St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-24
NOTES.

Facts are what farmers want in
matters of agricultural education,
not wild theories, or untried prlnci-
pies and laws. The government has
filled that want in the esta blishment
of experiment stations. There by
careful scientific investigation the
cries are proved either useless or
valuable and the farmers are given
the benefit of those experiments.
(Long live the experiment Stations
The general drift of agricultural edu-
cation is to belittle physical labor
under the absurd idea that only
brains and science are necessary to a
farmers success. Certainly those
are very important factors, but the
young man who buys farm and ex-
poets to pay for it from the products
of the farm and uses nothing but
brains and science will find himself
minus quantity, financially. Brains
and hands must work in unison.
Introduce science and culture in agri-
cultural life, the more the better, but
in so doing, don't make manual labor
degrading.
Speaking of education and farmers,
it seems as if there was something
wrong in educational systems gener-
ally. AS long as man has an appe-
tite for food so long will the tillage
of the soil be necessity. But where
are the boys? the tillers? The gross
receipts of the average farm do not
exceed one billion dollars annually.
The chances of common farmer be-
coming president of the United States
are somewhat narrowed. So we see
many of our youth hustling up the
ladders of wealth and fame in cities
and villages. They are deluded by
tender teachers into supposing that
by simply placing themselves in the
current of human events they would
by little exertion become immensely
famous The little fellows have too
long been taught how much they re-
semble Daniel Webster and how
sometime if they study real hard
they will become great like Daniel.
The peculiarities of Webster's brain
have been kept, as they properly
should have been, profound secret.
He had brains. By this simple pro-
cess the world is filled with profess
sional men of the fourteenth class,
by merely discouraging the humblest
callings of life. The development of
the muscular powers by position and
honest labor is considered vulgar.
This is a mistake. A boy who might
not be possessed of the mental requi
sites for becoming a Webster or a
Vanderbilt, could so WELD a barn
shovel as to become the owner of a
pair Of Bingham shirts.
The trustees Of the State Agricul-
tural college have made arrange
ments for conducting a dairy school
the coming winter. The school will
begin Monday Nov. 80, 1891, and
continue four weeks, devoted entirely
to the subject of butter making. The !
object of the course is to instruct |
butter makers in the newer methods |
and fine points of fancy butter max
ing Says the school circular:
The instruction in this department |
will be given by Mr.. H. B. Gurler of |
De Kalb, ILL.,, who owns and oper
ates four large creameries, running /
six separators and handling in the |
flush of the season, over forty thou
sand pounds of milk in a day. Mr.. |
Gurler has made careful study on
large scale of the principles and prac-
tees Of the economical handling of
milk. and in his home creamery is
getting the largest yield of butter per
hundred pounds of butter fat in the
milk delivered, of any creamery in
Illinois, and is selling his butter at
the top market price. There are few,
if any, butter makers in Vermont,
who cannot get valuable hints from
Mr.. Gurler.
A new dairy house has been built
at the University, furnished with all
the modern apparatus, incident to
dairying, and with special reference
to this school,
Considerable time will be devoted .
to teaching the students how to test
milk and cream, how to detect skim
ming or watering, and to test their
skim milk and buttermilk to see how
good work they are doing. No /
charge will be made those who at /
tend, so it will not be expensive to
dairymen, and is an opportunity
which ought to be improved-$25
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