Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-10-12


daN for some generations
! If the Legislature of Vermont will ONLY
extend to the Agricultural College the
financial help necessary to release il from
the limits OF Burlington and Chittenden
county. we shall be glad to cover tho
State with extension courses. so that by
cooperation between the trained special
lists in the Agricultural College and the
earnest farmers Of the State we may
make the barren and waste places to
blossom as the rose. This is no time for
/ niggardness; the State ns a whole and In
| dividual citizens as units cannot afford It.
The winter short courses in the College
/ of Agriculture are afordine opportunities
to those who can avail themselves Of such
privileges, but II the state law-making
bodies will accept the truth of the scrip
tural statement that ito whom much
is given. of them shall much he required d"
they will give much more to the Agricul-
tural College in order that all Our people
may require larger service from it and "A
consequent prosperity of which the State
does not now even dream.
Nernonts dairying industry is In special
need a this time Of careful study. and
| her dairymen OF wise counsel. For gen
erations butter-making state. she is
| rapidly becoming a milk-shipping section.
| The best Of her farm real estate is flow =
| ing daily down the railroad track to Bos-
| ton and New York in the milk trains. A
widespread educational campaign as to
! the dangers Of this traffic and the bes.
| means whereby they may be overcome
as overcome they may be--woud be one
Of the best services our Agricultural col
| lese could render tho State--if II were a -
| lowed to do So
Our department OF forestry OFFERS limit
less possibilities for service to the people
OIL the state. TWO hirds or vermont s
~ ' 49,, y. ~ ~ ''I.' VI ''''u wv It
a,,.. 49,.
| much OF forestry. Working In co-opera
ton, as Il does. with the State and ma
| tional forest service in the conduct Of In
vestigations IN forest manaremen+ aud
| tree growth In reforestine tho yas,e
places and teaching the D,inciples of for
estry to college students to farmers a,
special schools and otherwise both hi.
! the printed and the snolep word tho
| Agricultural College homes 10 forward tho
+ day Of national forestry 10 500 that tina
forest monarcls in the future "a IN tbA
/ past Shall furnish the rlor,es NJ p
b-auteous lsndscape and tho s,hlin,it,.
of majestic scenery. while AT tho sam.
! time they make their offer,n. ~ tbo
wealth of their owners
Maple sugar. which appeals in its tooth
someness TO the whole world has ci,on IN
Vermont n neculiar fame In N. ro,,oto,,
corners OF the earth. and the exnerts of
our Agricultural Colleae and in tho Nv
pertinent station are making ,ho,r can
ciusions available TO all mamie sugar nro-
ducers to the end that a clearer under
standing may prevail as to causes Of and
! remedies for inferiortv
THE t>cp,pr,-c poSS,,,, ,,r,rr ~,
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puono ,a,,o,. VI '''o iacl una .
o,ls .,..' "'.o ~ 'o'se' 'nc"i'e"
regular army. The explanation OF tn. fac
| which he deplores is found in the recent
awakening of the now well-aroused youth
OF America to the possibilities Of pros
perity. service and happiness on tho farm
! The city now has few advantages fo- resi
dence over the rural district. The multi
plication Of telephone lines. and rural free
deliveries and he extension Of troIIov
systems is rapidly bringing the farming
citizenship OF our country into close ,on-
nectlon with orr prea. commanded co,
tres into Immediate lnovledre If world
| events. and into Full posscssio, ~ HIGH in
tollectual and cultural ADVANTAGES Tho
| Agricultural Collepa n, tho c,o,o
university has no excuse for t,s
| existence II IL fails 10 show tho uav for
! the profitable use Of everv inch or o,ro,,rd
within tho horders of this S,a,e I,.ar,.
natural resource Of Vermont must bo mn
,zcd and made available FOR somo,biu, 90
, Vermont is IN mako ito cop,r,o.os, orfor
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| ne STATE university may perhaps best
| dlS'harSo us obligation tor economic serv-
| ICE though the instrumentalty Of its Col
lese OF Engineering and Mechanic Arts.
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