502 Education for Farmers. 
their advantages. Some of the latter class, there will undoubtedly 
be, who in the firmness of resolution will break over and crush 
down all obstacles that are of themselves in their pathway to the 
benefits expected to be derived from these schools, and by storm 
attain their object. Others there must be, whose way is so 
thoroughly hedged up, let their wishes be what they may, that 
they cannot partake of their value until its influence falls upon 
them through some second or third handed operation. 
Besides all this there are many rich men as well as those in 
comfortable and middling circumstances, who yet look upon all 
knowledge save that acquired in the field as futile and unnecessary 
in order to success. Such men cannot be expected to send their 
sons where knowledge is acquired, or hardly countenance their 
going there, even if the young man takes the responsibility of 
furnishing the means and the prospect of success into his own 
hands. 
Consequently as valuable as these resorts for acquiring knowl- 
edge may be, and successful as we hope they will prove, it appears 
conclusively that other means must be employed to effect the ob- 
ject before the whole mass of farmers can be found in the highway 
to that knowledge whose advantages are being more and more 
appreciated, and whose advancement so many are now laboring to 
promote. The question then is, what shall be done the more 
generally, and of course more effectually for its accomplishment? 
In the first place there must be more general excitement in the 
public mind on this subject; and to effect this, we know of no 
method more effectual to adopt as a primary step, than the es- 
tablishment of " farmer's clubs," or meetings wherein each mem- 
ber is a speaker, and each a hearer, where all may tell of their 
successes or their failures, with attending causes, where mind holds 
free and unrestricted intercourse with mind to its own advance- 
ment, while good cheer sits the presiding genius of the scene. 
Such meetings should be regularly held in every town, and if in 
every school district the better, especially in the more leisure sea- 
sons of fall, winter, and early spring, and if they are well kept 
up one season there is no doubt but they w-ill be called up the 
next by an accession of members. The amount of knowledge that 
may be so acquired in a single season we will not attempt to com- 
pute. A club of this kind was established in Lenox some three 
years since, and to say nothing of knowledge acquired by the in- 
terchange of practical experience, it has already planted more 
ornamental trees, introduced more fine fruit and vegetables than 
had been planted and introduced in the fifteen years previous to 
its commencement; besides originating a county horticultural 
society which promises to rank honorably with similar institutions 
in our country. But it is not in raising trees and fruit alone that 
