The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1913-04-10

1 lures and farmers" Institutes IN Mas
sau and Queens showed an eagernes'
for agricultural education.
This poor showing and lament
combined with reference to what
should be the garden spot Of the
Empire State offers marked con
tras. to the conditions prevailing al
this time in Vermont.
Indeed the Green Mountain State
has instituted so progressive meas
ures for the uplift OF agriculture
within its boundaries that the outsid
world taking interested notice
of our enterprise, and the metropoli-
tan papers are devoting extended ar
ticles to agricultural and social up
lift In the rural communities of Yer
mont.
The Boston Transcript, for exam
Pile, prints long article under the
heading Vermont doing what Roose
welt merely talked" Reconciling
the Farmer to the Farm
After showing that Vermont had
some obstacles to overcome In its
location outside of the path OF west
ward emigration the writer OF the
article In question shows that the
Green Mountain State Is now taking
front rank among the States In
the matter OF the promotion OF agri-
culture. He says:
In the last ten years Vermont
has been engaged in counter move
ment within it's own borders. Coun-
try life is being raised TO prouder
position.
''No State in the Union devotes
more energy to Its schook. The few
abandoned farms that were really
going to economic waste arc being
made to produce Scientific agricul-
iural knowledge is being populari2-
ed, disseminated and applied.
rhe much tai I'll Of Isolation OF
the farmer is hot the menace II once
was. The telephone. the rural free
delivery, g pa~cei post. better
roads I. d ,Ar arfuint hlt have help
cd to ,aughis'. II In spite OF un-
tow ,ri conditions 1T country life for
a time the result was not poverty.
The percentage Of taxpayers to
the number OF voters. snd OF FER
shns who own - ! owg homes TO
the number OF NJ ~ itri Is, is much
greater in ufu,"si than In Massa-
chusetts anh the termJtier owns
II NJ att mobiles than the Massa-
chusetts man. Only stiaws. these
but rural State is coming into its
own. The farmers isolation has
been met by better means Of com
munication and travel. A spirit OF
common interest, spontaneous and
enthusiastic, has been the real 80
luton OF the Isolation problem"
Probably we OF Ver-aoat d. not
'nlly realize how man, progressive
measures have been ms itui"a in
he past ten years 20 m7ke letter
the conditions OF the farmers OF
this State, but when we see testl-
mony like this quoted from an out
side observer we know that we have
accomplished something
We have supplemented the i'm
proyeInents Instituted by Uncle
Sam until the conditions OF our
farmers have been transformed
Through our agricultural college
ard our agricultural experiment sta
tioh and the meetings held ~ all
parts OF the State through the
Grange and otherwise our more
progressive farmers have learned
how to anaiyze their land and in
crease the productivity OF the soil,
how TO drain their land 10 the best
advantage. how TO care for live
stock. how 10 breed 10 the best
how TO substitute profi-
table COWS for poor mixers In the
dairies, how 70 treat butter fat and
cream scientifically. how TO raise
poultry profitably. how 70 cultivate
fruit. how 10 make the farm home
attractive for the young people
This free rural delivery carries 70
The farmer his daily paper al well
as his letter mall. and the parcels