Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

sheep thereby increasing the income of farmers to
manifold degree
merchants luncheon road makers that he had sheep to
SELL but he would $1,000 head in place of the $500
to $500 sheep worth few years ago. we wondered
why Vermont producing sheep thereby provd
ing itself with rich and wholesome meat in this period OF nigh
prices for beef as we'll producing wool for market
The answer in word is clogs" We instantly re-
verified to the concise but vivid diagnosis of the Souhs
troubles made by the late Congressman Roswell G. Horn OF
Michigan, republican orator, who delighted earlier
Grafton of with his wit and political eoquence
on the stump He said the South would flourish if o"d
The people on thousand hill sides in Vermont would
flourish more than at present if they would raise more sheep
and less dogs Yet strange to whenever Vermont
whole confronted with the duty of choosing between sheep
and dogs, it has invariably chosen dogs
Nearly every recent session of the Legislature in Yer
mont has witnessed the introduction of measures calculated
to protect sheep from dogs Ihereupon every owner OF
measy throughout the State would raise his voice IN pro-
test in unison with the female fonders of the despcabe lap
dog and impress the wisdom and virtue of Vermont official
y supposed to be embodied in our General Assembly to
point where the outcome in effect would be vote to protect
The time viii come when the farmers of Vermont will
join hands with the Of meat in cities and viii
lagos and the great industry of sheep husbandry
Action will be forced by selfish own pockets
hut the benefit to the State whole will be none the less
marked and wholesome.
To the appeals of pocketbooks, which usual
y found later to be irresistible will be added the
demands of patriotism. Indeed patriotism may lead our
pockebooks in this struggle for the OF making our
selves sesusainng in time of possible war as well as IN
peace
The American Wooden company which has just led the
ing thousands OF homes IN Vermont and elsewhere TO solve
the problem of meeting the high cost of living has done an
other commendabe public service by emphasizing the neces
sty of meeting threatening situation in the United States
Acting the assumption that something must be done
president of the American Wooden company, has sent let
ter to the department of agriculture and State boards of
and members of the Legislatures of New England
States setting forth the urgency of the situation This
letter to A. c. Bgeow president of the Philadelphia Wool
Textile association, saying that he would take such &C
Mr. Wood is in hearty support of the campaign by the
Philadelphia organization for increasing the number Of do
nestle sheep 1.-The great making supply OF wool
pe Of this Accompanyms the letter. to the var
parties mentioned statistical record of the wool
duction The letter is in part follows
of the Association a
more sheep and WOOL Though the population of the
and the amount of wool here are failing off, IN
1909 32s0Ooo0o pounds of wool in this
in years. the last fiscal Year. out Of total Of
pounds of wool available for consumption in the
$50 critical is the situation that Great Britain, which
controls nearly twohrds of the worlds WOOL is contemplate
ing the imposition of export duty this indispensable
material when bought by any but British purchasers
the locks of the states The American people need
sheep for food and clothing In spite of the rapdity
there still great in this country where sheep
be grown with profit by the exercise of intelligence and
the abandoned pastures of the New England and other
Eastern States
australasia produces nearly three times much wool
country-chefy because in Australasia wool
growing is modern, systematzed business because
all laws made to favor and worthless dogs
lowed to harry and murder vauble ocks. National and
State governments with have done much to encourage
agriculture and stock raising but sheep and wool have
received their due There urgent need OF search
ing investigation of the whole question by national State
authorities May not ask you to take up this subject and
do share the end that there may be
more wool for the American people?
A this is essential part of any patriotic national
movement for preparedness for the position in which this
country would find itself in wardependent on foreign
for than half its wool-s appalling con-
template"
Here is accurate and concise summary of the whole
wool situation throughout the world 1t enables
the future of the sheep industry with remarkable precision
We know there will be danger in going into the sheep
business far the demands for wool products
concerned
We of Vermont have been making efforts under
the able leadership of Commissioner of Agriculture
Brigham to additional and broader markets for all
Vermont products. Mr.. Brigham has shown us that we
must not only market intelgenty but must also
meet the requirements of markets in quality and handling
That is true especially of the sheep industry.
President Wood has shown the farmers of Vermont
how thevc their