Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-26
From the Genesee Farmer.
EDUCATION OF FARMERs-No. 2.
Elements Of Science.

Mr.. Iucker-ln few general hints
recently presented to your readers on the
subject of education, took the ground,
that no other class of the community pos
sessed so many inducements, or so many |
facilities, for becoming men of sound and
extensive knowledge. as farmers. [ will
now avail myself of your politeness, for
pointing out, or suggesting, the modes of
obtaining and improving those facilities,
for the benefit both of themselves and all
other classes of American citizens.
If am not greatly mistaken, the first
elements and the foundation work, in any
rational system Of education, not for farm
ers merely, but for Intellectual, moral and
immortal beings of every class, and age,
and country, are those simple and beauti-
full principles, or laws of nature, which
the Creator has ordained and perpetuated
for the government of his physical, intel
lectual and moral Universe-laws, which
in no case, either in business, morals or
politics, can be violated with impunity-
laws so simple, that the little child can
comprehend them; so beautiful, that all
children, in the simplicity and sprightli-
ness of their nature, are ever eager to
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light, and yet so perverted ana abused as
to be shrouded in darkness or mysticism,
by many of our most learned professors
and profoundest philosophers; and what
is still more to be regretted. they are dali
ly and almost constantly violated by farm
ers, mechanics, and all other classes en-
gagged in the industrious, productive pur-
suits of life; but in no case without inju-
ry to themselves, and frequently with wide
spread and lasting evils to the world and
to posterity.
In obedience to some one or several oil
! these laws combined, the water drop
steadily pursues its course from the noun
tain to the ocean, aiding, perhaps, in its
course the motion of thousands of wheels
shuttles and spindles, and at length mount
ing again into the atmosphere, and again
| by the gentle dew or the violent thunder
storm, it is deposited upon the earth, wher
it is again ready to commence new cir
cult through the earth, ocean and atmos
phere BY others of these laws, metal
Z and the various productions of the miner
al kingdom, are, by the hand of the me
t chanic or farmer, so combined, transform
ed or modified, as to be scattered througI
society in the character of thousand di
ferent implements for the domestic or use
full arts, or to spread over the earth ricl
: abundance of corn, wheat, fruit, and othe
: vegetables almost innumerable, for sus
f tanning the life or gratifying the appetit
: of man or beast.
| Regarding strictly the laws establishe
: by the Creator, tor the regulation and con
1 tinuance of the vegetable creation, tn
i farmer will make the best selection Q
plants or crops to cultivate, preserve o
improve the quality of his seed, adopt tn
: best rotation of crops, place his variou
plants upon their appropriate soils an
situations, in the most efectual name
S possible, guard against failures from th
q varieties of climate and the changes c
e weather, also the ravages of insects, an
insure to himself. under all circumstanc
i, es, the richest reward for his abors.
:, The laws which regulate and sustai
: the animal creation, are perhaps still NOR
d important and beautiful, though not les
l. simple or easy to be understood, tha
II those Instituted for the government an
IS the uses of the mineral and vegetabl
e kingdoms. BY the observance of thes
ID laws, healthis invigorated, animal strengt
p applied to the greatest advantage, ii
Of best selection of animals made for food G
y labor, and the proper measures adopte
TO destroy or avoid those portions of an
ly mate creation, which so often blast II
IN fairest prospects of the farmer.
TO Not merely the productions of the thr,
he great kingdoms of nature, and of Il
ce laws established to govern them, but Il
he relations they sustain to each other, q