Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-15
8utland 9ailp 9erald.
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
An Experimental Farm.
FOUNDED IN 1894 ]

We publish the following elaborate
and able paper on an experimental
farm, written by DR.. Middleton Gold
smith, of Rutland which will possess
much interest to our agricultural readers.
The paper will be presented by the Yer
mont delegation in the Agricultural
Convention that meets at Washington
on the 18th inst, and if approved by
chat body, will be laid before Congress
forts consideration.
fit is a proper and an useful Office
for the general government to gather
facts and knowledge in agriculture, and
disseminate these for the furthcrance Of
the farmers pursuit, it is evidently
equally proper for this authority to pro
vide mems for the gathering of new
facts, for determining the exact value of
received rules and processes, and for soly-
ing those questions which, from the
magnitude of the cost of solution, are
placed beyond the reach of private enter
prise
Inventors in the mechanic arts are
rewarded bv natent rirhtq Discoveries
in marufactnrinc processes are stimu-
lated by the same subsidies. But the
determination of methods Of culture, the
values of processes, the discoveries of
nay, facts tho demonstration of ira
,li+io,or,- +hoorios tha odiuoto,ant of
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Tha n,n,ho. nf ,,sn ,tiftod for and
,n,inad -. accurate eoorcLinr scientific
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,,ro,,ort;r., ~ +hoso o,c,oood i, # og,.i
.plt,ro has favor than any educatad
.aI1ir,r an Garth
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,o+ionol &c tbo odr;c71tnro1 Ti.. .,Jr-
ration and civil rirbts if concerns every
ho1, from tbc hirhoet to tha lowest
from fine richest to the noor,st-most
nearly thp moor for with then, fine oups-
tion of bread is thc transcpndrut ouc~-
tion of life. If millions may be rightly
expended in determining the efficiency
of offensive arms and defensive arma-
ture-in ascertaining the best mransafor
defending the nation from assault, may
not something be given to defend its
people from that sterner foe Of want
the wolf that stands at the poor mans
door. If untoldWcalth may hrlayiShrd
in securing our homes and industry to Ms,
may We not spare something to make
these homes trcer from want and more
rnjoyabi"> : II the possession Of land
makes tn" ritlzcn stahlcr, surely that
which increases the reward Of labor on
that land must confirm that stability.
If, apart from the influence Of the love
of country as an abstract sentiment.
very much of the blood and treasure the
average man is free to spend in defence
of his country, is determined by the
amount of treasure he has in it, be- it
liberty, property. or industry, are not
hi, soldierly possibilities made the more
valuable for national defense by all that
auymrnts his interest in the nations
safety?
Discoveries in war rnrira. oiva to
the discoyprar nation lint d tDnnorarv
advantaup The iron-cIad nn tbn Io,nn.
WA, Formidable only, until annthpr i,nn-
cnd-a monitor could ". buiIt-opd
after that battles of iron-cIaI. u,ar.. da-
tprmined bv wealth of tbp nartip, MAKING
them. The science of war is science
common to all civilized nations The
hest kent secrets Of offensive arm. .r.
d;y,,Irnd 70 tha world ~, ~. +ir,+ I,,ttIo
faId TIL. Lr..cb Ioad.r .tt..tirn -
efficacy, ON one f.Id soon bocon,as +,o
arm Of all ar,nia. National irvnn
tions are not conserved bv patent
rights. France did not ask of Prussia
the use of the patent right of q needle
gun. Her use of the invention was de-
termined by her ability to purchase it in
her own or in foreign markets
While il is true that all scientific dis
covrrv is in some sense the nronprtv of
All science and therefore of all