The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-06

results. They would weary out those
who wait for results. Bussey Insti-
tute. the Agricultural School of Har-
ward University. with Its farm and
seven professors. is prosecuting admir-
able field experiments. Some seventy
experiment It 8tiOns in Germany.
Chambers of Commerce in England.
George Vile in the Jardin des Plants
in Paris, Mechi, Lawes & Gilbert,
Johnson of Yale, and al the expert
mentors of the world. would no doubt
feel well repaid if the combined efforts
Of all together could elicit one new
fact. and firmly establish il. each year.
They Will altogether fail in its rapid
progress. 1t takes ten years at least
a Y President Clark. OF Amherst. ito
establish one agricultural fact.'-Mass.
Agrl. 1928 1872.
Again, the world is in need of accu-
rate observers. Of those who in COM
mon operations of life distinguish be-
tween what they know and what they
think they know. The simplest state
ment an educated a can make of
what has passed under his observation
is apt to be crowded full of his theo-
ries, his differences. It is one of the
last ~attainments of q disciplined mind
10 be able to distinguish the fact from
The inference and to state it clearly.
Lawyers know this. Men like Liebig
know this.
Now. it is hoped that the Agricul-
tural College VIII serve this very pur-
pose. of sending back TO their farms
men who have this discipline. and who
will use it for the good Of the State !;
men who, from their scientific train
ing. from their habits Of observation,
viii distinguish better than they other
| wise could do. Just what it is that they
\ endeavor To tell. They Viii take mois-
ture into account when ,.Iey wei.l,
| will describe the feed from which
/ manure is made when they tell the
| effects OF manuring. and III a hundred
| ways even though not protesting to
| experiment, will be genuine expert
menIers.
There are few students in agriculture
| the world over. We have noticed
| the fact says Louis Boilman. on In
| dustrial Colleges, p. p, OF the small
| number Of students 1T the European
| agricultural schools" Discerning per
| sons saw how it would be. Wilson
| tlagg. in 1857, says 1t is more I'M
! pOrtant to increase the desire for n
branch Of knowledge than the oppor-
1 sutlIItto IOi gaining IL. tuI oiItu
| bourne, President Of williams College.
was for years a member Of tine Massa-
| chusetts Board of Agriculture, then
| President OF the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College. Obliged from i'll
health to resign that place, he was
made President of Wisconsin Univer-
SHY, of which the Agricultural College
is q part. Speaking from his wide ex-
perience, he says There is at present
| (1S69) no such demand for thorough
| agricultural education as is generally
supposed to exist" Very few young
men are willing to spend the time ana
money needed to learn what. is now
known as practical agriculture and
"a great deal is to be done in the COM
munity before IL schools OF agricui-
ture can have the success, which they
even now, deserve" Gov. Chamber
| lain, of Maine, in his message to the
legislature, says a farmers college
is a good and worthy idea, but that
| alone Will not live and move. There
are not enough boys who mean to go
back TO the farm after they have got
through college"