The New England farmer . ressed to the Secre-tary of Farmers Club, Randolph, Vt. J. J. w. Labor in Agricultural Colleges. —Prof. Johnson, of the Maine College, says:—That the labor system is a benefit to thestudents, is very apparent. Aside from theamount earned, the labor performed keepsup industrious habits, promotes health, is to acertain extent a source of instruction to thestudent, and prevents that wide disseverancefrom manual labor and distaste for it which isso observable in the graduates of our old col-leges. Besides, we think it plainly observable,that a few hours of labor each day m
The New England farmer . ressed to the Secre-tary of Farmers Club, Randolph, Vt. J. J. w. Labor in Agricultural Colleges. —Prof. Johnson, of the Maine College, says:—That the labor system is a benefit to thestudents, is very apparent. Aside from theamount earned, the labor performed keepsup industrious habits, promotes health, is to acertain extent a source of instruction to thestudent, and prevents that wide disseverancefrom manual labor and distaste for it which isso observable in the graduates of our old col-leges. Besides, we think it plainly observable,that a few hours of labor each day makes thestudent more quiet and studious during thehours devoted to study. The time spent inlabor would in most cases be spent in idletalk and In various kinds of recreation, per-haps of dissipation. Labor is the safety valvefor the overflowing animal spirits. There hasbeen observed a remarkable willingness onthe part of the students to engage in all thekinds of work required to be done. 1870. NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 161. MSADOWS AND SWAMPS. UR fathers, in (he earlypart of the seventeenthcentury, settled near tidewater, at Boston, Dor-chester, Charlestown,Newton and Salem. Astheir number increased,they sent out parties intothe surrounding countryto select suitable placesfor settlement. Theypursued their waythrough pathless for-ests, wading the swamps,crossing the bridgelessstreams, and climbing hills, and when theyfound a level tract cleared of trees, whichhad been cultivated in corn by the Indians,they selected it as the centre of a settlement,especially if it was near a stream of inferred that if it had been cultivatedby the Indians, it must be good land. Didnot the Indians know what was the best land ?So they settled on the borders of these old,worn-out plains, and planted their corn. They had but few implements and those ofthe simplest form—clumsy hoes, and woodenspades, or shovels shod with iron, were almostthe only tools they had. Of course their cultivation
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