The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-31
BENNINGTON COUNTY
VERMONT IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATION NEWS

Now that the agricultural expert
has been promised to Bennington
county the Bennington County Yer
mont Improvement Association is go
ing to make strenuous efforts to or
ganize the farmers and get things
along the lines of agricultural advance
ment. We hope that the farmers will
take hold of this with enthusiasm and
determination that will mean bus
mess. This will mean increased
prosperity
1t is worth while for everyone liv-
ing in the county to appreciate the
opportunities that await the man
who engages in scientific agriculture,
and for all the prosperity that it will
bring. The business man as well as
the farmers ought to cooperate with
the Bennington County Vermont I'm
provement Association in trying to
/ improve the economic, social and edu-
cational conditions in the farming re-
gions.
Farmers as well as the men in the
village should widen their horizon
and enlarge the scope of their inter
ests SO that there will be an effectual
county cooperation along every line
of improvement and up-lift The in
dividual farmer. with his single or
chard, or herd. or farm, is not in
position to establish a brand and ere.
ate a market in such places as New
York or Boston, but if large num-
Der of farmers, under the direction OF
the expert who is to be with us, will
produce firstclass articles, and if the
farmers will cooperate, build cream
cries, etc, it will be possible for them
to establish a Bennington County Yer.
mont Association brand and obtain
the top prices in the best markets OF
the world.
IL is the purpose of the Bennington
County Vermont improvement Asso-
citation to give several paragraphs in
this column for a series of days set
ting forth the agricultural opportu-
mites that are right here in our mid
st as they have been outlined by the
Boston Chamber of Commerce after a
most careful statistical study of the
possibilities of New England agricul-
ture as compared with that of the en-
tire country. Vermont has unpar-
allelled opportunities and everyone
ought to be made to realize what these
opportunities are as compared with
those in other places We believe
that knowledge leads to action
Tell your neighbors about the as
ISOLATION and its work. II is for the
interest of every farmer, landowner
and resident TO cooperate with us all
he possibly can, and in return for
your moral support and suggestions we
shall do all in our power to make ev-
, cry township in Bennington county a
better place in which to live.
From year to year our work will of
course show greater results. Every
thing has beginning We mean to
make every move count along lines
That VIII prove of some permanent
advantage to our citizens. II makes
no difference where you live in this
county-we want your advice, sugges-
lions and ideas, and in return this as.
| sociation will continually labor to Sc
cure for you greater prosperity, more
comforts, better markets, better roads
everywhere in the county. and i'm
proved conditions along all lines of
improvement and uplift.
We desire to get, as quickly as
possible, such information as will en-.
able us to work along lines that will
bring greatest good to the largest
number of people. and thus rapidly
reach everybody whatever their work.
/ business or profession. We keep
careful record of our work, and thus
are enabled to see the results and
benefits of our labors in each town
and throughout The county.
We assure you that Remington
/ county is about to witness a decided
and thorough change for the better
in all ways affecting the farmer. the
taxpayer the citizen, the business
man, manufacturers, summer people.
tourists and their families. Everyone
who ever comes to Bennington county
will want to come again when they
see what grand place we have made
1t through united, cooperative work.