Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01
VOL. X---NO. 80.
For the Journal.
Our Farmers College.
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Our Earlncrs' College.
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Mr.. EDITOR In your last you omi.tsd
these important words at the clio SO VI the
piece, ITO BIZ CONTINUED" l wish you
would get a soldering iron and solder tho
type OF those words together, and max o Il
sort Of stereotype Of it, for intend to con-
tinuo it for eighteen mouths; and | beg Of
you to understand that the subject has now
arrived at only 9 short introduction.
! One Of the most eminent men of our own
State Ono whose usefulness and cod
judgment and eninence will appear on ,Lany
| a page of the history Of our fair State, writes
Oh the 2lst of this month
II feel with you the great Importance Of
| this subject. 1t evidently undurlies the
whole fabric Of our expec ted prosperity as Il
State. Our importance and enincrce must
depend, mainly, upon our agricultural DE-
velopement5. Every wise and patriotic
mind must therefore feel incli el to aid in
this devcloperneht. | have thougls much
upon this subject, and have hoped to soc
the time when such institutions would not
only be common but successful. Why .hcy
should not be SO, | ain unable to under.
stand.'
would say to my friend, that SO far as
| ain able to judge Of the success--the en-
couragement-the friendly reception, that
this new theory hcalth-the culture of tho
earth--education--hand in hand from youth
to manhood, l am happily dissppointed--I
am greatly encouraged. Its progress has
been far more rapid than expected. Why
success has not sttended-why such institu-
tions have not been established ere this, all
over our country, is simply because be and
and everybody else, have not informed
ourselves on the subject, and started ths
schools for when once established and
brought into practice, am ss confident Of
their ultimate success as was the fathers VI
this Rs0rblic of its success.
Much has been said about the ignorance,
the untitfu.ness for society, OF the man who
could not write letter correctly-whose
photography gas bad, whose sentences were
badly constructed. But 50 far as the ''coun,
try, the State and nation" is concerned, of
what consequence is that compared with .
correct knowledge Of raising hill Of poss-
toes, tstting an OK or raising an core Of
wheat--the very substance with which or
tables are loaded from day to dayI These
same or0akers are themselves great igno-
ranuses Ia the most essential kind of knoWl.
edge, They don't know how " bind shesi
of wheat after it is cut in the swAth or lain
in the gavel "Gve US day by day our
daily bread" And who will they ask 10
give them their ''daily breadF' They
sho hould ask for knowledge to TIL The sortA,
and then they will be Fl: fos sooiety-thsy
will then possess more useful knowledge,
be better qualified to fill their places ss .nsu
than they possibly can be without it.
We have long been looking through tel
escopes and Eyeglasses to view th distant
planets, and to contemplate the stupendous
grandeur Of the heavens with wonder and
Let US now add to this labor
atory the microscope. Here at our feet lies
a world, equally wonderful and sublime, but
partially explored, yet quite as useful to
US. Our government can explore frozen
seas and land, and covet our neigA6ors'
Island, but to develope the resources Of
our own country, and to teach our young
TASTE Iss, no constitutional power FOR, No
credit for, and said it would detraot from
the Treasury nearly all of SIS 100000 this
year, which is as unfounded and unfact- like,
as fabulous fiction as any functionary
ever fell into.
We find an undue tendency Of our young
people to city and town life. No doubs
that true political wisdom would dictate
the encouragement of country life; to avoid
much of the unhealthfulness, poverty, crime
and awful misery which city society creates;
which is constantly fostering, corrupting,
breaking forth in it's awful disgusting stencil
of character, through all grades of society,
from the lower five points, to tho Cunning
hams and the late higher Kegs and rough
edged StcGles of Washington. Let tho State
of Iowa encourage the cultivation Of tho
making Of gardens, planting of
groves snd hedges, and beautifying, i'm
proving and enriching our land, until home
home in Iowa--will be "sweet" indeed
and more attractive than the society Of
cities. I would not detract an iota from
refined, literary and scientific education,
accomplishments, elegance, ease and grace
of manners. would spread it broadcast,
oarryit into the country, give it health sub
stance and character, that it may have
solid foundation to rest upon, and be per-
petuased to future generations with that
purity Of word and deed, which alone will
make an enlightened and refined people
noble and great.
These things taught to the farmers sons
and daughters, carried to their homes and
praoticed upon their farms, their fresides
and their social gatherings, will be great
er blessing to our country than countless
millions Of corrupting gsld--a greater bless
ing than many acres ruined by bad eultivs-
tion--so unsightly, so uninviting, SO un-
home-like, that the young seek any place
but home. SUEL FosTBB.
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