Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-12
STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVEN.
TION.
Addresses and Observation-Disclosures
Of New Members.
From the Columbus Journa,


Convention is composed of the Presi-
dents of the different County Agricul-
tural Societies-the members of the
State Board being entitled to seats in
the Convention and allowed to partici.
pate in discussions, DC.
The Convention was called to order
by the President, Mr.. James Fulling-
ton, of Union county.
The roll was called by the Secretary,
Mr.. John H. Klippart, and represent
atives from fifty counties were report
ed present.
The President announced the fol-
lowingcOmmittee on business: Messrs.
Townsend, of LOrain; Miliken, of
Butler, and Reber, of Fairfield.
Prof. John S. Newberry, of Cleve-
land, Chief of the State Geological
Corps, was introduced and proceeded
to deliver an address, showing the re-
lation of geology to agriculture. He
showed the application of geological
information to the development of the
agricultural interest and illustrated in
various ways, tracing the geological
formations of the State and referring
to the geological structure of the coun-
try generally. He spoke with a map
at hand for reference, and made his
remarks very interesting.
The President, at the close of Prof.
Newberry's remarks, invited all per-
sons connected with the Agricultural,
Horticultural and Dairy interests of
the State to participate in the discus
sions of the Convention, and intro
duced Mr.. Charles Horn, of Yelling
ton, who proceeded to speak of the
Factory system of cheese making in
Ohioand matters connectedtherewith.
At the close of his sketch of the BUSH
ness of cheese making in Ohio, state
ment of profits, &c, Mr.. Horn drew a
comparison of the life led by farmers
and that class of people, and the diff
ferent classes of people employed in n
city, bearing down On those who vert
afraid of labor. The views of the gen.
tleman on this question were heartily
applauded. He closed with the fol-
lowing:
"MorethOrough farming i nallitsde-
partments is needed. Americans talk
very much about the dignity of labor,
but they are like the patriotic gentle
man who was willing all his wife's re-
lations should go into the army.
'The income of dairymen is greater
than that of most of our professional
men. While the professions are
crowded, educated farmers are scarce.
We expect to have thorough
ness in farming till there is developed
in u country a stronger home feel
ing. Then farmers will be willing to
consult the future, while nov all arc
looking only to present profit.
GgLA 1n-I - r-o1nnI hnaoV,-a 80 Fo-.s
ly associations-few live where their
fathers died, and none where they eX-
pect to die themselves. We all are
really homeless. There is not a man
present who would not sell his resi-
dence if he knew he could buy anOth-
er and make 81, 900 by the swap.
"All this must be changed before-we
can expect to see thorough and sys-
tematic farming or commodious, taste
ful and substantial farm buildings"
The following nominations were
made for members of the State Board,
five to elect:
Jas. Fullington of Union, N. J. Tur-
ney of Pickaway, F. J. Phillips of
Brown, Geo. Pow of Mahoning, JOSH
ali Roller of Crawford, Geo. W. Cary
of Warren, Marcus NJ. Eels, of Mont
gomery, Thomas +. Joy of Delaware,
VIM. Lang of Seneca, VIM. B.
McClung of Miami, r.. p. Cannon of
Portage, j. B. Jamison of Harrison,
n. S. Townshend of Lorain, w. A.
Humes of Champaign, II. L. Reed of
Licking, Col. @. 5. Innis of Franklin.
On motion, Convention took a recess
till 2 P. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention reassembled at 2
P. NJ.
DR.. N. S. Townshend, of Lorain
county, spoke at length on the estab-
lishment of the Agricultural College.
He discussed first The question as to
this college should be aschool
of discipline or one for imparting pos
tive and useful knowledge. He fa-
vored the latter and believed that a
large majority of the State Board held
like sentiments. The school year of
the college should be divided into a
winter term and summer term. The
winter term should be devoted princi-
pally to lectures, say on Geology, as
applicable to Agriculture, or Agricul-
tural Chemistry, or Physic, Natural
Philosophy, Botany, PhilOlogy and
Anatomy. The summer term ought
to be devoted to the practical illustra-
ton of the same branches and of me-
chanics, surveying, &c. The course
of instruction should not occupy as in
other colleges, four or six years. There
should be five or six professors or
teachers. The institution should con-
tain a museum of Geology and Nine
ralogy, a library of the best works on
Agriculture and the mechanic arts,
and there should be attached a farm
for illustration, not an experimental
or model farm.
The college should be located neara
city. and the fund for the establish
ment of such a college should not be
used for founding an Institution in
connection with any existing college
or university.
Major Milliken, of Butler, differed
from first to last with DR.. T~ownshend.
The act of Congress granting the fund
defined how the institution should be
founded. The college under this act
was intended to provide for a liberal
course of education, as well as for the
specific course marked out by DIR.
Townshend, the course, in short, to
include every branch of learning. The
State Agricultural College of Illinois,
was mentioned as a model institution,
its curriculum being extensive and
comprehensive, and embracing the
whole range of scientific and classical
studies.
The course of instruction in the Ohio
college should not be confined to agri-
cu1tura and tha orfS The
college was for the benefit of other
classes as well as for the benefit of the
farmer and mechanic.
We want no more colleges in Ohio,
but we want to strengthen those we
have. Ten States have united the ag-
ricuItural fund with pre-existing col
leges, and in these States the agri-
cultural colleges are prosperous.
The speaker was decidedly opposed
to the establishmentOfan Independent
agricultural college, and stated that he
was supplied with papers and docu-
ments to suppOrt his views of the case.
Mr.. Hill, of Defiance, read from the
Governors message the passage in re-
lation to the Agricultural College, and
in commenting thereon said that he
believed the majority of the farmers
of the State to be in favor of an indie
pendent college, and opposed to COM
bining the fund withany broken down
or falling college of the State.
He had no doubt but that sufficient
donations would be made to start the
college or put it in operation, and it
might be firmly established by an ap-
nronriatiOn nv the State Of c05O ON or