Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-04-28
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Lick EN- Both,

Every time you lick tax stamp,
register VOW to lick Democrat next
year.-Rutland Herald.
Let's Hear from the Farmer.
The advice to Vermont farmers.
"Raise more grain" given by the
Bennington Banner, looks good. Why
can't Vermont share to some extent in
the blessings of two dollar wheat, soon
to come, they say. Randolph Herald.
Vermont Roads Appreciated.
The people of Vermont will be CRATE
full for this little truthful boast from
a contemporary in neighboring state,
the Concoro Monitor. in the capital
of New Hampshire.
vermont leads the New England
states in per capita ownership of auto
mobiles, one to every 48 inhabitants.
And t might be said that the Green
Mou.. ain state also has greater
proportion of good roads than any Of
her sister states in this section of the
country"
The generous tribute of the contem-
porary on Vermont's roads leads us to
state that New Hampshire herself has
some of the finest strips of state
roads on its main highways in the
eastern section of the country, roads
which are very we'll constructed and
so smooth as to make travel over
them real pleasure. In fact some,
of those roads are so good that they
are the envy of Vermont people who
have occasion to use them occasionally.
New Hampshire as we'll as Vermont
has been making much progress in
the line of permanent bodybuilding
y -
great deal of tourist travel by automo.
bile which brings in large revenue
Barre Times.
Hard Facts by DIR. Pritchett.
In the meantime Vermonters will
find food for thought in the concluding
words of Mr.. Pritchett, who, after
reviewing the opposition of the col
leges to the recommendations of the
educational commission and the small
chance which the rural schools have in
the face of such organized opposition,
concludes with the following prophecy
"And, the cold fact remains that
| somehow. some day, Vermont must
reconstruct it's rural schools, free from
politics and turn their faces in the
opposite direction if it is to live and
prosper. Some day this work will be
seriously undertaken. When that day
comes perhaps the Founda alton S report
will be of some use. The studies made
| by these foundations must achieve
their result by slow process. They
can never hope to Withstand the first
sharp appeal to local interest But if
they are fair and educ ationally sound
they will in the long run receive the
support of thoughtful men in every
state and help to shape a public
opinion which will rise above consider
atoms of personal or local interest. A
patriotism will in time spring up which
is wider than a college campus or a
| town or a county or a state 1t is to
this larger spirit that an educational
foundation which has no widespre ad
organization, no alumni, no constit-
uency must spread 1t must expect
to wait on time ''-Enosburg Standard.
Vermont's Destiny.
The Herald believes that Vermont
has an increasingly promising future
before her in an industrial, agricul-
tural. and tourist-attracting sense.
None of these is more important than
agriculture, because the production of
food is the absolute essential of all
material progress Seven or eight
years ago, Theodore NJ Vail told q
party Of newspaper men at Speedwel
that the time would come when Yer.
mont must not only increase he,
products of milk, cream, butter
cheese, sugar, etc., but must be ready
to raise her own beef, pork and NUT
ton, her own cereals and in some
degree her own wool and flax. In
brief, Vermont must be self-sustain
ing, producing not only enough for hel
own needs. but able to contribute
proftably to supplying the wants Of
adjacent centers of population like
subsequent years emphasize the wis
dom and foresight of Mr.. Wallis
admonition Today, Vermont is pay.
ing high price for meats and cereals
due to big war demand, and yet she
is producing very little corn, wheat OF
oats as compared with her acreage
Her production of beef is almost negli
gible, and thousands of sheep and hogs
could be supported by waste sidehil
acres, now devoted to Indifferent
pasturage.
"Would you buy Vermont steer il
he were fed and fattened for the
market?" was asked of a close buying
successful butcher
{ Certainly I would There is M
reason why Vermonters can't fatter
steers as well as they do in Ohio Of
Ontario. Trouble is they don't raise
the feed" was the answer.
Growing wheat in Vermont is some
I thing of a problem, so is ripening corn
but there is no trouble about growing
oats IN fact, the Vermont yield of
oats per acre last year was a worlC
beaten. according to figures given on
by the state publicity department
What has stalled progress in growing
cereals and producing meat ANIMALS i
the one-crop idea of butter fat only
esteemed by a majority of Vernon
farmers as the prime requisite of ag
ricnltural success, and the reputation
of Vermont milk. butter and cheese is
something of justification for tina
belief. The economical loss in sending
aWaV ,rIlr hlttar.fat and navip0 a vor,