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SOUTHEKN CULTIVATOR. 
THE TEEEELL PEOFESSOKSHTP. 
Our friend, Williams, of the Hernando (Miss.) Advance^ 
thus discourses of the munificent gift of Dr. Terrell, and 
its prospective advantages, and delivers an excellent rural 
lecture to non-progressive farmers and planters : 
“ Dr. Terrell, of Sparta, did more good for the people of 
Georgia when he established the Agricultural Professor- 
ship in the State University, than if he had established a 
dozen medical colleges, with as many law professorships. 
We mean no disrespect to either of these important 
branches of knowledge. They are useful and even indis- 
pensable in this age of civilization and progress — but they 
are both overstocked, filled to repletion. These branches 
of learning are considered honorable as well as profitable, 
because they require application of mind, persevering in- 
dustry, laborious reading, &c. Farming has never been 
•recognised as a science with us, and any man has thought 
liimself fully qualified to make a farmer without any of 
the prerequisites that attach to law and medicine. When 
young men at the University of Georgia graduate in this 
new department, they will have very different views of 
the planter’s position. They will know that it requires 
investigation and research, profound thinking, as well as 
practical experience; and being acquainted with the ele- 
mentary principles upon which the science is founded, they 
will have a field of study before them, calling for the 
ablest minds and the most constant application. When 
this can be fully impressed upon our people, a man will 
no more be thought to be a farmer ^ because he knows 
when and how to plant corn and cotton after the usual 
,practice^ than would a. justice of the peace, with a few plain 
statutes and a little form-book before him, be taken for a 
jurist. Notwithstanding farming is the common business 
of our people, it is almost wholly unknown as a science ; 
and men seemingly well informed upon other matters es- 
ohew the very idea that it is a business calling for the 
least research. Many go so far as to ridicule agricultural 
Journals, and call them humbugs, so conceitedly wise are 
they in their profound ignorance. Had these men had 
training under some able agricultural chemist, like Dr. Lee, 
of the Georgia University, and mingled with the dog Latin 
and worse than dog French which Alma Mater manufac- 
tured for them, a little knowledge of the constituent parts 
of soils and minerals, the laws of vegetation, the decom- 
position of matter, the influences of light, heat and mois- 
ture, they would have had very different ideas, not only 
of their business, but of themselves. Observing, however, 
4ow their ancestors farmed, and knowing that they got 
^ch at it, and being themselves in pursuit of the almighty 
dollar only, they adopt the same plans, little dreaming 
<daat those plans were wasteful and self-annihilating. Had 
our ancestors understood and practiced agriculture as a 
science suitable to the peculiarities of latitude and longi- 
tude, there would not have been one deserted farm from 
Jamestown to Savannah ; Virginia, the Carolinas and 
Georgia to-day w;ould have been immeasurably richer 
•under the fostering and self protecting agency science 
as applied to agriculture, than they were with all the fer- 
tile elements of their primeval forests. Instead of bleak 
■and bare hills, frightful gulches, exhausted plains, and all 
the other concomitants of poverty, every farm would have 
teemed with the energies of a strong and vigorous soil. If 
all these waste places were allowed to speak, when asked 
•*bow come you given up to the briar and thistle V their an- 
■answer would be ^ignorance of the laws of agriculture.’ 
^ Georgia, or at least the generous and noble minded 
T^rell, who endowed the Professorship, has set a worthy 
•example for our Southern States to follow. In our schools 
and colleges is the place to teach the principles of agricul- 
ture. We hope that a new era is dawning in the history 
offif cultivating the soil in the South. If other States and 
other colleges will do as the State University of the Em- 
pire State of the South has done, the business of farming 
will soon be as tempting to the ambition of talented and 
educated young men as the pursuits of law and medicine. 
From the mere clod-hopping business that it now is, filled 
with industrious practical men, it will engage the minds of 
research and profound study, producing more on a single 
acre than is now produced on three or four, with a perpetu- 
ally increasing fertility, as in the rural districts of i^gland, 
Belgium and Holland.” 
BLESS GOD FOE TEEES. 
BY MARY P- 
Bless God for trees ! they lift on high 
Their breezy banners to the sky. 
A verdant canopy that shames 
The proudest domes of regal fanes ; 
And give a tide of music birth. 
Matched by no other sound of earth. 
Bless God for trees ! — for leaf and bloom, - i 
That upland now, and glade perfume, j 
For luscious fruits in autumn time — 
For glorious lints when past their prime — 
Earth’s fairest beauty — sweetest song 
Unto the greenwood tree belong ! j 
Bless God for trees ! the fainting herd ( 
Rest ’neatli them with the warbling bird, | 
And chew the cud, and sing their song | 
While summer hours the day prolong. i 
List to the music of the breeze, 
And beast, and bird ; bless God for trees ! j 
Bless God for trees ! that bright green crowa ! 
Seems like an Eden in the town ; 
As precious to the aching sight 
Amid the dazzling glare of light; 
As haven to the storm-tost ship. 
Or streams unto the thirsting lip. 
Bless God for trees ! how proud they stand — [ 
A temple reared by God’s own hand ; J 
Weaving a roof above our heads, i 
That like another heaven outspreads ; i 
While every leaflet seems an urn, ! 
Which incense sweet to Him doth burn, I 
Bless God for trees ! did he not deign * , j 
Aught other witness of h^s name. 
The yearly miracle thfit dothes 
Their naked limbs each spring with robes. 
And keeps them fresh thro’ summer heat, I 
The atheists cavils all could meet. 
Bless God for trees ! the jeweled sky. 
Their gloiy now can scarce outvie ; 
And not the stars in golden pride ' 
Do mortal follies more deride. 
Than the proud monarch of the wood, , 
Unmoved for centuries, doing good. 
Ble^'Uod for trees ! the children play 
Beneath them inj;hdr glad spring day ; 
And the last thought ihat lingers round 
The old.manis ^ath-bed, is the sound 
Of breezy rustle -in tthh tree, 
’Neath yAlucH exhaled his boyish glee. 
Bless God for trees! glory and might, 
Beauty and strength, and life’s delight. 
They symbolize unto the heart ; 
And each joy and woe take part. 
O’ershade the tryst of youthful love ; 
And sadly mourn the grave above. 
[Memphis Appeal., 
