MOORE’S RUPRIlL MEW-YOR&ER. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
SCHOOLS OF AGRICULTURE.-No. IL 
now MAY SCHOOLS OK AGRICULTURE train 
UP SCIENTIFIC, PRACTICAL AGRICULTUR¬ 
ISTS? 
FOR students who design to take a thorough 
course in the sciences relating to Agriculture, 
to study all the branches usually included in the 
course of instruction at a literary college, would 
be impracticable, even if it were desirable. If 
advantages are provided for pursuing unlimited 
courses in special departments, the regular 
course at a school of agriculture should not 
embrace more than four years. To say that in 
four years a student could complete the course 
usually taught at colleges, and also pursue a 
sufficiently thorough course in the sciences re¬ 
lating to agriculture, and perform the manual 
labor which is an indispensable element in his 
education as an agriculturist, would be absurd 
in the extreme. A course different from the 
one usually pursued becomes, therefore, a ne¬ 
cessity. Such a course should impart thorough 
mental discipline, affluent command of the Eng¬ 
lish language, a- thorough knowledge as the 
time will permit of the sciences related to agri¬ 
culture, and should make the student familiar 
with t he manual labor of the farm, the garden, 
the orehad, the stable, and the dairy. 
That the study of Mathematics, Logic, Rhet- 
orie, Mental and Moral Philosophy, and the 
Natural Sciences, i> sufficient to discipline the 
reasoning powers, cultivate the taste, and im¬ 
part a good knowledge of English, is proved by 
the fad that the students who pursue a scien¬ 
tific course in our colleges become as correct 
reason ers, as deep thinkers, as successful men, 
as those who spend four or six years with the 
dead languages. The time, then, that is usually 
devoted to the dead languages may. at a school 
of agriculture, be spent in pursuing those 
sciences which will be of practical use to the 
agriculturist. These sciences embrace Botany 
and Vegetable Physiology, Animal Physiology, 
Breeding and Care of Domestic Animals, Ento¬ 
mology, Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry, 
Geology, Practical Farming, Pomology, Horti¬ 
culture, Management of the Dairy, and perhaps 
some others. 
To arrange a course which shall include the 
above mentioned requisites, is a difficult tusk, 
and one that can only be accomplished after 
much experience. 1 have before me the cata¬ 
logue of the Michigan State Agricultural College 
for 1803; an institution which has been for some 
years in successful operation, has already grad¬ 
uated two classes, and the coming fall will 
graduate another; hence it is but reasonable to 
suppose that the course as pursued by it has 
had the severe test of experience to a consider¬ 
able degree. The course is as follows: 
PKErAKATOUY CLASS. 
First Half Year.—Arithmetic, Descriptive Geogra¬ 
phy, English Grammar. 
Second Half Year.—Algebra, Natural Philosophy, 
Composition. 
COLLEGE COURSE.—FRESHMAN CLASS. 
First Half Year. — Algebra, Geology, Geometry, 
Book-Keeping. 
Second Half Year.—Trigonometry, Surveytng, Ento¬ 
mology, Principles of Stock Breeding, History. 
sornoMORE class. 
First Hair Year.—Physics. Structural Botany and 
Vegetable Physiology, Elementary Chemistry. 
Second Half Year.—Physics, Analytical Chemistry, 
Systematic Botany, Horticulture. 
JUNIOR CLASS. 
First Half Year.—English Literature, Agricultural 
Chemistry, Animal Physiology. 
Second Half Year.—Industrial Drawing, Landscape 
Gardening, Rhetoric, Zoology. 
sexton CLASS. 
First Half Year.—Inductive Logic, Mental Philoso¬ 
phy, Civil Engineering. 
■ Second Half Year.—Astronomy, Moral Philosophy, 
Political Economy 
Essays every two weeks, declamations every six 
weeks, throughout the course. 
It will be at once observed that the above 
course is very different from that usually pur¬ 
sued in colleges, its peculiar excellence con¬ 
sists in the prominence given to those physical 
sciences which relate to agriculture. Botany is 
pursued during a year, instead of the few reci¬ 
tations or lectures devoted to it in most colleges. 
Breeding of Domestic Animals is taught as a 
science, not left to chance or individual whims. 
Animal Physiology and Zoology aro studied 
a year, Chemistry extends through a year and 
a half. Entomology is pursued as a regular 
study for a half year. Those departments of 
Mathematics are taught which will be beneficial 
to the agriculturist. 
lu order to give their students instruction in 
the numerous manual operations in the different 
departments of agriculture, the Michigan Agri¬ 
cultural College, and the Pennsylvania Agricul¬ 
tural College, require each student to perform 
three hours’ labor per day. .Speaking of this 
labor, 'the catalogue of Michigan Agricultural 
College for 1803, says:—“ It is well known that 
students who pursue a college course very sel¬ 
dom thereafter engage in any industrial pur¬ 
suit Four or live years of study without labor, 
wholly removed from sympathy with the labor¬ 
ing world, at that period of life when habits 
and tastes are rapidly formed, will almost inevi¬ 
tably produce a disinclination, if not inability, 
t° perform the work and duties of the farm. 
But to accomplish the objects of the institution, 
it is evident that its students must not, in ae- 
quiiing a scientific education, lose either the 
ability or the disposition to labor on the farm. 
Ii the farmer then is to be educated, lie must be 
educated on the farm itself. It is believed that 
the three hours’ work which every student is 
inquired to perform on the farm or in the gar¬ 
den, besides serving to render him familiar with 
the use of Implements and the principles of 
agriculture, is sufficient also to preserve habits 
of manual labor, and to foster a taste for agri¬ 
cultural pursuits. It has been found in the past 
sufficient to keep the student interested in every 
department of farm and horticultural work; 
and the daily labor of each one being performed 
at one time, does not occupy him longer than is 
requisite, for preserving health and a robust con¬ 
stitution.” 
Such testimony from an Industrial School that 
has been in successful operation for the last six 
years, is most important. It shows clearly that 
students may perform a limited amount of man¬ 
ual labor, daily, without detriment to their pro¬ 
gress in scientific studies; a point which by 
some has beeu seriously questioned. That a 
college pursuing such a course has graduated 
classes, proves that labor need not be distasteful 
to scholarly young men. 
This college seems to have concluded that a 
systematic course should be pursued in the de¬ 
partment of labor as well as in that of science, 
for it says:—“Students are not employed in 
those kinds of work only iu which they are 
most proficient, but as the work is classified, 
each is made acquainted with all the operations 
of farming successively.” The students in its 
Preparatory and Freshman classes alternate 
between ihe farm and the gardens; the Sopho¬ 
mores spend the entire year iu the gardens and 
ornamental grounds, during which time they 
receive instruction in the more delicate opera¬ 
tions of horticulture; and the ,J uniors are em¬ 
ployed exclusively on the farm, where they 
receive similar instructions in farming. In ad¬ 
dition to the above labor, and the instruction 
given in connection with it by the superintend¬ 
ents in charge, manual operations on the farm, 
care and feeding of domestic animals, and the 
application of chemistry to the arts. 
The above course, although excellent in most 
of its features, seems defective in some of its 
departments. So many scientific works are 
published in French and German, that it seems 
important these languages should he taught. 
Time could be gained for them by requiring a 
higher grade of scholarship for admission to the 
college course. There seems to be no special 
instruction given in pomology or management 
of the dairy. It may he that this defect is 
owing to the fact that the college has not yet 
been able to organize Lhcse departments. Cer¬ 
tainly, they should not be disregarded. Proba¬ 
bly, the Senior year would be the best time for 
giving instruction in these departments, and for 
a more thorough course in Stock Breeding than 
it is possible to impart in the Freshman year, 
for the students, have not then studied Animal 
Physiology. 
In addition to the instruction indicated above, 
students should be taught bow to make experi¬ 
ments. Such instruction could be given during 
the years that are spent exclusively on the farm 
or in the gardens, ami when properly carried 
out would become a most interesting and im¬ 
portant feature of an agricultural education. 
Such instruction would necessitate an experi¬ 
mental farm, whereon experiments could be 
conducted by the students themselves, under the 
guidance of a competent professor. This sub¬ 
ject will be more fully discussed when consider¬ 
ing how the schools may make original investi¬ 
gations iu agriculture. 
Students may be thoroughly instructed in the 
sciences, and be able to handle a hoe or scythe 
with case and skill, yet if they are unable to 
apply their science and dexterity in such a 
manner as to make farming pay, their educa¬ 
tion will be of little value to them as farmers. 
It is evident that much of the farming in the 
country is not conducted so profitably as it 
might be. Large farms are cultivated with 
only an average production of eleven bushels of 
wheat per acre, whereas thirty-five might be 
grown; poor animals are kept at au expense as 
great as would be required for those much more 
profitable. But how are farmers to be taught 
that it is far cheaper to raise thirty-five bushels 
of wheat per acre than eleven? Evidently not 
simply by having it announced from any pro¬ 
fessorial chair, no matter with how much science 
that chair may be filled. If a student’s ances¬ 
tors for many generations have been content 
with poor cultivation and meager crops, it will 
be difficult to convince him by mere assertion 
that such cultivation and such crops are not 
best. Ho must be shown facts; good cultiva¬ 
tion, large crops, and a large profit on the yearly 
balance sheet. Agriculture, like all other iu- 
dustrial pursuits, is a dollars-and-cents question. 
1 oil may show such crops as were never before 
seeu, but if your farm is mortgaged to the near¬ 
est poudrette company, shrewd men will shake 
their heads; your stock may be of the purest 
pedigree and most perfect development, but if 
it is shortly sold to satisfy an execution, you 
will have but few followers. The final arbiter 
in all theso questions of improved cultivation of 
farm, garden or orchard crops, and the rearing 
of superior stock for the dairy or the shambles, 
is the ledger account. 
That agricultural pursuits may bo scientific¬ 
ally conducted and be profitable, I think every 
careful investigator of the subject fully believes; 
that they will bo more profitable in proportion 
to the extent of our scientific knowledge, all 
analogy would lead Us to suppose. It must not 
bo a profit reaped from selling pears at a ficti¬ 
tious value of one or two shillings each, of 
which some papers have given accounts, nor 
from supplying wealthy amateurs with blooded 
stock at fancy prices, but from sources which 
aro opeu to the pursuit of all,—from the pro¬ 
duction of articles of standard value, for which 
the demand is legitimate and certain. It will 
then be oue of the most important missions of 
schools of agriculture to teach their students 
and the community that the highest principles 
of science may be profitably applied to agricul¬ 
tural pursuits. This can be done most effect¬ 
ually by small model farms, conducted on the 
strictest principles of economy and science; of 
which the methods of cultivation, the receipts 
and expenditures, shall be correctly recorded 
and published. It is evident that such a farm 
should be entirely distinct from the experi¬ 
mental farm. On tho experimental farm large 
outlays would be needed lor conducting investi¬ 
gations in modes of culture, value of fertilizers, 
value of different crops and of different varie¬ 
ties of the same crop, etc.; on the model farm 
the scientific principles already known and 
those deduced from the investigations on the 
experimental farm, should be so applied as to 
prove to a demonstration that profitable, scien¬ 
tific agriculture is no mere vision of enthusiastic 
theorists. 
From the considerations thus far presented, I 
would answer the question at the head of this 
article as follows: 
I. By pursuing a course of study whose main 
features shall be similar to the one laid down 
above. 
II. By requiring each student to perform a 
limited amountof manual labor each day, under 
proper instruction. 
Til. By instructing students in the art of con¬ 
ducting experiments in the different depart¬ 
ments of agriculture. 
IV. By demonstrating that the highest re¬ 
sults of science may be profitably applied to 
agriculture. a. 
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on the Christian life in its two chief elements. Devo¬ 
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D. D. New York: Appleton & Co 
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Another reason why we like such a book as this, is 
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systematic plan on which people are taught, and 
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CURRENT WAR LITERATURE. 
The spring campaigns of the different grand 
divisions of the Union army are throwing to the 
surface a species of literature which is read with 
greedy interest by all classes. We propose to 
record these detached scraps of history which 
the brave boys are making, believing our read¬ 
ers will appreciate the same. 
Washington after the Battle. 
Title appoarence of the city during the past 
two weeks has been in marked contrast with 
that presented before the late battles in Virginia. 
The quiet which then brooded over us. while 
anxious hearts waited for the first sound of the 
coming strife, has been dissipated, and the tur¬ 
moil and bustle, the excited crowds, the sicken¬ 
ing sights and sounds that, ever follow in the train 
of battle, are again visiting us. About eighteen 
thousand sick and wounded men, including 
many prisoners, have within that time arrived 
here, and been distributed among the different 
hospitals. Many were but slightly wounded, 
ami those have been seeu promenading the 
avenue, or standing iu knots at street corners 
or about the hotels, perhaps relating the story 
of their adventures to interested auditors, or 
it may be, telling how battles are won. Here 
might he seen one with his head bandaged, 
another with an arm slung, still another on 
crutches; on every side the sight of its dreadful 
results constantly reminded the spectator that 
the carnival of war is not yet ended. And, as 
if to impress the horrid realities of war more 
deeply on our minds, long lines of ambulances 
have moved in mournful procession through the 
streets, loaded down with their suffering weight. 
Slowly and carefully the wounded have been 
transported from the landing to the hospitals, 
awakening in the breasts of thousands of specta¬ 
tors a sympathy that has often found vent in 
something more substantial than words. We 
venture to say that the wounded of any army 
that ever existed never received such tender 
and unremitting attention as has been afforded 
our own after their reception in this city. 
An Arm for his Country. 
During the lull in the strife, I rode back 
to the second corps hospitals to see the wounded. 
“ How goes it boys ?” was the question. 
“ All right,” said oue. 
“ Pretty rough,” said another. 
“They niver will get through the second 
corps,” said a Hibernian. 
The lull had become a storm. How fearfully 
rolled the musketry! It is utterly useless to 
attempt a description or comparison. It was 
volley after volley, surge after surge, roll after 
roll. 
Maurice Collins, of the 12th Massachusetts, 
was brought in, with an ugly wound through 
his shoulder. He was a Catholic, and the priest 
was showing him the crucifix. 
“ Will it he mortal?” he asked ? 
“ Perhaps not, if you will lie still and keep 
quiet; hut you may have to lose your arm.” 
“Well, I am willing to give an arm to my 
country,’* was the reply of one who, though 
born in the ever green isle, while loving the 
harp and shamrock, adores the stars and stripes 
of his adopted country. 
uio-t mischievous. Piety degenerates into a series of Qlnady built." 
Take the City Already Built 
Colonel Schaeffer, Chief of Staff to 
General Butler, and General Quid, the rebel 
Commissioner of Exchange, are the best of 
friends, and hi their official interviews are al¬ 
ways pleasant and agreeable to each other. A 
few weeks ago they were chatting at City 
Point, over matters uud things in general, when 
OoL Schaeti'er picked up a map of Virginia, and 
glancing at it casually, it occurred to him that 
there was a good site for a very large city in the 
neighborhood of City Point, and expressed his 
astonishment that it had been overlooked so 
long. Said he. with great seriousness: 
“If I had the capital, I would invest it right 
here. It's hound to be a big city some day or 
other.” 
Ould kept his eyes on the map for a while, 
and then, looking at Schaeffer, remarked, hardly 
able to suppress a smile that was trying to force 
its way out: 
“It seems to me, Colonel, that instead of 
building a new city, you had better take one 
"Pat” aad his Gun. 
In the terrific charge of the second corps on , 
the rebel works many grotesque scenes occur- I 
red. A few may be interesting to the reader. A 
member of the Irish brigade, after the charge, ] 
was seen making vigorous efforts to force a car¬ 
tridge into his rifle, which had become “ fouled,” 
i. e., the orifice had by constant tiring become 
coated with powder, rendering the passage of 
the ball impossible. Addressing his command¬ 
ing officer in an imploring tone, he cried, 
“ Shure, Colonel, I can’t load my gun.' ” “ Try 
again,” replied the Colonel; “tryhard.” He 
did try again and again until the perspiration 
stood in beads on his face, and, at last, finding it 
impossible to force the cartridge home, drew 
himself up erect and brought his piece to an 
“ order arms,” and with a defiant look faced the 
enemy. “What are you doing?” exclaimed 
the astonished Colonel. “ Faith,” replied the 
soldier desperately, “ I’m jist after waiting for 
a Johnny to come up till I can knock his brains 
out wid me musket!” Whether his desire to 
annihilate the cerebral organ of some unfortu¬ 
nate “ Gray-back ” was gratified, the Colonel did 
not remain to see. 
“Sally” and the “ Gray-back3.” 
A singular instance of doggish hatred to 
“gray-backs” is found in the case of the slut 
Sally, belonging to the 10th 3Iassachusetts Yols. 
She has participated in every battle in which 
her regiment has been engaged, and seems to 
take great interest in the success of the blue 
jackets, to whom she is invariably kind and 
affectionate. But a “ gray-back” is her special 
detestation, which she always exhibits by biting 
at them whenever they are brought within 
the reach of her chain. She accompanies the regi¬ 
ment on picket, butis always sufficiently discreet 
to keep within our lines, where she vents her 
rage by growling and snapping at the enemy’s 
skirmishers. At the battle of Fredericksburg 
her leg was broken, and. after the wound was 
dressed by some kind hearted surgeon, Sally 
returned to the field on three legs, and doggedly 
refused to leave until the conclusion of the bat¬ 
tle. This time she escaped unharmed, and is 
ready at auy moment to participate in the next 
engagement. 
Songs in the Army. 
During one of these eventful nights, when 
the troops lay in line of battle behind their 
temporary fortifications of dirt, logs and rails, 
and the continuous crack of the sharpshooter's 
rifle rolled along our front, a solitary voice 
struck up the patriotic song. “ Rally round the 
flag, boys," and almost instantly thousandsof the 
men who seemed to have been waiting for some¬ 
thing to dissipate the gloom which thoughts of 
the day’s carnage had engendered, were shout¬ 
ing in a chorus which “ shook the depth of the 
forest’s gloom:” 
“ The Union forever, hurrah, boys, hurrah! 
Down with the traitors and up with the etars,” Ac. 
As down the line it went, the refrain swelled 
into one vast roar, exultant, triumphant, and 
breathing defiance to the wary enemy, whose 
only reply was the spiteful whiz of extra bullets 
from their skirmish line whistling harmlessly by. 
This little episode tended greatly to inspire our 
troops, and could not but have equally irritated 
“ Johnny Reb.” 
Hancock and Stuart. 
Gen. Johnson, when captured, exhibited 
great emotion, shedding tears freely, and assert¬ 
ing that he preferred death to capture. When 
received into our lines. Maj -Gen. Hancock, with 
his characteristic urbanity and consideration, 
advanced to his prisoner, at the same time ex¬ 
tending his hand, which was accepted by the 
rebel general. On pleasantly accosting Stuart, 
whom he had formerly known, with “ How are 
you, Stuart?” the latter replied, arrogantly, 
1 •• Sir, I am General Stuart, and under the eir- 
1 eumstanees refuse to take your hand.” “ Sir,” 
; replied Haneoek, “ under any other cireum- 
■ stances I should not have offered you my hand.” 
> Geu. Hancock immediately sent Johnson to Gen. 
> Meade’s headquarters in his private carriage, 
properly permitting his higkuess, Brig.-Gen. 
t Stuart, C. S. A., to exercise his pedal extremi- 
r ties in walking through the mud and rain to 
headquarters. 
shallow emotions, which evaporate in the absence of 
stirring appeals to tho conscience. The souls of onr 
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ate itttpreimaicd with an healing Influence; ‘an angel 
goeih down into the pool and troubleth the water.’ 
But, alas! the virtue of the stirring Is but momentary; 
the dregs quickly fall again to the bottom, and the 
water becomes dead, stagnant, and unprofitable as 
before ’’ Judging by what we have read of this book, 
it is worthy a place iu every man’s religious library 
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and then, looking at Schaeffer, remarked, hardly Grant asks I ' 01 ' a Bocke^ compass, 
able to suppress a smile that was trying to force incident occurred during the morniug 
its way out: " " which illustrates the cooluess and self-possession 
“It seems to me. Colonel, that instead of cl the Commauder-in-Chiei of tho Armies of the 
building a new city, you had better take one United States. While the heaviest artillery 
already built." tiring in the morning was in progress General 
“ Sam.” said the Union Colonel to his servant. Grant was standing in company with Gen. 
“get that black bottle out of my basket;’’ and Meade, near a fire, talking and endeavoring to 
the rebel joke was washed down with old rve. keep themselves dry, when a rebel shell struck 
_ within a few feet of the twain. A disposition 
to move was manifested on the pan of a number 
Divide is the Word. 0 f officers standing around, when Gen. Grant, 
On oue of those biting cold mornings, while looking slow ly around and fixing his eye on the 
the armies of Meade and Lee were staring at spot where the shell struck asked at once for a 
each other across the little rivulet known as pocket compass, which being furnished, he ex- 
Mine Run, when moments appeared lobe hours, ainined the course of the shell, found out the 
and hours days, so near at hand seemed the location of the battery, and it was not long be- 
deadly strile, a solitary sheep leisurely walked fore shells were thick among the men working 
along the Run on the rebel side. A rebel vidette batterv. 
tired and killed the sheep, and dropping his gun, - 
advanced to remove the prize. In an instant he Gen. Grant’s two Moods, 
was covered by a gun in the hands of a Union One who has seen him under varying cir- 
vidette, who said. “Divide is the word, or you eumstanees, says he has but two moods—one of 
are a dead Johnny. ’ This proposition was as- absolute calmness, almost stoic indifference, in 
sented to, and there, between the two skirmish which he contemplates his position and lays his 
lines, Mr. Rebel skinned the sheep, took one-half plans; the other is of immense activity and 
and moved back with it to his post, when his enthusiasm, in which he personally superintends 
challenger, in turn, dropping his gun, crossed everything that transpires around him, and, ou 
the run. got the other half of the sheep, and occasions of alarming danger, goes to the very 
again resumed the duties of his post amidst the front of battle, and seizes upon victory with 
cheers of his comrades, who expected to help his own hands. He is uever startled from his 
him eat it. Of the hundreds of hostile men ax - - purpose by a temporary reverse; and if he doe? 
rayed against each other on either bank of that not possess a Napoleonic genius for military 
Run, uot one dared to violate the truce intui- affairs, he has all of Wellington's tenacity of 
tively agreed upon by these two soldiers. purpose, and all of his calm courage. 
