The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-17

hvered AZ meeting OF cluLcns 10 10TH ah
Agricultural Society for Posey county, to
the attentive perusal Of our farmers twill
be found on the first page. Now is the time
to do something for the establishment of COL
legcs for the education Of farmers, mechan-
les, and practical men. They need science
and learning for their own advancement,
and for success in their callings, as well as
doctors, lawyers, and other theoretical labor
ers. II is too common remark that if
boy Is TO learn trade, or TO be made
farmer I" it is no use to send him to college,
or give him an education. Why is it so ?
Simply because the kind of education he gets
at our colleges is of no great benefit to him,
for it is not adapted to his wants. 1t is not
because education is not as essential to the
farmer, and mechanic, as TO the professional
man, but because the sort that is doled at
colleges is not of the right kind for him.
II is time that the farmer, the mechanic,
and the laboring men demanded
that their educational wants should
be supplied. There is no reason nor right,
in taxing the State to endow colleges to
make lawyers and doctors, and the great
mass of her productive citizens-to whom
knowledge is as necessary, and redistribution
oft among them, would bring returns OF
an hundred fold its cost, to the resources and
revenues Of the State, should have no adj
vantages of education beyond the simplest
primary school By diffusion Of scientific
education, among farmers, n better system
of agriculture might be introduced by which
the productsof the land could, in ten years,
be increased twenty or thirty per cent. The
Patent Office reports for 1854 estimate the
total value of the agricultural products of
the country, for that year, at 81, SOC, 900, 600.
In 1860 they will be at least S2,ooo,ooo,-
600 two thousand million); of these In
diana contributes about one-twentieth,
which would be one hundred million dollars,
under the present state Of culture.
Suppose, under an improved system, dis
semiuated by scientific schools, the products
of the State could be increased 20 per cent,
an increase of $4,000, 900 would annually
be added to the State, and the value of lands
advanced in corresponding ratio. Every
sensible man is persuaded that our farms
could be made by scientific system OF bus
bandry to yield almost double their present
products; slight improvement in our pres
eut system would increase them one-hfth.-
We see, by an article published in to-day S
paper, that in England a hundred tons OF
hay-under scientific manuring process
have been gathered from one acre in one
year. As yet, we have little conception OF
what science can do for agriculture. There
is nothing extravagant in the estimate that
little science scattered among the farmers
with some little improvement in habits o.
management, would increase the wealth o.
the State, $50, O0O,000 annually. The State
could not, then, makes more judicIous use Of
her funds for the increase Of her materia
welfare, and the moral and intellectual
benefits of training the mental powers o
her citizens, to follow the processes OF nature
in her various laboratories, and to increaSt
her benefcent products, must be as great a
sharpening the intellect to deal in sophis
tries of the forum or practice the arts empiri
cism.
The efforts of the Executive to force Lie
comptonism upon the country, caused TIT
neglect Of all bene6cent and useful measure
Of Legislation in Congress during the las
session. Mr. Morrills excellent bill go
through but one reading. 1t still lies uPol
the table Of the Senate. Judge Nlblack-
professedly anxious to enlighten the peopl
never sent copy Of this useful and i'm
portant bill and the interesting speech wit
which it was introduced, to his distric
though he flooded every post office with SC
phistical and fallacious Lecompton sPeeche
The Lecompton delegation from indiana
kept, according to report, twelve clerks sign
ing their franks, who despatched 1900
copies of Lecompton Documents to Indians
to prepare their way for the present canya
Every voter has received surfet Of sophi.
teal speeches, but not one has heard, throug
Niblack, of MorrilPs bill, or any other reall
useful or beneicent project OF a law. Th
ranking privilege, which was given
members of Congress for the distribution {
valuable public documents to enlighten til
people, is perverted to the basest uses of pan
", and to promote personal ends. 1t
now employed almost entirely in circulatin
party falsehoods and sophistries to aid
election schemes. If anything really Walt
able be sent, the distribution is confined I
few personal and party fayorites, to the e.
clusion even of the public libraries and assc
Citations for the collection and Disseminate
of knowledge Now that Judge Niblaek
before the people Of his district, giving a
account of the manner in which he has di
charged his trust, it is time to enquire I'M
some Of The delinquencies. Let the poop
enquire who have been the exclusive r
cipients of his faEors. How many of Il
valuable books that have been sent by Il