Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-01-11
OA|RYMEN AND
SUGAR MAKERS
Two Vermont Organizations in
Annual Session in This
City.


brcakaec implies one time Wilderness.
The triangle has never been completed
in Vermont. 1t has always lacked one
angie.
Vermont appropriates twenty-one times
as much for court expenses as she does
IN the interests Of agriculture and Of
forestry. She approprtates nothing TO the
college OF agriculture for agricultural
purposes The college does much In
these lines, but docs It because Of ma
tional bounty. and not because OF state
appropriate ton. The national funds are not
available for extension work. Extension,
n II 4. to be inaugurated. must he q
matter OF state initiative.
The Vermont experiment station has
been carrying on several lines OF extern
sion work In the past It has been forced
70 abandon what little Il has done.
owing TO the no~ prevailing strfcter
construction Of the national law under
which II Is conducted. Such matters as
the conducting of international cor
respondence OF field demonstration Of
improved farm practices. Of the giving
Of advice as to farm. orchard. and factory
operation, the making OF farm surveys
and orchard surveys. tho conducting or
cooperative neid tests. variety trials ana
the IKE, the installation OF reading
courses. the issuance Of international
bulletins and the like; these ana
multitude Of other lines which modern
extension service carries on. the YER
mont station has in part tried to do in
the past. but now has abandoned
The Page biil contemplntes the estah-
lishn,ent Of a national extension service.
This. however cannot be put into opera
tion until such time as the state leG,sia-
ture has provided for the establishment
at the State University Of State extern
sion service. The Legislatures OF forty
odd States have already done this. 1t
would be lamentable II in Senator Pages
own State no action were taken in this
matter
The State grange at its annual meeting
last month passed resolutions favorinE the
establishment Of extension service AT the
State university. and similar resolutions
will be presented for adoption at the
darymen's meeting
THE BOY ON THE FARM.
The Women's auxiliary did not take
its expected part on the evening pro-
gram. and the place that DR.. Harvey
W. Wiley OF Warrington, the pure food
expert was to have filled was taken
by Andrew Elliott OF Gault. Ontario.
q retired farmer and widely known
lecturer. Dr Wiley is scheduled to
speak at the banquet this evening.
Following a musical number by the
orchestra. Miss Marion Jordan render
ed hute solo. and at the close OF
the program there was another selec-
ton by the orchestra.
Mr.. Elliott made a hit with his aud
fence. He discussed The Boy on the
Farm" with rare understanding Of the
boy nature. and with full appreciation
homesteader.
Keep the hoy on the farm by MAX
ing the farm attractive to him." said
the speaker Mr.. Elliott urged thdt
the boy or the girl on the farm be en-
couraged to bring friends to his or
her home. rather than be driven away
by hard and unsympathetic home in
huences. There were ideas in his ad-
dress. and he was welcomed to the
moor second time, when in sort Of
postscript number one" he said some,
things In a Ave minute talk about the
woman's part in the affairs Of to-day
that not only entrenched him firmly
In the estimation OF the feminine por-
tion Of the audience but drew the
hearty applause OF the men az wal.