The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-19

struction in the elements of miner.
/ alogy, geology, botany and chemistry
veterinary practice, practical mechan-
les, rural laws and the history OF
their country. Excursions are made
by the classes, accompanied by their
instructors. The writer thinks that
their acquaintance with nature is quite
as good as Latin and Greek for devel-
oping the mind.
These academies are attended by
students who become practical farm
ers. 1t is not expected that every
laborer in the land will obtain such
education, but Ia Germany as In
to read. They are not so degraded
as those which you find IN Eng
land and France. Those who OBJ
! tain this instruction give direction to
intelligent labor, and thus North Ger
many has probably the best system of
agriculture in the world.
The State aims also to give instruc-
ton to the laboring men. Nineteen
| provincial schools have been estab-
| lished. each of which has received
from the State $4,000. They are I'M
der the direction of the educated
! farmers of the district; the simple
laws of agriculture are taught-those
which can be the most easily compre-
hended by the workmen. Besides
these there are special schools for in
struction in market gardening and
care of fruit trees Teachers are en-
ployed to go from farm to farm to
give instruction while the crops are
growing. Basides all this, the State
maintains seven schools for the chem
zeal analysis of soils, and for expert
ments In organic chemistry Three
large stud farms are maintained by
the State at an expense of more than
$4,000 per annum for the improve
ment of horses, and eleven hundred
stations a year are sent out from these
farms.
These, with the economic habits of
the German population, the writer
asserts, are the causes of the unex-
ampled prosperity of that country,
Nature has done far less for Germany
than 1t has for France. Berlin is To-
Gated in the center of a vast plain
where the soil is thin and poor. As
you come West-at Leipsic-you find
1t the same. At Gotha. the BIRTH
place of Prince Albert-at Erfurt.
where Luther sang songs barefooted
about the streets, the country is I'M
dulating and the soil argillacious; but
there are nowhere so broad and fer
tile fields as you see IN the Central,
Southern, Northern and Eastern sec
tlons OF France. Germany has had sys-
tenn. France has been plodding in the
old way, and the result is be-
fore the world. The farmers
of the United States have some
thing to learn from Germany
And here, also, is lesson for the
statesmen of the United States Just
now the great question before the
American people is that of Recon
struction. The poor whites of the
South, to great extent, are ignorant,
and have no aspiration to obtain
knowledge; the freedmen are also ig-
norant, but have an ardent desire for
education. Prussia educates all her
people. She educates the laboring
people to excel In their calling, what
ever it may be, and although she is
young in years-though the present
Monarch is only the fourth from the
founder of the kingdom-she stands
to day in the front rank of kingdoms.
Education is the secret of her
strength. Let the lesson be kept in
remembrance. Education for all
must be one of the elements in any
place of recons truction at the South,
if stability and progress are to be Sc
ured.
England just now is becoming
aware of this fact. 1t is the season. |
for agricultural fairs, and the mem
bers of Parliament are improving the |
opportunities to define their views on
the questions of the day, and on this
one point there is agreement, that /
there must be education. = We must /
educate our future masters, '3exclaims I
Mr.. Lowe, an old Wing, who. Fought
the Reform Bill with all his might,
who breads Democracy, but now that
Democracy is coming, intends to make
the best of it. sli et.r sd1 -aI
Let the farmers of the country +
mediate upon the result of technical /
and special education In Prussia, fol-
low tt e example-edueate theirsons Z
as the Prussian farmers are educating
theirs, and the returns from the farm
will be vastly increased, lands will
In value, and the United
States will not only be self-support-
ing, but will become more than ever
a producer for European nations.
.raa ~ CARLETON. a
Do Not Leave the Children at Home.
The German people carry their