Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-20
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
More Suggestions from Judge Lind1ey
samples OF Advertising-A Subject
for general Consideration.

EDITOR HERALD:-You were kind enough
to print an article from the h,dustrialtst the
paper OF the Kansas Agricultural College
and you having thus favored the industrial
side of the question, propose to tax you a
little further in the same direction, by print
Ing in the body of this communication, some
advertisements, taken from the same paper
They are more emphatic direct and practical
than any thing could write. These adver-
tisements speak, trumpet-tongued, to the
farmers and meehanlcs-to all classes who
have sons and daughters growing up in idle
ness, or who have graduated with genteel
education, but without practical capacity to
earn living. II we cannot find Professors
capable of carrying their theories to the field
and shop and teaching their application then
do as Americans always do in an emergency
grow them-train them-make them-im-
prove them.
Kansas State Agricultural College. A
Thorough and Direct Education for the farm
orchard, shop and store. Tuition Absolutely
Free!
English Language. The direct aim of the
course is to- make the student skillful in
handling the machinery called language, just
as an engineer handles his locomo i've. Drill
In English, History OF English, Structure OF
English, Study OF Words and Rhetoric. Con
stant practice i'll the class room, and, if de-
sired, at the printers cases.
Mathematics. Practical, direct and
thorough drill in Arithmetic, Book Keeping,
Industrial Drawing, Algebra, Geometry, Trig-
onometry, surveying, Mechanics, Engineer
ing. Work In Field with Tape Line, Chain,
Compasses, Transit and Level.
Gardening for Profit! Instructions apd drill
In Kansas Horticulture. The Nurser0 0Orch-
ard, Vineyard, Vegetable Gardening, Flower
and Landscape Gardening. Kansas Forest
culture speciality. Seventy acres devoted
to exp .rimental apple, pear and peach orch
ards, Vineyards, Nursery and Gardens.
Farming for profit! Special courses in Kan-
sas Practical Agriculture. Simple Tilage,
Farm Implements, Comparative Physiology,
Stock Breeding, Mixed Husbandry, Rotation
ofCrops, Manures, Feeding and Buildings.
! 1856 Acres used by this Department. Constant
| Drill In Farm Work ami in the care of Devon
| Shorthorn, Jersey ana Galloway Cattle; Essex
| Berkshire, Lancashire and Poland China
| swine.
Special for Woman. Physiology and Spec
ial Hygiene. Special Lectures on Farm Eco
| nomy, By Prof. Shelton-the Dairy, Poultry,
| etc. Gardening, By Prof Gale-vegetable,
! nower, commercial and ornamental. House,
| hold Chemistry, BY Prot, Kedzie-the chem
istry of cooking, bread, tea and coffee, butter,
| cheese, dying and coloring, bleaching, disin-
| tectaDts, ventilation etc.
The College Farm Keeps constantly on
| hand and for sale, specimens of Shorthorn
Jersey, Lancashire, Berkshire, Essex Swine
and Devon Cattle Address, +. NJ. Shelton,
| Supt Farm.
Mechanical Department. Regular Instrnc-
tion and Practice in Carpentry, Cabinet Max
| ing, Turning. Scroll Saving, Wagon Making,
Blacksmithing and Painting. The Depart
ment is well equipped with tools and ma
| chimes for the students use.
Printing! Printing! rinting! Daily In
struc ion and Drill in IL work OF First
class Printer. The Lilerary Department offer
| thorough education in tue construction and
use OF the English Language, as employed by
| the Proof-Reader; In bookkeeping; and in
| industrial Drawing, as the best developer OF
that Taste necessarily exercised by every
good job Printer. The Printing Department.
is well furnished with all the facilities for a
speedy mastery OF the art of Printing, and Is
| in charge of prattical printer. Besides regu-
| lar class instruction in printing, the weekly
publication of the Industrialist by the De-
partment furnishes advanced students the
| requisite drill in newspaper work.
Telegraphy Four miles OF line, twenty in
| struments, and daily instruction and drill,
| by an experienced operator, in sending, re-
ceiving and office nc counts, reports and book
Keeping. No charge, except for blanks, say
So. Special course of lectures, by Prof. Ked.
ze, Oh electricity, battery, etc.
What farmer In Los Angeles county would
not rejoice, II he could order from the Prof OF
Agriculture in the State University Shorl-
horn, Lane ,shire or Jersey;a Marino, South
down or Coswold and know that the blood
was pure and price reasonable guaran-
teed by the high character Of the Professors
and of the University.
Perhaps our influential Board of Regents
who are mostly on the theoretical side OF this
question and the local-high-toned interests
about Oakland may successfully resist the
Incorporation OF these industrial heresies in.
to the University Of the State of California,
II SO let us have the Kansas plan In the
Southern part of the State.
There is no Solution of the problem of,
"What shall we do with our boys''-and girls
except by Industrial education. The sooner
the people and the Regents recognize this
fact AID grapple with 1t, the sooner the boys
will cease growing to be hoodlums.
10 my next will endeavor to give more OF
an original article in the way Of a review OF
the plan of the Changers College as presented
In their published work.
G. LINDLEY.
Monte Vista, Oct. 18th 1875.