The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-12
Press Notes.

IHE farmers are making great fight
for separate agricultural college and
farm, and deserve to win on the merits
of the case, but they have the biggest
lobby to fight that ever hung around
the state house.-Randolh Herald.
SO long as the agricultural college
remains at Burlington, lis management
will be substantially that of the main
university. 1t needs no argument to
show this to any sensible man aud 10
one at Montpelier or anywhere else
ne d make any mistake about it.-Rut-
land Herald.
IT is urged that establishing a new
college is an undertaking full of uncer-
tanties. So it is. There are sure to
be many difficulties in the way and
failures in many directions are easy,
but still one thing can be said. Ii is
hardly likely that at the end of twenty
seven years any institution now estab-
lished will make a worse showing than
is made to-day by the University of
Vermont and State Agricultural Col
lege.-RWland Herald.
THE latest feature of the agricultural
college question is the proposed COM
this morning. ANY arrangement which
leaves the head and locality of the coll
lege unchanged must inevitably leave
the substantial management unchanged
and would give the farmers little, if any,
advantage. The proposed arrangement
is open to the most serious objections
and would surely result in endless com
plicatiuns aud dissatisfaction. -Rutlund
Herald.
A LAW was passed by the legislature
in 1888 prohibiting the heating of pas
senger cars by any method or heater
other than by locomotive steam, with
out the approval of the railroad com
missioners, in writing, after December
l, 1889. 1t appears from the just pub
lished report of the railroad commits
sioners, that no railroad in the state
has yet fully adopted the improved
to us high time that either the commits
sioners or the legislature should take
decisive action in the matter-St.
JohnSbury Republican.
THE ST. Adams Messenger notes the
fact that there are eighty-seven school
districts in Franklin county and that
the number of teachers registered as in
attendance at a recent teachers insu
tute was 173. The Messenger rightly
takes pride in such a splendid showing
for Franklin county's school interests.
We venture the opinion that under the
old school system such showing could
not possibly have been made. The
present law has already brought those
who have an interest in the work Of
education and are competent, TO the
front, and left the drones largely in the
rear Burlington Clipper.
SOME years ago, President Buckham
of Vermont University, in an address,
asserted that if he had boy who
wanted to be farmer, he would edu-
cate him to be a minister, keep from
him agricultural books and papers, and
when he had finished his schooling, if
he evinced any inclination for agricul-
tural pursuits, he should think he was
born to be farmer. This sentiment
is being brought up against the pro-
fessor now, as an illustration of
the way in which the university has
been wont to encourage and foster the
agricultural instinct in our youth in the
past, and as an argument against
further continuance of the present
plan of spending the agricultural
! fund.-Belloios Falls Times.