News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-22
The Banker and the Farmer

Very pleasing and significant was the
attitude towards the farmer taken BY
II. M. Mcfarland of Hyde Park in his
address as president before the Vermont
Bankers association at it's annual meet
ing held here last week. The action of
the ASSOCIATE IN in authorizing the ap-
pointment of committee on agricul-
ture and appropriating money for it to
use Is pledge that the organization will
work to encourage further develop.
ment OF Vermont farmers. This action
does not mean the banks of the state
Will loan money to every farmer who
I may ask for loan, because his personal
/ character and business methods are such
1t would not be safe to loan money to
him. But it does mean the banks are
| interested in developing among the
! farmers more progressive and efficient
| methods that the farmer can make more
money for himself and that they will
loan money necessary to make these i'm
provements if the farmer shows himself
capable Of making them. Perhaps the
purposes of the Hampden County league
in Massachusetts, an organization work
ing in territory much like that of
Vermont. will best express the work the
Vermont bankers would like to encour-
age:
~. To help the farmers introduce
the most modern methods of farming,
2 To organize them for better business
methods and business organization 8
To improve IN living uOndltious and to
make the open country SO attractive
that neither the farmers nor their boys
and girls shall be tracted to the cities -
The succe SIS of the Hampden County
League has been great The county it.
self appropllates $4,000 year toward
the expenses of the league The league
has enlisted the support of more than
/ 900 farmers aud business men, For
year and half of work sit could show
net profit Of S546, 1877 in crops aud farm
values, which would not have come had
it not been for the jeagae-and which
cost $19.096" Eevn more successful |
has it been in developing spirit of en-
terprise, confidence. contentment and |
co operation among the farmers them
selves One farmer said. "It means |
much to me to be able to make 50 or So
where I made only 81 before Il means
much TO my wife and to my children,
but it means more to have you men
come out into the country as you did
and to invite ms to come here, as yoI |
Gid. 1t is celebrating the line of de.
marka'ion between the farmer and the |
basint IS man and is bringing US together
shoulder To shou der -
Perhaps ii is too much to expect such |
a high degree of success in Vermont but
the beginning made by the bankers of
he state rev. ais the possibility there is
before then and the Verm mt farmers
1t Is mighty encouraging to have man
with Fl NJ Mcfarland S financial stand
ing and experience urge the &c enc 20
One of the benz fetal results tha5
would follow the success Cf this plan
would b. the Tremendous Increase III
the value of farm property and the
greatly increased demand for money to
invest in agricultural undertakings. 1t
would multiply by many fold the quau-
tity of money that could be safely in
vested in our state aud if the farmers
will adopt the progressive methods thaG
have proven SO successful elsewhere the
banks of the state will be ready to loan
them the money they need to purchase
better stock, better machinery and make
of themselves more substantial and de-
sirable citizens.-St. Johnsbury Gale
DOMAIN.