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Northern  Vermont 
Part  III. 
Farm  Credit. — -Recently  the  Secretary 
of  the  U.  S.  Treasury  and  the  members 
of  the  Federal  Farm  Loan  Commission, 
have  been  travelling  through  Now  Eng¬ 
land  seeking  to  locate  the  new  land  bank. 
They  put  up  strong  arguments  for  such  a 
bnnic  on  the  theory  that.  New  England 
farmers  are  badly  in  need  of  farm  credit. 
While  they  were  doing  I  his  big  adver¬ 
tisements  wove  appearing  in  Vermont  pa¬ 
pers — against  these  loan  hanks.  Senator 
Page  is  a  candidate  for  nomination  in 
the  primary  and  one  of  las  big  arguments 
is  that,  he  voted  a/winxi  the  Federal  farm 
loan  system  !  ITe  says  Vermont  farmers 
do  not  need  it  and  that  it  will  he  an  in¬ 
jury  to  them.  The  entire  Vermont  dele¬ 
gation  at.  Washington  seems  to  be 
against,  these  loan  hanks!  1  just  point, 
this  out  as  a  singular  and  unusual  thing 
when  tnen  come  from  the  outside  with 
one  proposition,  while  Vermont  represen¬ 
tatives  take  the  other  side.  One  promi¬ 
nent  man  told  me  that  any  farmer  with 
reasonable  assets  could  get  all  the  money 
lie  wanted  at  rive  pet*  cent.,  and  make  any 
terms  he  saw  lit  for  payment.  I  should 
judge  that  is  about  correct. 
Vermont  Money. — There  seems  to  he 
plenty  of  it  inside  the  State  and  out. 
Nearly  .35  years  ago  1  went  into  a  town 
in  Colorado  and  called  at  the  hank. 
The  hanker  was  a  New  England  man. 
and  he  said  that  his  batik  was  full  of 
Vermont  and  .Massachusetts  money  which 
he  was  loaning  on  farm  property  secured 
by  the  wheat  crop.  Farmers  had  bor¬ 
rowed  on  the  basis  of  wheat  at  one  dollar 
per  bushel  and  the  price  was  dropping 
down  to  70  cents  aud  under.  This  man 
also  said  that.  Merino  rams  from  Vermont 
were  adding  80  per  cent,  to  the  value  of 
the  wool  clip!  It  is  a  favorite  question 
to  ask  what  would  have  happened  if  all 
this  money  and  most  of  the  men  had  been 
kept  at.  home.  On  n  Colorado  cattle  ranch 
I  worked  with  four  Vermont  men.  Two 
were  consumptives — the  others  eame  be¬ 
cause  they  ‘  were  tired  of  farming  hill¬ 
sides."  If  those  adventurous  dollars  and 
men  had  remained  at  home  there  would 
have  been  sonic  mighty  struggles  among 
these  Yankees.  The  water  powers  and 
the  quarries  would  have  been  greatly  de¬ 
veloped,  and  a  rich  community  built 
around  Lake  Champlain.  They  say  that 
if  yon  put  a  Yankee  on  the  North  Pole  he 
would  make  a  fortune  exhibiting  polar 
hears  to  the  Eskimos,  and  if  is  hard  to 
say  what  would  have  happened  if  the 
Vermont  dollars  had  all  been  planted  at 
home. 
The  Or®  Sheep  Country. — Many  of 
them  went,  however,  and  men  went  with 
them.  You  see  the  effect  of  this  migra¬ 
tion  in  all  the  old  hill  towns.  Most  of 
them  have  steadily  lost  in  population, 
though  now  some  of  them  are  turning 
hack.  In  Addison  County  we  got  into 
the  land  made  famous  in  old  days  by 
Merino  sheep.  Some  of  the  finest  Merinos 
on  earth  were  bred  here,  aud  sheep  men 
came  from  all  over  the  world  after  stock. 
Fabulous  prices  wore  paid  for  good  speci¬ 
mens.  hut  the  industry  declined  and  the 
Merinos  passed  on.  T  should  judge  that 
many  of  these  old  sheep  breeders  kept 
much  of  their  money  here,  improved 
farms  mid  built  fine  houses.  The  country 
shows  this  as  you  ride  through  it.  Some 
of  these  farmers  are  back  in  sheep — not 
so  much  the  Merinos  as  Shropshlrcs  and 
other  mutton  breeds.  I  should  judge  that 
these  farmers  never  were  very  strong  for 
milking  a  cow. 
Fine  Fruit. — This  section  lies  iu  the 
lower  part  of  the  Champlain  Valley,  and 
there  is  no  liner  place  on  earth  for  the 
production  of  certain  varieties  of  apples. 
At  Middlobury  1  talked  with  F.  E.  W’eth- 
erell,  who  is  developing  a  fine  apple  or¬ 
chard.  Here  was  much  the  same  prob¬ 
lem  Unit  we  have  iu  New  Jersey,  which 
means  planting  an  orchard  and  finding 
some  crop  to  grow  between  the  trees 
which  will  at  least  pay  expenses  until  the 
trees  come  through  into  hearing.  It  is 
often  a  long  and  tedious  wait,  and  it  re¬ 
quires  great  patience  and  clear  vision  to 
hang  on.  Mr.  Wethereil's  trees  are  com¬ 
ing —some  of  them  have  arrived.  lie  is 
working  to  produce  the  finest  fruit  and 
developing  special  markets  for  it.  He 
lias  a  fiock  of  fine  Shropshire  sheep  ns 
stock  companions  for  the  trees  and  is  try¬ 
ing  out  cover  crops,  mulch,  intercropping 
and  all  the  other  schemes.  Ited  Kidney 
beans  grown  between  the  trees  looked 
well.  There  were  Cow-horn  turnips  and 
buckwheat  very  much  better  tlmn  ours  in 
New  Jersey,  and  the  whole  farm  was  a 
good  demonstration  of  the  possibilities  of 
fruit  growing  in  this  section. 
A  Farm  Gathering. — At  Cornwall 
nearly  1.000  people  gathered  iu  a  little 
grove  beside  the  church.  The  audience 
sat  in  the  shade  under  the  pines,  while, 
the  speaker’s  stand  was  built  beside  the 
soldiers’  monument.  This  monument,  car¬ 
ried  the  most  impressive  legend  I  have 
yel  seen  on  such  a  memorial.  Only  two 
words : 
“  Corn  wall  Remem  reus.’  ’ 
On  the  other  sides  of  the  shaft  were 
the  names  of  the  soldiers  who  died  iu  war. 
I  could  not  help  thinking  what  a  story 
that  old  church  and  the  big  trees  along 
these  shady  roads  could  tell  if  they  could 
only  speak  onr  language.  They  ‘‘remem¬ 
ber.’'  So  does  the  old  town — so  did  those 
men  and  women  who  gathered  under  the 
pines.  Across  the  village  green  from  ns 
was  a  chapter  house  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  Revolution.  If  was  a  beautiful  build¬ 
ing  with  all  modern  improvements,  the 
town  library  and  a  hall  for  public  meet¬ 
ing.  1  presume  you  realize  that  after  the 
Revolution  soldiers  of  Washington's  army 
came  up  here  for  homes  and  farms  just  as 
after  the  Civil  War  their  grandsons  hack 
from  the  army  went  “nut  West.”  “Corn¬ 
wall  Remembers!”  Indeed  it  does,  and 
its  memories  are  part  of  the  great,  noble 
legacy  of  thought  which  is  passing  out  of 
the  minds  of  those  who  Jive  in  great 
cities. 
The  Country. — It  is  a  good  one,  with 
many  possibilities  for  the  homo-maker. 
Vermont  is  coming  hack — there  can  ho  no 
doubt  of  it.  Tim  tido  lias  turned  if  it 
ever  went  out.  and  l  think  there  will  ho 
a  steady  and  slow  movement  of  popula¬ 
tion  back  to  the  best  Vermont  farms. 
Some  of  these  farms  should  never  have 
boon  cleared,  and  now  would  better  g.> 
hack  to  timber,  blit  there  is  good  land 
which  will  make  homos  for  thousands  of 
people.  The  Winters  are  cold,  but  it 
seems  to  he  a  healthy  chill.  Those  who 
come  to  Vermont  after  homes  will  need 
to  he  strong  and  active — rugged  aud  well. 
They  will  have  to  work  hard  through  the 
short  Summers  in  order  to  live  with 
their  stuck  through  the  Winter,  but  they 
will  have  matiy  advantages  not  to  lie 
found  in  the  South.  I  think  the  State  is 
on  the  eve  of  a  big  awakening  in  farming, 
and  in  general  local  development.  Farm 
education  and  farm  leadership,  co-opera¬ 
tion  npd  water  power  development,  are 
sure  to  come,  and  a  young  man  with 
great  energy  amt  fair  capital  getting  in 
early  will  go  along  with  it.  II.  w.  O. 
Co-operative  Cement  Buying 
The  Arizona  Agricultural  College  tells 
of  a  case  at  Wilcox  in  that  State  where 
the  members  of  a  Farm  Improvement  As¬ 
sociation  bought  a  carload  of  cement.  It 
is  claimed  that  they  saved  .'f-’-tJd  on  this 
car  by  buying  together.  With  this  ce¬ 
ment  -10  pit  -silos  will  bo  constructed. 
These  silos  will  hold  about  1.800  tons  of 
feed.  Under  other  conditions  nearly  half 
of  this  feed  would  have  been  wasted  or 
lost,  and  the  feed  is  worth,  conservative¬ 
ly,  ST, 200.  It  will  lie  used  to  feed  about 
000  head  of  cattle,  most  of  them  range 
stock,  which  under  ordinary  conditions 
would  have  had  no  more  than  an  even 
chance  of  getting  through  the  Winter 
alive.  It  is  doubtful  if  these  farmers 
would  have  bought  the  cement  had  they 
not  been  able  to  save  largely  by  buying 
it  together,  and  if  the  cement  had  not  been 
bought,  few  if  any  silos  would  have  been 
built.  This  will  prove  the  beginning  of 
an  industry  in  that  part  of  Arizona 
which  will  prove  very  profitable  to  the 
farmers. 
Ten-year-ot.d  James  takes  his  father 
as  a  delightful  joke,  and  does  not  always 
mind  him  promptly.  One  day  his  moth¬ 
er  listened  at  the  top  of  the  stairs. 
“James,”  said  the  father’s  voice,  “do 
what  1  tell  you !”  The  boy  looked  up 
and  grinned.  Ilis  mother  smiled  and 
waited  the  outcome.  “Jim,”  said  the 
father,  solemnly,  “you  do  what  I  told 
you.  or"— he  lowered  his  voice — "I’ll  sick 
your  mother  onto  you!"  As  Mrs.  liar- 
rod  put  her  apron  over  her  head  to  stifle 
her  mirth,  she  had  a  fleeting  glimpse  of 
Jim  junior  flying  to  do  what  his  father 
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Hudson  Now  Holds  World’s 
Greatest  Hill-Climbing  Record 
Makes  Fastest  Time  Up  Pike’s  Peak 
No  Kill-climb  or  mountain  test  in  the  world  equals  that 
imposed  on  motor  cars  that  race  to  the  summit  of  Pike’s 
Peak.  A  Hudson  Super-Six  Special  made  the  best  time  of 
more  than  20  contestants  to  the  top  of  America’s^  most 
famous  mountain,  over  the  longest,  steepest,  highest 
travelabie  road  in  the  world. 
The  start,  at  a  mile  and  three-quarters 
above  the  sea,  is  higher  by  far  than  is  the 
altitude  of  the  finishing  line  in  most  hill- 
climbs. 
The  finishing  point  of  Pike’s  Peak  is 
almost  two  and  three-quarters  miles 
above  sea  level.  In  the  twelve  and  a 
fraction  miles  of  the  course  there  are  60 
turns,  and  the  rise  is  almost  one  mile 
high.  There  is  no  place  where  the  car  is 
not  climbing. 
The  high  altitude  affects  the  power 
efficiency  of  the  motor  and  water  boils  at 
such  low  temperature  that  motors  cannot 
be  cooled  as  they  are  in  lower  levels. 
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The  Hudson  climbed  up  this  winding 
steep  road  to  the  “Top  of  the  World”  in 
18  minutes,  24  seconds.  Its  time  was 
2) -j  minutes  faster  than  the  next  fastest 
car. 
This  feat  now  gives  to  Hudson  prac¬ 
tically  every  worth-while  record.  In 
speed — when  102.3  miles  an  hour  was 
attained  at  Daytona;  in  endurance — 
when  1819  miles  were  covered  in  24 
hours,  with  a  stock  Super-Six  chassis  we 
established  marks  not  likely  soon  to  be 
equalled. 
Now  we  have  added  to  these  the  great¬ 
est  of  all  hill-climbing  feats.  In  it  we  have 
shown  the  endurance  of  the  Super-Six. 
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Others  Failed 
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Motors  of  some  of  the  most  famous 
racing  cars  in  the  world  were  unable  to 
withstand  the  strain  of  that  climb  and 
so  did  not  get  to  the  summit. 
It  is  constant  hard  pulling  all  the  way 
and  more  than  three-quarters  of  the  dis¬ 
tance  must  be  made  in  second  speed, 
even  with  specially  geared  cars. 
In  addition  to  mere  climbing,  as  is  re¬ 
quired  in  all  hill-climbs,  here  is  added 
the  difficulties  of  carburetionand  cooling. 
The  altitude  that  affects  one’s  breath-' 
ing  so  much  that  even  the  strongest  man 
can  stand  only  the  least  amount  of  phys¬ 
ical  exertion,  has  a  similar  effect  in 
reducing  the  power  of  the  motor. 
We  made  that  record  in  a  contest  in 
which  were  entered,  as  described  by  a 
Denver  newspaper,  “Fours — Sixes — 
Eights — Twelves  and  Super  Sixes.” 
And,  as  in  all  tests  in  which  they  have 
been  entered,  the  best  performance  was 
shown  by  the  Super-Six. 
Phaeton,  7-passenger  .$1475 
Roadster,  2-passenger .  1475 
Cabriolet,  3-passenger .  1775 
Touring  Sedan  . 
Limousine  .  •  . 
( All  Prices  f.o.b 
.  .  $2000 
.  .  2750 
Detroit) 
Town  Car  .....  $2750 
Town  Car  Landaulet  .  2850 
Limousine  Landaulet  .  2850 
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