The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-11
Be n n IN ON COUNTY
VERMONT IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATION NEWS
100000 From the West.

This money was obtained through
| the Crop Improvement Committee OF
the Council of Grain Exchanges. 1t
is interesting to note that money
from the middle west should come to
New England for the purpose of inn
proving our agriculture. The Associ
alton has been in communication
with Bert Ball, Secretary of the Crop
Improvement Committee, who has
thoroughly Investigated the purpose
of the Bennington County Vermont
Improvement Association, the work
that it is doing and the method by
which it is doing the work.
The crop Improvement Committee
has a million dollars to spend for
the Improvement of agriculture
throughout the country. Business
men are beginning to see the great
importance of increased and improv-
ed products along agricultural lines.
Boards of Trade and other organiza-
tons are pushing agricultural de-
velopment with great energy. The
Bennington County Vermont Improve
ment Association is not only strly
ing to improve the agriculture of our
county, but also to bring in new in
dustries, develop the water power,
improve the schools the roads, etc,
and get back of every vital interest
in the county
The confidence of the Crop I'M
proyement Committee in our Associ-
alton and the work that it is under
taking and the contribution received
as result of their conviction that
this will mean increased business
and improved conditions all around,
is reassuring to every member OF the
Bennington County Vermont I'M
provement Association. 1t is also a
challange to every farmer and bust
ness man and everyone who has the
improvement of conditions in Ben
nington County at heart who has not
already contributed and who is not
yet a member to become a member
of the Association and to give it
what financial support he or she
can.
The Association has a goodly num-
Der of large contributors but this
does not mean much unless it re-
ceives the cooperation and the sup
port of everyone. II you are not a
member send your dollar and what
additional YOU care to give to J. A.
Scheuerle, Secretary. Manchester,
VT
The following from the Saturday
Even ne Post is of interest.
This farm population OF Illinois
decreased seven per cent in the last
census decade. and value of farm
machinery increased from forty-fve
million dollars TO seventy-four MIL
lions; also the number of horses 10
the cultivated acre increased nine
per cent With more and better
machinery, and more draft animals,
fewer hands are needed to cultivate
a given number OF acres under our
present system OF extensive farming.
This is what the decrease of farm
population-or its failure to increase
i'm the Mississippi Valley during
the last ten years really means. Ma
chinery takes the place OF men
AT the same time almost onehalf
of the Illinois villages less than
twenty five hundred inhabitants de
creased in population. With a small
er farm population there were of
course, fewer people to patronize ne
villages.
ION the other hand littel more
than half OF the village did increase
in population, and an elaborate com
parison in the Journal of Political
Economy shows a close correspon-
dence between increase in village
population and the number of rural
free-dellvery routes that center in
the village. Broadly speaking. rural
delivery routes mean better roads.
and the facts presented warrant the
general deduction that villages with
good roads are gaining in population
at the expense of villages with poor
roads.
"A country town. in short, that does
not look out for good roads is doom
ed TO stagnation."
The talk to the school children by
Ernest Harold Baynes and his illus
trated lecture in the evening in con
nection with the lyceum course in
Manchester and Arlington created
considerable enthusiasm for the pro
lection and conservation of birds and
wild animals.
At Manchester the following com
mittee was appointed to see if some
thing could be done to establish a
Bird Club. Mrs. +. l.. Wyman. Man
chester Center. Mr. Robert Orvis,
Manchester. Mrs. II. S. King. Man
chester Depot
Vermont Apples at st4 a Barrel.
The Country Gentlemen for Dec.
9TH has an article by Samuel Fraser
that shows what can be done with
Vermont apples and how it is &C
complished. Mr.. Fraser says that
Mr. r. l.. Hemenway of Addison
County, Vermont has sold Vermont
Northern Spy apples at s14 a barrel
and that he has not only secured this
price in 1910 but for a period of
years has sold his fancy spies for
prices ranging from IS to $14 bar
rel
He also says that Mr.. c. T. Holmes
OF Chittenden County, Vermont, mas
sold fancy greetings at 81 a barrel
and that one year he sold 1855 bar
rels at $3.50 a barrel. All of these
prices are in New York. This is but |
a suggestion of what can be done |
with Vermont apples. Mr.. John l..
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