The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
I. N. VAIL WRITES
Governor CLEMENT
Says Boys Should Have IN
stitutional Education
In Farming d,
AGRICULTURAL
SCHOOLS NEEDED

state Should Maintain as Many as It
7 Properly Can-Wouid Not Like to
See the Property or School Deterio-
ate In Usefulness.
Following is the text of a letter from
Theodore \. Vail to Governor Clement
regarding the agricultural school
February, q, 1910,
/ Dear Governor Clement
In reference to our conversation OF al
| few days ago:
b 1t seems to me that the great oppor-
tunity for Ner1nont's future hes in her
rural industries fruits, vegetables andI
dairying. There, is no state in all respects
superior and few equal to her in posi-
bilities. Of this kind. either from the
| standpoint OF production or marketing.
You may we'll see all over the. state
the evidence of its one time position in
1 rural prosperity before Eastern agricui-
Itnre had to bow its head to the over
| production of the new and virgin West
| and cheap transportation.
The past as well as the possible future
lis evidenced by the still existent fine
old farmhouses and out buildings with
& The. well cultivated park-like fields, both
i valley and side hill You can also note
i signs of a return of that old-time rural
i prosperity The readiustment that has
taken place, the building up Of great in
4 dustrial centers throughout central New
England, the concentration of population
have created consumption which il pc
culiarly absorptive OF home grown prod
/ ,cts. and in no place in the world can
home grown products be produced equal
to those OF Vermont, and no part OF the
/ country has such access to those markets
j as has Vermont yermont's rural in
dustry has great future.
: Rural industry has, like all industry,
changed to intensive production under
, advanced scientific methods aided by me
/ ehanical appliances These arc necessary,
that each unit of human effort put forth
shall be infinitely more productive.
: The old-time methods are no longer APP
{ Iplicable Rotation and soiing with home
/ produced fertilizers viii not meet mod
crn requirements any more than old time
: methods will satisfactorily produce paper
. on cloth or gas or any other commodity.
!. In the olden times the professional man
e acquired the knowledge TO follow his pro
) fession in the working Office of some one
!. ! in that profession The boy learned his
n trade through years Of apprenticeship
tools were simple and to master them
took time and work. The farm bred boy
could learn at home all that was needed
Now the machine does better and quick
I er under the guidance acquired BY only
7 a month or SO OF training than the jour
t neyman would do after years OF training
4 If at all TO get the best results from
, the soil, tho nature Of the soil and ths
: crops to be raised have to be intelligent
8 II considered To raise vegetables o.
J. fruits III these days there is a multitude
y of pests. parasites, blights and disease:
4 to contend with which were unknown
e in the olden times. All OF these are in
'et hidious and have TO be combated by IN
n telligent observation and precaution O
1. cared for by its particular antidote. Nm
c. FOR old time conditions there were NJ
r better methods than old time methods
{. new time conditions must be met BY nov
y. fmcthods.
l. These new methods cannot be learne,
te at home. In the first place TO intelligent
j. II use them, more than mere manual o
| mechanical doing must be known; to in
i. telligently apply them the why's an
t. wherefores must be known. In any PM
.. Of wasting time in movement from on
n piece OF work to another or from on
b. part of farm 10 another, method an
30 lsystem and intelligent planning are {
e. 1.-The greatest Importance The hardes
r. worker often-tines accomplshes the leas
Lack Of system costs labor; carelessnes
~ and waste destroy the efforts of labo
r. 1t is. not the amount of work done BIT
r thc way it il done that produces result
90 It takes less effort to do anything pfope
~ ly than to do it improperly, but to d
,e. it properly requires study and experient
cf as to the best methods
IS Ali or any kind Of education, is to fin
ng out that which has been demonstrated ;
u true by others and to learn how to III
~ it To get all our knowledge as to no
ed to do things through our own experience
as il most wasteful OF time, in fact imposs
$. bic. :
nj In considering this matter of a2rict
ng tural schools there must be full apr
Is citation of the differences between scho
m and college The agricultural college
leI necessary to train teachers, investigate
OF and those who need by situation, fina
ed ciai ability or inclination want to tai
m tie advanced course but for those vi
z want to or have to get at their life wor
"a the school is necessary to teach in Il
= shortest time and IN the best manner {
he 80 : :. i, - &c.
-. - enable them to intelhgently do. the wol
=. =, and also train them i'll the habits Of 0
H. H. plieation, Of system and method in ord
- that the work may be done in the me
The e', ~ MANNER " ~ .''e ''Ao.s
ep- leief = 10 lhope'i' iiuiissts tnse ,,.
on survive II ~ were not iof lhteiliss
ex- supervisor and direction. 81 tue WORK
The INDUSTRIAL estaohsnmer there IS at {
the head q highly ,tralres mayer ASSIST
Ike by trained experts Gu lie very lar
law farms more or less the same c1nditio
nd can exist. consequently the direction
ose to how to do things can be separat
ton from the. workers Who can do 10 wo
.a1aclar lircet ian ,xitE- Lass training >