Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-07

ers in this region that is worth their
serious attention. Noticing from an
article in the Mess anger that a ST.
Adams man has made contract to
send 10000 home grown seed potatoes
to Virginia this fall, he writes that
his section of the country is looking
for Nor thern seed potatoes. too, and
will pay a good price for them.
If this part of Vermont can raise
for Virginia seed potatoes that pass a
rigid inspection by the United States
government expert and win a con-
tract over the CO npetition of ARGOS
! took, Me-, growers. what is to hinder
! the farmers hareahouts taking advan
tage Of this new market that Mr.
Smith proposes to them? This is the
kind of specialized farming that pays?
This is the kind of intensive farming
that has money in it? 1t takes gumr
ton and hard work for while, it
takes alertness and enterprise in Sc
! curing the contract and it r quires
painstaking care and absolute honesty
in filing it. But there is good money
in it when the season is over and a
promise that a satisfactory supply
this year will mean an increased bust
ness in the same market in the years
to come. This is a fair instance of
some of the opportunities the Yer
mont farmers must arouse themselves
to grasp and improve if they want to
prosper and stop the worlds talk
about "decadent' state.
Don't say farming does not pay
when Texas is calling for your pota.
toes.-St. Adams Messenger.
Mars and Minerva.
cit is very laudable purpose the
Vermont Teachers Retirement Fund
association has in collecting a fund to
aid in the support of teachers forced
to retire on account Of age. If they
succeed they will furnish belated
compensation that all successful
school teachers have earned. s.,
Johnsbury Caledonian.
Read this now. It is heresy, but
the Messenger will venture it. as it
has risked many heresies before.
The time will come when the people
of this greatest eXemplifcation Of
free government on earth will awak e
to realize that
If it, is national prudence to take
their pick of the flower of young
: manhood; educate it to the military
profession; employ it for the period
. of the most usefulness in human life
at good salary to devote it's brain and
energies solely to the art Of war and
destroying fellow mortals; and then
F retiring it On handsome pension for
the remainder Of its days
They will also conclude that il is
infinitely more the part Of national
, prudence to take their pick of the
. flower of young brains educate it to
the great and ennobling task of dispel
ling ignorance, uplifting the human
mind. qualifying fellow mortals to
f live easier, happier, and holier and to
pursue careers of great usefulness to
themselves and to the race and then
retiring it at age on handsome pen.
: sion for the remainder of is days.
, We may not have outgrown the BE
cessity for warriors yet.
We certainly have not grown up tC
the true appreciation Of the necessity
for school teachers yet,
The school teachers, the worll
over, will some day,-far off, per.
haps. but some day-put the warriors
out Of business.
= In the meantime, the warriors gel
: their pension-St. Albans Messenger.
The Asbestos Ind ustry.
, Consul A. E. Seyfert, stationed a
. Owen Sound, Ont, writes the state
. department as follows concerning Can
ada's asbestos supply:
"According to an official report,
Canada produces 81 per cent of the
E worlds supply of asbestos. The com
. panles operating asbestos quarries
and factories in Canada are capital
S lied at $24, 290, 600. In 1880 only 38(
5 tons Of asbestos were produced in the
, Dominion, valued at $24, 700. II
, 1909 the output was So, 800 tons valued
at 81, 30O,0 900. III 1909 1000 men were
\ employed in the asbestos industry, anC
e received wages amounting to 81, $50,
600. In the Black Lake quarries, in
the Province of Quebec there are As,
5 900. 900 tons of asbestos rock in sight
The Russians are the only rivals as
regards extent of asbestos resources
but are heavily handicapped by the
excessive cost of transportation Of 49,
i to $40 per ton from the Russian mines
to London. Serious competition is
not feared by the Canadian companies
on this account.
"The asbestos slate or shingle in
dustry is being developed by the
plants n Canada, and predictions are
made that in short time rs per cen
of all the asbestos produced in the
, Canadian quarries will be used fol-
? shingles. The asbestos slate business
v is only five years old, but during thai
;. time the demand for this article has
4 increased enormously, and large fac
tories are being established to supply
+ the demand for this new roofing ma
terial.'
A few miles south of the Blacl
Lake quarries and forming a part O.
the same general deposit are the as
>. bestos deposits Of Eden and Lowell
. The development of the Vermont as
:. bestos industry has been small as yet
but experienced biologists tell us tina
y the Vermont asbestos shall rank wit
n marble and granite among our impor
- tant industries
n The demand far exceeds the suppl
Is and the production is profitable. |
# would not be strange if the Vernon
70 Quarries when fairly and thorough
,s examined. proved every bit as valua