Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-12-01
AGRICULTURAL.
(From the Ohio Farmer.l
OHIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.


We have already spoken Of this Institution,
and congratulated our readers on the appointment
of a corps of Professors so able and so well
known as those announced for the coming win
ter. We have also informed the public that
the course will commence on the FIRST of De-
cember in Cleveland and that suitable rooms
and other facilities for the advantageous prose-
cution of the various departments of agriculiur-
al science, have been provided by the Board of
Trustees in this city.
But our duty, we think does not end here
We feel that we ought to lay before all our
friends, some of the considerations which should
influence the Farmers of the West, indeed, the
whole country, to give this school-esiabishe
for their benefit and dependent on them for its
suceess-a prompt and generous support. We
do so with the more readiness because We have
occasion to know that our best Agriculturists
are generous, as well as wise, and that they are
alive to the interests of science as well as 10 the
interests of their families and their vocation.
l. We would recommend the Ohio Agricul-
tural College to their support, therefore be-
cause 1t is the first and only Agricultural Col
lege in The United States. We are not igno-
rant that efforts have been made, laudable and
successful ones, to disseminate agricultural
science in the United States. Books have been
published, addresses delivered, societies and ly-
ceums organized; institutes established, and ag-
rcultural departments ndded to some of The in
situations Of learning in several States of the
Union. But we do not now recolect thai any
College with its own charter, and having the
advancement of agriculture as a science for its
sole object, is in existence in America, besides
the Ohio Agricultural College. We know tina,
il has been established on the most judicial and
economical principles. We know that not a
dollar has been expended, by the very few who
have borne the entire burden thus far, that is
not neediul for the successful inauguration Of
the enterprise. Now il is our beleftha those
who al first step forward to commence this
great and needful work should meet cordial
response in the appreciation and aid of the far
ming community generally. Shall they not
have III
ii. As "a second argument we would urge
the fact that such an enterprise needs help more
al he outset than ,Ohes once il is firmly establish
ed. An enterprise once fairly under way,
generated often its own momentum. 1t cie-
ates its own power. Interests cluster around
il. 1t demonstrates its power to give back
full equivalent for all it takes, But young
enterprise, though of the noblest aims and con
fessedly Of the greatest utility, needs especially
in our country where success is its own best
guarantee, the help of all its friends to place it
in its best attitude before the public, and to en-
able il 10 prove its own power. In the success
of the Ohio Agricultural College is wrapped
up not only the best advancement of the farm
ing interest in the West for many years 10
come, but the success Of similar schools which
ought to be established in various sections of
the Union. If this succeeds they will be es-
tablished and will succeed. Let the farmers of
Ohio alone-bnt we hope more than this-send
but two students from each county and the
number of pupils will be nearly two hundred,
This would he good beginning, and would be
worth more to the College and to the interests
of agriculture in the West, that twice that
number five years hence. Let us have them
then by all means; now is the time to give the
school the best liz.
ILL., Success is certain, u the proper encour-
agenent is gipen NOW. Let two hundred s,u-
dents attend the full course of lectures, in Cleye-
land next winter. Let them return to their
farms and communicate the knowledge thew
WIN gain; let them show in the several counties
whence they come, by their greater science
and more delicate skill, that they have NOT
neen taught in vain, and the desire for such
knowledge and training will become more gen
sral and more intense. The number ofsluden,s