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Vol. 9. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y.— JANUARY, 1848. 



No. 1. 



THE GEIVBSEE FARRIER: 



Issued on the first of each month, at Rochester, A'. Y., by 

 D. D. T. MOORE, PBOPRIBTOR. 



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Agricultural Education. 



A PEW weeks since we spent several days at 

 Milledgeville, where tlie Legislature of Georgia 

 is in ses.sion, and was highly gratified to see all 

 parties favor a bill which appropriates $2,500 a 

 year to found and sustain an Agricultural Pro- 

 fessorship in the State University. There is good 

 reason to believe that this bill will become a law. 



We have just returned from a visit to Colum- 

 bia, the capital of South Carolina, where we 

 attended the commencement of the flourishing 

 College under the presidency of the Hon. W. C. 

 Preston, one of the most gifted and eloquent 

 men now living. A young gentleman is now 

 fitting himself at Geissen University with Lie- 

 big, to teach agricultural chemistry in South 

 Carolina College. This institution receives an- 

 nually .$24,000 from the State to pay the sala- 

 ries of professors, and has 240 students. 



It is cheering to one who has long urged the 

 importance of studying agriculture as a learned 

 and most useful profession, to find so many States 

 willing to foster this branch of knowledge. The 

 agricultural Colleges in Tennessee and Ohio, are 

 said to be in a flourishing condition. Nor can 

 we doubt of the success of Messrs. Horsford 

 and Norton, the former of Harvard, and the 

 latter of Yale College. Some time after the 

 other twenty-nine States have introduced the 

 study of agricultural science into their institu- 

 tions of learning, we expect to see the Legisla- 

 ture of our native State, New York, appropriate 

 the first dollar for a similar purpose. What 

 other State has public works which yield an in- 

 come of three and a half millions 1 How easily 

 New York might establish a most useful agricul- 

 tural department in connection with all her Acad- 



emies and literary Colleges! Where are her 

 statesmen, her men of generous impulses, of en- 

 larged and liberal minds ? Alas ! th'ey are driv- 

 en into obscurity by a race of selfish, mousing 

 politicians. To the Young Farmers of the Em- 

 pire State we look to elevate their noble calling, 

 in learning, in science, and in public favor, to a 

 par with the most cherished in the Union. 



Wherever we address popular assemblies in 

 other States, the young men come forward and 

 cordially take us by the hand, with an earnest 

 expression of hope to see Agriculture placed at 

 the head of the learned professions in this Nation 

 of Farmers. This result must be achieved. It 

 is a noble work, in which all noble minds will 

 cheerfully toil by night and by day, till fully ac- 

 complished. No sneers and ridicule, no secret 

 opposition nor open indifference, can prevent the 

 ultimate triumphs of knowledge over both preju- 

 dice and ignorance. A good scientific agricul- 

 tural education will one day be placed within the 

 reach of every poor man's son. This is our faith. 

 Instead of there being four millions of adult 

 males employed in rural occupations in America, 

 thirty-nine in every forty of whom never see an 

 agricultural paper or book, ninely-nine out of 

 every one hundred farmers will be more thor- 

 oughly educated than lawyers, doctors, and cler- 

 gymen now are, in their respective professions. 



Our ideas of education are too narrow, too 

 small for the greatness of those intellectual pow- 

 ei-s and moral perceptions, which our Maker has 

 bestowed on us for purposes as great as the gift. 

 The physical man can have only his victuals and 

 his clothes. John Jacob Astor can not obtain a 

 particle more with all his wealth. Man was not 

 designed to pass through life a mere animal ma- 

 chine — a living thing to toil with its muscles, eat, 

 propagate, and rot. He needs other aliment be- 

 side the bread and meat produced by the agricul- 

 turist. It is the legitimate purpose of a good 

 education to cultivate the Man as well as the 

 Earth, out of v/hich he was formed. 



What we particulariy desire is, to see every- 

 where in this Republic the union of the culture 

 of the earth and the tillers of the same. It is 

 only by their just and harmonious union that 

 man-culture and field-culture — Ao?wo-culture and 

 floriculture — can be brought to a high state of 

 improvement. It is no vanity to say that we 

 have long studied the science of Homoculture in 

 connection with tillage. The subject is one of 

 inestimable moment. The extreme selfishness 

 of man as a physical being, is the most powerful 

 obstacle in the way of his intellectual and moral 

 elevation. Strong as is this animal selfishness, 



