The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-16
vERMoNTs POPULATION.
Sixty-four Towns and Cities Showed an
Increase.


There were in Vermont in 1910 six.
| ty-four towns and cities which showed
an increase in population over 1890.
Given by counties they were as follows;
Addison Bristol Hancock, Middle
bury.
Observation-Disclosures, Manchester,
Readsboro.
Caledonia Hardwiek, Lyndon, Rye
gate, st. Johnsbury.
Chittenden-Bu Burlington, Colchester,
Essex, Huntington, Milton, Richmond
st. George, South Burlington.
Essex-Canaan.
Franklin Richford, Swanton.
Grand Isle-Grand Isle, South Hero,
Notwithstanding, johnson, Morris
town, Stowe,
Orange -Brookfeld, Fairlee, Orange,
Williamstown.
Orleans Barton, Derby, Greensboro,
Newport, Troy
Rutland-Fair Haven, Pawlet, Pitts
ford, Poultney, Proctor, Rutland.
Washington Barre, Barre Town, Cab
at, East Montpelier, Montpelier, North
field, Plain6eld Waterbury, Woodbury..
Windham-- Brattleboro, Rockingham,
Vernon, Westminster, Wilmington
Windsor Bethel, Cayendish, Hartford,
Ludlow, Rochester, Royalton, Spring
field, Windsor.
Although only about one quarter of
our towns and cities show gains in
period OF twenty years, there is lit
tie satisfaction in the fact that Wash
ington county shows the largest num-
Der Of gains of any in the state.
IL is proper, of course, to recognize
that the supreme good does not lie in
numbers alone but the steady and heavy
losses in such large proportion of Yer
mont towns cannot fail TO Great alarm
as we contemplate the future, unless
this loss can be checked. 1t is possible,
of course. to benefit conditions very
materially in oa" rural towns without
very largely increasing the population
in those towns, but it ought to be pos
sible TO check the losses.
Broadly speaking, Of course, the way
to check this exodus is TO create oppor-
tunities for making money in rural
towns, This must come largely from
a more extensive system OF farming
and fruit growing. With government
statistics very near the head in the
yield per acre of many Of the staple
crops, and with our natural 0pportu-
mites for raising apples, it ought to
be possible to attract farmers from
other states and to keep many OF our
boys at home. We have made plans for
beginning practical agricultural training,
which needs to be extended, which will
help to make agriculture more popular
and more profitable
We need more manufacturing villages
and cities to furnish a home market
for the garden truck that can be raised
al good profit in the immediate vi
entity of an urban population. With
the increasing value of water power our
mountain streams ought to furnish pow
er for good many manufacturing en-
terprises. The recent changes in Yer
mont railroads whereby two great sys-
TENS control practically all of our trans
portation. ought to give Us better
freight service for the products Of our
mills and factories.
The losses in population in this state
are sufficiently serious to demand thor
ough and careful investigation and to
the solution Of the problem Of how con
ditions are to be remedied should be
brought the best thought Of our wisest
citizens When the gain Of a whole
state in a decade is less than the gain
Of nine Of its towns and cities, some
thing is radically wrong. II is very
evident that we have got to arouse
more enterprise and enthusiasm, dis
card old methods for new, and let the
world know what Vermont has to Of
fer. If we are goi to get out Of this
retrograde condition We need to wake
up both to our dangers and to our OPP
portunities. Montpelier Journal.