The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-11-01

ment in business, with prospect for
a slow, steady improvement for
the next three months" but "there
is large unemployment in common
labor" and with respect to hous-
ing it is declared tnat "hign
prices have frightened the buying.
= market for homes" AS an OIL
set to these conditions the report
adds: "All plants are operating,
with a slight improvement in those
which have been running on part
time, and managers seem to De
|, operating on q conservative but
I optimistic basis"
In the general reference to the
New England situation, the report
7 refers to quarry products in Yer
mont, New Hampshire, Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island as being
Every quiet" and points out that
lack of business has caused the
closing down of railroad shops IN
Maine as we'll as Vermont, ..Is
cut being in the shops of the Ban
gor and Aroostook, at Derby.
This road, it adds, Initiates
largely the transportation Of
Names immense rotato CROP"
Nearly one-third of all the pure
bred cattle and a similar proper
ton of all the purebred horses on
New England farms roam the pas
lures, or are stabbed in the barns,
OF ermont, saws the Census Bur-
eau in its latest bulletins on these
subjects, which give the Green
Mountain State a noteworthy sup
remacy in the New England sis
terhood in this regard.
Cattle enumeration is subdivid-
ed according to two main divisions,
beef breeds, and dairy breeds,
and as all Vermonters
know, it is the latter that predo-
inmates heavily in the state. Ap-
proximately 10000 head of cattle
in Vermont figure in the big total,
with only 93,289 credited to the
whole of New England. The Bay
State is second, with nearly 20
600 head; Maine third, having 49,
202; and New Hampshire next,
with 1866.
Observation-Disclosures have the call
in Vermont among the mixers, 49,
413 of this breed being enumerated
out of total of 28,549 dairy ami
mails. JERSEYS follow, with 8,446 :
Ayrshires number 3,S08; and Cur
seys are in fourth place, with g.
1913. OF Brown Swiss there are
but SO in the whole state. Six
hundred and thirty head are I'M
classified.
Beef breeds are comparatively
scarce but 1909 head being tailed
as of January 1, 1920, although
in the country as a whole the
beef cattle are slightly in tne
lead. Shorthorns comprise more
than a third of the entire enroii-
ment of porterhouse producers IN
Vermont, totalling nearly 500
head, and next in line come
Herefords, with 81. Galloways
are conspicuous by their entire alb :
sence, but there are to be found
2 Aberdeen Angus bovines and 40
Devons, while "Polled Durhams
run as high as 272. In Maine and
New Hampshire Herefords take
the lead among the beeves, but
among the dairy animals the Hol-
stein-Friesians predominant in
each of the New England group,
comprising almost exactly one
half of the whole number of dairy
cattle enumerated therein. TINS
same predominance is to be noted
in every one of the nine geograph-
ical divisions of the United States
set up by the Bureau for classlfi-
cation purposes, excepting in the
states, where the preference is for
Jerseys.
OF the 2,O17 pure-bred horses
credited to entire New England,
Vermont possesses 661, scattered
throughout some eight various
breeds, with a considerable num-
Der (by far the larger proportion)