St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-04

the treasury was Joyously and pat
POLITICALLY looted;, toilers were penal
ICED. industry was kicked, wealth
was denounced. Champ Clark was
enthroned, Bryan came out of his
cellar with his cyclones, the Can
non was spiked, the Gar sent into
exile in Danville, and the Millenni-
UNI opened with brass band.
Out on his front stoop in Danville
Uncle Joe Cannon sits sprinkling
the Illinois landscape with tobacco
Juice, making sarcastic remarks,
deriding the prophets, and waiting
for the day when the American lu-
natic will go back to his asylum,
when the megaphone and the lung
will cease from troubling, and the
Age of Reason will return. There
he sits grinning, sceptical, sinful,
unregenerate, crime-stained, gliding
and scofing at the pedagogues and
prophets, waiting for the delirium
to subside and the tremens to be
cured, hooking the long-eared
Common people, whom he cynically
saws will never get on the water
wagon until their pockets and bel
lies are empty and their passion for
wind pudding has departed.
A hopeless reactionary Joe Can
non is a Grass and incurable ana
chronism in this glorious age OF
eIoauence, explosion, eugenics, tit
tle-tattle, twaddle, tommyrOt, punk
principles, political pyrotechnics and
prophetic piffle.-[Truth.
Orleans County Agriculture
The position Orleans county oc-
cupies agriculturally in Vermont as
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is shown in the 1910 government
statistics just published. Orleans
county has forged it's way toward
the front in the past few years I'M
til it easily occupies the second
place in the state, Franklin county
! alone still leading and that by a
small margin. The average person
! in Vermont would pick Addison,
Caledonia or perhaps Rutland as
standing after Franklin county in
AGRICULTURAL interests but the two
central northern counties lead all
the rest of the state in agricultural
Importance and the Monitor ven
lures the statement that Orleans
county will in another decade be-
come the largest dairy county in
the state and doubts if any section
of Vermont has more fertile valleys,
better and larger barns and a
brighter future.
Franklin county reports 33,257
cows while Orleans comes second
with 26,287 but when it comes to
milk production Orleans county
falls behind Franklin only 1872
gallons, the total production of each
being: Franklin, 14,216,881 and
Orleans, 13,6O5,812 gallons, while
the next county reports less than
eleven million gallons. In butter
production Orleans makes more
than twice as much as Franklin. We
make 2,80O,626 pounds per year
Caledonia comes next with 1926
ATS pounds. The apparent inconsis-
tency here comes from the fact that
Orleans county sells comparatively
little milk to be shipped to the
cities, while most other counties
sell in large quantities.
The total amount realized from
the sale of dairy products in Or
leans county is 81 ,193, 43O. Frank
lin is 100000 ahead of us in this
respect but the next county is $4O,'
900 behind Orleans. The amount re
ceived per COW is more in Orleans
county than in any of the so-callec
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per COW here is $3.50; in Frank
lin $42.O3; in Addison, 1874. Ii
some of the smaller counties the
income per COW is larger.
The census gives us 1,04O, So!
sugar trees in Orleans county anC
here we lead the state. Franklin il
next with 818,2O9. As county VIZ
probably lead the world in the pro
duction of maple sugar, making
more than two million pounds il
the average year.
In the hay and forage crops
Franklin alone leads Orleans coun
ty and that by very little.
, In fact in almost any line to which
! we turn Orleans county is we'll III
! to the front and is easily the seconC
: agricultural county in the state. LIE
us work together for better cow
! and better crops and push Orleans
county to the top.-[Orleans Coun
: ty Monitor.
Scope of the New Rural Organiza
. ton Service
What will be easily the most i'm
portant bureau of the Department
of Agriculture is the mural Organ
ization service now being organized
by Secretary David F. Houston. Tn
Bureau of Rural organization il
the idea Secretary Houston brough
) with him when he came from st
Louis to take charge of the depart
ment.
, Through the aid of the Genera
Education board DR.. Houston wa
: enabled to put his idea into effec
almost as soon as he arrived il
: Washington. In a short while thu
Rural organization service will
: take it's place as one of the most i'm
portant factors in national life. DR.
Houston's plan has the hearty sup
: port of President Wilson.
The primary purpose of the nev
service is to attack the high cos
: of living. And it will attack it fun
) damentaIly. 1t will go to the farm
2 where the necessities of life. are pro
: duced. For one of the chief factor
in the high cost of living is the fac
t that production has not kept pac
demand