The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-06-02

and ascertain their constituent parts, and
what properties ere wanting and what
abound. lie, TOO, will want geology 10
explain the immediate origin of the seYe
, raj soils and the causes of diversities In
the same farm and also the nature and
difference of sub-soils, with the eflec, of
bringing them TO the surface. Botany
VIII come wei! in play by explaining all
TIC different varieties Of the vegetable
kingdom and the pecuiarilies of each.
And so will zoology in explanation of
The animal kingdom, and especially tina,
part OF 1t known as entomology, which
throws light upon the nature of the nu.
merons insects that prey upon the crops,
Their mode of propagation and their pecu-
liar habits, with the best means of extir-
pailng them. Nor would meteorology
be useless in calculating the highest, the
mean and the lowest temperature, as well
as the quantity of rain that falls in each
day and month OF the year, and in under
standing the true philosophy Of storms.
And the advantages to be derived from
mlneralogy are too obvious to need ex-
PLANTATION or comment. These, with a
lew other branches of science which will
readily suggest themselves. will be of
Invaluable service to the farmer; and we
hope the day is not far distant when their
Importance will be fully appreciated, and
then we shall have learned farmers as well
as learned lawyers, doctors and ministers.
1t seems wrong, very wrong, that, whilst
some sciences are greatly improved, and
others seemingly perfected, agriculture,
the most important Of all, the righ, arm of
commerce, should be in a state of com
parative rudeness and its operations should
he conducted without the slightest refer
ence 10 natural laws. All the farmer
wants is to adapt his practice to those UNI
changing principles which have been de-
duced from the observation of the nature
and the result of physical laws. Now
these principles and these laws must be
more widely disseminated, and that must
be done through our schools, our lectures,
and our papers, The sweat of the far
mer has too long moistcned the soil whilst
nthnrs i'aoa "n"r"d d'e fp~i'- .he-ovf. A
new era now seems dawning upon him
and that is the era Of science applied to
agriculture. The next generation of far
mers, it is hoped and expected, will be
scientific men, laboring in the full light
of knowledge. with the veil that daIken-
ed the eyes of their fathers rent in pieces.
Agriculture should hereafter be consider
ed profession, learned and dignifed
and IN all our seminaries there should be
one department set apart for those who
design entering ihto agricultural pursuits,
where all the various branches embraced
IN the theory Of farming should be
taught. And when young men shall
have become adopts in those branches,
and taken an honorable degree, they can
be not only of great usefulness to them
selves, but 10 the community in which
they live. For they can organize assoc
Citations of farmers and then deliver Sc
ries Of lectures embodying an outline and
the main principles Of what they have
gathered al their schools. In this way,
a spiiit of inquiry, investigation and re-
search will be raised in all our agricultu-
raj communities and by investigating
the laws Of nature, and by Witnessing