Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-02-14

population. This indicates that the
price of cattle is more likely to in
crease than decrease and so the rails
ing of cattle promises to become more
profitable than in the past. Vermont
has lots of cheap grazing land That is
not utilized and there are thousands
of tons of good stock hay shipped out
OF the state every winter furnishing
abundant means for the production of
good cattle. With conditions like
these it would seem promising time
to increase the production of cattle
here at home. Twenty years from
now one will hear men saying, eff /
had only known how the prices of cat
tie and land were going to advance 20
years ago and bought land and start
ed cattle raising | would have been
rich man today" Unless some ca
lamity overtakes America the produc-
tion of cattle is sure to become more
profitable, and the man who gets into
it while grazing land can be secured
so cheaply in Vermont will be as sure
of reasonable success as In any other
opening in the country. There is a
good opportunity for a successful bus
mess right here in Vermont.-St.
Johnsbury Caledonian.
''Fools.''
The following statement is credited
to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
when pressed for the reason for his
departments attitude on the Florida
everglades matter, now being investi-
gated:
Il am not running this office for
the protection of fools who do not
know any better than to buy some
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anything about That being the
case he must have been running the
department so that land exploiters
were able to prevail upon the so
called "fools" who are drawn by the
alluring words of persons with land
to sell, whether that land be under
two or ten feet of water and lkely
TO come to the surface only after
great effort through many years. AS
to that attitude, more will come out
when the promised investigation OF
the secretary's position is made more
thoroughly.
But the point which the secretary
words bring imperatively to the front
Is the fact that people are "fooIs''
actually who place their money in
property which they never have seen
and which they know nothing about
only through the skillfully wordec
prospectuses of the selling agents
Just how much money has gone out
CT the little state of Vermont under
these conditions, it would be hard te
say: but there are innumerable in.
stances where Vermonters with E
little spare cash have been drawn into
land explorations in various parts OF
the country only to find that Their
property was worth little or nothing
because it lay under water or be-
cause the boom" which was pro
missed for that particular section
failed to materialize after the pro
motors had finished their job. Anc
after they have considered their ven
ture calmly they have been ready te
admit, with Secretary Wilson's state
ment now, that they were fools eve,
to have bought without personal in
vestlgation of the conditions. Prob
ably there are others who are about
to try the same experiment. If there
are such, it would be the part of wis
dom for them to recall the experiences
of others and clinch their refusal BY
remembering Secretary Wilson's
somewhat harsh word of protest
against protecting ''fools. barre
Times.