Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-02-04

1t the hearthstone than at any other period
IF NV life. learned to think there. If |
I'M in any way entitled to respect now, t"
his and to poverty am indebted. If in
childhood had been led to expect this or
that in or out of college, should have been
Il blockhead. l am really afraid that we
overlook what is of most Importance the
ireside training Of our children. We are
looking to Burlington College ort) llk"
institutions rather than to the home circle
for the education of our children"
Mr. Douglass said: Special training for
farming is rs useful as for other professions.
If wanted to make my boy a lawyer
would take him into court; if Il Etrmrr
to the farm. But l would not send HIM
20 Burlington College, because while he WAS
learning The theory of farming he would
forget the practice.
do not know why it should not be
made public ut this time that the fund APP
propriated for an agricultural college by
the state, has been diverted from the orig
inal intention and applied to a literary in
stitution at Burlington. Prof. Collier,
Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, is IA
professor in that institution. The state
pays him as Secretary of the Board, but
not sufficient amount to cover bis eX-
penses and pay HIM for his extra labor as
such secretary, and this deficiency the
College at Burlington asks the Board to
make up to him from their own pockets.
Now is not this an insult to the farmers of
Vermonts-while at the same time the
College receives $1,000 or $4,000 per annum
without doing anything for the promotion
of Agriculture. They rs an agricultural
institution, so called, have not single
professor not necessary for their literary
institution They should at least allow
our Secretary of the Board to attend to our
interests and to the agricultural interests
during the winter at their expense without
asking help from the private means of the
members of the Board
Mr.. Jameson states that Sec Collier did
not want the Agricultural College matter
discussed, so he had RETAINED from bring
ing it up, and he believed an agreement
was entered into between the members OF
the Board and the Secretary, not to men
ton this matter of compensation, but il
appears to him that when asked what we
want in this connection we might answer
as did the ragged boy who, on being asked
by the rich man what he wanted, looked
ut his torn clothes and answered, Why
pears to me, Governor, | want most every
thing
Practical Illustration is most needed
Thinks the COW pasture of ten acres, bach
of the college, under public pressure tina
something must be done, will be taken by
the Burlington Institution and put in con
dition for horticulture and landscape gar
denng
Mr.. Douglass repudiated the idea of an,
agreement with the Sec etary Of the Board
He knew nothing of any agreement. IN,
if he had he should not have entered int
it, for he believed 1t his right and dut,
before Il meeting of f rmers to give pub
licity to what so nearly affected their in
terests as this matter of an Agr culturl
College.
Mr.. Boyden thinks that if farmers ar
given an equal chance wit the other pro
LESSONS in special education for their call
ing they will not be behind them, and tn
farmers must look to it that the none,
appropriated for their use be not divertet
to the education of lawyers and doctors
Let us take the SS00o or $4,000 and make
beginning for the farmers.