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WHAT SORT OF SCHOOL
OUGOT TIE LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY AND
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COL
LEU TO B t
To the Editor of the Picayune:
Before entering upon any un
dertaking, it is of the first impor
tange that we have clear and dis
tineo ideas of what the undertak%
lans is, and the means and appli.
snosd at hand to attain the end in
view.
In seeking to apply thb~ trite
proposition to the organization of
the above mentioned institution, I
do not propose to write an exhaus
tive essay on the subject, but only
to give my ideas, hoping there~yj
to provoke others, and especially
the planters and farmers of the
State, to give theirs, in order that
the Board of Supervisors may
know the sentiments of the people,
and have something to guide them
in their difficult task.
I know there are those who t
wish to regard the new institution t
as simply a continnation of the t
Louisiana State University; and
the Agricultural and Mechanical
as a branch of that institution. h
This is pardonable, prehaps, in
those who have a parental fond. b
aess for the university, and who a
insist in the blindness of their de
votion that the university is not c
dead. But I cannot take that view,
and shall insist that the bill uni- I(
ting the-Louisiana State University is
and the Agricultural and Mechan- i
ical College of Louisiana, destroy
ed the two prc-existing institu
tions, and created another, which
is to enter upon a new life, and to
make a name for itself apart from fa
any reputation, either good or bad,
which may have attached to eith
er of the defunct schools. What w
sort of a school then is this new
school to be? Is it to be a literary to
institution, a so-called university pr
added to the list already too lone in
of feeble, poorly supported, second '
rate universities sad colleges scat- bu
tered all over the land ? Is there
any demand in our State for sur h CO
an institution ? Is there any neces- th
city for establishing another rival clE
for those schools in our own State an
and neighboring States. which can ko
barely keep alive owing to the ma
want of patronage and the want of lea
money. In my opinion all of these E
questions must be answered in the to
negative. I do not believe that ner
the people of Louisiana feel the tar
want of such a school; of a school il
which most come before the Legis- the
lature at every session to beg for vie
an appropriation, which if once
withheld, will leave the school in agr
the condition of the Louisiana Ear
State University. Those of our
people who have the means to give app
their sons a finished literary educ- bra
tion will send them to the old and necd
long established colleges and uni- recl
versities of other States-while ordi
the larger class of our citizens, who the
cannot afford the expense of a col- med
legiate course, costing from $500 to neec
$1000 per annum, must be satisfied to &
to see their sons growing up with- suhj
out the advantages which might he in tl
theirs if this new institution were M
organized and conducted for the pres
especial benefit of this class of our that
people. Louisiana is and must ;e- the h
main for ages to come, an agricul- calle
tural State. The chief business of Wha
her people will be cultivation of ble y
the soil. Then why should not her the (
Slate College be so organized and
conducted as to fit her people for
that employment which must be
their life work.
If the Agricultural and Mechan
ical College is to be henceforth one Sa
of the schools ofa great universits. accou
why not begin by putting this as m
school in operation first, esnecially in his
as all the available assets belong- the
ed originally to the Agricultural Teml
and Mechanical College ? Then, as sinces
sufficient funds are acquired, the addit
other schools may be organized as above
occasion demands. speak
No State in the Union presents Mil
such an opportunity for the prac. hones
tical application of science and ag- able"
riculture as qurs does. Here agri- Ohio
culture is carried on upon a more in vie
extensive andcostly scale than in in thl
any other State; and more knowl- pork
edge and skill are required in the to the
conduct of the sugar planting in- it will
terest than is at uresent available the .a
anywhere. There is a present de- ing on
mand lor meu whose education fits being
them to take charge of the manus Sam
facture of sugar, now carried on ty, go
in so slovenly a manner that but a moul
little more than oneshalf of the brain 1
crystalizablo sugar is obtaiucd worse
from the cane. When we reflect Randa
that a vast amount is invested in Ferc
costly machinery which stands idle dignifi
nine or ten months in the year, we speake
cannot avoid the inquiry. Is there of the
not a chance here for the applica- are the
tion of science in so conce trating lie.
the cane just as to securea dry N. F
product to be easily handled, ship- speake
pod and stored ip the warehouses rious ca
ofthe refiner, whose costly machin ceal thi
ery can thus be kept at work all
the .year round? Then, there is
the important subject of under
draining and saving of thousands
r AND of acres *now unproductive-as
AL coL- open drains. And in connection
with drainago there is the question
of using the great river which flows
through our State in order to irri
y un- gate our fields and thus make the
por- planter independent of seasons.
a dip- These are only a few of the great
ertakh andu important subjects needing
appli. through study and'scientific inves
md in tigation, which would, if not at
once, yet soon attract the attention
trite of the corps of scientific men whom
on of we hope to have as professors in
on, T our agricultural college, and whose
:baus- work would result in a vast addi
only tion to the wealth of the State, do
oeret ing for our sugar production what
ecial y has been done in Europe by scien
f the tific method applied to the beet
Sthat root sugar manufactory -the only
may rival of cane sugar in the world.
opmay I have not touched upon the
them great and important problem of
renovating the worn out lands' of
w the State, counted by millions of
n acres, and bringing them back to
Sthe their original fertility. This can
aud be done economically and certainly
I only by scientific agriculture. The
lion, haphazard unmethods of ou* day
must give way scientific methods,
fond and those scientific methods must i
who be taught our young farmers in our
de- agricultural college. Just as our
young doctors are taught medical
iew science end art in our medical col
new, lege and hospital--and our young C
nity lawyers the science and practice of t
tan- law in the lecture-room and in the c
moot court. The man who doubts
'v- this is a long way behind the ad
vanced thinxters of the age both in
to Furope and in our own country.
from Then, again, when are our voong c
bad farmers to learn the science and a
aith art of that varied agriculture from i
Phat which alone is to come certain
wealth to our farmers? We have
too long confined ourselves to the li
production of two staple crops, and c
ione ead to bo taught by the professors u
;ond in any agricultural college that d
cat there is wealth in the production of -i
butter, and of cheese, as well as in
rh cotton and sugar, to say nothing of b'
cen the breeding and raising a better B
ival class of stock, horses, cattle, sheep cc
ate and hogs. Who in our State w
can knowe anything correctly of these tb
the matters now-and where shall we
t of learn quickly and accurately but in
rese a school whose chief business it is m
the to teach these very things so much Ir
hat needed to be known. I think the al
the large majority of our people, both oN
ool in the city and country, will admit
the correctness and wisdom of these
for views without further agument. In
foe Now, in order to teach scientific dr
in agriculture it is absolutely neces- in
sin ary to have a farm adjoining the to
r furaishea with all the
ie appliances adapted to teach this
:a. branch of knowledge, just as it is tui
nd necessary to have a hospital in con er,
irection with a medical schcol in sid
ile order to teach the young doctor is
ho the art as well as the science of of
I- medicine. To have a farm it is
to necessary to have money. How
ed to get this money shall form the mc
I- sulject of another communication mc
bo in these columns. tin
e May I not ask of the country
1C press to copy this article in order
it that the farmers in every part of bi
e- the State may have their attention "O
called to this important subject. yot
ýf What more interesting and profita. the
y ble question could be discussed in bo`
the Granges of the State ?
d R. H. RYLAND, M. D., ro
upc
THE SPEAKERSHIIP. Cau
par
flanhigo1ng(o Capital.
e Sam Cox would make the most sit
accomplished speaker, could lhe have alp.
s as much lead in his heels as genius
g in his brains-were he a member of ing
the Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes bus
1 Temperance ass., were he a little Of t
ssincere-rmoresedate. With a few tie :
Sadditional qualities--sich as the and
above--he would make a first-class nel
speaker.
Milton Sayler would make an ou
Ihonest, conservative "Old Reli
ab'e" sort of speaker. Being from
Ohio hurts him with the house, and noraI
in view of the prevalence just now, ome
in the political market, of Ohio little
pork, from the White House down that
to the sergearitat-arms of the house, knoW
it will hurt a really good man with peril
the nation. Only one creqted be. aud
ing on earth was ever benefited by thit t
being born in a stable. instce
Sam Randall would make a shif- well
ty, go-to-hell sort of speaker, with norai
a mouth full of white teeth and a thii'
brain full of subtlety. 'There are tng v
worse men, though, than Sam who,
Randall. Most of them in jail. who I
Fernando Wood would make a lack i
dignified, old Tulrveydrop sort of thoug
speaker. lHe is an "old Mustache" e o
of the empire. though, and these empty
are the halcyon days of the repub -
lic.
N. P. Banks would make a good .11ana
speaker if he hadn't that "amysi e wletli
rious carriage of the body to con ed.'"
ceal the defects of the mind which sir; g<
irk all men call dignity." We quote from
here is Montaigne, To use slang-to
under- which we are averse in discussing
usands classics and fine old ruins-Na
y "e-as thaniel has played it once and the
section people "won't have it again.n
nestion Our real choice is Ben Butler, if
b flows he will emigrate to Colorado and
o irri. raise sheep. instead of staying
;e the around peaceable communities and
.asons. raising Cain, as he has been doing
great for twenty years.
eeding -
ionves- MORE FACTS ABOUT CHOLERA
lot at MORBUS.
ention
whom Cholera Morbus is now tray
ars in eling through the country,
whose ostensibly for its health, but
, dd- really in the interest of Sor
what row and Suffering. It has
scien- been to Oil City, and having
beet had a brief but spirited inter
only view with it, we desire to
ridthe warn the public against it.
em of Cholera Morbus doesn't say
di'of much. It appreciates the fact
us of that actions speak louder than
k to a street merchant with a new
can kind of glue. It is quiet and
The unassuming, and allows its
day victim to make all the fuss.
hods, It is the champion wrestler of
must the world, catch-as-catch-can'
a our or any other hold, and as a
dical prize fighter is to be avoided.
col- It has no respect for the rules
oung of the P. R., and will strike
ce of below the belt nine times out
the of ten. Without a word of
'na warning it will catch a man
h in in the stomach, and double
Y. him up quicker than the kick
)Dog of a mule. If the victim he
and a short man, he will roll up
from like a dough-nut. If he be
have a tall man, he will fly together
the like a watch spring. In this
and condition he is of no earthly
sors use, unless as a worm in a
that distillery. A man rolled up
m of like .a thread on a spool can't
g of be expected to do much work.
tter But to hear him groan and
veep complain and carry on in one
tate way and another, you would
iese think he did more hard work
t in for 'less wages than any other
t is man on the 'ace of the earth.
uch In this condition he will do
the almost anything. He will roll
oth over the floor like a hoop
mi snake, to the infinite amuse
ment of the neighbors' chil
ific dren, who are doubtless peep
es- ing through the blinds. And
the to hear him yell for the cam
phor, cr mustard plasters, the
is turpentine, his wife and moth
)n er, and all the doctors this
in side of the Rocky mountains,
tor is enough to move the stones
of of Rome to pity. But it
w doesn't move the cholera
le morbus. Because the cholera
on morbus is a stayer. Every
t;me the victim yells, say for
ry aqua fortis, the cholera mor
of bus might be hard to reply :
"O, I'll give you aqua fortis,
t. you miserable worm!" and
a, then it thumps him in the
in bowels until he prays for the
rocks and hills to tumbled in
upon him. He does this be
cause he realizes that, com-
pared with the cholera mort l
bus, the rocks and hills will
t sit as lightly upon him as an
alpaca coat. There is noth'
Sing too mean for cholera mor
bus to do. It will take a man
e of the build of Carl Schirz,
Stie a bow knot in his middle,
e and offer to sell him for a
Sneck-tie. Avoid it as you
would the tax collector.
~Ia.Simple and unpretending ig- two
Snorance is always respectable, and
rometimes charming; but there is
Slittle that more des.rves contempt
Sthan the pr'etense o! ignorance to
knowledge. 'T'he cure and the
perilofthe language in this day,
and particularly in this country, is
that it is at the meicy of mnien'whlio,
instead of being content to use it
well according to their bonest ig- *
norance, use it ill according to thos
their affected knowledge; who. be
ing vulgar, would seem elegant,
who, being (remply, would seem tull;
who make up in pretense what they 3 (
lack in reality, and whose little
thoughts, lot off in enormous phra
ses sound like fire-crackers in an
empty barrel. LE'
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Manager- "John, go and see
whether the ballets are all dress- and
ed."' John returns-'About ready,
sir; got most of their clothes off." 1genel
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