Show THE LECTURE LAST NIGHT I Prof J TF Sanborn Ghes the Solons Some Light 011 the College According to previous invitation and arrangement Prof Sanborn the new principal of the agricultural college ad dr6 yji a joint meeting of tha two houses of th Legislature last night The meeting meet-ing was held in the Representative hall Speaker James Sharp called the meeting to orJer at 745 and introduced Prof Sanborn For an hour and a quarter that gentleman entertained and instructed his auditors in a pleasant and telling address Not nearly all vf the solons were in attendance at-tendance owing no doubt to the attraction at convention The professor in tracing the history of industrial educition explained the Congressional Con-gressional law of S02which gave to each state 3000 acres of land for every delegate it had in Congress By an inadvertence in the body of said act its provisions were construed to be not applicable to the terri toc w bter legislation however has made pro v lOn by which 1500 per annum is made at tilable for Utah to be used in an expert me tel station The object of the Congrca bional enactments is to teach such branches of learning relate to the agriculture and the mechanical arts not excluding the classics and including military tactics A retrospective view of tho development of the mechanical sciences was taken and Mr Sanborn strongly impressed the I iaea that growth and development of the mind was an essential in the productive power of the soil The use of the muscle alone is not all that is required The course for our college will include aside from the agricultural mechanical me-chanical and industrial arts and sciences higher mathematics political economy gymnastics military drill and the classics The most popular department of this institution I insti-tution is the mechanical department The boy readily take hold of wood and iron in handling tools etc The graduates of these colleges are called to places over those who may have had a vast deal more experience but who have not had the scientific train ing The training the mechanical arts department may not teach a boy how to ouiia a nouse out it renaers mm so accurate accu-rate in all his work that he can hardly do anything but in a mechanical way When we consider that half the people of the United States are engaged agriculture agri-culture we may realize the importance of the industry By a table of stapstics Mr Sanborn showed that in those countries where the educational status of the people was most advanced agricultural produc tions were correspondingly high The in tellectual development of a people is the exact measure of tier agricultural advancement advance-ment I Agriculture the professor declared is on the decline in quantity but increasing in quality Education is the only thing that could raise the standard of agriculture Time was when a mans usefulness on a farm was measured by his muscle That is not so now Agriculture is based upon the natural sciences chemistry botany geology etc Any alteration on the farm involves some natural physical law In connection with the college is an experimental ex-perimental station where the sciences that underlie agricultural pursuits will V > A in vestigated and experimented upon n It has been demonstrated that a stack of hay will I lose 20 per cent by exposure Such mat ters as that will be treated Stock will be fed in barns and out of doors The hay will be weighed to them and experiments of all kinds pertaining to agriculture will be made and the information furnished to the public There are no exact principles upon which all farmers agree Why Because they have been mainly imitators and have not investigated the scientific principles which lie at the foundation of their occupa ionThe The needs of the institution for the next two years for which SiOOOO is asked were wen recounted Men the speaker said have eft l their farms to go to the city but ere long this will be reversed When he finds everything he touches is based on science then the best minds will be ap plied to this pursuit Agriculture is to come to the front as an intellectual pursuit There is a fascination about the farm that is already inducing capitalists to spend thousands of dollars per annum upon farms without a corresponding income which is not done in any other department of life At the close of the lecture the professor was greeted with a hearty round of ap plause and a vote of thanks |