The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-09-22
FOR BENNINGTON COUNTY
DEVELOPMENT AND
BE.T'T:E:R|MENT I
Department Edited by Secretary
Willard Bartlett of the County
Association.

Department edited by Secretary
Willard w. Bartlett of the County AS
| soCiation.
The County Association wishes to
| congratulate one of its sister organ
| izations, the Y NJ. C. A. of Benning-
| ton. on securing Mr.. H. A. Wilkinson
as secretary and also to extend a
| welcome to Mr.. Wilkinson and his
family into Bennington county. The
broad experience which Mr.. Wilkin-
son has had in Y. NJ C. A. work, in
social work and in business should
fit him admirably for the position
and both Mr. Wilkinson and his fam
lily will be a great asset to Benning-
ton county.
We trust that Mr.. and Mrs Wilkin-
son will be as charmed with Benning-
ton county as have been the secre-
tary of the County Improvement AS
sociation and Mrs. Bartlett and we
trust that there will be great many
ways in which each of these organiza-
tions will be able to assist the other
in their respective field of effort for
better and ever increasingly better
things for Bennington county
Not by any means the least at
tractiye place at the Manchester fair
was the rest tent conducted by the
County Association. The large,
roomy tent, furnished with chairs,
tables and an ice-water tank, drew
hundreds of people each day to rest,
to get drink of water, to eat their
lunches and to meet their friends. One
end of the tent was partitioned off
and furnished with cots to form a
rest room.
Officials of the association were
present at all times to keep things
running smoothly. A half dozen
frames of photographs were display
ed. illustrating road work, results of
farm demonstration work, village
Identification, activities of the Ben
nington Civic League and few OF
the results of the School Improve
ment contests. Also, an effort was
made to see that each person who
visited the tent received a copy of the
last annual report of the association.
This is the third season that rest
tent has been conducted and to judge
from the numerous expressions of ap
probation from the patrons the asso-
citation may feel repaid for the effort
More elaborate plans are being
made for another year.
Prosperous Farming
Denmark is the stock illustration of
those who would point out the great
value to farmers of well-organized CO.
operation. In this connection. one
cannot do better than read II. Rider
Haggarts Rural Denmark and It's
Lesson" The prosperity of Den
mark is almost entirely independent.
directly or indirectly upon its agri-
culture. agriculture is the breath of
its rostrils." Nor is the country in its
natural resources to be counted one
of the rich agricultural countries of
the world Yet its farmers prosper in
unusual measure and the country
prospers. The undoubted cause of
this is the working of the cooperative
them at least, have long since seen
the folly of attempting TO do singly,
What can better be done together. In
fact, they had to work together in or
der to live. In consequence they have
established cooperative societies to
help them at every stage of their
farming operations; to buy for them.
to make butter, cheese and bacon for
them. to sell for them, to inspect
their stock and help in many other
things. One simple illustration may
be cited. There were in Denmark in
1909, $40 cooperative Central Societ-
les to inspect dairy herds. These
had 1900 members owning 206,S00
COWS. Their purpose is described as
ITO keep account by means of care
full registration of the milk yield of
each COW, of the amount of butter-fat
in the milk, and the relation between
the yield and the fodder consumed,
with the object of eliminating useless
or inferior COWS The average yield
of the COWS so inspected exceeds by
over Il per cent. the average yield of
the non.inspected COWS, an average
gain of 2S lbs of butter per COW an
nually In other words, these societ-
les have given their members aggre-
gate yearly gains of 4,7564OO lbs. Of
butter. Is that amount worth gain
ing?