The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-01-27

Dor ard general husbandry be attained, by any
thing which the State in its sovereign capacity
can do
1t is believed that the first step in this dirtc-
ton, after atlording due encouragement t.
county and state agricultural societies is TO cs-
tablsh an agricultural bureau as distinct de-
par.mcnt of State, similar in its functions ard
appointments to the one proposed and enact d
by one branch of your body three years ago,
but lost i'm the other.
1t should hold the same relation to the people
of this State, that similar dcpar mcnt in the
Patent Office at Washington City docs to the
whole country. Putting itself in connection
with that Office, and all the agricultural sncic-
ties in the land, its great office would be to in
troduce new and valuable seeds, 10th OF the
cereals and vegetables direct their culture
gather up agricultural statistics AMI imfo,ma-
ton from the best farmers every where, and
disscm;nats the same largely among the gene :
lation of free laborers who now or may h"rca f.
ter occupy onr Ilains.
Put, secondly. agriculture, in her ligher aims
and purposes, is science. and demands the APP
plication Of n scientific knowledge 81 the labo, $
| of the field. This involves the necessity, at
a proper time, of established agricultural
schools, in connection with experimental farms,
where the natural sciences bearing upon her
domain, may be taught and applied such as
geology-organic hemstry-bo'any-phy
logy-zoology, atmospheric properties and in.
| nucnces, DC. To elaborate the connection be-
tween these sciences and the subjects of agricul-
turc. which has its out gongs in the infinite, is
neither expected nor demanded in this commu-
nication,
! only speak of one other method of MAIN
| tanning an elevated system of agriculture, and
that is to keep all her manipulations and lro.
cesscs under the dominion of free labor.
TO wo:k is a privilege as well as one of the
| by the masses is the source of untold blessings
affecting no less the moral destiny of the race
| than the physical improvement Of the state
| 1t is strange in this age of the world, and in a
land of constitutional liberty, we arc compelled
| to insist upon the freedom of labor vet the
necessity OF doing so, is no less strange than
painful.
This birth-right of the American citizen has
been seriously menaced, by a growing sentiment
in favor of slave labor in one section of the
Union The two cannot exist upon the same
soil. The introduction of the one is the disrar-
agcment of Tie other. They are natural and
| irreconcilable foes.
Free labor is difiusive in its benefits,-eoual-
| ICES The condition of men-strengthcns the NOR
al lrincIplc OF q country-is progressive in its
movements, availing itself of the aids of sci
| ence in its several departments of industry
whilst slave labor dispensos its bcnefactions te
the few-presses hardly against tie interest O
the many-brings pre- mature decrepi:ude upor
the country, by its wastcful and exhausting til
lage, and To Hoe must not only enlarge but oftel
change the field of its operations This natur
| ally induces spirit for territorial aggrandze
ment in order to perretuate slavery. and to cx
tend the political power of one section of thu
Union, in derogaiion of the rights of the other
and has brought on contest between freedom
and slavery that has absorbed all other polilica
questions Of the day.