The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-18
FOR BENNINGTON COUNTY
DEVELOPEM MENT AND
BETTERMENT
Department Edited by Secretary
Willard Bartlett Of the County
Association.

This section is given up weekly to
County Betterment The material
is furnished by the County Associa-
tion headquarters; savings bank
bldg, Bennington, VT; secretary;
Willar w. Bartlett.
county Improvement Association De-
partment of the County Papers.
BY special arrangement between
the county papers and the Benning1
ton County Vermont Improvement AS,
sociation the latter will hereafter
have two columns weekly in the Ben
nington Banner
Previously the Association has pub
lished monthly paper, the Benning
ton County Review, but it is thought
best hereafter to put the matter for
merIy contained in the Review in the
regular County papers This section
will include articles on better farm-
ing, road work, better schools ana
topics of general interest along inn
provement lines in the county. Every
reader of the papers should watch
these columns carefully.
Annual Meeting of The County I'm
provement Association.
The annual meeting of the Ben
nington County Vermont Improve
ment Association will be beld in the
court house, Bennington. on Satur-
day afternoon, August 2Sth, 1915.
Every member OF the organization in
the county should be present. Make
this day a vacation day from Your
work. and come TO Remington, see
your friends, do your trading and Of,
tend the pieetins at p m.
Mr.. Bartlett, the secretary of the
organization, will give an address on
what Results May We Reasonably
Expect from It County Association
There will also be election of officers
and other business.
What the County Improvement AS
socistion is Doing.
1t is a pull all together that brings
results, two men pulling together can
accomplish much more than two men
pulling In different directions, the
men and women of Bennington COun-
ty pulling together can accomplish
very much more for every individual
in the County than they can il pull
ing in different directions with many
not pulling at all.
The Bennington County Vermcat
Improvement Association is the cti-
zens Of the County joined together 20
carry ont constructive program for
County development.
The work is carried on througl a
Board of Fifteen Directors chosen by
the members at their annual meeting
TO serve for term of three yeas 5,
five being elected each year These
directors choose an Executive Sec
retary and are responsible for the
conduct Of the work
The organization is not aiming at
doing a great many things but at Sc
lecting few of the most important
things and doing these things we'll
The Association aims to cooperate
with all organizations in the County
working toward civic, social or eco
nomic betterment 1t assisted in the
conduct of the County Good Roads
meeting, the County Teachers meet
ing and the County Picnic It coop
Grated with the Green Mountain
Club, the Civil League, the Parent.
Teachers Association, local village
Improvement and district nursing as.
sociations, etc.
Agriculture:
Bennington County has fine farms
with prosperous farmers and it has
fine farms on which farmers have
difficulty to make living, it has hill
side farms where thrifty farmers are
making good living and hillside
farms which are deserted and on
which the buildings are falling into
decay. 1t has farmers whose apples
rotted in the cellar last year or were
sold for price which hardly paid for
hauling to the railroad, while in Ben
nington, North Adams and surround
ing cities, Oregon apples brought
large prices.
To make the County more prosper
Gus by making farming more profit
able is one of the first objects of the
Association For this purpose a
County Agricultural Agent, Mr.. John
l.. Sherman, is maintained. The eX-
pense is divided between the United
States Department OF Agriculture,
the various towns of the County and
the Association itself.
The County Agent gives his entire
time to promoting scientific methods
and sound business policy on the
farms. Last summer improved meth
ods of growing oats and corn were
demonstrated. The work with oats
resulted in an average increase Of
ten bushels per acre on twenty plots