Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-24

not one Of them is . college graduate
Perhaps ought to state here what
l mean by educated" in this connection
1 mean BY it, possessed Of competent
knowledge Of the scientific facts which
form the basis Of successful agricultural
practice, and familiarity with what IS
being done all over the world for the i'm
provement Of agriculture in its various
branches. l include also q knowledge
Of mechanics sufficient to enable one to
comprehend the mechanical principles
embraced in farm work and the various
farm machines now so generally in use.
This, in my view. constitutes an educat-
ed farmer. He may. and doubtless will.
have q much wider knowledge than this
on many points, since agriculture touches
on its various sides the confines Of al
most every science and every art, and
the mind. once fired with the love Of
knowledge. will not limit itself entirely
to any speciality. In my opinion the
training best adapted to form the mind
Of the young farmer. opens the door not
only to learning in his single branch,
but puts him on to . road that. if follow
ed. will develope the man with broader
and fuller culture than any mere CLASH
cal or high scientific education, uneOm-
bined with applied knowledge, can pos
sibly give
The fact that so many Of our success
ful educated farmers belong to two pro-
fessiOnal classes, physicians and egineers,
is a curious one, and one that has to my
mind the power OF explaining why the
education Of our higher schools and col
leges units men for the farm.
The truth is, that it units them, Of
at any rate does not 6t them, for those
two very departments of life. from which
our educated farmers come. Our great
est physicians and our greatest engin
GERS are not eollege-bred men. And Il
the medical classes the foremost, so IA
as a pretty extensive experience connect
ed with medical college allows me t
! Judge. arc not the classically educated
men who come from the literary colleges
Medicine IS distinguished from th
other professions except engineering
by being not only science, but a prac
teal art. Physicians have to be skille
> manual operators-their science is a
: applied science-and in it their hama
are educated equally with their head
: Without this manual education, whic
! gives Us not only the tactlfs srltdGt1ls-
the educated touch" upon which sue
> stress Is laid by all successful medic;
u educators, but the educated muscle ;
d well, 20 physician can possibly sueeee
in the practice Of his profession {
IS has to learn the science of chemistl
l. and apply it to practice in the COZ
i pounding Of medicines, the examinati'
fe of the excretions and secretions Of b
: patients, and in the cure Of cases
II poisoning, and their detection, when {
s. consequence Of criminal acts. He b
lr to learn the science Of Botany. and a
70 ply it in the selection and study of NE
u icinal plants, and not unfrequently
n their culture. He must, Of course, stu
al the science Of zoolOgy-the science
animated life, not only as exhibited
on men, but in beasts, both in health a
al disease. He has to cultivate his obse
w. ing faculsies-his perceptive faculties
zee in this science to high degree. in or
Vi to reach any success in bis busine
ols He must cultivate these faculties so {
me in multitudes Of instances he can
LIN what Is the matter with sick man,
IS a sick beast, the moment his eye liz
IND upon him, by the way he stands, ";
the or lies, by the contour Of the muse
iese or the expression Of the features.
d as He must be thoroughly conver'
leir with scientific and practical uechar
for since be has to do with the most pei
rim and wonderful Of machines, the HUI
ical body, and is obliged to know (an'
'Ols, ready with the knowledge at none
New notice upon mechanical principles :
Bos- must be the nature Of an injury
hus- fractured or disloeated bone. and :
e Of mechanical principles and instruu
IN must be applied TO remedy the evil
and He must understand the scieuc
city physiology. which embraces that
oun- important knowledge Of the func
heidi Of digestion and assimilation Of foo
for which all animal bodies are built VI
hem, supported,-with the nature Of thei
the rangements. a. well as the rem
rain therefor. In short, the education q
, the physician Is Just that combination {
ufac- scientific with the practical viii
given to no other profession, much
what to the mere classical students Of
Is It colleges. tlt.t
M The same IS true to less exter
4 "a the special education Of the civil
e de- merit IS from beginning to ent
{ the application Of science to practice.
tuaI work in the world
But it is vastly different il
three other great professions, Div
-. Law and Teaching What does t
-. vinity student ever learn 70 DO vi