.
Water has been tried upon the high
ways for a number of years, ant
while helpful it's use is not altogethe
to be commended and the chance
are that something else will be resort
ed to this year
Oil has been tried in some place
with success and sulphite, the refus
from pulp mills. in some others, an
the probabilities are that the trustee
will be asked to experiment with tn
latter.
AS has already been said somethin
2 will have to be done at once and tn
trustees should look into the matte
= with the business men and take som
steps that will at least abate if the
] do not altogether rid the town of tn:
> just ground for complaint Fair H;
ven Era.
Agricultural Training In Vermont
A persistently hoated objection
the state agricultural colleges of I'll
o present day is the statement that I'll
t graduates of these colleges are owe
:. educated, that they fail to find ii
farm attractive to them after pas
= ing several years in advanced stuC
h in their particular line of work, al
e that they. therefore, branch out in
- some occupation entirely foreign
- their training. Therefore, their SD
II cial training in agriculture is los
was the conclusion of the argumer
The claim was made in Vermont,
n elsewhere; and there have not be-
:, statistics ready at hand to dispute t.
- assertion. Nor are there statistics
is the present time, so far as the Tim
er knows. But at least one other sta
agricultural college is able to prese
figures which successfully refute {
common argument that a course
o. an agricultural college trains the st
n dent away from the farm. 1t is t
AZ Minnesota state agricultural collep
- whose dean, Albert F.. Woods, M
ei reports that of the 108 students era
It. uated from his, department last wee
at least rs per cent will go back
the farm and put in practice the thin
which they have learned during the
n course at state college. 1t is sal
as furthermore, that the percenta
q may reach as high as e5; and of t
!" remainder nearly all will contin
n their studies in agricultural line
r. either to become government and SITS