The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-04
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missioner, and S 50, an act relating to
inheritance taxes and taxable trans
fers.
"School Forests Bills.
The house also passed four house
bills without debate except in the in
tance of H 237, an act to provide for
school endowment forests. The inten
ton of this act is to allow towns hay
ing tracts Of land at their disposal to
purchase trees from the state forester
to plant upon such land. The trees are
sold for cash or the town can mortgage |
the forest to the trustees of the state /
school fund, the interest to be at 4 per
cent compounded. The profits from the
planting of such trees are to be used
for school purposes by the town own
ling them. The measure was opposed |
by Mr.. Stone of Woodford on the
ground that it was an experiment and |
one that he thought would not be
profitable at the rate of interest of |
four per cent. Mr.. Foster Of Calais |
favored the bill as did Mr.. Foote of |
Cornwall, Proctor of Proctor, Eaton of |
l.. Woodstock and Morse Of Hardwick. |
Mr.. Proctor said the act would not be |
a necessary expense to any town and |
would give them the right to accept
, the bill and that three towns already
| had such offers. Mr.. Morse of Hardwick
= favored the bill and cited an instance
III his own town of tract of land of
800 acres on Judavine mountain
! which was now oVergrown with rasp-
berry bushes and other worthless
: shrubs and could, he thought, be profit
ably used for such a purpose. He
| stated that the proposition had been
paying one in Massachusetts. The bill
+ was finally passed without further OPP
5 position.
The bin which has for its purpose
, the termination of the Office OF the
: present commissioner of weights and
: measures and the making of the COM
missioner OF agriculture ex-otficio com
missioner Of weights and measures was
/ ordered to lie and be made special
=, order for next Friday at 2.30 o clock
As regards the commissioner of agri-
culture it has been suggested by some
q that it might be Il wise move to abol-
: ish this office and, in order to take
h advantage of the federal appropria-
Il ton for county agricultural agents. use
e the money which might 90 TO & con
e. tinuance of that office for the pur-
IT pose of aiding in the employment Of
lie such agents. The law passed by the
1t Legislature two years ago giving towns
&c an opportunity 10 vote on the question
u the employment OF county a2neuIt-
$ aral agents IS sand TO have not worked
D OUT satisfactorily because there Is no
It county unit. each town determining the
III matter for itself. The federal govern
IS ment now appropriates $1,000 70 he
used bv each comfy waiting Ia emnlo,,
such an agent. 5000 goes direct IA +ba
agent and 5000 comes +hrouoh the STATE
agricultural college in extension worn
lin accordance with the provisions of
- the federal Lever bill, The idea
-, seems to be for the state To provide
- a sum of say. 5000 for ea,b county
~ wishing TO employ such an agent and
- TO cut out the differentiation for com.
- missioner OF agriculture. The county
agent would Thus he supported in part
by the state. in part BY the fe leral
~ government and i'm part by subscrip
rt -. -. .;.;.,. ~ 50 !
u understood that in Windham County
~ the employment Of \. W. Sweeton. who
~ is graduate of Storrs college in Con
y" Gecticut and of Cornell at Ithaca, \
% Y, as county agricultural agent ha,
peeh productive Oh most satisfactory
results.
A rather peculiar bill was killed il
the house by narrow margin although
he favorably reported. 1t was to pay tn
town of Hyde Park the sum or $3.50
for expense incurred in the burial o
ne an unknown man killed while attempt
pt ing to commit burglary.
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