40 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Agricultural College and learn what you desire to learn. If 

 professors are not to be found, it is time we had them ; and if 

 we do not begin wo never shall have them. But create the 

 demand for such professors, and as soon as the demand is made 

 the supply will he forthcoming. And therefore I do not believe, 

 as has been intimated, that we cannot carry on the college 

 because there is nobody adapted to it. This would be an argu- 

 ment against all progress and improvement in anything. Just 

 demand of the people what you want, and they arc ready and 

 able to furnish what you desire. I think this will be done with 

 regard to teachers and lecturers, in what relates to agriculture, 

 as it has been done in other things ; and therefore, Mr. Chair- 

 man, I hope the work will be begun where it has been said 

 to-day it ought to begin ; and then let it go forward under the 

 guidance of the best minds of our Commonwealth, who are 

 always willing and ready to aid in carrying forward such a work. 



I think the allusion made to Mr. Mann was well-timed. He 

 awakened among the educators of this State a spirit that has 

 done much for our schools ; but since Mr. Mann passed away, 

 those who have followed him in the care of the schools seem to 

 be resting, as it were, on what he inaugurated. We need at 

 this day another Horace Mann to go into the field and inaugu- 

 rate a system of improvement in our schools, to suit them as 

 well to the present wants and demands of the people, as they 

 were originally suited to the wants and demands of the people 

 at that time. I trust that this point will be urged. 



Further, Mr. Chairman, with reference to the difficulty of 

 getting young men to engage in agriculture, which was touched 

 upon by the president. He stated part of the difficulty, but I 

 do not think' it was all. He says our young men have rich 

 lands open to them at the "West, and they go forward and occupy 

 them as soon as they have exhausted the land here. That is too 

 much the case ; but, Mr. Chairman, there is still another 

 difficulty, which was touched upon by the last speaker. He said 

 that men arc better paid in our banks and in our offices of all 

 kinds than they are in the work of teaching, or would be in the 

 work of agriculture ; therefore the young men leave the farm 

 because the talents, capacity and culture that they get will be 

 better paid in these other avocations. The question has often 

 been put: "Why do our young men- leave the farm?' ; I 



