Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-09-19
RUTLAND HERALD.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1867.
Abstract Of President Anglers Ad.
dress at the state Fair, Thurs'
pay sept AZ, 1857.

President Angel commenced his ad-
dress by saying that the people before
him had come together in accordance
with an old and much honored custom,
to enjoy a well earned holiday. The
Greeks and Romans never went TO such
a beautiful Smphitheatre 10 celebrate
their national games, for their amphi-
thatres were builded by men, while the
one in which his auditors hsd met was
builded by God himself. And they had
come from pleasant homes, whq-e they
were neither tempted TO practices cfvice
by opulence or grinding poverty. He
would gladly speak OF the crops Of Che
year, but he had not come TO speak OF the
fruits OF tie ground, but Of the crop OF
boys raised upon these Vermont farms.
The briggh.t eyes before him fem'naea
him that there was another crop that de.
served notice-the crop Of girls, but he
should leave II to other and more poet
teal men TO treat OF shat crop SIS 1t
deserved.
With these Introductory remarks, Pres
ident Angel commenced the theme OF his
address. as "Some OF the Relations OF
Education to Agriculture" He hrst
smoke of what has been done for farmers
sons by the common school system and
by the influence Of home. Boys born and
bred in small places, where there arc no
liberalizing influences and no enliVening
q circumstances, grow up 10 De mar
row-minded and ignorant men. He de-
picted the favorable effects Of having
smart young schoolmaster dropped down
into such a place. Through his ln1u-
ences these BOYS would become men, and
the very first thing in making 8 farmer
is to make man. This, then, is what
the common schools have done and are
doipp-they are making men out Of boys;
and fitting them for rightly doing their
life work.
He ther alluded to the feeling Of rest
lessnessness that so materially s1ects
tie farmers boys in the country. Men
oftentimes spend their lifetime IN
wandering from one place to another, IN
reach of something better, and never
finding it. Men want to have decision sno
resolution, and no man can nave success
who does not persistently drive az some
thing. The tendency, too, LOT youns
men to 90 from the country into the CIT!
needs to be counteracted. They DO no
know the cost of living in those cities
the risks of business and the nara an,
wearing years Of labor that preced
eyery fortune and every great success
The best way to counterfeit this urba
tendency is to make education conservs
tive as we'll as stimulating; and 1t
the duty Of the home circle TO see th'
the Young are rightly instructed as
the risks and temptations they must e
counter if they 60 to the city and lea
the farm.
The great present need OF agricultu
ia brains. When Sir Joshua Reynol
was asked with what he mixed his pain
he!replied, "With brains, sir" SO
need to put brains into our farm Gro
and our flocks and herds. There is
better fertilizer for the soil than brair
and no investment in the soil will vie
a better interest than this will. L
dgTlculUurdl bOClSIltS arc siJAuS w LIZ
solve this problem with their year
meetings and discussions. Their II
aim is to increase the intelligence OF
farming community.
But the agricultural societies cam
do all that is needed in this respe
Something more direct and more tar
ible is needed for the education and C
ture of the boys; and it is just this ne
that the lately established agricultu
colleges are designed to meet. Farm
have been prejudiced against " be
farming" and with some reason,
they have sometimes been deceived 0
imposed upon. But the aim Of the !
ricultural college is TO teach the wi
and wherefor es Of agricultural groJ
and production to teach young Z
how they can farm easier and "
greater profits. The education OF
dozen young men in this way for e
of the principal towns in the State wo
repaylback to the State a hundred
what has been devoted to the Verm
Agricultural College. 1t was former
common idea that education spoiled
for work. but that idea has been exploC
The more man knows, the better
more faithfully will he labor, and /
certainly worthy OF the first and
efforts Of every citizen of Vernon
raise the standard ofagricultural knt
edge among her people,