Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-10-27

ritory In lis virgin state. TOO tempting TO The
tmigratory principle in man. Ii has been
deemed less difficult 10 open n new farm
than To improve an old one. Our popua-
ton, by law seemingly us irresistible as
that which carries the waves of ocean 10
the shore, have from the Atlantic board |
passed the Allcghanies climbed the Rocky !
Mountains, and desc nded TO the Pacific. |
Nohing in the worlds history is like il. In |
1920, the men oil Plymouth Rock saw The |
first light Of morning gld the waves of the
Atlantic, and now their descendants see
twilight deepen OH the smooth waters Of
The Pacific. .
| A continent has within the period at
| little more than two centuries. been snbdued
into civilization by our people, and much
the largest portion Of it has been compass
ed since the Declaration Of Independence.
In this eventful period, government, laws,
and institutions have arisen-which extort
the admiration Of the worId-bnt the GENT
us Of our people has not heret ,fore, been
led by inventive necessity 10 study the mvs-
teries Of the production of the earth. No
famine has ever swept over this our own
beautiful portion Of the globe. With small
toll its population has been fed. and a sur
plus produce has gone 10 supply the wants
Of older and more crowded nations. Amer
lea has had more land than laborers, and &C.
cordingly we see the inventive mind Of our
country creating laborers out of wood and
metal, and sending them TO the field to do
the work of men. In this department of
enterprise, with the untaught study of only
twenty-five years, we lead and teach the
nations Of the earth. And in any field of
, human enterprise, set but an object and a
, motive before the mind of America; and
she will win trophies against the COMPETE
ton of world.
Bounded now by two oceans, the period
has arrived in the history of onr country,
when the public mind is directed 10 the i'm
, provement Of orr present posses sions, and
the agricultural mind Of our country, espe-
: cially, 10 the improvement Of the soil within
= its present boundaries. The indications
are unmisiakable, as they are wide spread.
North and South, East and West, the cry is
] UP, "why shall NOT Agriculture be an edu-
Gated ari?" Why shall no, educated mind
, go from halls of learning, TO the farm, as it
goes everywhere else? How the young
, mind shall be educated to fit it for the field,
iIhs iiot pCCi' tCCluCu. II 10 II great QUeSs
I tion. requiring thought and mature deliber.
alton. It's a subject worthy of the best
$ energies Of the best minds of America. -
! Whatever suggestions offer, is with diff
, dence. but by whatever steps Of progress
|, led, it seems TO me, the end must he. the
= school, the experimental farm, and the col
e lege. ] know no other mode by which
| Sciencc-Agrcutura Science-can be SO
taught as 10 blend theory and prdctice-the
highest consumation Of art. In other co,,n-
tries important attainments have been al
ready reached by these instrumentalities. -
Europe, engaged for centuries in the cult
walton of the arts of war, has since the fall
of Napoleon, turned its attention TO the arts
of peace. In the short period of its repose,
three hundred and fifty schools and col
leges, exclusively devoted 10 agricultural
education, have arise, SURF u ,ded by ey-
perimental farms, upon which the sciences
taught have been practically applied. Ne
cessity, that wonderful mother of invention,
r has forced Europe, with is crowded poru-
laion, TO seize upon the first years OF peace,
to learn how TO make the earth more bonn.
tiful. Germany. France and England. with
in that period, have given birth 10 chemists
Z. VI ulSIiICllpll, WHO nave ll'ISs
t trated the power Of Science over the SOIL
| Government has been wise enough 10 rut
by the side of all engaged in the culture of
, plant or the growth of an animal, the
chemist who has studied the laws of vege-
table and animal physiology. The man Of
science has been able to teach the sheep
grower low 10 improve his wool. The les
timony is uniform 10 this great practical test
Of usefulness. that whereper these institutions
flourish, Horticulture is most eitvated as a.
4 art.
Distinguished travellers the reports made
e 10 our Patent Office, and the instructive ev-
idence furnished by Professor Hitchcock in
Y his celebrated report on the condition of ag-
, riculture in Europe, made upon personal in
specion, establishes the truth OF the propo-
e silion.
r The Royal Agricultural College, at CT.
rencester, has six professors, and seven
8 hundred acres of land for agricultural pur-
= doses The school at Grignon, near Paris,
has also six professors-and in this school
|, where the education is thorough, the entire
h course is three years. The experiment farm
n attached TO 1t contains seven hundred and
: fifty acres. France has at present seventy.
five agricultural institutions. The present
ruler Of the French Nation has shown
h whatever else he has exhibited in his i'm.
perial sway--sagaciiy and wisdom in his
d department of agriculture. At Versailles
r there is a National Agronomic Institute
p employing nine first class professors and
n three thousand six hundred and fifty acres
of land. The course Of instruction in France
!. embraces a wide range Of the Sciences
= Thus the Grignon school teaches algebra
: geometry, mechanics, surveying, leveling
G stereometry,( the measuring Of solid bodies
il and lineal drawings in the mathematical sci,
= ences-in the physical sciences, mineral
e chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and bo,an,
l. -orgsnic chemistry or agricultural tech,
nology, agricultural arboricullure, sylvicul
: ture, veterinary art, agricultural zoology ant
S equitaton in what are denominated techno
J. Logical sciences and rural agriculture, fores
v economy, farm accounts, rural economy nnt
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