Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-03
7HRlFTLEss NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Granite State Is Read a sharp
Lesson on How She Is Not Conserv-

New Hampshire is gracefully boastins
this fall that 70 per cent OF the young
men who attend its State college are
self-supporting, and that one Oh the stu
dents in the AGRICULTURAL department OF
that institution won the first prize In a
stock Judging contest at Chicago. mat
is all worth Dragging about. But II ieaos
people up there into mentioning a great
deal of hope which they do not realize'
They hope the young men thus educat-
ed will proceed to improve the fruits ana
other products of the land The college
has been doing great work for more than
% wears. and the people of New Hamp-
shire buy more fruit from the market
cities outside of the State than within 1t.
10 70 one. They eat more Western beef
than State beef, 20 to one. They import
nine eggs to one their hens lay That Is
the New England ratio Of buying to pro-
ducing.
A Worcester man went up through
Vermont and New Hampshire last sum-
mer and stopped at some hotels He had
eaten corn on the cob for three weeks
before he took the trip, but not an ear
was served at any hotel where ne was
The corn he got was canned IN Name
the year before, or sooner. He ate
crackers baked in Worcester and eggs
laid In some unknown place and bought
In BOSTON. as was the beef, fresh and
corned. The butter In three New Hamp-
shire hotels came from Vermont
creamery The vegetables, even Tor
boiled dinners. came In boxes from bos-
ton. more than $50 miles away, and the
potatoes for all meals came from the
same markets. When one old hotel man
was asked If the cantaloupes were ma
tives, he said he was not sure whether
they came from Florida or Southern
California, but the ice on them he got
out of his own pond last winter. He
added that he had to be economical
about the ice because he must pay for
coal from Pennsylvania. and. the lights
went out in bedrooms at IL O'Clock
nights, because there was no use feed
ing coal into the boilers to make the
electricity. when it wasn't needed to
sleep by, but the old man admitted that
there was wasting power enough in the
river. half a mile from his house. to
light the whole country for 100 miles
either way, all the time, and nobody
had sense enough to turn that power into
Ugnt. FefNdpS tHcy were al Jul W Shi-
cago, judging cattle for prizes.
How many of those boys educated in
the technical trades have put a New
Hampshire water-power to work? How
many of them are on the New Hamp-
shire farms? There was no trouble get
ting Boston ginger ale and Boston pie
for lunch at small station when the
train stopped, but the salt for the boiled
eggs was in wooden boxes made in New
Jersey Jones' ale was found on draft
in the Portsmouth station, but that Is
made to pay dividends on British capt.
tai, and the potato chips to eat on the
train were cooked and put into bags in
Boston.
1t is one of the faults OF New England
people that they are not locally sustain
ing themselves. The homemade goods
are not to be found in the great ma
jority, but rather in the small minority,
when at ALL The young men and women
go to the fine schools for better educa
ton and then go away to teach others
or stay there and extend the education.
They talk a good deal about improving
the fruits, especially the apples, but any
city dealer will tell you that he cannot
get half the apples he needs around
home, half the pears or anything else,
and when they are brought in he cannot
use them, as rule, for first-class trade,
because they are not up to the demands.
This year the apples are worse than
formerly, except in rare instances Of i'm
proved home methods, and New England
has just been through apple shows and
other general educational work A thou
sand trees are left to the destruction Of
insects, where one tree is taken care of.
in the orchards-Worcester Telegram.