Connecticut western news., 1916-10-05


 due to various causes, among them competition in the middle west ill the shape of cheap land of great natural fertility. low transportation 1 charges to the markets of the east and few large cities of their own to feed. conditions have SD changed that New | England is today more nearly on an agricultural parity with the newer i country.
 1 New England has the land and the markets and needs only the determina- tion to take it's rightful place as a 1 provider of food for it's people. Land l in the middle west is no longer cheap; t no longer will yield big crops with 1 out good tillage and fertilizer; trans l p0rtation 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 i lands opportunity. That she is dis l posed to grasp it is apparent in many ways. The rise Of the cooperative spirit i the last few years has been notable. This contains one of the greatest promises of the immediate future. It 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 l times are vastly better with them when the business men are prosperous ! --thOt thn fo cfo i'm rg | fifty-two weeks a year. full time offer a much greater market for farm prod uce than those in a factory operated thirty weeks year, three days a week. And the other side of this idea is that the business man is learning that q 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 l farmers fin one community can either save or increase their incomes $10 each in one. year, there is added to the bank balances or the circulating medium of that community $100. If 100 farmers do it, it would begin to attract atten- tion; 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 New England.
 The better understanding of the in terdependence of the country and the city has accounted for some very definite forward steps in some sec tions 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 uD the subject and saw that what was needed was a 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 extraordinary sue cess of the first county league in south ern New England, that of Hampden County. which in the first two years ot it's existence added to the farm in comes and values of one county ST. 100000. "If this can be done in this county. why not in Others-in all New England?" was the way the vision pre- sented itself.
 The outcome was the organization of the Eastern States Horticultural and Industrial Exposition. Though its title contains the word Exposition" the Aemphasis is on the words "AgllculturaI and Industrial"
 ryI,- s,, fior iS cO-oDeration. The organizers and di rectors believe firmly that if the agr:' cultural and industrial interests of every part of New England can be brought into close relations both vii benefit hugely. Each interest will learn from the other and there will bt brought about a spirit of mutual help fulness. an appreciation of each Other's difficulties and pride in success that will make New England more united.
 Support For the Exposition.
 Launched about the beginning of tn year. the Eastern States Exposition has won the support of not only thu business men of New England. t whom it's program appeals as the mos workable yet devised for the purpose: sought. but of the leaders of agricul tural thought in every state and o hundreds of lon the ground farmers It is a Massachusetts corporation. witt q capital stock of $75OOOO. divided int 30.000 shares of a par value of $2 each.
 The Exposition will coordinate. re inforce and extend the work that i 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 l. dairy and poultry associations and otl 4 CT like organizations. In order to q F this it has provided plant cOnsistin = of TO acres of land and a group o exposition buildings of steel. concret
 and brick. located in the town O ) ; West Sprin@fie!d. 20 minutes wal from the Srringffeld Dostoffice. Thi = plant, which represents the entire cal ? ital of thc corporation. is declared h - 1 tho hest pXuprfc tO have m t1y1oI i