The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-10

novel or the still more pernlclOuS ones
of the sensational weeklies. The hero
committed some daring deed which our
boys long to initiate, and in fact some
times do; for these stories, one and all,
relate either to the wild adventures
among Indians, pirates, and despera-
does, or the exploits of highwaymen and
vagabonds. -
If we do our duty in these matters,
the coming generations of farmers will
be reading men, and as reading men
they will be strong and earnest sup
porters of schools; and they will in
sist upon good schools. Good district
schools will greatly increase the desire
for more knowledge than they can i'm
part; and thus will grow up constitu-
ency for agricultural and other indus
trial schools, of higher and higher
grades. 1t is sad thing to say, but it
is true, that the reason why we have
no efficient agricultural school in Yer
mont is that too many of our farmers
in the legislature, on two distinct occa-
sions, voted against it. 1t was the
farmers vote which twice sustained the
University in its grab of the industrial
college fund. 1t must be so re-
corded in the future history of the
state; and it will be sorry record for
our posterity to gaze upon.
OUR good brother Cheever, of the
Ne,o England Farmer, does not con-
tribute as much to its columns as many
of us would be glad to have him do;
but it is all meat. We turn to his
column the first thing, and are never
disappointed. How much good sense
there is in the following remarks, which
he makes to young man in reply to a
question as to probable success in the
study of veterinary medicine: CSC Shall
be successful as a veterinarian l
cannot tell. No one can, but, judging
by what l see in the world around me,
1 should say that if you are an easy
learner of technical words and their
meaning; if you rather like mechanical
work; if as boy you always wanted to
do everything you see or hear of others
doing; if you have had such sympathy
with unfortunate domestic animals that
you have patiently nursed the sick,
have bandaged the broken legs of
calves, pigs or chickens so nicely that
the breaks have become sound; if you
have been willing as farm boy to sit
up nights in cold winter weather with
prospective mother sheep or swine to
see that their young are kept safe and
warm till strong enough to look out for
themselves; if as professional prac-
titioner you can cheerfully answer calls
at any hour of the day or night in any
kind of weather to go any distance re-
CURED over winter snow banks OF
through spring mud; if you can have
the same sympathy for the suffering
patient of the poor man who may never
be able to pay as for the animal of the
wealthy owner who pays at once with
no grumbling; if you can realize that
however much you have learned there
is far more that you don't know; if you
can honestly acknowledge it when you
are in doubt, and finally, if you car
self-sacrifcingly instruct your patrons
in the management and treatment OF
their animals so that they can KEEP
them healthy and thus be able largely
to dispense with your professional
service in future,-I should say that you
would make very useful veterinarian
and you would be popular in any place
you might choose to locate. 1t is from
men of this class that the world obtains
its inventions and new discoveries in
the science of medicine, if indeed med
cine can be called science, which al
PRESENTS an open question"
SUCH veterinarians certainly would
be in demand, for competent ones are