New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-05-06
Farm Schools.

We have hitherto announced the establishment,
at Aurora, Cayuga Co and al Cornwall, CT OF Agri-
cultural Schools, wherein young men are to be IN
s,fucted 10 the Sciences auxiliary to Agnculture-
such as Chemistry. Geology, MIneralogy and Bot
any-Ilustrated by Practical Farming, wherein
they are 10 take par, so far as they may choose
The price of board and tuition Is about the same
as in the average of Academies, (say $3.50 Year,
and il il believed that young men Of seventeen OF
over, Of good abilities and thorough elementary
education, may qualify themselves for the inde-
pendent management of the largest farm by years
hearty application. They wall not merely be tilted
10 conduci farm as well as The unlearned farmer
ofrpe experience, but they will be prepared also to
take advantage of every future discovery in science
or improvement in processes, which the unsclen-
ti6c farmer TOO often is hardly able 10 comprehend.
We rejoice at the efforts now making in various
quarters to arouse public attention to the Importance
OF creating class of Scientific Farmers, STEP
toward the universal diffusion and acceptance OF
the truths of Chemistry aud Geology in aid Of Prac-
tical Agriculture. No, for their s4kcs only Do
we counsel and entreat our capable and aspiring
Young Men to avoid the crowded avenues Of the
Professions and find usefulness, honor and hspp
ness in the quiet and shady walks of Agriculture
They must know that the Country Is greatly over
stocked with Lawyers, Doctors &c that there
would be no dearh of these though none wef.
added 10 their number for ten years to comc-anc
thar, as we become more enlightened, the adoption
OF better detetic habits and the progress Of Tenn
rerance are certain TO diminish the business of The
Doctors, as the peaceful spread of Morality and
RELIGION must reduce the business and the earnings
of Lawyers. The notion has too long passed I'm.
challenged that Farming is pursuit which neither
requires nor rewards marked ability and intelIi-
gence. To render il the highest and mos, desired
vocation among us, 1t is only necessary that noble
men pursue it with noble aims. Every thoroughly
instructed, scientific farmer who pursues the voca-
ton with equal intelligence and enthusiasm, is no,
merely in the high road Of duty and honor, bu, he
il inevitably stimulating and leading the less in
formed many around hun TO emulate and prof, b
the Improvements Of which he demonstrates th
feasibility and the benefit.
The efforts of the American Institute and OF th
friends Of the Fairfield enterprise 10 establish
larger seminary Of Agricultural Science under tn,
patronage OF the State, may or may not be prema
ture or ill-dlrected but that Agricultural Scienc,
will ultimately be taught in Universities can hardl,
be doubted. For the present, we are content will
humble beginnings ); but the interest awakened IN
this subject canno' b. -""-s"" 90 7as. II Is ues-
tnru 10 increase and dliuse itself until every Coun-
,y shalt have its Agricultural Academy, and uti.
mstely every farm shall be farm school We
have thousands on thousands Of young men who
would have been useful and hunored if such schools
had existed in their boyhood, but who IRE now
thriftiess, useless and miserable The professions
cannot afford employment for half our educate d
and ambitious youth; the soil is the only sure re-
sourse. Let lie Idle or be TILED in ignorance no
longer than the time required 10 remedy past
errorr.