708 BOAKD OF AOHICULTURE. 



fariut'1-s. is it wrong to say that uioin;.r occupies lirst place now? Yes, 

 we work for money now. They worked for money then. What was the 

 money used for then? The education of the boys and girls. What Is 

 the money used for now? The education of the boys and girls. Never 

 was it considered more necessary than now to educate them. Never were 

 people more interested in having large farms for their children. Is the 

 purpose the .'^ame as in earlier days? They are educated and still they 

 leave us. Where lies the fault? Are they sent to colleges and universi- 

 ties in order to be better men and women? Are they constantly reminded 

 of this fact? Or is it all for the position they may occupy? They may 

 then, with all their lauds and leai-ning, be on an equal with the aristo- 

 cratic Mr. lioran's sons and daughters. Formerly education was given 

 for the good they might afterward do. They were educated to be a help, 

 also an ornament, to the home. The moral, mental and physical side were 

 all considered. Money and position occupied a place further down the 

 list. Let education still continue, but let it be for a nobler purpose than 

 money and position. What are they but an empty bubble? 



"Great fortunes steal off In the night." 



A horse is made no better by being kept in a cabinet made stall, fed 

 from a marble trough, and fitted with silver trimmed harness. So with all 

 other crops on the farm. But the boys and girls are tienefited by being 

 surrounded by an atmosphere which will benefit them physically, men- 

 tally and morally. 



"If we work on marble it will perish, if we work upon brass time will 

 efface it, but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with 

 principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we en- 

 grave on those tablets something which will brighten all eternity." 



'THE POETEY OF FARMING." 



BY J. S. ROSEBERRY, DEPUTY. 



[Read before the Scott County Farmers' Institute.] 



The title of my subject seems to indicate that apiculture or bee- 

 keeping belongs not so much in the realm of the necessary and important 

 as to that of the esthetical— the beautiful in agriculture. 



As a matter of fact, however, it belongs to both, for while bee keeping 

 has been called "the poetry of agriculture," and perhaps correctly so, it 

 has also a practical and profitable side. 



It has been said by writers on the subject that the amount of honey 

 gathered and stored as compared with the amount wasted or left ungath- 

 ered is as one to one thousand, or, in other words, only one pound is saved 



