Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-22
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.
A Fair View of the subject, by IA Vernon
Farmer,


Farmer.
EditOr Of the Manchester Mirror:
What was and is understood by
the mass of the people is that the Agricul-
tural colleges were founded and endowed
for the special benefit of farmers, and it
was expected that anxious throngs of far
mers' boys would crowd the college halls,
and in two, three, or four years come forth
from them clothed, so to speak, with the
science of farming, and almost without
exception enthusiastic and eager with the
desire to engage in that honorable though
rather laborous occupation, and by both
precept and example show the old plod-
ders a new and easier way through the
paths of science to an agricultural millen-
mum.
But sowhow the farmers boys have not
Crowded to any great extent and when
such us did come graduated from the Ag-
ricultural college most of them did not
seem to banker after farming to an alarm
ing degree. but took up other occupations,
mostly the less laborious kinds of manual
toll.
From these results the farmers feel that
in some way they have been cheated and
defrauded, because their Agricultural
college did not graduate farmers, as II law
school turns out lawyers, or a medical
school doctors, and the teachers are
blamed, and fault found with the meth
DDS of teaching ; but have yet to see
course of study marked out by any of the
fault finders to take the place of those
| they condemn.
In the first place, the institutions called
agricultural colleges, and provided for by
act of Congress OF July >, 1862, belong no
more to farmers, and, are 50 far as the act
tho,' u ,ba ~, ,,' to ,Inl,e rnrnenteTs black
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