The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-05

agriculture but at the time the acts many years
after most intelligent people, including farmers themselves looked
upon the agricultural school doubtful in education
the Vermont Agricultural College, everywhere else
were with the general student body The Agges
upon decidedly inferior students of arts of science
engineering when the University of Vermont old and we'll
established institution took the State Agricultural College,
through sympathy with the ideal of agricultural education
through any agricultural college part of the
university Agricultural College and the students lived for
atmosphere which the preudces of trustees of
faculty andmo aof students directed against them 1t
not surprising that this situation the trustees should lend them
selves to policy that enabled them to build up the parts of the unve
sy they really agriculture meagre
this situation has undergone ansforma
ton during the last ten fifteen To-day the applications of
science agriculture to stock raising to farm machinery have all
be recognized subjects capable of being taught in college,
Agricultural education from being neglected stands much
danger Of becoming fad and of suffering impractical and unwse
exploitation for the next quarter of century In states of
the union the agricultural college has developed close connection with
the industries of agriculture and thereby has brought to its support
the farmers of the state that it wieds not only large political
influence but obtains thereby state support This has not
yet happened in Vermont true that the Agges longer
looked they but the resulting change has brought
about difference of policy to the spending of the large fund
ceved from the general The Agricultural College remains
in the starved condition in which has existed since its oun
daion
practical obligation present
higher education that policy upon
the function of the Agricultural College, and that hen the
second place. the college shall be adequately supported
Shall the function of the Agricultural College boys
in the technique their vocation such they trained
in the agricultural school at Lyndonve shall its function be to
develop scientific agriculture Vermont? Either of these fnc
tons defensb but they cannot both be carried simultaneously
Our experience of fifty years in agricultural education goes show
that trade school will not university atmosphere and that
the real function of university college of agriculture is the
ton of scientific agriculture and the maintenance the time
right relations to elementary agricultural The
the greatest function technical college
agriculture the development of fruitful and stimulating relation
with the farming industries the which stands To be
close touch with the agricultural problems of the state deal with
these problems by the best that science affords and the
fruits these Investigations by simple direct and feasible methods
the hands of the farmers themselves the greatest function
that such an agency perform.
In order play this role the State Agricultural College must have
adequate support That state should be receiving the
federal government large and that it should under these
circumstances, its Agricultural College position
it neither effective for education scientific expert
mnt situation that ought to continue longer Whether be
not that the legislation enacted by Congress makes legal the
expenditure of the United States grant the trustees
choose certainly neither the the credit
to receive this grant the general and
for the upbudng of miscellaneous departments of instruction the
the primary for which the appropriation
wealth should insist that fair proportion of the United States annual
grant shall into agricultural instruction and should supple
this by such effect the contact
between the agricultural school and the agricultural industries
which not within the provisions of the grants made by the general
government