Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-05-08

Holsteins, with good frame, big
milk flow, rich in casein and fairly
strong in butter-fats, are perhaps the
best-liked general purpose breed in
| Vermont.
Jerseys, aristocrats of the stable,
will always be favorites where heavy
butter-fat producers are desired for
purely buttermaking purposes. Yet
the selection of a dairy breed is not
of such prime Importance these days
as careful study Of the feed and
forage problems, which mean either
profit or loss in these war-times. In
fact, as the Herald has previously OBJ
served, a great many Vermont dairy
men do very we'll with a stable Of
grade cattle, making as much profit
per dollar of investment as men who
go to blooded cattle and high initial
investment in stock.
1t would seem as though charge
and credit account with each lnd1vld-
ual cow were almost a necessity IN
these days of high prices and short
labor supply. No dairyman today can
afford to board a cow that is not pro.
OuC1ng d u0C pIOlIC uuA AAS AANA NAAOA
lifetime of efficiency.
Then the question of profitable
breeds would soon work itself out
Rutland Herald.
Patriotic Farm Service.
In the working out of the farm
problems the coming season the
country is up against some stubborn
facts. 1t is useless to blind our
eyes to the situation-we are short
Of farm workers, and that at time
when even more are needed than at
any time heretofore. The working
of the selective draft may give some
relief but cannot entirely remedy
matters. Even without the loss of
the thousandsof young men recently
called, the farms have been short
handed for several years.
In this connection we would call
attention to some facts that should
some time that many farmers, after
years of effective work on their
farms have left them and moved to
the towns, leaving their lands in the
care of tenants. This has been bad
for the farms in many ways, particu-
larly in that it deprived the lands of
the care of men of experience and
superior Judgment, both so vitality
necessary at this time.
These men are still in the towns,
hundreds of them, thousands of them.
While they may be substantial fac
tor of the town force, their presence
is at this time most urgently de-
manded on the farms. Every farm in
the land is crying out for the guiding
hand and brain of it's owner-the one
person who should have the deepest
interest in it's success.
In this crisis of the nations life,
every, owner of a plant who has left
great sacrifice-should return to the
soil and give to it his best labor and
thought. It is not merely the mat
ter of his daily labors, though these
would count largely in results. There
is the more important fact of his ex-
perience and broader knowledge of
farm problems. His hand at the helm
would be an inspiration to the entire
farm force and would count power
fully in the final results.
There could be no finer exhibition
of patriotism than for the ex-farm-
ers of the. country, wherever and
however situated, to return to the
soil at least through the period of the
war, Wnen Cney could De OF Such I'M
told aid to their country.-Burling-
ton Free Press.
Boys and Training.
The other day young man, for
merly an inmate of the Industrial
school, came into our office and tran
sacted business in such splendid
manner that we at once were attract
ed, and knowing where he had been
confined for some time, could not but
wonder if it were his fault because of
his being there. This thought was
when we observed, the |
very next evening, several young lads
from five to seven years of age,
throwing stones at an electric light,
and bent on doing damage of some |
kind or other. The question is, "Were
those boys to blame, or was it their
parents ?" They were, in the first |
place, out at an untimely hour for
such kids and their parents should |
not have permitted it. Unfortunate
ly, there is not always the best dis |
erection in such matters in many
homes, and when the boys follow up |
one piece of deviltrv with another