Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-01

BOLD Of your county, and was gentle
man much esteemed. QUI.
Correspondence Of the Le~isburs Chronicle.
Agricultural College and Model Farm.
| Pursuant to notice, a number Of farmers
and others from different parts of Penn
salvania, together with others tarrying
at Harrisburg, numbering altogether about
80, met in the Senate Chamber, March 8,
1858, and organized by calling Judge
MYERS to the chair.
Committees to nominate officers we're ap-
pointed, and Gov. Bigler ON invitation at
tended the afternoon session. The follow
ing gentlemen were chosen permanent off,
| GERS:
President-JoHN STRouM, Lancaster.
Vice Presidents-Everard Oles, Juni-
alta; John Murdoch, Allegheny; James
Miles, Erie; Charles B. Trego, Philadel-
phia.
| Secretaries-A. o. Holster, Dauphin !;
A. l.. Kennedy, Philadelphia; John NJ.
Sullivan, Butler.
A committee was appointed to prepare
business for the Convention.
Hon. Joseph Konigmacher, of Lancas-
ter, moved that the Corresponding Secre-
tary Of the State Society be requested to
open correspondence with John Mesbul-
lem, now Of Jerusalem Palestine, in re-
iation to the efforts made by that gentle
man, in conjunction with some "A other
Americans, to introduce American agricul-
ture and practical Christianity into the
Holy Land. Three persons have gone out
under the patronage of the Seventh Day
| Baptist Mission friends, and their progress
will be watched with interest.
DR.. Underhill, Of West Chester county,
New York, addressed the Convention, urg-
ing the farmers and horticulturis.s, of this
State to emulate the example set them by
New York.
EVENING SESSION.
Judge Watts, from the Committee, read
Report, in which the advantages of the
proposed Model School and Farm we're ad-
verted to at some length. 1t contemplates
a small school for some 100 pupils at first,
to be increased as success may attend it,
to be located not near large town, and on
land of various soils, giving employment
for every variety Of labor-grain, dairy,
fruit, garden sauce, poultry, cattle, horses,
&c.-together with some knowledge of
mechanism as applied to farm tools, and
also Of farriery, &c. The School to have
two sessions yearly, one at the beginning
and the other at the close of the working
season, and all pupils to work three or
more hours per day. Their studies to be
Of such practical nature as may be actually
required in their prog ess through life
The Report proposes that for such School
and Farm, $4,000 be raised by subscrip.
tions, $1,000 from the State Society, aud
$4,000 by the State Legislature.
Upon this report, Judge Watts, Of Cum
berland, remarked that orc great reason
why farming was not held to be generally
AS it is truly-the most honorable pur-
suit ia life, was because our system of ed
acation generally led students into the
over-crowded professions; and that the
same system, from its want of adaptedness
to every day life, too much prejudiced far
mers against the benefits of education in
general. As general thing, they trcd in
the footsteps of their fathers, without think
ing that the soil from which they demand
ed bread was an organised matter, having
mouth and lungs, and requiring food and
air as much as animated beings themselves.
Benjamin Herr "a Lancaster farmer
JOINED in the opinion that many farmer