Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
BETTER TIMES FOR
INSURED BY RISE
Success In New England States
Indicated by Eastern States
Agricultural and Indus
trial Exposition.

EA agriculture of New England.
"a. After a period of depression
due to various causes, among
them competition in the middle west
III the shape of cheap land of great
natural fertility. low transportation
charges to the markets of the east and
few large cities of their own to feed
conditions have so changed that New
England is today more nearly on an
agricultural parity with the newer
country.
New England has the land and the
markets and needs only the determina-
ton to take its rightful place as
proVider of food for it's people, Land
i'll the middle west is no longer cheap:
it no longer will yield big crops with
out good tillage and fertilizer; trans
portatlon costs more. and there is now
great number of large and growing
cities demanding an ever increasing
amount of food
These facts constitute New Eng
lands opportunity. That she is dis
posed to grasp it is apparent in many
''N'' IN i4oC VI -tIle cO-tiJtIdllH
spirit the last few years has been
notable. This contains one of the
greatest promises of the immediate
future. II is not in vain that men ar
que now for closer relations between
the rural and urban sections.
Each Dependent on the Other.
The farmers are coming to see that
times are vastly better with them
when the business men are prosperous
that the workers in a factory running
fifty-two weeks year. full time. offer
n much greater market for farm prod
uce than those in a factory opera ted
thirty weeks a year, three days a week.
And the other side of this idea is that
the business man is learning that a
prosperous rural community is better
for his bank account than one where
the farmers can purchase only the bare
necessities.
The mathematics Of the idea has
been recently put this way: If ten
farmers in one community can either
save or increase their incomes $40 each
in one, year. there is added to the bank
balances or the circulating medium Of
that community 500. If 100 farmers
do it, it would begin to attract atten-
ton; if 1000. business would certainly
boom" The day is not far distant
when something Of this sort will come
about here in New England.
Forward Steps In Ne,v England.
The better understanding of the in
Independence of the country and the
city has accounted for some very
definite forward steps in some sec
tons Of New England What many
believe was the greatest Of these was
that in Springfield, Mass. where a
group Of men. quick to comprehend the
trend of events, some months ago took
up the subject and saw that what was
needed was movement big enough to
comprise every community in the six
New England states-an all-New Eng
land movement. Their big view of the
matter followed the extra ordinary sue
cess of the first county league in south
ern New England. that Of Hampden
County. which in the first two years of
it's existence added to the farm In
comes and values of one county ST.
100000. eff this can be done in this
county,. why not in others-in all New
England:" was the way the vision pre-
scented itself
The outcome was the organization OF
the Eastern States Agricultural and
Industrial Exposition. Though its title
contains the word "Exposition," the
emphasis is on the words Agricultural
and Industrial"
The keynote in this organization is
cooperation. The organizers and di
rectors believe firmly that if the agri.
cultural and industrial interests of
every part of New England can be
brought into close relations both viii
benefit hugely. Each interest will learn
from the other and there will be
brought about q spirit of mutual help
fulness, an appreciation of each others
difficulties and a pride in success thai
will make New England more united.
Support For the Exposition.
Launched about the beginning of the
year, the Eastern States Exposition
has won the support Of not only the
business men of New England. tt
whom it's program appeals as he mos
workable yet dev:sed for the purpose.
, sought, but of the leaders of agricul
tural thought in every state and O
| hundreds of ION the ground" farmers
1t is a Massachusetts corporation. Will
q capital stock of $75O,OOO. divided int
10000 shares of par value of S2
| each.
The Exposition will coordinate. re
inforce and extend the work that /
now being done in New England b,
State boards and commissioners O
agriculture, agricultural colleges, tn
Oranges, county leagues and farm bu
reaus. farmers unions, breeders
dairy and poultry associations and ott
err like organizations. In order to d
this it has provided a plant consistin