Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-04-10
What Vermont Is Doing Make Our Farmers Progressive


tracvc the Brooklyn Eagle laments that Long Island has
secured an agricultural college" although it finds
educational associations school at SOUTHAMPTON with seventy
five students who hear lectures by agricultural college pro
lessor whe and farmers institutes Nassau and
Queens showed eagerness for agricultural education
should be the garden spot of the Empire offers
marked contrast to the conditions prevailing at this time in
Vermont
for the upft of agriculture within boundaries
that the outside world is taking interested notice Of orr enter
prise and the metropolitan papers levong extended
ces to agricultural and social upf in the communities
of Vermont.
The Boston Transcript for example prints long article
under the heading Vermont doing what Roosevelt merely talk
ed Reconclmg the Farmer to the Farm"
After showing that Vermont had some obstacles to over
come IN It's location outside of the path of westward emigration
tain State taking front rank among the States in the
matter OF the promotion of agriculture He says:
In the last ten years Vermont has been engaged in a
counter movement within its Country life is be-
ing raised TO prouder position.
ono State in the Union devoes energy to its schools
The few abandoned farms that really going economic
waste are being made to produce Scientific agricultural
edge is being popuaIized disseminated and applied
'Thc muchaked-of isolation the farmer is not the men
ace it The telephone, the rural free delivery the
parcel post better roads automobile have helped TO
vanqush it, In spite of unoward conditions in country life
for time the result not poverty.
The percentage of taxpayers the number of voters
and Of persons who their number of in
habants is much greater in Vermont than in Massachusetts
cusctts Only st1aws thcsc-but rura State coming
into It's own The farmers isolation has been by
of communication and travel spirit of common in
erest spontaneous ana enthusiastic has hocn the real
of the isolation problem"
Probably of Vermont not fully realize how many pro-
oressiye measures have been instituted in c mast fem oa t
make conditions of the farmers of this state m whom
testimony like this quoted from an outside observer we
know that we have ACCOMPLISHED sometime
We have supplemented the ilnroypncrs instituted 1,
Sam until the conditions of oI farmers a,o bo ran
formed
Through our agricultural college and or, agricultural ov
pertinent station and fine MEETINGS. hold in Ii ,rt Of M S44o
Cranoo and otl,or,ieo o,r mar. fo,,ors
have learned how 70 onoyzo tloir Io,d a, ,r th ,I
+;yt,. or tbn soil how, IA r,in tl civ 1or1 70 4h I l,t
now to care for live stock how, m brood 70 tI % dnntoIr
how, 70 substitute nrofitoto oo,, for ,oor i1or, j.; s
how IN +roo+ hutton fo+ AID r,n, I ,4if,;lIn L ~ ;
rour nrof;t ah, how +o o,Itivao frit b. 49, l. 4I f
homo attractive for +,o yc,r,r r,o,,Io | ~
froo r,ro tl, r,u,. -. ao
as we'll as his Inttor mail and thn ,,rIs ,t Li m
coiyo thc Goods no has ororod I, t,lnno rr ~ ,b.,
III bie o,o &c wall nc bs o,, ,,.1 h.
dav +bo most tr,. irdonon,1on+ NAV, on,o,,r 'ao,, "
The latest move in Vermont oorc,Ituro a. Institute co
operatiye service in oorlot;n,r ., +lot o,c l , M
sold to tho best nossiile o,lvantooo
All this progress means fine early dawn Of new, 1a, fr
Vermont aoricultnro , fr wa n, Io.,,. Aha ,,in, ~