Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1858-05-20
common in the United States. Ia Saxo-

common IN the Unltcd states. In SaXO-
ny there are humber of experiment
stations or experimental farms, with lab
oratories attached, and five or more
schools exclusively for agriculture. There
is no country in the world where agri-
culture and all branches of industry are
pursued with more enterprise and sue
cess than in this little monarchy. Bel
gium has its agricultural schools, also,
and great opportunities for general edu-
cation are given, especially in the larger
towns. Here farming is conducted most
on a scientific basis, SO that Belgium,
supporting population of three hun
dred and thirty-six to the square mile,
in climate inferiar to that of Kentucky
or Virginia, which average only twenty
six and twenty three to the square mile,
is the first in rank as an agricultural state
in Europe. This pre-eminence is chiefly
the result of scientific attention to man
ures.
France, from the time of Napoleon,
has done much for agriculture beet su-
gar, the mulberry, the grape, as we'll as
marine sheep and the Thibet goat, have
received imperial attention. No expense
is shirked in the cause of agricultural
science. Her botanical gardens, chem
ical laboratories, physiological museums
and schools for instructions in the yeler-
mary art, surpass all others in existence,
and, with her five agricultural colleges,
and almost one hundred agricultural
schools. are rapidly elevating the farming
population of the empire. Colleges and
schools of agriculture are numerous in
Great Britain, but their usefulness is
greatly restricted on account of the limi
ted attendance arising from the jealousies
of caste. In Russia the cause of agri-
culture holds a deserved promineuce.-
Of colleges, schools, and special schools,
devoted to agriculture. Russia maintains
a greater number than any other nation,
France only excepted.
Thus we behold the suifrages of all the
wiser civilized nation in favor of the
measure contemplated by the bill under
consideration. If other nations advance,
though we but pause, we are distanced.
The country is believed TO be oyerwhelm-
ingly in favor of the establishment of these
institutions. They are as much needed,
and will be as gratefully accepted. by one
section as by another. More than four
fifths Of our population are engaged in
agricultural and mechanical employ
ments.
Pass this measure, said Mr. Morrill,,
in conclusion, and you will have dono-
Something to enable the farmer to raise
two blades of grass instead Of one some
thing for every owner ofland something
for all who desire to hold land some
thing for cheap scientific education );
something for every man who loves intel
ligence and not ignorance ; something to
induce the farmers sons and daughters
to settle and cluster around the old home
steads /; something to remove the lastves-
tige of paupcrism from our land; some
thing for peace, good order, and the bet
ter support of Christian churches and
common schools something to enable
sterile railroads to pay dividends some
thing to enable the people to bear the
enormous expenditure of the National
Government; something to check the
passion of individuals, and of the nation,
for indefinite territorial expansion and ul-
innate decrepitude something to pre-
vent the dispersion of our population, and
to concentrate it around the best lands
of the country-places hallowed by
chulch spires, and mellowed by the in
fluences of time-wlere the consumer
will be placed at the door of the produc-
er ; and thereby something to obtain
higher prices for all sorts of agricultural
productions and something to increase
the loveiness Of the American landscape.
Scientific culture is the sure precursor of
order and beauty"
The New York Herald of last Thursday
is sheet of sixteen pages. Eight of
these nares are filed. to the exclusion of