The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-03

plus crop. with improved cultivation and
improved soil, North Carolina may be-
come grain producing State, as is
New York today.
''At the bottom of all prosperity.
whether agricultural, commercial or
manufacturing is intelligence, and the
great instrumentality for producing in
telligence is education. Go where we
may, on this wonderful continent. we
find d maximum Of education with n
maximum of wealth and prosperity.
Massachusetts,, alarmed at the prospecr
of textile industries in the South, main
tainS two textile schools, besides half
a dozen institutes of technology, scores
of industrial training schools and thous-
ands of free public schools wherein are
furnished the rudiments of industrial
education. New York with the best
butter and cheese factories on the con-
tinent spends fifty thousand dollars an
nually in conducting experiments in but
ter and cheese making, in the breeding
and feeding of stock, in fruit mad gar
den experiments and in agricultural
tests. The old five hundred acre farm
upon which Ezra Cornell, fifty years ago.
could scarcely make a living, now bios
SONS like Il garden and is a model of
culture and fertility in every crop that
the climate will permit. The great city
of Philadelphia, the foremost manufac-
turing city of the continent, maintains
School of Industrial and Textile Art,
wherein are specially skilled workers,
designers, and managers, in every line of
decorative and manufacturing industry
In going from Toronto to Chicago, one
rides two hundred miles through almost
endless fields of grain without getting
out of sight of house. 1t is an old,
thickly settled country. The soil is
thoroughly cultivated and kept at a
high state of fertility by intelligent cul-
ture, fertilizing, and rotation of crops
/ have never seen more beautiful agri-
cultural country In the very heart of
it is the finest agricultural college on
the continent. For twenty years the best
varieties of wheat have been tested side
by side at this college, and three varie
ties have stood at the head of the column
during this entire period. During the
present year over hundred varieties of
wheat were tested side by side. The
same tests are made of everything that
is grown in Ontario. Over five thou
sand farmers in Ontario cooperate with
this college in making experiments on
their farms 1t is no eNaggeration to
say that the Ontario agriculture at
Guelph is the very heart of the wonder
full agricultural life Of Ontario. When
l was there the whole country was sui
fering for lack of rain, but intelligent
culture had largely supplied the place Of
rain and prevented the failure of the
crops.
There is great mission for our
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
The day will come when North Carolina,
from the mountains to the seashore, will
be one endless chain of poisoning
farms, orchards and gardens, set like
gems with busy cities and towns; when
the loom and the spindle, and the forge
and the anvil, and the reaper and binder
will sing together the sweet song of
wealth and prosperity; when the
thoughts of every mind, and the cunning
fo every hand, and the longing of every
soul shall be cultivated in thoroughly
equipped schools, supported, esteemed and
cherished by the State. In this greai
work the A. and NJ. College Will do its
part 1t will hope to combine ultimately.
within itself the equipment and the
training Of great agricultural college
like that in Guelph, Canada, of great
textile school like that in Philadelphia,
of a great mechanical college like the
Massachusetts, institute of Technology,
and of a great experiment station like
the New York Experiment Farm INT
Geneva"