Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-02

branches, and were. prepared to expand
and develop them in proportion as the
| demand for this one or that one asserted
itself. We took especial pains to invite
young men into the agricultural depart
ment. President Angel went to'the va
rious county fairs, and set forth with
his persuasive ability, the opportunities
which the college afforded to those who
desired to pursue the sciences bearing
upon agriculture. Preparation was
made for special course of lectures to
farmers who could leave their homes on
" during the winter months. But we
have never had any students in the agri-
cultural course. Explain it as you will,
this is the fact. 1t is not because Yer
mont young men have preferred to go to
some other agricultural college that has
an experimental farm attached to it, for
this is not the case Our experience
does not differ very much from that of
the other agricultural colleges. OF strict
! ly agricultural students, the colleges
have had very few in any of the Eastern
States. Our other departments have
been. successful. In the departments of
civil engineering and chemistry, our work
i and its results in the men we have sent
forth, will bear investigation. We are
not satisfied, and we never have been,
with the deficiency in the agricultural
department. We have come to the con-
clusion that some other plan than that
originally devised, must be found for
utilizing to the State that part Of the
fund whichwe are bound to administerin
theinterestso of agriculture. Westill think
That those who are looking forward
to farming as a pursuit, could not do
better than to combine the practical ex-
perienee they get at home with the scien-
tiffc knowledge they might get at the.
T college, according to our original plan
in. their behalf But so long as the idea
prevails among the farming class that
scientific knowledge and thorough edu-
cation are of no use to a practical farm
.er. we must eontrive some other way of
beneftting them than wehaye yet found.
This is matter that we have under
anxious. discussion. We shall always
be glad to receive suggestions from
farmers themselves. .-..-.-...s
Gentlemen and ladies, have exhaust
ed the term allowed me for addressing
you, and have hardly begun 10 enumer-
ate the opportunity which the farmer
has formaking life successful and happy.
| have paid you the compliment of
speaking plainly, and ! hope that you
: have taken it kindly. l have wanted
most of all to impress upon you one thing
j, that your mode Of life has in it, more
t blessing, more possibility of good than
! has yet been attained or even appreciated
by most of you. If it were not for run
ming too close. upon the sermon, which
r / promised to aye,j. / should remind
r yon that where ''lail,a IS given much
! will be required Everything seems to
me to be now hopeful for the farmers
! Of Vermont. A progressive spirit IS be
: ing awakened The younger men, some
! of them, at heart have come to see that
farming will pay in the East as web as
= IN the West, if Western enterprise ear
only be added to Eastern economy, anG
. they are making up their minds to stay
at home and infuse young blood into tht
system of farming. This is all that
! Vermont needs in order to be the frs
f agricultural State inthe Union that the
a enterprising young men should stay
3 upon the farms, educate themselves il
the science of farming so far as it is ;
4. science, and make every farm in Ver
:, mont good enough to live on and die on
- There is no better place to live in an'
y, there is no place nearer heaven to die il
! than Vermont. And no man under God
blue sky has fairer chance both fo
earth and for heaven than the Vernon
farmer. ..-. ..-. ...-..
, After the address which was conclud
II ed about 4:30 p. m, n foot race cam
/ off on Park street. The following per
I sons entered for the race David Bar
sss ber, E. Bucchan, Justin Goodrich
q Charles Fitzgerald, Charles Ronda, Mel
: son Papanau and Joseph Duclan, Th
e purses. were $40 for the first prize anC
: S5 for the second. All started and onl
= four came in. Nelson Papanau mad
y his mile in four minutes and fourteen
- seconds, winning the first prize. Davi
" Barber came in second, six seconds later
: = winning the second prize.
IL Great merriment was excited at th
~ ~ close of the foot race by a creased pi
- race. Poor piggy had hardly fai
chance as he was captured before he ha
= fair start by Richard Lyons, wh
ID found him rather slippery 'sbird' t
in capture.
10 The attendance during the afternoo
: was immense, and the streets at tt
u time of the races were literally packed
r. No such attendance has been known b.
G. fore, we think, at any OF the fairs
e. this association. ".s
il- .s-..s-s Is. THE HAIL. ,.--,.-. ~ (.
r During to-day many additions we
- made to the floral and mechanical di
- play described yesterday. In the sho
~ of vegetables there were many. addition
al III the hardware department Messr
! Stafford s. Phelps showed the Metr
o., politan cook and the Shining Light pa
"A ior stoves. Miss Josie Hewitt had ma
as large additions. to her stock of MILNE
an and fancy goods. Her show of flower
ho ribbons, laces, feathers and bonnets W
os by all odds the most complete here, al
81 could hardly have been surpassed in I
- State. E
of The Brandon scale works showed tn,
Of usual splendid assortment of goods
lar their line, the best perhaps that COT
AZ have been made by anyone. 4.
- Several other exhibitors and intere
,he ing articles are omitted for lack of spa
5,e in which. to describe them.
6ai.1 In the later evening the Sherm
+, Band offered a serenade, to. Mr.!