This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... bad influences in the village, especially during the noon hour. Windsor County contains 24 townships or towns, which are not villages but portions of the county generally containing villages, of which one township or town may include several. The 4 townships which have not declined in population since 1840 contain the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... bad influences in the village, especially during the noon hour. Windsor County contains 24 townships or towns, which are not villages but portions of the county generally containing villages, of which one township or town may include several. The 4 townships which have not declined in population since 1840 contain the largest and most important manufacturing villages. All the strictly agricultural towns have lost in population. As compared with other States the population of Vermont is of an exceptionally pure native stock. The county was settled by a very vigorous class of farming people, chiefly from Connecticut, but partly also from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. For more than seventy years steady streams of Vermonters have gone to the West and to the eastern cities, while on the other hand Vermont has had a smaller immigration of foreigners than most of the other New England States, and Windsor County less than most of the other counties of Vermont. The people who have moved away from Vermont have usually been of so excellent a quality that their emigration has resulted in a most serious loss to the State. Windsor County is now suffering from this long continued drain upon its vitality, a drain which is not supplied by the substitution of an inferior population for the former vigorous aggressive inhabitants, whose ideals, ambitions, and abilities were of a high order. The close relation between the prosperity of the country people and the condition of the country church is self-evident. There can be no progressive country. church where agriculture is decadent. Therefore some information as to the tendencies in agriculture is essential. The surface of Vermont is rough and hilly, but no State in the Union has so many cattle per acre, or in proportion t...
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