American Agriculturist, July 12, 1924 
Farmers on the Broad Highway 
In last week's installment of Mr. 
Saunders' chronicle, the tourists had reached 
Dicksville Notch and were headed toward 
Canada. It was at Dicksville Notch that the 
party saw frost bitten corn on August 28th. 
At Colebrook we were again on the Connecti¬ 
cut River. In this section there are lots of 
paper mills, and we saw mountains of pulp 
wood, awaiting the grinder. 
We got our permit to enter Canada at a 
custom house in Canaan, Vermont, and soon 
reported under the British flag at the Canadian 
custom house. At first we found poor roads 
and poor farming conditions; but after we left 
Sherbrook there was a great change. Much 
of the land between Sherbrook and Montreal 
is level, and here we saw some very fine farms. 
The buildings were good, and fields of 
oats and second cutting clover were 
just wonderful. There was no corn to 
speak of. The fields were fenced by 
wire and averaged only about eight 
acres to a field. This seemed strange 
as the ground was so level there could 
have been readily one hundred acres 
to a field. A lot of farmers keep cows, 
but the chief cash crop seemed to be 
hay. 
We saw many one horse two-wheeled 
wagon loads going to market in Mon¬ 
treal. In this country it was hard to 
find people who could talk English. 
Even boys and girls fifteen years old 
talked French, or French-Canadian as 
it is called. This is also the language 
of their school, we learned. It was 
cjuite a foreign land to us, as we would 
see the word “ Relentissoz ” instead of 
our auto sign “Slow down.” Over the railroad 
crossings the signs would read “Traverse .Du 
(Chemin de Fer).” Usually both French and 
English were given. 
In this level land we always could spot the 
next town, a mile or two ahead, by the tall 
church spires towering above the tree tops. 
They were wonderful big churches, and many 
were built of marble. One would wonder 
how small towns could support such buildings. 
Not only this, but for fear someone would be 
neglected religiously, away out in the country 
were shrines at the cross roads. The shrines 
were generally a statue on a pole, fenced in 
nicely, with a flower bed, and a locked coin 
box in readiness. 
At Richelieu we came to the large canal that 
connects the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers, 
by passing through Lake Champlain. The 
Richelieu locks make one think of a young 
Panama. They are operated by electricity 
and pass boats up to seventy-five feet in length. 
The canal is maintained by the Canadian and 
United States governments, and is free to all. 
So any of you farmers having yachts up to 
seventy-five feet can connect with the Atlantic 
Ocean that way. 
As we neared Montreal we saw a large 
Dominion tire advertising board that read, 
“Montreal is the largest grain-handling port 
in the world, and is second greatest port in 
North America in total imports and exports.” 
Montreal connects with the Great Lakes by 
water, and thus calls much grain shipping. 
We crossed the St. Lawrence River over the 
Victoria Bridge, which is a mile and a half long, 
and were in Montreal. We spent a night in a 
Montreal hotel as it was too wet for camping. 
Here we handled strange money, and bought 
gasoline by crown measure, one-third more than 
our measure, also more in price. The red royal 
{Continued from last week) 
mail wagons were a curiosity to me. They 
seemed all wheels and no body. They were 
about as much adapted to carrying mail as a 
wheel barrow would be to a load of hay. 
On the way from Montreal to Rouses Point, 
New York, we stopped at a “hot dog” sign 
and were served with French sour bread rolls 
and frankfurters about the size of a rat’s tail, 
and I am sure they were as hard to chew. We 
decided they were really “rabbit sausage,” 
fifty-fifty—one horse, one rabbit. At Rouses 
Point we returned our papers to the custom 
house, after hunting all over town for it, and 
stood the liquid test. 
From here we crossed a rickety wooden 
bridge over the head waters of Lake Cham¬ 
plain, and I would like to say this is one of 
New England's beauty spots. It was a calm 
day, and the crystal waters of the lake coming 
to a shore of good farming land, with here and 
there a splash of green cedars, made a landscape 
that was a feast to the eye. 
We bumped over some of Vermont’s poor 
roads, going southward, and here began seeing 
dairy farmers that belonged to the Dairymen’s 
League. The land was good all the way to 
Brandon. At this place we stopped to call on 
friends, but found them also off on a camping 
trip. We camped in their yard, and in the 
morning, after seeing the birthplace of Stephen 
A. Douglas, went on to Rutland, the marble 
country. These marble quarries are great 
sights. We saw one by the roadside that was 
ninety feet deep. Ton upon ton of the white 
soft stone had been removed. 
From Rutland we headed west, and at 
Castleton were told that just north was 
Bomoseen Lake, the most beautiful in the 
world. We wanted to be sure, so went up 
there. The lake was very nice, and we all 
enjoyed a swim, as the weather had gotten 
back to summer mildness by now. 
Fairhaven is a fine town in the Vermont, 
slate regions and boasts that all houses have 
slate roofs. A little farther on was Whitehall, 
and our own New York State. We pushed on 
through Saratoga Springs and the free camp¬ 
ing grounds at Balston Spa, where we put up 
for the night. 
At Saratoga we saw the State forestry 
nurseries, where there are millions of young 
evergreen trees. The trees ran in size from a 
tooth pick up to a foot in height. This great 
nursery is maintained by the State to promote 
re-foresting our natural timber lands. 
Since so many people are camping out, 
many towns are making an effort to induce the 
rovers to stop over night. Their purchases 
amount to a whole lot of money. There is one 
large camp in the Adirondack section that has 
twenty-eight open fireplaces, and has on record 
that over two thousand people have camped 
there of a single night. It is similar to the 
passenger pigeon of old. Flocks, yes, multi¬ 
tudes are on their way in July and August. 
Our next door neighbors were three young 
lads from Brooklyn. Quite early in the morning 
they were busy tearing their Ford to pieces. 
They said they were going to treat “Lizzie” 
to a new set of speed bands, and then they 
would be sure to reach home that night. They 
had never done the trick before, but knew 
“just about” how it was done. I saw there 
was a garage near by. So we wished the boys 
good luck and made our get-away. 
At Schenectady we crossed New York 
State’s great waterway, the barge canal. 
Our young folks were much inter¬ 
ested to see the WGY sign over the 
General Electric Company shops. We 
all well knew the strong WGY radio 
voice. 
From Schenectady we went south¬ 
west into Schoharie County. In this 
thrifty farming center we found much 
evidence of the Dairymen’s League, 
and had a good fill of real ice cream. 
As many know, the Dairymen’s 
League has the last word in commer¬ 
cial ice cream. 
At Schoharie, the County seat, we 
stopped to see the old stone fort. It 
was built in 1772 and is now used as 
a museum. In this stone building 
are many relics of Revolutionary 
going days. 
I had been attracted to this country 
mostly to see the village of Gilboa. 
This village is about to be obliterated that 
New York City, a hundred miles away, 
shall not die of thirst. A great dam is 
being built, and soon millions of gallons 
of water will be stored from the Schoharie 
River. It was a mystery to me at first 
how this water running north from the Cats- 
kill Mountains, and directly away from New 
York City, was ever going to be returned. 
But I was shown how the cunning of man 
had planned a huge tunnel seventeen miles 
long under the mountains that would cause 
this water when dammed up to change its 
course, and flow directly back under the very 
mountains it had run down from. When once 
on the other side of the mountains the water 
would find its way on and on to the world’s 
greatest city through other channels already 
prepared. 
The rest of our journey was accomplished 
by passing through the heart of the Catskill 
Mountains to Kingston, and across the Hudson 
River to Poughkeepsie, then home to West* 
Chester County. 
We had been gone twelve days, traveled 
fourteen hundred and forty miles in six States 
and Lower Canada, and had seen automobiles 
from thirty-six States and from several of the 
Canadian provinces. Our vacation for 1923 
was over. 
A few “don’ts” for campers: 
Don’t start with poor tires. 
Don’t carry unnecessary luggage. 
Don’t camp without the permission of the 
owner of the land. Special camping grounds, 
are best. 
Don’t drink water from brooks. Get your 
supply from the larger towns. It is guarded 
and clean. 
Don’t build fires carelessly. 
Don’t, above all, camp on mountain tops. 
“We saw many one horse two-wheeled wagon loads 
to market in Montreal.” 
Tragedy of Acadia Repeated 
{Continued from page 18) 
sary assistance to the artisans, and that 
such fund should be administered under 
the League’s supervision by a Commis¬ 
sion, consisting of two Greeks, a Britisher, 
and one American, and that the American 
was to be chairman, and as such have two 
votes and thereby really controlling the 
Commission. 
When I was selected to be the American 
on the Commission, I was genuinely 
delighted that in the evening of my life, 
I should be offered such a wonderful 
opportunity to serve an entire people. 
When the Commission took charge of 
the matter, the National Bank of Greece 
put at our disposal one million pounds 
sterling, which had been advanced by the 
Bank of England and the Greek Govern¬ 
ment transferred to us the settlements 
she had started, and also those of her 
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governmental offices and employees that 
had charge of this work. 
We decided that in order to demon¬ 
strate definitely that this problem could 
be solved, we should use this money in 
such a way as to show 7 within six months 
how many people we could actually make 
self-supporting both as peasants and 
artisans with that sum. We found that 
for every fifty pounds expended, we were 
able to take care of a family of 5, afl-d 
now that our first million is spent,.-We can 
point w'ith great satisfaction that our 
accomplishments are within our calcula¬ 
tions, and that over 20,000 families, or a 
trifle over one hundred thousand people 
have already been / placed beyond the 
needs of any further assistance from 
anyone. 
Fortunately the Bank of England has 
agreed to advance another million pounds 
so that the activities of the Commission 
can continue until the end of the 
year, and in the meantime a larger loan 
of six to eight million pounds can be 
secured. 
What a splendid thing it would be for 
the Greek nation, as well as for the soul of 
America, if a number of Americans would 
volunteer to assist in this beautiful task 
of piloting these people through the peril¬ 
ous sea that they now find themselves in, 
t<Ta safe haven of prosperity! There may 
be^atnongst my listeners to-night men or 
women, who often have dreamt great 
dreams arid hoped for chances to abandon 
their selfish careers of mere money makers 
or pleasure seekers and do something 
worth while. Here is your chance! Will 
any of you take it? 
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