The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21

UllIIico luz puoE PVvP'S ~ 800. -IN .
than enough on an ordinary plat OF
ground in the country. But the wholly
dependent classes have not yet been
able to make the move--they need
charity. State or national assistance 20
move them, and when they are msved
to the country they do not need 70
have their children Immediately re-edn-
Gated back to the cities. There Is
really almost as much OF necessity
, for restrictions to keep people out OF
the cities as there is to restrict undesir-
} able immigration. Large state or
governmental farms should be estao-
lished to which the dependents should
be invited to go and kindly and gradu-
ally introduced to farm work. have
tried the experiment successfully my
elf.
Scientific farming" is all well
enough for the well-to-do farmer, or
the experimental city millionaire. The
average poor farmer, and the whole
list of poor people seeking farm life
anew, have no Justification for any at
tempt at scientific farming straight
out, common or horse sense all that
is needed. Every thing nowadays has
| to have some scholastic application
given it to make it appreciated, and
| farming seems to be one of those
things. The man who is studying up
the science of soils and the application
CT fertilizers to them, while the con-
tents Of his barnyard, his hen roost and
hog-pen are washing their substance
down the creek, is merely supplying
by science what he lacks OF common
sense and applicable muscle. 10 60
to an agricultural college to get an
agricultural education is the sheerest
folly for the farmers boy Any boy
raised on his fathers farm unit! 81
years old, should know all that need
be known, and if the governments ex-
D. rilnent stations amount to anything,
he should have for the employment of
his evenings plenty of scientific read
ing free.
Boys who 60 to agricultural colleges
rarely become farmers Why is it?
SIMPLY because they are not even
taught agriculture to any extent,
much less taught how to hoe, plow and |
swing an AK. They are taught TO be-
come athletes. dudes, clerks, or any,
thing but farmers, and they become
just what they are taught to be, sure
enough. In this State we have Nc
Donough school, founded by an old
man whose strait-laced char
would draw upon him the
jeers of the dude graduates of his
school, were he now alive. He founded
a school where boys were TO be taught
practica al farming. For few years
they were taught it, and now the
school, to keep pace with times, makes
n profession OF agriculture, but turns
out as proficient set Ct base ballers,
cigarette smokers and dudes as any
college could desire. All the boys, too,
are Of poor class, who are expected
to support widowed mothers or them
selves when thrown on the world.
In the days of Napoleon, the indus
trial troubles that hung over France
were worse than ours new are. Ma
poleon, although a soldier, was farmer
enough to see that the people needed
the pacifying occupation of agriculture
to quiet them and give them elbow
room. He decreed that the masses
should go to the land; they went. and
they have staid there pretty we'll until
recently, and they have proved the
backbone of France in every emergency
Of war and debt. They have been hap
Ply and prosperous-the French peas
ants home has been the envy Of travel
their contentment has been
proved by the fact of their never emf
grating. Some of the leading French !
and writers are now confess
ing that the same educational democrat
zation prevalent in this country is now
at work in France, with the same re-
suits toward overstocked cities and dis
masses.
Who is responsible? Everybody. We
are a nation of insinceres. inconsistents
es. Our educators do not
EDUCATE us practically; our ministers do
aot make us sincere and honest; our
of course, play only for their
points; our press sanctions only what