Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-07-03
PROFESSORS OF AGRICULTURE.

by the popular JluC Nnlch het9 III tnc
direction Of the typical academy and
college, and leaves away off 10 one side
the farm and the workshop. 1t Is
true we have in one part Of our state
one institution Of learning that
processes TO give instruction along ag.
ticultural lines, and as far as we know,
does give instruction in that art. But
this is not enough. Agriculture
which in its full meaning, includes
stoclf.raising and all kindred pursuits,
lies at the foundation of the prosperity
of all industrial arts. It's Importance
demands that the best thought and
effort should be called into requisition
in It's behalf Instead Of our young
people being taught to look upon 1t as
inferior to the professions, they ought,
TO be trained to consider it, what the
father OF his country declared Il to be;
1.-THE noblest avocation Of man" A
writer in the Intermountain Farmer
says that Farming as business has
advanced to that point where 1t is prac.
tically profession" that being the
case the need OF professional training
Is plainly apparent. There is general
and we'll founded understanding that
under ordinary circumstances, farming
in our part Of the country does not pay.
There must be cause for this, and II
Is, not al to be found in the arldity Of
the climate, nor yet in the poverty Of
the soil. Neither in the smallness Of
the holdings Farming Is not what II
yas twenty years ago. Large areas of
of land have been brought iuto cultiva.
tion under the management Of one
hsad; and scientific methods, laborsav.
ing machinery, and agricultural train.
ing, all have been called into reouisi.
ton to secure success. Under such
circumstances II seems folly TO suppose
that an unframed, inexperienced indi.
yidual, with crude old.fashioned tools,
should make Roadway In competition
with the moderu farm methods. II
seems strange to see young men com.
lag among our old farmers TO tell
them how to farm the soil. Son.e
o. our people have grown gray in the
cultivation Of the soil, and now have
no more idea Of the chemical constitu-
ents of plant food than carpenter or a
shoemaker. And they have probably
in many instances never read d line on
the subject, These young men who
have been trained to use their heads to
observe the results Of the labor OF
their hands, or the hands Of others,
astonish us by their Knowledge OF mat.
sprsa at which many Of NC have worked
more years than they are old. But II
we had started where they are now and
added to thai The rich experience Of
twenty OF thirty years, where would
they Ee incomparlson9 Why not take
advantage of the lesson This teaches, and
see 70 Il that the young men who will
be the future agriculturists have just
this sort OF start. Every man whC
Intends to follow agriculture ought tC
be a professor Of agriculture, in tho
sense that young man who intends q
icflow any of the r5cognised profes
sions is a professor. They shonld b'
graduates who have completed q wei
defined course in agriculture in all o.
its branches; unless, indeed, they ex
pect to follow some particular branch
ii which case they nigh. be permitted
20 take special course along that par
ticular line. And In the study of thi
art Of arts, this parent o. professions
Il should not be sufficient TO theorise
PRACTICAL demonstration should be with
in the reach Of Che studens The col
lege from which agricultural student
graduate, should include within its Dor
ders hundreds Of acres OF land, upol
which the learners should be taught 4
labor hard, rs well as intelligently
where they should learn industry u
well as botany and chemistry. Learn
TOO, not with tie expectation OF becom
ing teachers OF the science, but as tn
lawyer learns the law and the docto
medicine and surgery, expecting TO liv
by the practice OF that which he hs
learned, All needless studies ahoul
be eliminated and only such &C are e.
Genital in tie basiness taught.
In this arid region the application {
tine water is science In itself, the a
quiremeut of a good knowledge (
which would richly repay the expend
ture Of years lime The experimel
farms that are being established in va
ious parts of the state would furni'
an opening for these agricultural trail
ing colleges, which might be eventuO
ly rendered self supporting, by lneal
Of the crops that should be saisedther
OF course this wonld mean the acquir
Ipent OF watez and additional land b
AL this could be done If once the pc
80 we're Thoroughly aroused 70 the T.