AN OLD-STYLE FARM 



Is the Congressional grant for agricultural 

 colleges to work a change in this belief in the 

 minds of those who hold the great mass of 

 the land under control? Not surely until the 

 newly started colleges shall have made some 

 more vigorous practical demonstration than 

 they have made thus far. The bearings of 

 science upon agriculture were well taught pre- 

 viously under the wing of the established uni- 

 versities; what the public had reason to hope 

 from the new endowment was such practical 

 exhibit of the economic value of a thorough 

 system in tillage and management, as should 

 carry conviction to the popular mind. As yet 

 we wait in vain. Looking at results thus far, 

 I am strongly of the opinion that a few thou- 

 sands devoted to the gratuitous distribution of 

 one or two sterling agricultural newspapers 

 would have worked more good to the farming 

 interests of the community, than the rnillions 

 which have been committed to the wisdom of 

 the several State legislatures. I have no hope 

 that these views will meet the concurrence of 

 those who have present control of the funds; 

 nor do I mean to express a doubt of the hon- 

 esty and good intentions of those who have 

 become the supervisors of this great trust; 

 but I am strongly of the assurance that the 



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