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Show B PROFESSORS OF AGRICULTURE H lu those days of educational onthuv PAV " insm people arc apt to be cat-fled away Ht by the popular title which bets in the KVM v, ill recti on of tho typical academy and KVC - college, and leaves away oft to ono bIiIo B ilie farm and the workshop. It Is KVA i iruc wo have In one part of our state H One lnstltutlou of learning that H professes to giro instruction along ag- M f icultural lines, and as far as we know, H docs give Instruction In that art. Hut M thin Is not enough. Agriculture m whlfch in its full meaning, Includes M st6cltTalslng and all kindred pursuits, W lies at the foundation of the prosperity " , bt all Industrial arts. Its importance M demands that tho befit bought and H effort should be called Into requisition h - In Ho behalf. Instead of our young H- people being taught to look upon it as M inferior to tho professions, they ought, BVA 16 be trained to consider It, what the KVfl' father Of his country declared It to be; HVfl "The noblest avocation of man," A KVM - writer in the IutermoUntaln Farmer Sayn that "Farming &a a business has advanced to that point where It Is practically prac-tically a profession." ( '.that being the case tho need of a professional training HVA ! Is plainly1 apparohf. 1'hero is a general H and well founded understanding that KVAJ , ijnder ordinary circumstances, farming AVA , ( in our part of tho country does not pay, HVAf There must bo a cause for this, and it HVAj 'ft.not a$ to bo found In tho aridity of HVAJ (he clhn'ate, nor yet in IheSpoycrty of HVAL the soil. Kcltber in tho emallness of V tho holdings. Farming In not what It HVAJ va5 twenty years ago. Largo areas of AVAr of land have been brought Into pultlva- AVAJ lion under the management of one H hsadj and sclcntifio methods, l'aborsav- AVA ing machinery, and agricultural train AVA in'gi all have been called into retiulsl- AVAj tiou to secure a success. Under such H yt circumstances it seems folly to' suppose H tiint an untrained, Inoparlcscctl lndl- AVAA yldual, with crude old-fashioned tools, AVAVA fibouUI make headway In competition Pj 'T1-"1 tlu mo nrra Methods. It Hf seems strango to see young inen com- H lag araonff our, old farmers to tell P ' them, how to farm tho soil. So tee AVAW 6f our ppoplo have grown gray in the AVAf , cultivation of the coll, and now have AVM no more Idea of the chemical comtltu- B cnts of plan:' food than a carpenter or a AVAj bhoemakcr. And they have probably AVAJ Irjimany Instances never read A line on AVfl the .subject. TIioho younj men who Hj Jiavo been trained to use their heads to B observe the results of the labor of y their hands, or tho hands of others, H Ai astonish us by their ftdowledge of mat- 'F ton at which many' of ur, have worked AVAT more yours than they arc old. Itnt if M we had started whrp they are now and, A! s '" allded to tfcfcl' the rich cxperlonco of H twenty ot thirty years, where would H Uiey lib lncoin.parlson? Why not take H adTftttcgeof the lesson fhls teaches, and m && lb It that the younp men who will B , f be the future agrlcitlt'urlbts have just B . tills hort of n start. Kvory man who K ' intends to follow agriculture ought to Pkfa he n proicssor of agriculture, In the HpV senso that nyounir man who Infcuds to H 1 fttlow afiy of ttto rcogned profcs H I tlonn is a professor. They should' be I graduates who have completed a well B jft defined course in agriculture in all of .its branches; unless, Indeed, they ex- pect to follow some particular branch, fh' which case they mlgh be permitted fl tb take a 6pccla) course along that par- 1 tlculav line. And In tlio study of this Br 'rt of arts, this paront of professions, it I it'shouUT not be sufllciunt to theorise; K I practical demonstration should be with- H In tlie reach 6f lio studen. Tho col- SK rl fego from which agricultural students H J graduate, should include within its bor- C99 A ders hundj'ods of acres of tand, upon lnR 1 which the learners should bo taught to KW?( 1 labor hard, as well as intelligently, iSjEjjjhr where they should learn industry, as jjjffjffi k ffcll as botany and Chemistry. Iearn, $&$ fj wo, not Wi'h the expectation of becom- LfftM f ( lug teachers of theaclencc, hut as the Ir!n5" lawyer learns the law nnd the doctor Wffm I ' medlclno and surgery eipcctlug to live 1WicI l'' PrCiC'cc tnat which lio has 3 learned. All needless studios should jSJaffi- I, be eliminated and ojriy such ao are es- mT j rotitfaT in tlie business taught. jHhk In this arid region the application of JJHHj tho water is a cclcnce In itself, the nc I9bBH , quircment ot a good knowledge of IbBBVi i which, would rlchlv repay the cspendl- 1AMBK tureolaiears time. Tho experiment R faritis that are bolng established in var- , Sous parts of the ttate would furnish an opening for these agricultural train- !" ing colleges, which might be ovcntuol-ly ovcntuol-ly rendered self supporting, by means Of this 'crops tiiat shotjld bs ralseAthoro. Of cou;so this would mean the acquire- ijioht'of water and additional laud, but , all this could be done If once tho peo- t 1'tfwore tbo;otichly aroutsd to the Itu K portanco of the measure, aud the beno-tits beno-tits that could bo derived. |