Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-21

be mentioned 10 De auInlltcu " eN
most careless. How then is the EVIL
to be prevented in future, and how
is the injury already done to be
remedied
There are some who seem to expect
that science ought to give them some
magical formula, by which, without
additional trouble, they might contln-
ne to live carelessly as heretofore
Bat it is not by patent recipes, or crude
experimenting, hut by the path OF eX-
perience Illuminated by common sense
and sound reasoning, (Which consh-
tutes science, that We must seek this
consumation devoutly to be wished
First. Ne mast study oar soils, and the
means progided By nature far the main
tenance or resuscitation Of their fertility
Secondly, We must teach aohat 'oe hare
so learned to orr ogrieultarulists, espe-
cially the young, together with the
principles of rational agriculture.
An Aqricultural Surrey is the need
full preliminary step towards the es-
Establishment of truly practical Schools
Of agriculture, in which the youth of
the land shall be taught, not only what
they ought to do in certain suppose
/ titious cases, but what, in fact and in
practice. are the cases they will have
/ to deal with
/ Both these important objects were
contemplated in the inception of the
Survey. but the former alone has thus
far been essentially promoted, on ac-
count both of the incOmpatibility, at
first. of the duties of a teacher and
chief of the Survey, and the compare
tive inutility of merely theoretical in
structiOn in this branch.
Both objections having ceased to
exist, by reason of the advanced state
of the work, it is hoped thatnow, under
the pressing demand for information
of this kind, the second and most i'm
portant part of the programme can be
made to resume its place, and chance
for agricultural education be afforded
the agriculturalist The facts and prin-
ciples set forth by printed report will
be long in becoming part of popular
consciousness, unless they are brought
to bear on the rising generation, and
made part and parcel of their educa-
ton.
But the success Of all that has been
and can he done, depends always and
pre- eminently upon the intelligent in
terest of the agricultural population in
the advancement of their pursuit, and
of their own prosperity. The scien
tifc investigator can but show the
ways and means it is for them to avail
themselves of the information con
veyed, and in their turn to exert them
selves to amplify and complete it.
The State, through large portion
of its length and breadth is undertake
by marls and greensands, excelleC
by none in New Jersey or Virginia
where they have made the wilderness
of broom sedge bloom like the rose
But what does this knowledge avail
man who prefers raising quarter of
bale of cotton per acre, to doublin.
his crops by digging mari pits on on
half of his land What if the land
supposed to be worn out are shown t.
i be merely in a state of suspended ami
nation waiting but intelligent cul
y ture to reclaim them, if no one i
. found willing to bestow it? What
= it is shown that artesian water can b
), made to flow where the poisOnou
magnetism waters are now daily quaf
the trouble of boring the wells "
ed, if the chronic ague is preferred t
have beds of Ignite, or brown Goa
a traversed by railroads; but our CRATE
/ (if CRATES we 1ciH have), continue t
'e be fed with Pittsburg coal, and tn
IS native product is known only &
rs ''black dirt"
lie Let all contribute to the extent {
'e their ability, towards a systemat
Is knowledge and development of the
De resources, and the prosperity of Mi
III sissippi will soon be re-established u
I on a frmer basis than ever before
~ Persons residing within more col
Il venient reach of Oakland College tha
IN Oxford, may address Prof Georg
I'd Little of that institution, who h;
u courteously offered his oo-operatio
5, EUG W. HTLGARD.
e State Geologist of Mississippi.