Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-02-04

Not only was there lack of any program teaching
agriculture but at the time the Morrill, acts and for
after intelligent people, including Themselves looked
upon agricultural school doubtful education
of the Agricultural College, everywhere ee
student body The AggeS
looked decidedly inferior to students of arts of science of
engineering when the University of Vermont old and we'll
established institution took the State Agricultural College,
through sympathy with the ideal agricultural education
through have agricultural college part of the
university The Agricultural College and the students it lived for
atmosphere which prejudices
faculty. of aof students against them It
surprising that in this situation the trustees should lend them
policy build parts the
which they really believed to devote agriculture
In this situation has undergone TRANSFORMED
the last fifteen years. To-day the applications of
science to agriculture to stock raising to farm machinery have all
subjects capable of being taught college,
Agricultural education being neglected. stands much
becoming fad and of suffering impractical
exploitation for the next quarter of century, In states of
agricultural college developed close
agriculture thereby has brought support
the that yields not only large political
influence thereby support not
yet happened the "Agg" longer
about difference policy the spending the large fund
the The Agricultural College
the starved condition which it has existed its
dation.
practical obligation the present
time higher education that clear policy
to the function of the Agricultural College and that then the
place. the college shall be adequately supported
function Agricultural College boys
in the technique Of their vocation such they
the agricultural Lyndonve
develop scientific agriculture in Vermont? Either of these
tns defnsi but they cannot both be carried simultaneously
Our experience OF fifty agricultural education
that trade school will not university atmosphere that
the function of university college of agriculture the
ton of scientific agriculture and the maintenance the
right relations elementary agricultural training
second and the greatest function technical
Of agriculture the development of fruitful and stimulating
with the farming industries of the state which
touch with the agricultural problems of
these problems by the best that science affords
fruits of these investigations by direct
into the hands of the farmers themselves the
that such perform.
In order to play this roe the State Agricultural College have
no
federal government large and that it should
circumstances starve it's Agricultural College position
it is neither effective for education
mnt situation that ought continue
true not that the legislation enacted Congress legal
expenditure of the United States
choose it is certainly neither the state
to receive this generous grant the general
for the upbudng of miscellaneous departments
expense OF the primary for which the
BY every consideration efficiency pride
wealth should insist that fair proportion the United
grant shall into agricultural instruction. supple
men this income by such contact
between the agricultural school and the
of