Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-02-19

extension work in agriculture that is,
for demonstrating to the farmers the.
scientific work of the department and
the experiment stations and $3.50, 900 a
year for direct aid to agricultural col
leges of the States, giving each state
$40, 900. The Lever measure stops
here. The Page bill goes much
farther 1t gives, first, the $50. 0OO,-
900 annually to extension work. Then
it gives So. 900, 900 year to aid dis
trict agricultural schools, SIS, 600, 900
more to introduce the teaching of ag-
riculture. trades. and domestic science
in the rural schools and 10000 to
teach trades and domestic science in
the city schools.
Aside from the broader scope of the
Page bill scheme it is fundamentally
different from the Lever Smith
measure in this: that every dollar that
Senator Page would give from the
Federal treasury for these purposes
must be matched by dollar from the
state. The state gets no Federal
money unless it proves it's sincere pur-
pose to cooperate in the work by Civ
ing half.
This seems to be an altogether de-
sirable condition. 1t would be bad
economy to plunge the National Gov
eminent into the general business of
endowing state education, without
proper assurance that the endowment
would be used rightly. A state could
be counted upon, with all confidence,
to take and use any money handed it
by Uncle Sam; but it would be much
more certain to make proper use of
that money, and less likely to accept
it recklessly and inconsiderately, if
for every dollar it received it must
also put up one of its own.
The Page bill represents the truly
national, the really business-like
handling Of this proposition. 1t will
be most unfortunate if, in the eager
ness of competing ambitions for the
distinction of having a particular
name and political label attached to
such a measure, the legislation gets
| held up, or is passed in less desirable
form. Washington Star.
Im,nigrating East.
| During the past year there have
probably been more Vermont farm S
sold to persons in the west. the middle
west and the northwest, than ever be
fore in any like period, in the history
Of the state.
In Washington County alone, one
. farm agency has sold between twenty
and thirty and they have nearly all
. been to persons of some means and
from without the state.
One paper on the West side COM
plains that farms in Washing ton
County bring higher prices than those
bly, this is true, but even then the land
cnnyoc tiunIyT ohnon yuhnn
pared to the almost fabulous prices re-
ceived for land in the western states.
And one can get quite as good living
from the products of Vermont farm
as he can from much larger tract of
western land. The Vermont farmer
has market near at hand for all the
products he may be able to raise and
at good price. There is invariably
rain enough through the season to
keep the crop and a long enough
season for the maturing and harvest
ing of same. On the large farms of
the western states, one or two kinds
of crops are either very heavy and the
profits enormous or else they are dis
NAL failures and the farmer must wait
another year and try his luck again.
There are SO many adverse circum-
stances with which the large western
farmer has to contend that rarely en-
ter into the calculations of the Yer.
mont farmer. There is the one big
crop of the year to depend upon in the
west and if it fails it is sad failure.
In Vermont in the spring there is the
maple sugar orchard to attend to, and
a small though profitable income is
derived from that; then in the summer
the various products of the farm ripen
in their season; in the fall there are
the potatoes and the apples, and the
apples play prominent part in in
come of the average farmer. Then
later in the winter the chOpping, haul
ing and selling from the maple, birch
and spruce woods add another bit tC
the years income. So the Vermont
farmer, instead of having one or two
big crops and nothing else to depend
upon, has a number of sources from
which to derive his income. He has
something specific for every season OF
the year.
Many western people are beginning
to realize that Vermont farms are
: paying propositions and are not SLOW
! to seize the opportunity of buying ant
"immigrating east The Vernon
abandoned farm" which we heard 81
much about few years ago, is not 81
often spoken of now, for it's passing
: is nearly if not quite finished. tn
field News
, So Near and Yet So Far.
Toe following is taken from tn,
February American Mage zine:
"Hereisan interesting illustration O
n the tremendous parts that transporta
| ton and middlemen play in fixing tn