Milford chronicle., 1883-08-01
The Model Farm, Ontario.

Joaquin Miller in a letter to the New
York Star from Ontario, says:-The
Province pays $4,000 year to MAIN
tain a school for the practical education
OF farmers. This institution turns out
annually from 200 to 300 well disciplined
and splendidly equipped men to take
charge Of the most important, healthy
and altogether honorable pursuit on
earth. We in the States are accustomed
to think if a man IS fit for nothing else
he can settle down on farm and get on.
| We have made the farm the last refuge
Of the tramp. They here are making
the farm the first place for the true
| gentleman. And this is right Wiring
! the necks of sweet and simpering clerks
and counter-iumpers, whose highest
achievement is to tie double bow be-
fore glass. Oh breath his perfume
f you like, my lady, but don't make him
a darling in preference to the manly fell
low who after his fashion is a creator of
fortunes and a builder of worlds. We
must have one of these institutions in
every State of the Union, a dozen if
necessary to dignity and make easy and
intelligent the Office of the farmer. The
trade of war is out of date, the LAWYERS
office is of doubtful calling, for what
does it give to the world in return for its
bread? The doctors place is hardly de-
sirable for a refined nature; but the Ca
nadians have decided that the farmers
hold the world on their shoulders and
are standing truly by them. They have
in the Dominion more than
eighty association devoted to the Gull
ture and development Of stock and grain.
This Province of Quebec has an institu-
ton not widely unlike that of Guelph,
Ontario, only on a much smaller scale.
[ did not visit this. but am told that it
is conducted entirely by a lady. The
Province pays So 1000 bounty toward its
As against them we have
)nly little to show except the school in
Michigan. Yet it is true that we have
many Institutions that profess farming.
But fear they do not practice it as at
his Model Farm. OF course I cannot
inter- into detail or attempt to digest the
Jig book making up their annual report
n this plan. But I may say as cardi-
al idea that they seek to be solidly
severely so; to keep the feet
the students set down firmly on the
ard earth. They ignore Greek and all
Ich nonsense and try to teach common
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ere by a good deal. Each applicant
iust be at least Is years old, must be
sound morals and good health and
lss a very severe matriculation exam
alton if not graduate of the many
gh schools of the country. So YOU
e, as a rule, only well born and well
ed young men can be admitted. The
.pense to the student is merely nomi-
j now, al the institution, by the sale
fine stock and the production of its
0 acres is almost self-sustaining.
outed with delight at their little farm
dogs. Such a pretty lot of puppies
milling over each other, barking.
lpiug with delight to see a stranger, I
yer saw. This cultivation of dogs
lst be scheme of the French part of
, dominion, for their dogs at home are
numerous almost as their children.
d that is setting dogs down pretty
ok among the French can tell you.
ear that such thing as a mad dog is
known among these people. Is it be-
lse they are kind to their dogs?