Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-06-17
COMMUNICATIONS.
Eiitor Essex County Herald,

bcai Oh
Would like you to print the following |
in reply to your article entitled "Poor
Vermont" if you feel so disposed.
In my article entitled Farming in
| will say did not intend to
arouse the ire of any man in your town
(for | trust | still have friends there
aside from my parenls) hut as have
already done so can but how at your
mercy seat aud beg your pardon for so
doing. But must add, however, that
il the statements | made in regard to |
the Steele Farm aud farming in Island |
Pond are untrue, your climate has
changed wonderfully, aud your several
townsmen living here who furnished
some of the information have exagger-
ated, but | have no reason to doubt
their verscity in the least.
Yes, have read the vulgar sayiLg IN
regard to a dirty bird" but it so hap
pens that in this case 1.-The dirty bird"
aud my name can in no way he assocl-
ated for | was not born in Vermont and
Vermont was my home for eleven years.
No, don't think for minute that |
am fool enough to pose as an authority
on the resources of the State OF Cali
fornia for the man with that authority
is yet to be born. have friends who
have ranched it in different parts of the
State for over fifty years but they do
not claim to know the resources OF the
Golden State and yet there are people
from Essex County as well as other
sections of the East who came out here
and took "bird's eye view of the State
of California from car window and
then went back East and are today
claiming to be authority on the Golden
West.
Why, only recently Mr.. Brice re-
| turned East after several weeks stay
here and wrote up in his home paper
how oranges did not pay here. To
quote his own words "the ground was
covered with oranges, for there was no
market for them. Now most any
school boy here. could have shown Mr..
Brice why those oranges were on the
ground and given him the "horse laugh.
In my article only gave you just a
taste of California. If any of your
readers are hungry for another sample
they can write Mr.. Hartranft, who is
editor of the Western Empire, published
in Los Angeles, who will be pleased to
furnish any information they desire and
who will corroborate my statement in
regard to what l said in reference tc
California.
| Am sorry, Mr.. Bishop, but | must ad
NIT l am not posted on the Morgan
horse or any other breed of horses.
Oh no, | am not looking for deed o
Vermont or even deed of one of you
abandoned farms. ] am very thankful
am not dependent on charity nor neve
have been. But my statement that
would not go back to live in Island Pom
if was given a deed of the state mos
assuredly struck you as maniacal. Blu
I have heard it so many times since
came here that | am getting hardene
to it. Why only last week Mr. j. {
Higgins of Los Angeles, who had jus
returned from trip to New York Cit.
told me he would not live there te
years if they would give him the STATE
so you can see am not the only FOOLS
man.
The fact that | stated that Islam
= Pond was fast going to pieces stirred IL
Vesuvius. Yes, facts are stubbor
things, especially when driven HON
% But will not detract from that stat
ment in the least, for what is true
Island Pond is also true of other rur
. districts in New England. Now ! {
10 net claim to be authority on this subje
II or any other but if you are skeptical {
/" this point you might ponder over Il
n article entitled "The New Englal
!" Farmer" in "Evervbodys Magazine
n written by Henry Childs Mervin.
y herewith quote fragment from the a
N ticle: at is we'll known fact that rur
IL New England has declined in wealth,
70 population, and perhaps we ought
Il add character, there are towns in viii
'e thousands of acres have passed fro
~ moving land into pasture and from p'
'e ture into forest"
~ Island Pond is to be congratulated
III having so worthy an editor and citiz
nc as MIR. Bishop. If rural New Engla
had had many of his stamp possit
t. there would not have been seventy.f
Tic thousand people come here last f
from the East.
d Very respectfully,
pr Pc. HERRIN.
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