The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-03-19
NO. XII.
From the Muscstine Journal.
Iowa Farmers College..-~n- --r

meneed my other communication with
the following resolution, which was pas
sed at the January meeting Of the Bonrd
Of Trustees ... s,- b.. r# .st
Rcsolred, That it is recommended to
each member of the Board to make known
to farmers and others in their se,era
districts, through public meetings, the
press, or otherwise, the object Of the
Iowa Farmers College" -
There Was also passed resolution
highly complimentary to the press of the
State generally, for the gratuitous aid
they had given the Farmers College, by
publishing notices and information to
assist in establishing III our midst an in
stltutlon which shall prove light and
knowledge to our children and an honor
to our State.
In order tha. ths inst ttltion may
| prove an honor to the State, and accom-
pllsh tie greatest good, | would not re.
commned large expenditure to begin
with, however confident / am that these
institutions are based upon the surest
foundations of usefulness. broader and
better in practical knowledge, useful in
dustry, economy and health, than any
other institutions of learning and indus
try of our wellinstituted country. The
Farmers College and Experimental Farm
of Michi gan cost over Sl0O,00O This
farm was located in the forest, and of
course its improvement cost much moro
than it would in Iowa besides they had
to buy their land, which, | think, cos,
about $1,000. The President of that In
Ftitutlon says it has p.oven quite success
full; its students are becoming rapidly
healthy, love their three hours of daily
labor, are moral, honest and faithful, and
are well suited with the great privilege
of acquiring SO good practical and useful
an education at so cheap a rate, by paying
a portion with the work OF their own
hands. They have 100 students, and
three times more applicants than they
can accommodate. Yet that institution
has It's enemies III its own State, and
when they could find few true faults,
they get up false reports, and slander tho
institution, and try TO injure its useful
ness and good name
In New York they lave over $780, 900
for their farm aud college, nearly half Of
which has to be paid for the land the
rich and well improved farms coming
high in that State--about s60 per acre
But the people Of the county Seneca
donating, were then suffc for tho
purchase the State appropriatiug for
the buildings
In Pennsylvania they have noble
building nearly completed, 233 feet front,
5 stories high with two wings, all Of
beautiful gray lime stone, ut cost Of
s55 900, for the college buidi e.. The
farm Of 400 acres was donated by Gen
James Irwin A large subscriptions was
also made up by individuals
might enumerate several other States
that are proceeding to establish Fa,mer's
Schools Let me here notice the Farm
ers College at College Hill, near Cincin-
natl, Ohio, the oldest school Of this kind
in America. had report sent me from
this institution, but it is not at hand now
1t is very fourishing and successful
school, and farm, and garden.
This College of ours is not TO BE- lci,
ted IN city or village, where the schoi
ars are to board themselves, and find their
own homes, as most of our institutions of
learning are, but we are to make a com
Portable and goOd home for every one
President, Professors, and scholars, farm
ers, teams, stock, aud tools Hence, to
provide for all this must be far greater
outlay than the usual accommodations
Several Of the classic colleges Of our
country have attempted to establish IN
agricultural department in conucction
with them. never had faith in auy
such farming. They may disscct, ana
lyze, and deroar bread and meat but,
in that way, they will not be able to tell
how to produce it. They may analyze
soils hy chemistry, and attempt to tell
what it will produce and what it will not,
but this science udhom practice is 50 oft
Gu at fault, that little reliance can lie
placed in it. Practice will do better
without science, than science without
practice. This attempting to carry on
agriculture by science alone is what has
cast great disrepute upon Agricultural
Colleges--!s whot has led to the Expert,
mental Farm in connection As wei!
might mechanic attempt to learn a trade
by science alone, without a shop, as for
literary student to learn farming by sci
eucc alone, Many distinguished men in
Agriculture now begin to understand
this difference One able opponent Of
the Agricultural College, of New Yorr.
Gen. il. B. Dickinson, has lately confess.
ed his error and now says he has full
confidence in the great benefits of thcSl
One year ago had little expectation
that the bill granting lands for an agrl-
cultural college in every State would pass
the [, ), Senate. ltappears that a ma
Jority in both houses of our Congress
thought liberal donations of land to en-.
courage and support agricultural and in
dnstrial schools practical, wise, humane,
but the President thought otherwise. and
vetoed the bill. Well, there let it rest
for the present. But the principle *
right, and will grow; and although ooco
defeated by the controlling power Of !
single man, time will give it strength.
and it will soon rise up again. Canals
and railroads, common schools aud Uni,
have received such appropria,
tions by nearly every Congress, for aevs
past, aud why not Farmers College?
s FOSTER
Or. Franklin said, "when I see 4 house
furnished with books and newspapers.