Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-09-19
VermOnterS Interested.

The sale of the town of Lincoln, N
H., recently by three Henry brothers
to the Parker & Young company is
of particular interest to Vermonters.
The head of the purchasing company
is Martin A. Brown of Wilmington
and a former president is Harry
Parker, publisher of the Bradford
Opinion. The price paid was ap-
proximately $3,000,O0O.
The sale of the Henry outfit is one
of the biggest realty deals on record
in New Hampshire. With the vast
woodlands, in the neighborhood of
10000 acres, mostly spruce, lot of
which is virgin forest, went a fully
equipped railroad of about IA miles,
passenger, freight and lumber cars,
locomotives, ETC., more than 100
dwelling houses, an opera house, a So
room hotel, which cost $4,000 to
build some years ago, a hospital,
general store doing a business of
100000 a year, saw mills, pulp and
paper mills, five fully equipped lum-
Der camps with accommodations for
houses, and valuable water rights, in
Guiding a town water system.
The Parker & Young company has
leans, Vt, and owns large tracts of
timberlands in several places in addi-
ton to the one recently purchased.
The sale at Lincoln brings nearly all
of the uncut timber district of the
Pemigewasset valley under one con-
troll, exclusive of many acres previ-
ously cut which have been sold to the
United States government as a part
of the immense White Mountain for
estry reservation. Lincoln is said to
be the cleansest lumber town in the
country, where everybody is demo-
cratic and capital and labor work
handin Manifestations Reformer.
The Vail School.
The Vail agricultural school at
Lyndon, according to announcement
made elsewhere, opens Sept. 25th for
the current year. Rollo C. Reynolds,
executive officer of the commissioner
of education, will be in charge of this |
school for time, at least. Mr.. Rey- !
holds has had successful experience |
as head of educational institutions in
Vermont. In view of the scarcity of |
men Of tried ability in expert agricul-
tural instruction, due to variety of |
causes at this time the state board of |
Jural schools of the state were COM
nitted by the present legislature, con-
5iders itself fortunate in being able to |
spare SO good a man from it's regular |
force for this duty.
It will be noted from the prospectus |
that a number of innovations are to |
De introduced at Lyndon. The full |
course will be Of twelve successive |
months instead Of two years Of about
eight months each. The purpose in
view is to instruct pupils in agricul-
5ure when agriculture is at it's maxi
mum activity, i. e., during the sum-
ner months. 1t is then that boys can
De taken into the fields and shown the
oracticrl side of improved crop cul-
5ure with best prospects of results.
Another feature is the calendar ar
by which each of the pro-
luctive months will have for it's sub
ect the matter Of chief Importance on
Still another innovation will be the
given students to enter
1T the beginning of any month, with a
;hance to complete the years course
nternittently, SO long as they cover
he twelve calendar months.
A model farm at the Lyndon school
las been carved out of the vast Vail
Of dimensions and equip
nent sufficient to typify the ordinary
Vermont farm, and the conduct of
his farm will be the project enter
Prise of the school. The curriculum
Will be intensely practical, the winter
months only being devoted principal
y to the science of agriculture. Field
md demonstration work with capable
will form the basis of the
curse.
These ideas of agricultural educa-
ion are not altogether individual the
ries, but have been submitted to and
approved by some of the best govern
nent authorities at Washington, as
veil as experts elsewhere. A splen-
lid opportunity is offered at Lyndon
or their working out. Should the re-