Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-02-04
STATE NEWS.
Vermont Industrial School Burns.

Vermont Industrial School Burns.
Nearly 100 boys. whose ages range
homeless Saturday by a fire that
burned the main building of the Yer
mont Industrial School. at Vergennes.
reformatory institution of which they
were inmates. Although not organized
for systematic fire fighting, the BOYS
worked valiantly and through their
efforts practically all the contents of
the building were removed before the
flames could reach them. The loss is
about $500 The fire. which is be.
lieved to have been caused by spark
from an electric wire igniting gasoline,
originated in the tower. of the north
wing OF the building, worked down.
ward and spread to the south wing.
Low pressure hampered the fremen.
The structure was of brick. three
stories in height. It contained DOR
mitory, kitchen, dining room, execu-
tive building and chapel. The smaller
buildings of the school were not en-
dangered. None of the boys or their
keepers were injured. although thick
snow storm and falling temperature
caused them considerable discomfort
The lads are kept on their honor at all
times and none attempted to leave the
grounds while the fire was burning.
Temporary lodgings were given them
for the night in the city hall.
New Government Position for Mr..
Husband.
Vermont people will be interested to
leaIn that Walter w. Husband, form
err Vermonter living at St. Johnsbury
and Newport, who has just recently
returned to Washington from an ex-
tensive trip abroad in the interests of
the United States bureau of immigra-
ton, has severed his connection with
that bureau and will have a RESPONSE
BILE post with the Federal industrial
relations commission. While abroad
Mr.. Husband travelled extensively
through theEuropean countries engaged
in comprehensive study of the i'm
migration problem. He has spent ten
years in immigration work, at first
with Senator Dillingham; while the
senator was chairman of the senate
committee on immigration and later as
clerk of the special immigration COM
mission which accomplished volumin-
Gus tasks of collecting and tabulat-
ing data on immigration and finally
with the United States bureau of
immigration. His new work will be
a long kindred lines but with special
relation to the immigration problem
as it affects American industry. Mr..
Husband is a native of Vermont. He
was in the newspaper business a
number of years part of the time on
the st. Johnsbury Caledonian and
later with the Montpelier Morning
Journal. He married st. Johnsbury
girl. Leaving the newspaper business
he went to Washington. D. c., about
ten years ago to take the position of
clerk for Senator Dillingham's COM
mittee
Vermont in the Front Rank.
The latest bulletin of the United
States department of agriculture gives
the estimates of crop yields and prices
for 1913 based on reports from five
independent sources of information,
making this altogether the most
accurate crop report issued. The
| figures of Vermont are as follows: In
the matter of corn. Vermont ranks
ninth in yield of bushels per acre with
an average yield of 81 bushels com
pared with an average of 23.1 bushels
for the United States. Only one of
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Union exceeds this yield. The Yer
mont price per bushel Dec. 1 was 81
cents while the average price from the
entire country was SO. cents.
The value of Vermont's hay crop in
1913 was S18. $4,000 Only eleven
states in the Union surpassed this
little state of Vermont in the value OF
this crop. and those states were New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana. Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa,
Missouri, Washington and California.
Only fifteen states raised more tons OF
hay that Vermont. although this state
ranks forty.second in area. Only four
states raised more bushels of spring
wheat per acre than Vermont and
taking spring and winter wheat togeth-
er only five states exceeded Vermont
yield per acre. which was 24.5. bushels
The United States average for spring
wheat was Ii bushes per acre. The
average yield of the great wheat
growing states was as follows: NORTH
Dakota, 1915; South Dakota. 9 bushels
Minnesota, 1862 bushels; Washington,
10 bushels. The Dakotas are by fa1
the greatest spring wheat states anc
Vermont's yield is more than twice a:
large.
Vermont ranked ninth in yield OF
bushels of oats per acre, the av
erage being 80 bushels compared
with an average of 1912 bushels fol
the United States. Vermont's average
price Dec. l was 81 cents and the
average for the whole country, 39.i
cents.
Vermont ranked ninth in bushels Of
potatoes per acre with an average OF
127 bushels compared with 9O.4 fol-
the United States. The price Dec. !
was 72 cents, compared with 68.7 cents
for the entire country.