Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-14
AGRIcULrURALIsTS AT MADISON.
Ten Days Farmers Course University
Well Attended.

EDITOR CENSOR Madison is full of
sgricuIturalists this week and they are
absorbing a lot of good things Vernon
county sends so far as / have learned,
the followtng Messrs. Henry Call,
Steve Kier and Thos. Nelson, from neaT
Liberty Pole; r. T, Bentson, Viro-
qua town; Michael Rentz and Gilbert
Olson from Near Esofea Others are
coming in and the tobacco convention
this forenoon filled the senate chamber
The first day st four O'Clock in South
hall, Gov. Hoard gave Us one of the best
talks | ever heard him give anywhere.
This greatest dairy editor so far in the
history Of this mundane sphere was one
Of the first in Wisconsin to advocate ag-
ricultural education in the common
schools Of our country. As teaching az.
riculture il county agricultural
school a. VirUSua will be discussed
hereafter will say that Governor Hoard
in his address at Fort Worth Texas,
before the National Farmers Congre g,
started the idea which has led to the
establishment of four county schools in
our state and the teaching Of the ele.
ments of agriculture in the lower schools
OF course the legislet1Ge wall have to
authorize est -blishing such a school and
the county will be required to expend
twenty or thirty thousand for buildings
and to pay a third of the expenses of
running the school Ii is all very we'll
but it occurs to me that by requiring
every bov of proper age in the county to
master Prof James little boob on sgri
culture, and with the practical training
given on the farm, the generation OF
boys now in school will be vastly ahead
Of their fathers in the theory and prac.
tice of agriculture 1t is so easy, too,
and 80 cheap to give higher training
here at Madison in agriculture II may
be the boys after graduating from this
school will be unwilling to do the men.
ial labor on the farm If we establish
a county school of agriculture and do.
mestic science, wonder IL the bov grad
yates will be above cleaning out the COW
stable and pig pens, and If the girls will
be too nice to wash their own linen,
mend their own stockings and wash the
kitchen floor. believe in an industrial
education that will make the boy and
girl able and willing to do the most
menial labor in the best manner possible.
1t seems to be the tendency of all this
high. toned education to raise the boy
and girl above doing the hard, dirty,
commonplace work which must always
| be done by some one and which is so
hard to hire done
As I write this in the senate chamber
they are talking, these giants Of advanc-
ed agricultural thought, Hoard and
Henry, asking for three farmer regents
on the university board Everett sits
near me A paper is read on Shams.
Mining stock is mentioned Everett
| tells me that be has three hundred bur.
led in mining stock. ] am better eff
Never buried but twenty FIVE dollars
that way Hoards talk on alfalfa was
grand. We are being fed alfalfa every
day Prof Henry gave way, yesterday,
TO Joe Wing, the beautiful winter the
Breeders Gazette sends over the world.
Jo is an optimist. He sees the glories
of this cold world and puts SO much of
the beauty and lovliness of what he sees
into his writings. He pictured a great
! farm be visited in France. where alfalfa
was raised. Cultivated 1000 years that
farm was richer than any California val
ley farm. Hoard on IS acres, raised $50
tons of alfalfa, ID can be grown in Wis
| consin everywhere sweet clover grows
Col. Munson told me the governor and
his good wife intended giving us all a
reception at the executive mansion ere
we departed this beautiful city, but our
evenings are all so well filed with lee.
lures and association gatherings no time
remained for the reception This I re.
gret because for quarter century
have heard of Nellie Bliss Davidson, the
cultured daughter of worthy God. fear
ing parents, reared in the sylvan solitude
of the Kickapoo, who is now the first
I s. -. -Az1
how che and Jim" would look in the
executive mansion know Mrs. David
son will leave a good impression on social
live here as she is woman of high char
acter, and Rsv DR. Updyke, who talks
very hsrshly of La Toilette, says that
Jim" Davidson is an honest man
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