Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-06-21

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And ever shines with peerless ray
Is womans angel smile.
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
Mental training and professional stu
dy are deemed by everybody necessa-
ry to qualify man to be an officer in
The army, the captain of ship, cler.
gyman, lawyer. surgeon, or anything
else of the least pretensions to science,
but farming. The professional agricul-
turist is thought by many to need no
particular knowledge of the origin
composition, and capabilities of the va
rious soils which he cultivates. For
him to study the chemical differences
between granite, syenitic, felspathic,
states, sandstone, and limestone rocks,
by the weathering, and disintegration
of which all the minerals in his lands
were derived, would be, in the opinion
of some, a waste of time.
Thousands Of practical farmers know
that wood ashes are excellent fertilizers,
and contain considerable potash and
other valuable minerals, but they would
mot permit their sons TO attend an agri.
cultural school provided with a good
laboratory to extract from the parent
rocks and soils every atom, whether
potash. lime, soda, m agnesie, iron, chlo-
rine, sulphur, phosphorus, flint, carbon,
nitrogen, or the elements of water, ia
ken up by forest tree or a cultivated
plant. They seem to cherish kind Of
morbid, hydrophobic dread of an in
crease of knowledge on the part of the
agricultural interest of the country.
Such men would not take an agricullu.
raj journal on any account; nor read O
book on any rural topic, nor permit
their children to study one, les, some
new light should disturb their profound
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep in after years.
Fortunately, the absolute rule of this
class of farmers is drawing TO a close
They have had their day, and it has
been a long and gloomy one. A new
era has dawned upon the world to bless
the children who are TO follow the
plough in after life. Unlike their ia
theirs, they will be taught to know what
changes the plough, harrow, cultiva,or,
and hoe effect in titled land. Ev-
cry man sees that these implements
which have been in use so long withou,
a ,Dhy or wherefore, neither add 10 nor
take away from the soil. What chem.
zeal changes in the elements and com.
binations of the earth do the plough
and the hoe bring about, SO beneficial
TO the husbandmanl Who can saw
that no farmer applies too much, none
too little 'labour, TO give the most pro.
fitable return? Who dare assert tina,
he adapts each fertilizer 10 the pariicu.
lar wants of every crop7 and never
fails TO SOW or plant the kind of vege.
table with the elements of which his
soil is most abundantly supplied Who
is certain that he makes the best prac.
tical use of the mold, manure, lime,
potash, gypsum, bone dust, and other
substances appointed by Providence to
form every cultivated plant? Think of
these things.
Alas! that SO many should believe
that they are too ,oise TO learn any more
about the natural laws which regulate
the organization and growth of all
crops ond domestic animals. Such have
not begun TO study. We hope to see
honest manual labour and high intel
lectuaI culture fairly united; jus, as God
had united in the same person both
hands TO work and mind TO reason.
Science needs but to be fairly under
stood TO secure an enduring place in
the popular heart.
VALUE OF COMMUNICATION.
Both our mental and moral acqui, !