Polynesian., 1852-07-03


fecting mind. But the day has come when
those who enrich field and make it bloom
with product, and those too who tighten the
burdens of labor, and make it more intelli-I
gent, shall have their reward.
The necessity of success in any pursuit Is
TO think. This Is the ,rant The man who de-
liberates well will usually succeed, but we go
blundering along through life, guided and
controlled by its circumstances, waited on
any coral reef or sand bar that intercepts our
thoughtless course. If your lands are i'm
proved by deeper plouehing, your minds are
by deeper thinking The mechanic has fur
nished you with the plow. The man of SCI
ence has instructed you how to think and to
reason. If the land requires ammonia, the
mind requires more discipline if the soil
requires more general drainage, the mind re-
quires more thorough cleansing from all i'm
purities. Let the field be the laboratory and
the mind the instrument directing the expert
ments, and both will be cultivated
But the practical man will say " How can
| do this | am not at home in the study.
am not learned in the sciences" Let him
get Johnston's lectures on the application of
Chemistry and Geology to Agriculture, and
try the experiments that are applicable to his
situation also study Leibig. upon Organic
Chemistry applied to Agriculture. SINNERS
Journal of Agriculture, the Farmers Book,
the Cultivator, Coleman's Agricultural Tour
in Europe, are, as you well know, valuable
and interesting and ought to be well studied.
The best periodicals should be taken by
your society. You should have a vehicle Of
information passing round the group, leaving
its periodical intelligence of all the improve
ments In the United States, there is strong
effort making for an improved agricultural
education, and it is remarkable that it did
not earlier arrest the attention of the public
mind, especially when you consider how far
above all others in numbers are those who
are engaged in its pursuits. By the last sta
tistics that have seen there are of the learn
ed professions in the U. States 65, ,225 In
ternal navigation 49, ,076; in navigating the
ocean 56,O2I in manufactures 79l, ,49
in commerce Il7,6O7 and in agriculture
3,7l9, ,95l. 1t not only affords subsistence
to every class, but most of the elements of
employment, and it is estimated that they pay
four-filths of the taxes. Yet the farmers,
with the power in that country, have not es-
tabished for themselves the schools which
they have contributed to sustain for other
pursuits.
The colleges, schools for the army and
navy, have been literally sustained, and now
agricultural schools are being established,
which will disseminate general knowledge
of science in its most plain and practical ad
dlication. You will derive benefit from the
writings of foreigners, yet it requires COOP
degree of knowledge in the application of
their teaching to your situation. Difference
of climate, and soil and production, require
material notifications of practice. But IN
the transactions of your association you have
already shown the determination and ability
to disseminate sound practical knowledge
of your pursuits This society can moi fail
to be of the highest benefit. 1t animates the
minds of .all its members, and difiuses
through the community intelligence and taste
in your pursuits. The age is full of intelli-
gence mind is active in every art of life !;
science is not confined TO the University, or
to the royal Societies. Its portals are no
longer guarded by a dark phraseology
which to the multitude is foreign tongue. }"
The groves of Academus are far more nu-
merous in many states, than the groves OF
Oranges in the Pacific Isles. The highest
interest of life is to labor IN the development
to cultivate and adorn the earth.
| Ithas been thought that there was no 9TH
er pursuit of such perfect combination for
the development Of the intellectual, the NOR
al, and the physical man. II is laboratory
| in which the chemist will revel, and when
his labor is rewarded by an increased pro-
duction, it will give him an encouragement,
higher and better, than hig n prices without
it. 1t ensures success, where bunderng
husbandry would fail. 1t has no false pre-
tence, no injurious device, but it is the study
of Natures law leading the mind to Nature s
God
| There ought to be an agricultural ltera-
ture. Other pursuits have their libraries,
reading rooms, and lectures. The CONNER
cial man is watching with an eager eye for
the best markets-trying to introduce new
crops, and new manufactures. The mechanic
has sleepless nights in his efforts at nven-
ton, and richly enjoys a discovery that
makes the laws of nature subservlent to use
ful purposes.
There should be an agricultural survey Of
these Islands 1t would aid you more than
all other means Of knowledge, if made by a
scientific man. The nature and qualities of
your soils should be carefully analyzed-the
best means to sustain their fertility, and the
most productive manner of culture. II saves,
to great extent, individual experiment, and
mparts to you a confidence and strength in
your mode of operation. Every doubt on
every farm could be solved regarding its
power of production, and the combinations
that make that power. You must, TO be sue
cessfuI, understand the component parts OF
the soil, and the action of different plants up
on il. Wewant such a teacher in agriculture
as Bowditch is on theUnknown seas. The
sailor feels confidence in his principles as
much as he does in the north star itsek.<
i Agriculture has its laws, as well. as navi-
gation-and although not to know them is