Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-11-25


the meaning, as to soils. THEN you can take
your place among the learned, and your wife
and children will look up to you as some
body
a deep and absorbing interests now felt
among the farmers Us to how they are to edu-
cate their sons SO a$ to make farming sue
cess, and to enable them to use all the bene-
fits resulting from a thorough study of
science
Those who have graduated at the agricul-
tural college have spread a greater interest
for a general education of all.
Let our district schools be elevated and inn
proved, and made what they should and
may be. And we urge as one Improvement,
almost indispensably necessary to the farm
ers, that there should be, and must be de-
partnent devoted TO agriculture. We can
discover no reason why it should not form a
regular branch Of common school education,
nor why every college and academy in the
State should MT have their protessorship
devoted to agriculture as distinct branch Of
study and education
/ II there anything in the subject that pre-
cludes this? Is there any difficulty in re-
ducing to a regular science, and Of SO arrang
ing and classifying its different branches, as
to permit it being made Il part of the educa-
tional process Of the young? think not;
but on the contrary, agriculture is a science,
possessing in all its rarnifications, distinctive
features, is governed BY fixed facts and ul-
erring principles, which the young farmer
should ss'garn by study and close application
Of his mental faculties. They sholld be en-
graVed on his mind when it isyoung and
plastic, and capable of receiving and rctain-
ling impressions, and this subject may, i'm
intredsIc slistaicHschoo
tlie State, Withous any detriment to the
branches now taught III those schools, and
! without interfering with the regular course
Of common school education.
Much reelection has satisfied my own mind
az the great importance of the subject. I
regard it as an essential step towards the
elevation Of the farming interests, a neces-
sary Ingredient in lifting up to their real
/ position the farmers of this country.
The State has been benefited in her school
funds, but the farmer has not as yet had his
full share of the benefits accruing from them.
He has been scontentto look on listlessly,
and let other classes reap the harvest which
4 his own industry has provided. Let him
noN arise from Lis letharggy and bring this
! subject before every Grange, and petition
4 the Legislature to SO amend the common
schdol law that there shall be taught agri-
culture in the higher classes Of the district
schools of the State.
Itseems to me that the farmers have d
right to use a,portipn of the money which
i belongs to them to advance their own call
i inc; not, indeed, to tear down or prejudice
Others, but to elevate their own business to
the dignity of science, to be taught and
learned inthe schools of the State. J..
Bradford, an Farmers Home Journal
THE TOTAL amount Of flour and grain on
handin the State OF California, Oct. lst, nc
a cordihg to the reportof the Secretary Of the
I san francisco Produce Exchange, was
i 80. 800 bbls. Of flour; 5, ,450, 200 centals OF
/ wheat; l,4sO,OO0 cantals of barley; 114,500
II centals Of oats; 10000 lcentals Of corn
1 $50 centals Of rye.
/ The Bulletin says Exporters still think
\ we shall have 4, 900, 900 tcentals for shipment
I abroad, over one-third Of which has already
j gone forward, and there will probably beless
i tban 2,o0O, 900 centals left for export in the
4 last half of the year.
4 An ENGLISH correspondent of the Garden,
London, has high praise for Snowflake, one