Secretary's Budget. 329 



There are cooking schools being established in several of the 

 states, where it is hoped that those girls who have not such advan- 

 tages at home will be benefitted. Perhaps it will then be said of 

 more as it was once of a departed wife. 



Her husband had very little education, and when asked to 

 write an epitaph hesitated as to which of her many virtues to select. 

 He finally decided on this : "Her picked-up dinners were a per- 

 fect success." 



Besides being a highly approved employment, cooking is a pay- 

 ing one. Some distinguished cooks in our country receive from 

 83,000 to 87,000 a year. And be li remembered that one may be 

 a good cook, and at the same time excel in other ways. 



' ' We may live without poetry, music and art. 

 We may live without conscience, and live without heart, 

 • We may live without friends, we may live without books, 

 But civilized man cannot live without cooks." 



One thing remains to be said on this my subject, which is 

 within my reach, and that is this : Women can write essays for 

 horticultural meetings. 



EDUCATION ON THE FARM. 



One of the most absurd and mischievous errors of the day, it 

 is truly asserted, is that of the father who gives to the son destined 

 for a farmer an education inferior to that he bestows upon the one 

 destined for a profession. The husbandman deserves a better edu- 

 cation than a lawyer or a doctor, because his occupation requires 

 the exercise of more knowledge ; but it is too generally the case 

 that he is only allowed some snatched intervals between the crops, 

 " to learn to read, write and cipher," and that is deemed education 

 enough for a farmer ! What a wretched, miserable error is this — 

 what a foe to the improvement and dignity of the class ! It ought, 

 it must be banished, and the practice which results from it abol- 

 ished, and a wiser and better one substituted. The farmer hiis need 

 of a better education, and he actually requires the aid of more 

 various branches of science in his ramified operations, than the 

 member of any profession ; and I sincerely believe that if any 

 discrimination should be made in the education of two sons, one 

 destkied for a farmer and the other for a profession, it should be in 

 favor of the former. — Ben Perley Poore, in American Cultivator. 



