St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-06-09

be forthcoming from our farmers on
every hand.-Burlington Free Press.
The Man At the Plow
OF all pleasing sights which greet
the traveller at this time of year, we
think none is more pregnant with
beauty than the pair of patient work
horses pulling pillow or harrow
through the fields.
With reins around his neck, al
ready tanned, and ample hands guild
ing the cleaning share, the farmer,
most important of the nations citi-
zens, is buttressing the foundation
for another years supply of food.
Today, in this part of the land,
his wheat, rye, oats and barley are
well above ground. His corn is
show the first sprouts. His clover
and timothy-the haymakers-are
proudly green with a promise of rich
returns after the first cuttings five
or six weeks hence.
Now beans are being put in, and
later comes the sowing of buckwheat,
with it's blossoms for the bees and its
assurance of good breakfasts next
winter. The truck patch already is
yielding of it's varied wealth Crisp
radishes and curly lettuce; slim, sa-
worry scullions and tender stalks Of
"sparrow-grass" proclaim the refill
ing of the horn of plenty.
From the sunny plains of Kansas
has come the annual call for har-
vest hands. Wheat soon will be yell
lowing out there; already they are
harvesting the stalks of gold in
Texas, and $4,000 extra laborers will
be needed to help handle a crop
which looks to be not far behind last
years unprecedented yield.
From many parts of the land men
will journey to the banks of the Kaw
and cross into land of promise
mobilization for peace. Within
three months-the wheat harvest in
northern Minnesota and the Dakotas
comes in August-an army larger
than the combined fighting forces of
all the warning nations in Europe
shall have met the silent, fruiting
regiments OF natures bounty and
garnered and stored stock of grains,
vegetables and fruits which, from
present prospects, bids fair to mark
year of more than average produc-
ton.
Back of this vast work of vital i'm
portance to a large share of the
earth's population is the man at the
plow. Does this man appreciate his
place and power? We think not.
OF late years he has come to
better understanding of his impor-
lance; but the fact that he still ne
elects fully to accept his opportunity
is evidence of his blindness to his
own best interests which obviously
are the best interests of the public.
We say this not because he fails
to work. He works hard. But he
wastes. eff it wasn't for the rich
ness of the soil, most of US would
be in the poorhouse," says Henry
Wallace, of Wallace Farmer, himself
leading agricultural authority.
In spite of all efforts made by the
government to encourage intensive
farming and greater care in selec-
ton of seed and the application of
better business sense to the great
business of farming, the average man
at the pillow today is slow to accept
such friendly and needed advice.
Indeed, were it not for the young
er generation, which is being taught
progressive ways and is not handi-
capped by hidebound methods, this
condition would be more of a me-
mace than it is. Even now, it is Sc
rious enough to warrant the atten-
need for making the soil yield more
generously, yet in such a way as to
conserve rather than impoverish its
rapidly diminishing resources
Philadelphia North American.
Fine Appreciation
The large size of the cash presen-
tation made to Rev. DR.. Edward I.
Fairbanks by his fellows citizens in
st. Johnsbury on the occasion of his
18th birthday will be rather lost
sight of in the contemplation of the
number of people who Joined in the
unusual testimony of esteem, there
being over 1000 people who made
the joint expression in the shape OF
1000, together with a loving cup.
such an expression OF
good will from such a wide field is
rather extraordinary, to say the least,
and it constitutes one of the finest
tributes that one could hope to re-
eeive from ones fellow citizens
Barre Times.
Where Education Fails
For years there has been a popular
solution Of practically all the impor-
tant problems of the day. 1t was
1eId up as the solution of the race
problems in the North.
Education has been the battle cry
and money has been poured lavishly
nto schools, colleges and other insti-
utions of learning in the confident
belief that education was to be
he agency by which the public !
would be raised to level that would
.esult in the elimination of intern
,erance, political wrong-doing ana
he many other evils and abuses
which afflict society. '
Education is all right as far as Z
t goes. 1t is indispensable, but the :
act that it is not the panacea that !
t has been supposed to be is begin /
ing to be recognized and admitted. :
10 eminent an educator as DIR. Mich
las Murray Butler, president OF Co Il
umbia University, told convention q
f school men in Philadelphia few !
venings ago that in the scramble I
or education we have lost sight OF n,
ONE important things whose place 7
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