Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-06-27
Agricultural.
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A correspondent having inquired Of DR..
Hoskins of the Watchman about the alleged"
agricultural college Of Vermont, the Doctor
replies in an article Of column in length de-
nouncing as a fraud the use OF the fund grant
ed to the Burlington University for the estab-
lishment and support Of an agricultural and
industrial college, for the purpose OF an in
stitution conducted substantially as are all lit
orary and scientific colleges We are with
out doubt, not in possession of all the facts
that might bear in defence Of this charge.
Doctors Of Divinity, of Law and Philosophy
arc not usually considered less sorupulous
than others in the use Of public trusts. 1t is
fact for which, perhaps, the college itself
is not alone 10 blame that II is and has been
very short of agricultural students Without
such students il is difficult TO make II the
leading object of the college to teach such
branches Of learning as are related to sgri-
culture and the mechanic arts, il that is real
ly intended or desired by the college mana
gers. Yet the act of Congress under which
the fund was granted by the state of Vermont
TO tho Burlington University makes no ap.
preparation for any college except those in
which the Lading object shall be to teach
such branches of learning as are related to
agriculture and the mechanic arts. The act
of Congress donating to the states a portion
of the public lands for agricultural and indus
trial colleges provides that the income of the
fund thus acquired "shsll be inviolably ap.
proprated by each state which may take and
claim the benefit of this act, to the endow-
ment, support, and maintenance of at least
ono college where the leading object shall be,
without excluding other scientific and CLASH
cal studies, to teach such branches of learn
ing as are related to agriculture and the me-
chanic arts, in order to promote the liberal
and practical education of the industrial class.
Is in the several pursuits and professions of
lfe."
That Vermont has no college where the
leaiiRg object is to teach the branches most
related to agriculture and the mechanic arts
is too evident. It is true that a small per
cent of the $4,000 which the Burlington
University has received as income from the
agricultural college fund has been expended
directly in the interests of agriculture by the
employment of DR.. Greasy to lecture on the
diseases of animals, of Prof. Atwater to lect-
ure on agricultural chemistry, and of few
other lecturers, and in the printing and dis
tribution of few agricultural tracts, includ-
ing President Buckham's very good advice
about the training of George" who propos.
os to be farmer. Making an extremely lib.
eral allowance for the cost of all this, there
remains say $4,000 which the college has
received for the benefit of practical industrial
education, for which 1t has very little or moth.
ing in that line, of leading character such
as the act of Congress required from the COL
leges thus endowed, to show.
When, undor the law passed at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature, the farmers of thia
state wanted few samples of fertilizers ana.
lyzed, there was good opportunity for the
college to use a trifle of its agricultural in
come for Legitimate purpose but the col
lege thought IL ought to be paid $25 for each
analysis, and the ungratefal state provided
that the University of Vermont and Stats Ag-
rioultural college should receive So for each
analysis made under the provisions of the act,
which was accepted in consideration of the
$4,000 annually received from the sgricultu-
raj college fund.