Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1879-11-01

II the report of the committee on
school book, in the declaration OF
principles by the National Grange,
and in The most valuable report Of the
on the State University
and Agricultural College, abundant
evidence that the order recognizes
the Importance of education, and that
it ia one duty of farmers to promote
it.
1t is also evident that the patrons
have utilized in a comnendable de-
gree some of the means of education.
The numerous lectures of the worthy
master and the lecturer of the State
and the lectures. essays and
OF Subordinate Oranges,
and also the very important educa-
tional power of the press, have done
much to enlighten the order Oh many
very essential matters.
But are there not other sources of
education on subjects vital to the
farmer, which we have, in the main,
failed to utilize for the good of the
order? Have we availed ourselves
as we might Of the education OF our
collegiate schools2 Yes, we have
sent our boys and girls to college by
the thousand. True, you have sent
those boys designed for lawyers;
preachers aud doctors to college, and
kept those designed for. farmers at
the plow handle, or sent them to
schools designed to educate for the
learned professions, where they have
acquired a. taste for aud entered upon
those professions. MAR. l,..s. ten.
of, s0ir a q
education, we Grangers are filling the
learned professions with our sdu-
Gated boys, and keeping the unedu-
Gated bows on the farIn to fill our own
profession And now we expect the
uneducated; farmer boy, as he has Il
few lectures from the worthy master
aud the Grange lectures. and reads
few agricultural papers aud engages
in some Grange discussions, to COM
pete with the educated lawyer-bOy III
the struggle for equal laws and for
tho emolution aud favor of the state.
Until the last few years, we had no
colleges save those fitted to educate
for the learned professions aud for
financial and mercantile pursuits ;
aud it followed as q natural couse-
Quenoe that. nearly all the educated
professions, or upon some mercantile
or financial pursuit. oHencelit comes
that the farmers of the country have
| furnished by far the greater and bet
| bet portion of all the law yers doctors,
preachers, merchants aud bankers OF
the country. -s o7igarH TQ! :ayas,i
Herein we find the solution of, onI
inferior position that we are bear
ing the liolf's share of the burdens
aud receiving the ass's share oftht
emolumemts of the hunt:i 7s1 asIETri
Does not this fart show why one
lawyer has more, influence in state
affairs than hundred farmers?
It is said farmers have not exertet
btheir power. But the lawyers and
bankers, Eave. exerted theirs, because
their, ed ducation showed them the ne
cessity of Personal attention to theil
own Interests 7'@'" nA''''D' So
% Aud besides,l even since farmer
have walked up iu part to the. Impor
tance of their public interests, few
professional and financial men hav'
controlled legislation and dictated
candidates for suffrages.N ,isIusEs7i
Is it therefore wise TO- educate on
sou in snch q manner that he viii
join and strengthen the ranks Of thos
who will Oppress the other left OH tn
farmi2 Or is it wise to leave5 tn
farmer-boy uneducated aud thus uu
armed for the coDflicts of life?
We now have an Agricultural Col
lege which will give the education t.
fit him for public life and at the sam
time cultivate his taste for the farIi
and give him that know edge of plant
, and domestic animals and soils, whicl
will enable him to make his farInin!
more pleasant aud profitable.
The present conditions Of farmer
in the various countries of Europ
show, in letters Of gold and blood
the value of the educations gwen b,
: agricultural schools. e Prussia an,
France nave had .hundreds OF agri
cultural schools for the last hundred
years. Their farmers are educate,
aud prosperous, and own large por
ti0n of the land, but IEuglanu an,
+ Ireland have no agricultural school
, accessible to the common farmer:
I who have been uneducated and with
! out the elements of thrift alId powe
! to make money and possess the land
! Poverty is their lot. Thousands an
3 hundreds of thousands can ,neithe
3 pay their rents nor feed their child
9 rem, while the agricultural schools Q
: Germany and France are lwritin
Q their benefits, in happy homes all
golden harvests, the want of agricu
!, tural education in England aud Ire
e land gives a harvest of homeless
;. farmers whose future is preguau
4 with hunger, crime and blood.
q Snoh 10 fho ~ t,.s a
: where farmers are not educated, suct
III fact. is the tendency ihour STATE
: We already bear the burdens, ali
q our farms are passing into the hand
d of other professions. = !
;. Is it not wise for us to educate ou
u sons in the agricultural college, W hi c
= gives the best possible education
/. fit them for the battle of5life. and fc
!; the happy aud prosperous pursuits
!. the husbsndman?
al In conclusion, we would sugget
t the appointment Of the committees
report at some future time to the e,
> ecutive committee. for publication J
l. the proceedings of the State Grang
and in the state agricultural journal
I'll let, committee tn report on tn
ways and means of securing sue
legislation as the interests, Of OF
farmers demand. .rzsr,fs7 -ss
-, I'd, a committee to report on II
ways aud means of securing such a
education for our farmers, especial
N for the rising generation, AS shall be-
p fit them for the more successful .di
charge of the official aud social duti,
of life aud make their farm labo
} more pleasant and profitable.
All of which is respectfully ,su
"a mltted. -,.- E. &. MOORE,
i &C. SWALLOW,
o j. P. M'AFEE,
n 'n.- - w. +. ROBERTS,
te Committee to prepare instruction
m for the delegates of Boone Grange.
Il To the members of the Nilsson
State Grange l respectfully suhn
ii the above paper, and ask that it
re referred to the committee on resol
,s tions for careful considerations
III .,. t...s. :. rfr-, JOHN JONES.
This communication was referr,
,r to a committee and concnrred in.
n The committee to whom was r
AZ ferred the report of the execute