Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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pecializing — the dairys milk, butter, andcheese form the biggest single item of profitfor the farms. The business is being put ona better, more scientific basis every year.Here is where Iowa, Wisconsin, and otherMiddle-Western States had something toteach their Eastern neighbors. I found anautomatic cow-milker installed at the farmof the New Hampshire Agricultural Col- The fact that there are less than half ahundred young men taking the agriculturalcourse, as against nearly five hundred in theliterary, scientific, engineering, and medicalcolleges of the university, indicates thatfarming does not strongly appeal to youngVermont. Yet it is possible for a youth whomeans business to go through the four yearscourse at the Agricultural College withoutspending a cent more than he can earn there;and at the end of his course, if he has anybusiness capacity, he is practically sure of agood job as farm superintendent or as ex-pert in some one of the federal governments 22 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
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Interior of a marble-quarry at Proctor, showing how the white stone is sawed out in layers, and how the workmen reach the pit many agricultural activities, at a salary any-where from a thousand to fifteen hundreddollars a year. It seems to me the boys ofVermont are overlooking a good thing righthere. The Sources of the States Wealth After agriculture, which remains the chiefsingle industry in Vermont, the granite,marble, slate, soapstone, and limestone WHATS THE MATTER WITH VERMONT? 23 quarries employ the largest number of handsof any of the States activities. The granitequarries are located at Barre, which has ahundred firms and companies engaged inthe granite trade: at Montpelier, Northneld,Hardwick, Woodbury, South Ryegate,Groton, Calais, West Concord, and WestDanville. Marble quarries are worked atProctor,— the seat of the largest company,the Vermont Marble Company, — at WestRutland, Middlebury, Dorset, East Dorset,Pittsford, and Fowler. Poultney is the chiefcentre of the slat

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