New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1910-08-20
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.

AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.
Fortunately for our country, W.
IposSceS nm uncXamplcd area o
a,ablc lands that have brought tn,
country up from lis two mlIIlon
Of people III the days Of l716 t
the ninety millions Of people
IN 1910 IN u practically un
interrupted career Of lndustrla
ISucrcsS At the same time, we ar'
now beginning to feel that the
avaiIahIc lands have all been sole
ana are occupied 10 II greater oI
less extent and that the time ha
! now come when all Of our people
must cndcavor TO secure from SIcI
resources rs they have greater re-
suits than in the past and ~ 10 Ill
rcrtion docs In S follow more apt
| " than II agriculture. Half &
century AGO the little Red School
houses. that have been the founda
| ton Of the culture Of the Amer
lean people followed entirely th,
old academic lines Of teaching, tn,
So-calied humaniticS being II the
aSccudancy aud scientific study ol
research being a matter of mlnol
consideration. IN small village
| 4 l. | = y Z
here and there among them ~
Academy would crop out with The
rtrht 10 grant degrees. All ol
| this was very excellent ns lonl
rs il lasted. but that great trcnitl
Of scientists. Charles Darwin. John
Tyudall and Thomas Huxley. who
occupied the intellectual world
during the Sixties. effected u rev.
olution that is stll going on, I'M.
It'll even eur highest seats If learn.
mo are becoming Indifferent M
some degree to class eal learning
and they are MI determined upon
the EXTREMIST efforts in the dircc
ton Of scientific research and this
has advanced our industrial wealth
by leaps and bounds beyond any
thing previously known in the h s.
tory Of the world.
} In our country with n corn crop
now to be harvested Of three thou
sand millions Of bushels, worth ap-
proximatcly two thousand millions
Of dollars. we can readily see what
n great effect upon the national
wealth such industrial education
would have rs might inereasc these
two thousand millions of dollars
five. or ten or twenty per cent. us
we learn can readily be done, it
requiring only the knowledge OF
the fact, and the time ITO reach ~
changes necessary to perform tho
work in better manner.
Throughout the United State
agricultural schools and agrl-
cultural high schools are being
developed, which cannot do
other than vastly to i'm.
prove cur knowledge and our ia.
dustrlal results and to do this with
a rap.dity without precedent In
the past. We arc red. however, to
think that Europe is slow in these
matters. more conservative and apt
to plod along in the rear of the in
dustrial procession. We read
however, IN the Wall Street
journal that France has now for.
ty-five thousand agricultural
schools. with little plot Of
ground adjacent to each, where
boys are taught how to make
things grow. It. is incidentally
stated that it is no wonder the
French people are able to save
five hundred millions of dollars
annually to invest in the securi-
ties of other countries. 1t will be
recalled by those familiar with the
events of 1870 that when Bismark
demanded his famous ransom Of
n thousand millions of dollars
from the French people it was at
once subscribed and over subscrib-
ed by the French people. the mon
cy coming from the farmers OF
France, whose accumulated wealth
was surprise to the modern
world. Isl
The agricultural school is an
industrial educational develop
ment since the days of Louie
Napoleon and the fall of Sedan
and vet we see that conservative
France has already (,rty-five
thousand Of these schools.
The State Of Louisiana through
its agricultural university and
Agricultural Experiment Stations
is rapidly developing throughout
the state this same agricultural
sentiment and we beleve that the
time will come, and perhaps SOON
er than we expect. when we in
Louisiana, with the vast natural
resources that we now have, avail
ed of as they then will be with
all modern agricultural knowl-
edge. shall present to the world a
community richer than any other
known IN its actual as well as in
its possible agricultural produc-
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