Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-08-05
VOL. XLvI, NO. 81. WHOLE NO. 1890.

Al1itof llhuief " iihtAa~-alhW IiUbleiplel
may be preserved how cattle iattened,
and hundred other kindred topics con-
nccied with agriculture, are subjects. it
may be readily seen, requiring something
more than superficial examination call 4
ing, rather, for the highest efforts of
scientific industry. Mccormick has I
sent off FIVE hundred Of his reapers, to
gather foreign harvcsls some prostrat-
ing their sheaves in England, some 10 /
Germany, and some in Ell Dorado
There was head-work as well as hand /
work, in the invention and discovery /
Of this implement The idea would
never have dawned upon stupidity
Mere manual labor would not have called !
it forth twas an effort of genius, and
the oldest husbandman of Europe ac-
knowledge its superiority, and gladly /
welcome 1t to- reyolutionlze their modes
of labor. Surely there is room for the
play of intellect in the pursuit of agricul-
ture. Mech, ascending from his razor
sirops, now concon lrates his enthusiasm
in the tlllaec of his grounds, and with
steam pumps and sublerranean pipes
irrlgates hundred and seventy acres.
The real farmer who have no idle time
of it, nor allow many cells Of his brain
to remain inactive. The study of veg
ctablc and animal physiology, of agd
cultural geology, of entomology, OF
chemistry aud neurology, might well
divide his time with the abors of the
spade. 1t is generally supposed, that if
a man can do nothing else, if he cannot
even ffictonize Day and Martin into
shining, or has not Mathematics enough
TO draw a baud saw through slender
branch, yet there is one employment to
which his gifts are adequate, to wit, the
the culture of the soil But though Il
man may sever a tree without very ac-
cumte philosophical idea Of the attEac-
ton OF cohesion, still 1t requires some
experience to know which way the sturdy
trunk will fall. A man may dig, though
he has never heard of the law of grayi,a-
ton, and be cntfcy ignorant of the
principle that renders muscle necessary
to the uphcaying Of the soil. He may
plant, and not know why his seed would
not draw nulrment as well from bed
of stone, or fossililerous ore. lie may
ply his industrious sickle and not suspect
that in the brain Of a Mccormick, there
Is shaping out an ideal form, which,
when imbodied, will, as it courses
through the falling grain, laugh at the
strength of a thousand arms. But agri-
culture, IN its true sense, is an Encyclo-
pgdla in itsell--requlrlng great know
ledge, hne powers OF observation, high
mental cultivation, assiduous thought
and study, aud opening its arms to in
gcnnity and invention.
Lord Byron, in answering the swarm
of assaults upon his earlier illusions, de-
clared that though in every other depart
men, men must serve their trade.
Critics are all ready made"
IT seems To be supposed, IN this country
that Agnculturlsls occupy the same
plane that their intentions are sufficient
that there is not enough Of the occult il
their employment TO render any previou:
discipline in their education necessary
For the last thirty years efforts have been
made, IN this State, to establish an Agri-
cultural College, but they have not beer
successful in founding any school il
which the science can be adequalel,
taught; yet her cultivators of the sol
number half million. Nor has an
other State been more fortunate. Stat,
Legislatures are deaf, and congress vii
not hear But in other countries tn,
subject is better appreciated. AgricuI
lural colleges and schools are established
ia England, Ireland and Scotland
France and other continental nations.-
For instance, one atGrignon, near Paris
with n farm of $50 acres, and so pupils
embraces some of the nnthematlca
sciences IN It's teachings with meleoreolo
gy, mineral chemistry, mineraogy, geol
ogy, botany, agricultural zoology, aibor
lculture, rural architecture farm account
rural economy and law, and variety 0
other subjects pertaining 10 rural affairs
The National Institute, at Versailles
= occupies near four thousand acres ofland
la Europe at least 352 schools exist 70
agricultural education. We have no
| an institution Of the kind in the Unite
states. Let US hope, that while we ru
ahead of the world in many department
!. we may not fall so far behind in th
most important branch Of knowledge. -
} Where more than one thousand milllor
, of arabic acres spread out their inviliu
surface to culture, we mny REASONABLE
, expect that schools and colleges, whe
tie best mode Of cultivation may /
taught, will soon take position with I'll
r educational institutions OF the countr,
Let us hasten the day. An Emplr
=, such as the world has never known
i rising up on this great Continent. Th
5 people of all other countries are tlirons
l ing to It's shores. The importance car
not be oyer-eslImated of the establish
!, ment and teaching of a proper systel
u of the cultivation and preservation OF
J. soiL-N. Y. Times.
e Nothing was so much dreaded in o.