Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-10-23
WHOLE NUMBER 20g.

i outlined, these Societies viii not onIv so
cure self-sustaining revenue from the
products OF the experimental tract, but
Will gain for themselves the honor and rsuz
utatlon OF being real and absolute promo.
! teEs OF agricultural progress and its allied
, industrial pursuits-a reputation and DoEiG
: ton much more honorable and desirable
I Unan can possibly be conferred by the dis
charge OF the duties enjOined by any polite
; leal organization or association.
! AS rule we do not love farming we'll
enough to settle down in young manhood
! and make it a vocation for life, We farm
because we must-necessity demands Il at
our hands-it thus becomes an irksome and
laborious duty, and every one fees from n
, 70 some more apparently elegant -Occupa-
/ ton. Even farmers themselves encourage
their sons and daughters to think that
there are more honorable, pleasant and
easier ways Of gaining a livelihood than
that OF farming. This same class Of farm
ersy however, set no example Of learning
themselves, OF teaching their sons the
why's and wherefOres of agricultural ODeraa
tlOGs; and surely it is by no means suFprisz
ing to ind young men disgUsted with an
aYOcauon which promises nothing else
than unremitting care and dull routine
OF continued and severe labor: whilst i'm
truth agriculture intelligently interpreted
is one Of the most interesting and SOUL
i inspiring occupations under the canopy Of
heaven. The parents are opposed to book
farming, and if the son manifests q taste
for reading and acquiring information, the
parents, in nine cases out of ten, direct his
energies TO the requirement Of profession
ralher than to learn to apply science to
/ agriculture. Hence it is that our most
successful agriculturists are as a rule gen
tlemen who have been engaged in active
town or city life, where much thought,
energy, activity and enterprise ale requir-
ed; they have been taught system, oFtIerr
/ prudence and economy in the adaptation
Of means to ends-tO do everything well.
and to do it at the proper time. Hence,
too, 1t is that so many Of the Young men
! who have left the quiet farm in the country
for the noise, din and hustle Of city life, 50
often become first the victims Of the VIC
iOus and demOralized in the CITY, and then
fallen in the footsteps OF those who have
! deceived, betrayed and ruined them. I
have made careful inquiry, and I make
the statement upon reliable authority that,
/ Of the vicious and criminal Young meri
under 20 years Of age, convicted of crimes
committed in the city, a greater proportion
/ Of those born and reared on the farm until
J 10 to Is years Of age convicted than those
/ born and reared in the city. Parents must
!
! gers and hazards to which thew are exposI
ling their children when they permit them
during their minority to exchange the
/ quiet rural home FOR the busy and ever
/ active one Of the city. If farmers homes
4 can be made pleasant and attractive-if
! they can be adorned and beautified-if they
/ can be made desirable to such q degree that
the farmers children shall feel that
There's no place like home"
a very great step in advance will have been
secured. When the farmers sons learn
/ that there is just as much science and skill
/ required in curing a disease in the horse as
/ there is in the human subject, he perbaDg
will not object to studying veterinary sur
gerry and medicine; but so long as we re-
gard the noble horse as an absolute brute,
and the horse doctor as cross between a
quack and lOafeF, no intelligent Young
man will for a moment think of EMBARK
ing in such a career. At Berlin, in Ger
many, and at Abort. in France, I found
the sons Of the nobility, the wealthy, and
the sons Of the learned and highly bOTOrpd
as students Of the veterinary science; there
the veterinarian or horse dOctor'' is. sure,
if competent, Of a position in the army,
and from the army Of promotion to the
higher ranks Of official life. This prospect
i've promotion may be the inducement in
those countries for the pursuit Of this course,
but in this country there is nothing in the
form Of professional life which offers so
wide field Of practice or such certain re-
muneTadve reward as the practice of vet
erinary surgery and medicine. Ha 10
Many farmers themselves seem to be
aveTse to these educational movements
but the tide is rolling onward and will not
be stayed and the sooner each one resolves
to mingle with the onward current, the
sooner will our agriculture be more remu-
neTative, better ordered, and become a-per-
manent and fixed avOcatiOn aud no longer
be the haphaZard, amateur handicrait that
it now is.
cannot better close this address than by
reading an extract from a letter from GEO.
SUMNER to Prof AGASSIZ, on the project
OF a Conservatory Of Science and Art:r-
"A Museum like this would, believe, aid
most powerfully in creating o greater in
terest in the Mother Art-would tend to
retain on their pateTnal acres those crowds
Of young men who now flock to our great
cities, there to drag out a trivial existence,
useless to others, or even to themselves
would aid also, IN taking away the false.
mantle Of 'Tespeetabilityi in which the an
productive drOnes of society wrap them
5elVeS-wOuld aid in destroying that lass
remnant Of teudal barbarisTn, the eolteD7lE
for tdbOT-and v Ould tend to give intelii-
gent labor its true position of highest honor.
If seem to speak strongly, I may here ar
peal to the experience Of other Countries.
and especially to that one, in the govern
ment OF which the aristOeratic element
finds larger place than in any other.
'.Some eight OF nine years ago.. when
visiting landed proprietor in England, he
remarked to me, that all his estate, exceI
The park and the garden, was let out to far
mers. OF his three sons, two were then
pursuing their University studies, one to-
become an hereditary legislator, one to be-
come clergyman, perhaps q Bishop. The
son was destined for the army
Not long since, ( again visited this same
estate, and was somewhat surprised to find
he future Bishop and the future General
hard at work as good farmers. Abiding
% this change in their career, the father
aid: Farming is quite n different affair
low from what it was q few years srO.--
IAWES & LIEBIG have changed all that
When il was found that there was as much
Oom Orseience and intelligence i'm cuItiL
'ating the soil, rs in making sermons or
moving soldiers, farming became quite a
aShionahie occupation, and for me, / am
dad OF It, his two manly sons heartily
en- saw on other estates.
II the sons Of English noblemen, stimu-
ated by interest in the developments Of
\ Agrloult1Fal Chemistry, find as much hon
y IN ulling the soil as holding Commis-
ions IN the Army, perhaps, under similar
nHuencel some OIthe young men Of AfaSsa-
husetts may consider it quite as 'res1ect-
Die to hold the plow as to handle the
ardstick and find it quite rs worthy an
xeFcise Of their active intelligence in maxi
ng O Chemical analysis Of the soil they
ultivate, rs in eiphering out in a COUNTING
Onsa The n1nat nernleNinu Trial haInr,r, -