The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-12
B EN- MINI T0N COUNTY
VERMONT IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Bennington County once More Leads
the State.

Bennington County once More Leads
the State.
Though House Bill No. $50 be.
the town meetings the bill enabling
the towns to appropriate funds for
agricultural extension work thus al
lowing but very little time to bring
the matter before the people and to
explain the meaning of this work,
yet the large majority of the towns
in Bennington County voted their
share Uf-the appropriation.
The following towns appropriated
the full amount apportioned them
according to this bill: Arlington,
Bennington, Dorset, Landgrove,
Manchester, Sandgate, Searsburg,
SALISBURY Sunderland and Wiuhall.
Peru has left it with the selectmen
to determine. Several towns failed
to appropriate and the others have
not as yet been heard from
The total amount up to date that
has been appropriated is S94S.36.
With this splendid cooperation the
Bennington County Vermont I'M
provement Association will not only
supplement the appropriations max
ing the entire total from the County
$1,000 to add to the $1,000 from the
u. S. Government, but will add such
additional amount as will be neces-
sary TO carry on the agricultural
extension work in the most efficient
way possible.
The next step of supreme moment
is the hearty cooperation of all the
farmers as well as of the business
men with this agricultural extension
work Mr.. John l.. Sherman is a
man of unusual ability for this kind
of work. The agricultural college
at Burlington through the appropria
ton that the Legislature made this
year will be able to render valuable
assistance in this work Now let
the farmers make strenuous de
mands upon all these available
sources that are at their service
and do their utmost to carry out the
work and ideas upon their own
forms. We need team work.
Campaign fer Health.
The State Board of Health has
k. 1dly agreed to send it's moving pic
ture apparatus and tuberculosis ex-
hibit to our County for a series of
weeks and will in cooperation with
the local forces and the Bennington
County Vermont Improvement Assoc
iation give every central district an
opportunity to see the exhibit and
the moving picture films. These
films contain a series of interesting
and instructive stories which will be
depicted in life like motion pictures.
1t is at present contemplated that
they will begin their exhibit next
Monday starting at Manchester, go
ing over to Peru, Landgrove, Win
hail. then back to Dorset and East
Dorset. then on down toward the
southern part of the County until the
spring mud sets in and after the
spring mud is over and the roads in
good condition they will tour the re.
naming portion of the County.
The value of these exhibits and
the instruction that they will bring
to the people as well as the enter
tainment they furnish cannot be
over-emphasized.
Reliable authorities estimate that
there are 100000 deaths each year
in the United States from tubercu-
losis, or as many as resulted in the
entire four years of the Civil War
During recent years tuberculosis has
caused $50 death year in Vermont.
Thirty years ago there were sixteen
deaths each week in our State as a
result of this disease. At present
there are none each week. The
deaths from tuberculosis have been
reduced 34.5 per cent in Vermont
Some counties have reduced ii GA
per cent. Without question the
White Plague can be entirely eradi-
Gated and all those who will take
hold of this campaign for health in
County. who will attend
these exhibits and urge others to
attend, obtain what literature may
be available and do what they can to |
carry out the instructions and sug
gestions, will render a fine humani- |
tartan and patriotic service to our
county.
There are 100000 deaths each year
and 100000 cases of serious illness
In the rural regions of the United |
States from infectious diseases, a
very large proportion of which may
be avoided by proper precautions
and care. II is stated on reliable
that the death rate is as
large in Vermont as it is in New
York City and that the death rate
has been materially reduced in the
large cities because of the cam
paign for health and active work
along sanitary lines that has been
done there, while in rural regions
the death rate has not only not been
but has actually increas-
ed. IL is time that rural communi
ties should take this matter seriously
and make the open country healthy
and happy.