Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-07-12
VERMONT INDICATED.
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today the problem vexing so many OF
it's neighbors is practically undis |
cussed in Vermont.
In these same ten years the state |
has built a beautiful agricultural col |
lege building at a cost of $50, 600 ard |
greatly extended the work Of the col
lege and the experiment station and
farm connected with it. Moreover,
one agricultural high school has been
established and the beginning made
toward the realization of a policy
that will probably erect at least one
of these schools in every county in
/ the state. The state commissioner of
agriculture makes an annual tour of
the farming sections, holding public
meetings at convenient points, at
which experts in this science treat
| agricultural problems from the Yer
mont farmers viewpoint and discuss
| local conditions and local needs with
the local farmers that may have
special tr oubles requiring special
| treatment.
! The past decade has seen the COM
| plete reorganization of the state
militia along the lines now conform
1 ing in every particular to the United
States Army standard. Vermont has
completely wiped out every vestige of
the old fuss -and-feathers militia days,
abolished every useless rank and dis
missed every needless officer.
Several years ago Vermont passed
an anti-bucketshop act, and put that
curse out of the way of doing any
more mischief here. And, if memory
is not tickle, the author of the law
was invited to make one or more ad-
dresses in Massachusetts and tell how
the good work was done, because the
Bay State was trying to get up moral
courage enough to follow Vermont's
example. But Mr.. Rossiter's figures
show that we do not begin TO have as
many people that must necessarily be
moral as Massachusetts has.
With the period covered by Mr..
Rossiter's statistics Vermont has en-
gagged an expert state forester, and
with wise laws has begun a systemat-
&c and persistent propaganda for the
conservation of the forests now under
private ownership. 1t has also made
the beginning of a chain of public
forest reserves that will doubtless
in time be extended through every
county in the state with the idea that
|, each one of them will serve as To-
called object lessons of forest culture
Tor the surrounding country. It, has
also founded a state nursery, and
supplies seedlings to all forest plant
ers and sends experts to superintend
their planting al bare cost.
Finally, the progressive spirit of
latter day Vermonters has even dared
attack the ancient constitution and
begin the work of remodeling the time
honored document to conform more
.. nearly to the demand of the age
1act A~t Of ho foEo
missioner of banking shows that for
the six months from July l to Dec.
: 81. the deposits in the savings bank
in the state increased 81, 615, S21. 90,
or at the rate of over $4,000, 900 a
year, and the next similar period is
: expected to show even greater fig
, ures. For the previous fiscal year the
0 increase was over $4,000, 900 and this
e is about the ratio of gain that has
] been maintained for every man, won.
y, an and child in the years. This is
q more than S1l each for Commonwealth
: What other "retrograde" state beats
y that?
!, The fact is the public at large has
q long had the notion fixed in its mine
e that Vermont was an agricultural state
and almost nothing else, and prett,
much all comments on it's people anc
the conditions under which they live
3 are read and understood in that opin
It ion. The truth is that less than g
If per cent of the inhabitants ten year,
IF old and over engaged in gainful oc
e equations are engaged in agriculture
1T Vermont is an industrial state an,
he her Industrial interests are GROWN,
Y. fast.
" Vermont has, indeed suffered from
/ drains on her population caused by
lie emigration to the once new AM
re cheaper farming lands Of the West
at but that movement has ceased ane
lg the tendency today is beginning to Sc
IN back toward return to the farms O
lg the east, in which movement Vernon
Is is already beginning to share, an
ID farming lands in this state are stead
lV increasing in value