Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-06-25
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SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE

lime was when the knight OF the three
Rs, "Reading 'Riting and 'Rithmetic, "
was the literary hero of the tanners
home. The yeoman of the country
were popularity excluded from the more
intricate walks of letters and science.
Their avocation demanded no literary
qualification beyond the every day BUSH
ness of piIing log-heaps, pacing off the
corn ground, measuring the peas, or
counting up how much the pork and
cheese 'come to-" or how much must
be taken out for the new pillow, mothers
dress, and Susan's bonnet. The effect
has been to degrade the business of az
riculture even in the eyes OF those en-
gagged in its tolls. The warm blood of
youth has often been chilled by the re-
%feclion that his calling was mental, that
his soul was fettered in its aspirations
by the clay of his fathers farm. Taught
to look to the professional man as his
superior in learning and ability, and 20
the tradesman as a too successful rival
in money making, he falls into the error
of ineorrigible discon;entment.
How often, in moon-struck reveries,
has The pillow boy, whistling to the tune
of Tacaty, dreamed of the glistening
gold of the counting-room, of the pol
ished boots and peally linen Of the taper
fingered clerk. Or, with ga big idea in
his head" has he, in Imagination, reused
the sleeping energies OF the moral
world, or suspended the interests of the
nation on the next ominious sentence
from his lips. And just then, ''the Hon.
Judge Smith, from town." drives along,
his daughter at his side, smiling to see
that awkward fellow plodding in the
mud. Waking, shame faced from his
day dreams, he secretly resolves upon
some noJler calling. And why? Be-
aus the popularity learned, and other
wise favored have looked upon the plow
boys furrow as the path of the ignorant;
no glowing embers from the workshops
of science to light that path, nor expand
the struggling genius. Little has that
son of Cincinnatus dreamed that in every
clod turned by the pillow, in every stone
removed TO the wall, and in every escu-
lent or blade roofing in the soil, there
nay be matter for more ~ennobling study
Than may be culled from the whole list
Of -oounting-room technicalities, of court
pleas, or Esculapian arts, and not in the .
east uncongonia' 1Ehthe highest achive-
nents Of oratory. (
No business occupation affords better .
ABILITIES for making practical application
If scientific knowledge and EXPERIENCE /
han agriculture. No. more honorable :,
way Of making money by an application [
# that knowledge, and no suer 0ay, II
comes within the range of laudable en-
Could the immense losses sus-
aimed every year by misapplied farming Z.
abor in any one OF our fine agricultural
be fully disclosed to those in {,
crested, that disclosure would effect a NJ
evolution. But We have no available 7
t~atistics from which to make such dis :,
closures. But give TO our farmers sons st =
he means Of acquiring a thorough r
knowledge Of those branches of science 1
Intimately coEneeted with the comforts !,
# home and the productiveness of the
oil; give 10 the youthful mind the Gle IA
nents on which to feed its powers and
interest its energies in The field of the
homestead; give 20 our youth in the u
country areal agriculturalliterature then
ompale the present with the tenH year (
this, and the statistics WILDE in your \
possession. N. #