The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22

lectures, they will return to the FARM
and on the same amount Of clever which
their fathers used to grow 500 pounds of
live pork, they viii raise 1000. So
much for learning that clover belongs to
the bean family and knowing Just what
1t IS made of. You can easily see now
why some people want another agricul-
tural college and would be glad if there
were ten of them to be supported by the
taxpayers of the state. But laying our
jokes on the table, l will not DO under-
stood as sneering at the learning of the
schools or lacking in appreciation ofthe
sciences which the Investigations of the
learned have created. The sciences
have done service in promoting the pro-
gress of agriculture. They have solved
questions for the farmer that could not
be solved without the aid of the sciences.
They have demonstrated for him the
fact that underground bran is worth
more per ton as food for stock than the
old-fashioned burr-ground bran. A
chemical analysis of its constituents
proves that the roller bran contains a
larger proportion of flesh, and conse-
quently milk-forming elements, than
the other. They have demonstrated the
comparative value of skim milk fed to
calves and pigs, and the comparative
value of the several foods of farm ami
mails, based on their constituent ele-
ments as shown by chemical analysis.
To sheer at science would show a want
of sense. Not to acknowledge our in
debtedness to the aid of science would
be unmanly.
AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION NECESSARY.
Some facts in the feeding of farm ami
mails and the profit and loss of feeding
can only be determined by long series
Of experiments made with great exact
ness and aided by science. For this
purpose the experimental station is nee
essary. But one central college of ag.
riculture and an experiment station
with a competent corps of professors,
would be sufficient for the whole United
States. The facts determined and the
discoveries made can be sent, by the aiC
of the printing press, to every farm il
the Union. But it is convenient tt
have an agricultural college and expert
ment station in every state. The oblec
being the progress of agriculture, they
are brought into closer contact with the
people, and are made to feel their slim
ulating influence. The state can afforC
one agricultural college and experiment
farm, but it has no possible use fo
more. And, Notwithstanding all tina
can justly be said in praise and appreci
alton of the aid of the exact sciences tt
agriculture, the best place to learn tn,
art and the common science of farming
and how to manage a farm SO as II
make it pay profit, is with goo(
farmer on his own farm, who manage
his farm to make money by his farm
ing. An agricultural college farm neve
has been and cannot be run to make /;
money-profit on its farming, because it
object is to teach, and not to make mon
ey. To sum up the case against nev
agricultural college, we have these tire,
important facts:
First-That the general education o
our youth is literally and abundantly pro
vided for, present and future, by ou
| government system of common schools
Second-That our college of agricul
ture and experimental farm in connec
ton with the State university is fully
equal to all the demands that can b,
made on it for teaching the so-callet
science Of agriculture.
Third-That Wisconsin farms are tn,
best possible places to learn practical
profitable farming and good wages cal
be earned there while learning.
The only unchallenged argument il
favor of establishing new agricultural
college is, that it will afford fnumerou
soft places for interested parties at tn,
expense Of the taxpayers.