Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-03-22
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Greatness Thrust upon Ut.

Greatness Thrust upon Us.
The Vermonter hits the nail on the
head when it says: vermont is
GOOD trade mark. People are calling
for Vermont apples. turkeys, butter,
syrup and sugar. and Vermont cattle
and horses. Vermont farms are being
taken up by the knowing ones. Peo-
ple are coming to Vermont from other
States. We must believe in ourselves
whether we will or not. Greatness is
being thrust upon US.
Laws Delay Is Blamed.
Vermont's clark and bloody
ground" has been transferred from
Bennington county to the wilds of Es-
the state. This Bean double murder
at Maidstone, following the Dodge
tragedy, gives little Essex a bad
record. The opinion is expressed that
official leniency in the latter case
may have tended to encourage a weak
or wicked nature in the Bean affair.
where so far no actual arrest has been
made The inaction of the author
tiles is altogether incomprehensible
on the outside. Herald and
News
False Hair and the Plague.
1t is generally known that much of
the human hair used in rats, puffs
and other head dress for women in
this country comes from China. The
Chinaman is being robbed of his pig
tail for the adornment of American
and European women. Hair from the
head of dead Chinaman can be just
as good as hair from any other
source. but is it always? Recent dis
patches tell of the death of $50 daily
in Hardin, a city of 10000 in Man
churia. The people die from the
Nplague in which Turk the seeds of the
Black Death. A correspondent of the
London Chronicle replies: Despite
the danger of infection, the hair Of
the victims is being extensively pur-
chased by German agents for sale in
the United Kingdom and other coun-
tries. The bodies of victims found
| in the streets Of the stricken towns
are naked. for the unemployed rob
them of their clothes. The great
counts for the fact that their pigtails
are missing. The corpses received at
the Hardin crematorium are all with
out pigtails. However, the positive
knowledge that hair from these Corps
es was being used by the false hair
artists in this country probably would
not deter single woman from tog
ging out with all that Dame Fashion
DEGREES. Bellows Falls Times.
Eastern Opportunities.
The New York Mail. under the cap
0f
Gently published an editorial on ag-
ricultural opportunities in New York,
that corresponds in sentiment with
what the Journal has argued con cern-
ing chances for gain in Vermont. 1t
says:
Ever since Horace Greeley was
preaching GO West, young man. The
New York tradition has been that the
west rather than Ethe east was the re-
gion of cheap land and large farm
ing opportunity. The tradition has
outived the fact. The proof of this
is the circumstance that no New
7 Ork farmers are crossing the border
into Canada, while western farmers
are crossing over by tens of thou
sands.
"A small return wave to This State
has begun, and inquiries are coming
in from the west as to farming lands
for sale here. This wave is bound
largely to increase, for the simple
fact is that now the east, rather thPn
the west is the place of cheap land
and large farming opportunity.
'Do you doubt this? Compare the
average prices per acre of farm lands
in New York, Illinois and Iowa. In
1850, when Greeley was preaching his
Westward gospel, our land was worth
per acre four times that of the other
two States. In 1890 it was still
worth more. In 1905 it was worth
S47.47 an acre. where land in Illinois
was worth S74.32 and in Iowa $57. 81.
'But, you say. land in Illinois and
Iowa produces more than in New
York and therefore ought to sell for
more.
Not so. Average up the values OF
the acre yields of the five big crops
corn, wheat, oats, potatoes and hay
in the three states for the ten years
ending in 1905 ard they show a return
per acre in New York of $I4.42; ir
Illinois of SIG. 70; in Iowa of $13. 96
: "On land costing $27 less an acre the
, New York farmer has been raising
crops worth about SIS more an acre
than in Iowa.
eve CO 1clude with Professor War
rem Of the New York State College o.
2 Agriculture, either that agriculture
land is too high in the west or too low
= in the east. The inference and pre-
diction are the same in either case
S that there is boom due in New Yorl
Y agriculture, and that farmers comint
in from the west will have som,
share in it. What this state need
is to wake up to. it's own Eopportuni
ties"
The last census gave the averag
> value per acre of Vermont farm land
: and buildings as $22 and the averag