The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-28
WOULD NEED $4,000
TO RESTORE VAIL FARM
II the State Is to Abandon Vail Agricul-
cultural School and Cause Property
to Go to the Lyndon Institute.

to Go to the Lyndon Institute.
Request that the state of Vermont ex
pend $4,000 in restoring the Vail farms
at Lyndon in case the state abandons
the idea of continuing the Vail Agricul-
tural school and causes the property to
revert to the Lyndon institute, is con-
tanned in an letter from Theodore N.
VAIL the donor of the property, to Gov
ernor Clement. The letter is as follows:
February q, 1919.
Dear Governor Clement--In reference
to our conversation of a few days ago:
1t seems to me that the great opportu-
nifty for Vermont's future lies in her rur-
al industries-fruits, vegetables and
dairying There is no state. in all re-
speets superior and few equal to her in
possibilities of this kind, either from the
standpoint of production or marketing.
You may well see all over the state the
evidence Of its one time position in rural
prosperity before eastern agriculture had
to bow its head to the over production Of
the new and virgin West and cheap
transportation.
The past as well as the possible future
is evidenced by the still existent fine old
farmhouses and outbuildings with the
well cultivated park like fields, both val
ley and side hill. You can also note
signs of return OF that old.tim rural
prosperity, The readjustment that has
taken place, the building up of great in
dustrial eenters throughout central New
England, the concentration of population
have created consumption which is pc
culiarly absorptive of home grown prod
ucts, and in no place in the world can
home grown products be produced equal
to those of Vermont, and no part of the
country has such access to those markets
as has Vermont. Vermonts rural indus
try has great future.
Rural industry has, like all industry,
changed to intensive production under
advanced scientific methods aided by me-
chanical appliances. These are neces
sary, that each unit of human effort put
forth shall be infinitely more productive,
The -old-time methods are no longer
applicable. Rotation and soiling with
home produced fertilizers will not meet
modern requirements any more than old
time methods will satisfactorily produce
paper or cloth or gas or any other com
modify.
In the olden times the professional
man acquired the knowledge to follow
his profession in the working office OF
someone in that profession. The boy
learned his trade through years of ap.
premiership; tools were simple and tC
4huv,a 4DIIr -
farm bred boy could learn at home all
that was needed. Now the machine does
better and quicker under the guidance
acquired by only a month or 80 training
than the journeyman would do after
years of training, if at all. To get the
best results from the soil, the nature oil
the soil and the crops to be raised have
to be intelligently considered. To raise
vegetables or fruits in these DAYS there
is a multitude Of pests, parasites, blight;
and diseases TO contend with which were
unknown in the olden times All Of
these are insidious and have to be com
bated by intelligent observation and pre-
caution or cared for by its particular an
tidote. While for old time conditions
there were no better methods than old
time methods, new time conditions must
be met by new methods.
These new methods cannot be learned
at home In the first place to intell
gently use them more than mere manua
or mechanical doing must be known: t,
intelligently apply them the why's ant
wherefores must be known. In any pur
suit in which there are many possibilite,
of wasting time in movement from on,
piece of work to another or from ont
part of farm to another, method an,
system and intelligent planning are o
the greatest Importance. The hardes
worker often-times accomplishes tn
least. Lack of system costs labor; care
lessness and waste destroy the efforts o
labor. 1t is not the amount of worl
done but the way ii is done that pro
duces results. 1t takes less effort to d.
anything properly than to do it improp
erly, but to do it properly requires stud,
and experience as to the best methods.
All of any kind of education, is to fin
out that which has been demonstrated
as true by others and to learn how t.
use it. To get all of our knowledge a
to how to do things through our own ex
periences is most wasteful of time il
fact, impossible.
In considering this matter of agricul
tual schools there must be a full appre
citation of the differences between schoc
and college. The agricultural college j