The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-04-15

W.. President and Gentlemen IF tie
Iunscihe anil PIurent CuLs-We are
honored by your presence. We feel
that such gatherings of the farmers of
Maryland are of mutual advantage to
Institution and guests. AS farmer
of Maryland-as one greatly interested
IN the practical cultivation ofland, and
as President of your Agricultural Col
lege, welcome you here to-day. 1t
has occurred to me that it would not
he out of taste to dip into the future
by the aid of the present tendencies,
and get view Of the coming farmer in
the United States. \ contrast in
practices will be an interesting study.
We cannot hope ever to get rid of tEe
indifferent method in any age of life.
Our only hope, as our Entomologist
tells us in regard to the SaE Jose scale,
is to minimize the trouble. The COM
ing farmer must be the creature of the
outcome of the present tendencies of
the times. The most marked ci,arac-
teristic of the times is the desire to
know the cause of things. TO discover
natural laws, to know them not so
much for the practical value they are
to give, but rather to know them be-
ca,.,s: thy cX.s. When Nrwtons at
Jen;,.,i ,,a> ai;..;. Il hN the falling
apple, and incident comm III in itself,
and of no practical value, it gave rise
to a line of thought Which CAV. birth
to Dmr> of the most momcntous truths
which have dawned upon the world
since his time When Archimedcs
taking his bath. caught the method of
the solution Of the problem with which
he was wrestling, his joy, which made
him obivious of the impropricty of
rushing into the street in an informal
way, did not arise from any conception
Of the most practical value OF the natu-
raj law that he saw, but rather his
Eureka was based upon JOY which
the dawning of a natural law upon his
mind invariably gives lover Of truth
for it's own sake. When Benjamin
l.. IL, l,;o e.,
ment. chained the thundcrbolt of heav-
en-. he did not see our present rapid
transit or the incaEdesccnt light. The
fact of liqnifying air does not give to
the chemist who has recently accom-
plished it the prescience to see the vast
economic possibilities which may arise
from it. The practical applications of
the NRays are just beginning to he
evident.
The coming farmer is to be Il genus.
based upon his greater or lesser appre-
citation of this class of men They are
pure theorists We need and need
badly pure theorists. Enthusiasts who
love truth, simply because it is truth.
who are not concerned with practical
ends. In other words. men who ar.
engaged in writing up the laws at the
base of all nature When this is done,
the practical application of these laws
becomes comparatively an easy task
The biologist, who is concerned with
the characteristics of life: thl Zoolo-
gist, with the general laws Of all ami
NAL life; the Entomoogist. with the
characteristics of insect life; the Eco.
nomic Entomologist, pregnant with the
laws Of life, the laws of insect life,
comes to the practical side OF the ques-
tions prepared to give birth to facts of
great practical value, with modesty
and an unObStrusiveneSS characteristic
of those votaricS of natural science,
such as Ara>siz Drawn, llclmotz