The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-15
Editorial NOtings.

In connection with the great Food
Exposition to be held in Madison
Square Garden, New York, October l
to 81 next, the Food Manufacturers
Association (under whose auspices the
enterprise has been promoted) has con-
ceived the idea of a national exhibit of
butter and cheese; also miniature
stock-farm and nottingham diaries
will be shown, producing milk from
Jerseys, Guernseys, Ayrshires, and
Holstein- Friesian cattle. The products
of these animals will be manufactured
into cream aud butter by the represen-
tatives of some of the best known fancy
farms near New York. A premium
list is in course Of preparation, which
is intended to be so equitable and COM
prehensive as to induce all makers of
choice dairy goods to exhibit their pro.
ducts in competition. A board of jurors
of national reputation will be appointed
to pass on the exhibits, so that those
fortunate enough to win certificates
will receive guarantee of commercial
value which can be obtained nowhere
else. The butter and cheese makers of
the country can thus obtain in New
York the certificates of competence
which they have so long desired. Fur
Their particulars may be learned by ad-
dressing Daniel Brown, secretary of
the Food Manufacturers Association,
Pierce Building, Hudson and Franklin
streets, New York.
The Engineering Magazine, referring
to industrial schools, confirms what
has been so often insisted upon in these
columns-that daily practice must go
along with daily instruction in the
classes. 1t says: Gone of the things
which should be taught in technical
schools is this: That theory without
practice is absolutely worthless COM
modify; that practice without theory
is worth about SIS dollars week, and
when both are we'll combined in one
man of sound judgment the combina-
ton is worth up to $4,000 year. Let
the mechanic, however, get his practical
training first, and those who find ne
cessity for technical mechanical educa-
ton should then take the technical
course. A machinist at SIS week
when compared with mechanical en-
gineer who, for nothing, works under
instructions in draughting-room, pre-
sents practically respectable appear
ance, and his chances for substantial
advancement are fully as good. Few
graduates have the courage to do the
dirty work necessary to begin to get a
sound practical training"
A GREAT reason for this is that i'm
mediate practice fixes the theoretical
teaching firmly in the mind. But this
is not all-nor even one-half. While
the youth is learning, his body is grow
ing and the firmness and soundness
of its structure in bones and muscles,
in sinews, nerves and brain, are deter
mined at this period of life for all their
worldly future. During this growing
season mems bodies are being adapted
to their work. What these bodies be-
come between twelve and twenty-five
they will substantially remain during
life. To the man who has to do bodily
labor, how immensely important it
must be that these bones, muscles and
nerves should be trained and developed
by suitable exercise. And what more
suitable exercise can the young me-
chanic or farmer have than in working
at his trade in a practical way, while he
is gathering in the book knowledge that
is the record of what men have learned
in the times past?
BUT almost all the teachers in indus
trial colleges-especially in agricultural
colleges-are even fiercely opposed to
such an arrangement. They bring for
ward not one sound reason against it,
but all with one accord oppose it; and
the practical men at once begin to sus-
pect that cir chief reason lies in their
own incapacity to teach practical agri-
culture, horticulture, the care of farm
animals, or the correct use of the i'm
plements of the industry whereof they
call themselves professors"
PROFESSOR A. j. Cook says, in the
Tribune: GAS l have often urged, there
is no substance so excellent to kill in
furious suctatorial insects as kerosene
emulsion. 1t is quick death to lice of
cattle, hogs and horses, and to sheep
ticks. 1t is easily made and very cheap.
Many stockman is thankful for hav-
ing learned of this insecticde for stable