University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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sheep state, tlie leading horse state, and, per capita, the leading cow state of the nation. Her past glory was her Merino sheep, with whicii she stocked the ranges of the world. Her present glory is her lorgan horses, famous for tlieir beauty and endurance, heroes of Sheridan s ride, models of painters and sculptors. The treasures of the earth are Vermont ' s, Her public buildings are constructed of her own marble and granite. In her quarries of slate and talc she ranks second among the states. Her factories produce more scales, pipe organs and window screens than any others in the world. Green Mountain forests, tliat once stretched from bor- der to border of the state, still yield more maple sugar and syrup than any other section of the country. Vermont men and women remain of the best. Leon W. Dean.

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I ' .iirKc. Trains shuttle liack aiui forth upon their iron rails, busy with the traffic of tlie markets of the world. Steamers ply the one lunidrcd and twenty uiili- Iciijith of historic Lake Chanipiain, waterway of tiie nations, whose storni-tossed waves, beatinu; a ;ainst nipged mountain cliffs, lav- injj the ffentle sliores of ))eaeeful farms, liave seen the passini; of In- dian. I ' reiiehman. Knglislnnan. col- onist. iistfiKcl !o the scream of the war eafjle and the jiuns of Ticon- dcrofta and Cumberland Head. Mont- calm, Amherst .and Ijurgoyne; Put- nam and .Macdoiu)uj);h. Ever chang- ing. like a Vermont landscape, the pic- ture unfolds. The scanty herds of the early d. ' iys, wintered in the open, the ])rey of tlu- wolf ;md e.itamouiit. have niulti|)lied until sleek aniui;ils raise tlieir heads in ruiuin;itin«; wonder from every stream-fed ))asture and ' ermont .it varyinir times h.is been the leading

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