St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-03-01

acre, but taking the farm lands of
Holland alone each acre has market
value of $3.50. Ninety per cent of
the people of Japan are farmers
and the size of a Japanese farm
is a little under two acres, not
two and a half as the Messenger
says in the editorial here referred
to. The Japanese is the best fed
man in the world, and he hasn't
eaten meat in more than 200
years. In our day and generation
he has fought the greatest battles
and won the greatest victories
that history, ancient or modern,
mentions. When they were fight
ing the Russians only three out
of every 100 of their soldiers were
i'll enough to be in hospitals,
whereas, in that little fracas called
the Spanish-American war, the
number of American soldiers i'll in
the hospitals was at no time under
80 per cent, and numerous were the
deaths from starvation, and to cap
the climax the American people were
called upon to make up purse of
100000 to pay for whitewash and
for the services of them who applied
it.
Vermont has the best soil of any
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question as to that, and it contains
those elements that produce the fin
est favored vegetable that is grown
in the whole United States. That is
no idle statement but the plain
truth. Yet the Vermonter, as a
whole, depends upon the Boston and
New York markets for his vege-
tables, his strawberries, his beans,
his pickles, his canned goods, and
preserves. In Vermont, also grow
for depth and brilliancy of color, the
| finest flowers in the country, if not
in the world; at least this is true as
respects the White River valley, yet
the farmer who grows and talks
brethren as lacking in something, or
worse. Beginning with this year and
to continue through the next, the
people of Vermont are to spend near
to $50 day on it's combined de-
partments of agriculture and forest
ry. What will the harvest be? AS
things are today the most inefficient,
the most ignorant farming in the
northern states of this Union is
right here in Vermont. Will the ex-
penditure Of this $50 per day bring
about different and better rural
economy?-[The Landmark.
o, You Vermont SoIons!
FIn a sudden burst of generosity
the last day of the session, the YER
mont legislature voted to allow the
same per diem, 81, that the members
received, to dozen or more girls
employed in the various departments
around the state house, some of
whom were not even remotely con-
! nected with legislative proceedings;
and the same amount was voted to
| the sweepers, the night Waterman,
the assistant engineer, the pages,
and the messengers. 1t is presumed
that our ST. Adams contemporary
has not yet recovered consciousness
Manchester Union.
Not quite. And some day, when the
public, the taxpayers of Vermont,
know the details of the formulation
of this law, they will wonder why
some men big enough to be thought
of to be sent to Montpelier, should
shrink so fast after they get there.
| If ever there was a silly fraud on
| the pocketbooks of Vermonters it
was the slapdash vote of excessive
! salaries to every Jack and Jill that
| tipped his hat or winked her eye at
| the lawmakers during their nearly
| four months haunt of the capitol.
Not man that took the freeman S
oath before he was sent to Mont
! pelier, or the constitutional oath of a
member of the Legislature after he
was sent there, would have paid his
| own private help in his own private
| business on any such extravaganza
! disprOpOrtiOnate scale as that upon
which he voted away the state
money-[S ST. Adams Messenger.