The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-08

This is q bill to establish a separate
state agricultural college. It was intro
duced by Mr.. Adams Jan. 20, and was
killed by decisive vote. The following
article on the question was originally
published in the Western Farmer, Madi-
son:
The AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
To THE EDITOR I'VE don't need an
other agricultural college. When say
we am speaking for large number of
farmers besides myself. I have con-
versed with them and know what am
talking about. The place to learn farm
ing is on farm. The young man who
has decided to make farming his life
work had better go to one of the best
farms he can hear of, and hire out to a
farmer who can and does make farming
pay. And next year let him hire out to
another good farmer, and so on till he is
sure he understands the business and
can make it pay. That is providing he
cannot learn good farming at home on
his fathers farm.
A woman who has taken in sewing
for couple of years to support her lazy
and drunken husband says it is surpris.
ing that the Board of Health has not
had her indicted for maintaining a
nuisance"
A young man who intends to follow
farming for q living wants the same
mental training and culture that young
men do who adopt other occupations
and professions. Mental training in
creases the brain power. Education de-
velops and strengthens the mental
faculties. 1t is generally accepted that
the better the mental training the great
er the success in any vocation. A good
education will help man to be a more
successful farmer. But it is the sheerest
nonsense to think of educating, in a
flock, the young men who want to be
farmers. 1t would be wickedly destruc-
tive of their good to do so. Let them
have the benefit of being schooled with
the young men who will become me-
chanics, merchants, spectators, engin-
GERS, preachers, lawyers, doctors and
statesmen.
| There are always greater or lesser
number of brainy young men in oul
| schools and colleges, for which a farm
furnishes too narrow a field for their
mental powers. Men of smaller ca.
opacity are mentally stimulated and i'm
Iproved by daily contact with men O
large active brains. 1t would be a rea
damage to shut out young men who Car
| find a sufficient field in farming for theil
mental powers from contact With thu
men who are destined to fill the highel
, places in civilization. Our sons, and al
young men who want to be farmers
ought not to be shut up together ant
educated in so-called agricultural col
lege.
II Let them have the same chance a
the doctors, lawyers, preachers, editors
. mechanics, merchants. spectators ant
II engineers. Let them enter the list
with them in the same schools in al
open field and fair fight. IF you wan
J to dwarf the brains of farmers, educat
them in separate class in a farmer
{ college and you will most surely sue
i coed.
II The amount of scientific agricultur
that can be taught in an agriculture
college is very small indeed. w. A
Henry, professor of agriculture of th
: state university, is one of the very bes
e professors in the United States. An
b | all he knows or can tell of scientifi
$ agriculture could be printed on on
lsheet of the Farmer. Pref. Henry