Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-29

on grasses and forage plants, forests and for
age trees, formation and use Of peat and
muck, birds and Insects Useful aud hurtful,
farm animals aud principles Of stock breed
ing, 30 lectures. Mr. G. G.. Priugle, of
Charlotte, probably the best and most thor
ough and intelligent practical horticulturist
in Vermont, will give ten lectures on fruits
and fruit culture, especially as adapted to
the climate Of Vermont, hybridization, bud
ding, grating, &C., besides which there will
he FIVE lectures on the principles of drainage,
road making, and bodybuilding, by Prof
Barbour farm accounts, by Albert Chap
man, Of Middlebury &C., &c. We hope the
farmers of Vermont will manifest such an in
terest in these lectures that they may be fol.
lowed by similar courses in future years.
Now, will not the young men of Vermont
those who are to be the representatives Of
the farming class in few years, avail them
selves of the opportunities which they have
close at hand2 Farmers are sneered at by
the professional" classes as an ignorant
herd, and when they demand that some, at
least, of the lawmakers and officials shall DO
chosen from that class who till the soil, they
are met with the assertion that there are no
farmers qualified to fill tho higher Offices |!
While we deny this false charge most EN-.
phatically, claiming that there are plenty of
farmers in the state who are capable Of fill
ing the highest positions with honor and cred
it, and we believe there are as many such
men among the farmers as among the pro-
LESSONS, VIC must admit that the proportion
Of able aud intelligent farmers is smaller
than in some other callings. The farmers,
however, are waking up as they never did
before, and we trust that one of the signs of
the times may be an increased demand
among their sons for higher education.
Let our agricultural college be filled with
students fiom among the agriculturists Of
Vermont, as well as the other branch Of the
institution is now filled with students from
other occupations, aud the next generation
will not witness what we see now,-most Of
the offices aud posts of honor filled by law
yers who may possess equal ability but do
not possess equal honesty and integrity. We
make this last statement advisedly. The
business of the lawyer is such as must make
him policy man. His business is to de-
feud his client, whether right or wrong, and
to leave no stone unturned to via his case
Necessarily, he must half Of the time be
working against right and justice. Does
any one believe that lifelong experience OF
this kind will tend to make man more vlr-
tuous aud moral2 Thea, brother farmers,
in the name of dedled and polluted nation
al government, in the name of country
cursed aud over-ridden by an aristocracy Of
lawyers and professional men, in the name oil
humanity, while using our powers to right
the wrong SO far as may be by securing more
equal representation of our class in public
offices, let US take advantage of every means
at command to raise the intellectual stand.
ard of the farming community SO that in the
next generation there may be not only as
many intelligent men among the farmers as
among other classes, but as many in proper.
ton to the number Of persons in each pur'
suit.
Next week we may speak more at length
of SOME of the objections which have been
raised against tho agricultural college.