Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-10-05
The Fair.

VIC dTo piodeeu W AVNNN 1
cessful Fair this year. We could not at
tend the FIRST day, but have been informed
that tho show of cattle and horses wa
extremely good. The attendance we thinl
was equal to that of last year. Flora
Hall was not as we'll filled in some Of tn,
departments as last year. The fruit ant
vegetable department was better filled anc
presented rare exhibition. AS the ex
hibitors' names we're not appended to thei
articles, we could not tell by whom thu
ponderous beets, melons, squashes, &c.
were rais,d. The Ladies' Department
had its usual complement. of articles
wrought by artistic fingers. Gaut d Shep
ardsou, of the Lamoile Mills, in Fairfax
had on exhibition samples of the cloth
they make, which equal those of the best
manufactures in the country, consisting Of
tricots, plaids, greys, fannels, &c,
The list of premiums not having been
furnished us by the Secretary, cannot ap-
pear this week.
The address of Mr.. Angel was short,
good, and to the point, containing many
valuable hints. lie thought
Much can be done to improve the crops
of the farmers of this county, but no crop
required such careful and judicious train.
ing as the crop of boys; every improve
ment on this crop, improves all the other
crops of the farm, and is the best manure
the farmer can apply to his land. Every
calling in life requires special training
and imposes special responsibilities. Our
boys, to prevent their ENGRAVING, and to
demonstrate that there is ample field for
the employment of all their brains III
farming, should be thoroughly educated,
to prepare them to be skilful aud success
full farmers, and to improve Upon the
farming Of their fathers.
He referred to our system Of common
schools as giving u bent to the minds Of
our children III the direction of an educa-
tion, and regarded them as the great bull
warks of our system of free and popular
government. Our boys, too, should be
well and thoroughly educated to the pro-
fession of farming, and to make the most
of their farms that they might not: be in
duced to cmigrate. New England owes
her supremacy in this country not to her
numerical superiority, but to the numer-
ical superiority of her thoroughly educat.
ed sons, and in order to retain this our
system of education must be enlarged and
improved upon. This is especially true in
view of tho plumber of our sons who emf.
crate westward and to the city, and whose
places are filed by uueducated omigrants
from the old world. This political aspect
of the question is very serious one, and
ona that can only be satisfactorily settled
by the thorough education of the brains
Of our children.
Our boys should be taught to love their
home, to be vol balanced and to take
good common sense view Of the matters of
life. 1t must be shown to the boys that
the life of farmer affords ample scope
for the employment Of brain work and in.
telligence, as it certainly docs. Farming
ia study of Gods laws of development.
Surely these are the highest study that
man can enter upon. The greatest phi
iosophers and chemists the world has ever
known, Aggasiz, Huxley and Liebeg are
now simply e1dcavoring to discover these
laws.
1t is demonstrable that the Agricultural
College has a work to do of which farmers
will reap the benefit. Its object is to dis
cover Gods laws of development and ger
minatioh, to analyze fertilizers, to find out
the food or manure necessary for each
crop and to discover how, scientifically
and Systematically, to raise the largest
and best crops.
Boys make better men, as we'll as bet.
ter farrers by having good education
an educated man fulfls his duties as citi-
zen much better than an uneducated one,
and all our boys should be trained with
references to this,
The leading men in this country in ten
years, will be those tho bess trained for
the position.
With our children properly and tho
roughly educated, New England viii con.
tinuc to hold the proud position she now
occupies, and the nation shall be free,
enlightened and Christian, fairer than
which the sun does not shine upon to-day.
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MUSICAL CONVENTION. shall be
pleased to note the fact after the conven.