The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-11-29
A Hint to Vermont.

! Boosting this fall that rs per cent Of
| the young men who attend its State
1 College are self-supportinG and that
one of the students in the agricultural
department OF that institution won
the first prize in a stock,judglng con
test at Chicago. That is all worth
Dragging about. But it leads people
up there into mentioning a great
deal OF hope which they do not rea.
lie. They hope the young men thus
educated Will proceed TO improve The
fruits and other products of the land
the college has been doing grea
work for more than twenty years
and The people Of New Hampshire
bay mere fruit from the marke
cities outside of the state than with
in it. ten to one. They eat NOR,
Western beef than state beef
twenty TO one. They import nine
eggs TO one their hens lay. That |
The Now Hampshire ratio of Ouyint
to producing.
A Worcester man went up ihroUg.
Vermont and New Hampshire ias
summer and stopped at some hote
He had eaten corn on the cob fo
.hree weeks before he took the tril
bu; net an ear was served At an
hotel where he was The corn h
got was caned in Maine the yea
before, or sooner He ate cracker
baked in Worcester, and eggs laid IL
some unknown place and bought /
Boston, as was the beef, fresh an,
corned The butter in three New
Hampshire hotels came from Vel
mont creamery. The vegetables
even for boiled dinners, came Il
boxes from Boston, more than 10
miles away. and tho potatoes for
meals came from the same markets
When one old hotel man was aske
if the cantaloupes were natives, h
said he was not sure whether the
came from Florida or California, br
the ice on them he got out of h.
own pond last winter He adde
that he had TO he economical abol
The ice because he must pay for COT
from Pennsylvania, and the iiel,
went out In bedrooms at twelve c
clock nights. because there was
use feeding coal into the boilers
make the electricity, when II WASH
needed TO sleep by, but the old ma
admitted that there was waslin
power enough in the river. half
mile from his house, 70 light th
whole country for one buudre
miles either way. all the time, an
nobody had sense enough to tur
.hat power into light Perhaps the
were all out to Chicago, Judging ca
Tie for prizes.
How many of those boys educate
N the technical trades have put
New Hampshire w1ter-po~er
work? How many OF them are
he New Hampshire farnsg Thel
was no trouble getting Boston ginst
llo and Boston pic for lunch at
mali station when the train stopped
hui the salt for the boiled Gigs va
n wooden boxes made in New Je
icy. Jones ale was found OH draft /
he Portsmouth station, but that
made to pay dividends on BIRTHS
capital, and the potato chips to e'
IN the train were cooked and put II
% bags in Boston.
II is one of the faults OF New Enl
and people that they are not local
sustaining themselves The HON
redc goods are not to be found
The great majority. but rather in Il
small minority. when at all. Th
Young men aud women 20 to the fin
schools for better education an
hen go awy to teach others or sta
.here and extend the education
They talk q good deal about hnpro
ing tho. fruits, especially the apple
bu, any city dealer Will tell YOU thi
he cannot get half the apples
needs around home. half the pears
anything else. and when they ar
brought in he cannot use them, as
rule, for nrst-class trade, becaus
they are not up to the demands
This year the apples are worse tina
formerly except IN rare instances o
improved home methods, aud New
England has just been through
apple shows and other general edu
cational work. \ thousand tree
are left 10 the destruction of insects
where one tree is taken care of il
the acknowledgements Mass
Telegram.