GRAPE CULTURE has been a specialty in my busi- ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

MADISON.

of Court

All orders will be booked and filled as received. Vines Malison, Wis., 8 ept. 29, 1863. aud all the Small Fruits securely packed and delivered

EDWIN HILLYER, Sec.

GEO. W. BLY, Pres.
JOS T. HILLYER, Treasurer.

Nursery and Seed Garden !

MADISON,

WISCONSIN,

THIS new establishment is now open to Dealers, agents and the retail trade for the spring of 1804. It contain an unrivalled colbetion of choice Apple one and two years old, including over 100,000 Crown Grafted, grown distinct. Large Sizes in small quantities.

CURRANTS-in great variety-Red, white and Black, ono and two years, in large quantities. Also a Logan Graves, Wm. G. McElroy. Geo. Babcock, M. L. Coe, general assortment of Fruit and Ornamen al L. B. Hills, and Hanson Ely, Directors.

A. F. WALTZINGER

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in

Trees, shrubs, Vines, &c.

The especial attention of the Trade, tho e wishing to plant largely, nd those living remote from Nurseries, is called to this Stock as superior for their wants.

A FULL ASSORTMENT OF GARDEN SFEDS
Sent by mail or Express. Send for circular Price

CANDIES, FRUITS, CONFECTIONERIES. List and Catalogue. Packing done in the best manner.

Address

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J. C. PLUMB.
Madison, Wis.

JOHN P. ROE,

MPORTER AND PREED R OF PURE-BRED DURham Cattle and South Down Sheep, offers for sale, on

reasonable terms, a few fiue calves, bulls, and heifers. Color chiefly rod. Post Office address, Durham Hil, Waukesha Co., Wisconsin.

Muskego, Waukesha Co., Wis., Dec. 18, 1803. jant

financial difficulties, yet it is a question worthy of most careful consideration whether it will be wise for us for that reason to with

The question being on ordering the Agri- hold those efforts by which we may be best cultural College bill engrossed and to a third reading, Senator Van Wyck, from Kenosha county, arose and said:

Can we

enabled to sustain their pressure.
afford to suspend our exertions in procuring
for our State those educational influences
which are best designed to aid in developing
its resources and increasing its productions?

MR. PRESIDENT: -Before this bill shall pass to a decisive vote I will ask the indulgence of the Senate while I present a few words in its Amid the convulsions and "wild uproar" behalf, both as a member of the Committee of war, civil life has still its functions and and as one of the representatives on this floor duties-has yet its mission of promoting the of the great interest which it proposes to ben-welfare of the State by educating its citizens and increasing its productive power.

efit.

It is unfortunate, Sir, that a necessity should exist for the introduction of a measure of

such general interest amid the exigencies of a great war, when considerations of public economy may possibly lead many friendly to its objects to hesitate in its support.

The importance of immediate action in order to secure compliance with the terms of the grant of Congress donating the lands have seemed to leave to the Committee no other alternative. It may also serve as some sanction to their action to recall that times of war have often been periods of great mental activity, and of progress in art and science, and that institutions like this, established under similar circumstances, have frequently remained the noblest monuments of energies and activities which public perils have first called forth.

It is true that this is a moment in which long protracted war with its attendant duties seems to menace us with some of its usual

If these are not to be intermitted or suscially considered for the educational interests pended can we make a better bargain finanof this State than by an advance of thirty thousand dollars to secure the sum of three hundred thousand to be applied in acquainting its farmers with systems intended to give new facilities and augmented power to their industry?

It is also unfortunate that the large and important class who are most interested in the objects of this bill are not themselves united in a just estimate of its advantages. Hundreds of active, intelligent farmers will rcjoice in its passage. Many more will perhaps regret it as of no practical utility, and a waste of public money. Were it otherwise, were the farmers of this State united in this request, a public sentiment would have been created, and an influence thrown in and around these halls, which, when the great department of

agriculture should appear here, as now, to ask at our hands of its contributions the moderate sum-the paltry sum, I had almost said-of thirty thousand dollars, would quickly silence all cavil and objection.

This Institution is intended also by the terms of the bill to perform a service which in this enlightened age is regarded as almost indispensable to the well being of every state. Bureaux of Agriculture have been established at considerable expense in several States of this Union for the collection of industrial statistics and reports-the importation and dis

ments.

Agricultural Colleges differ, Sir, from all other collegiate institutions in which the sciences are taught, by their usual connection with a model farm, where the principles of tribution of new varieties of seeds and plants science are practically applied under the di--and the introduction of improved implerection of scientific and experienced men. They proceed on the theory that farming is an Art as well as a Science, and propose to improve present systems by the introduction of new methods, and by experiments which, if attempted by individuals without the competent knowledge, must prove expensive and unsuccessful. It is this distinction which renders it undesirable and impracticable to connect the system of instruction in all its parts with the existing collegiate institutions

of the State.

I am no enthusiast, Mr. President, in the plan of producing practical farmers through the medium of books and colleges, yet I am not insensible to the great advantages which will accrue to the farmers of this State from a more thorough acquaintance with those natural laws on which is based the success of their daily operations. And I shall rejoice in the establishment of an institution in which the sons of farmers may be instructed in scientific principles, without those associations and influences which too often weaken their attachment to their own profession.

While especially adapted to the wants of farmers, this Institution, by its Scientific and Polytechnic departments, cannot fail to confer important benefits upon the Mining, Manufacturing and all the Industrial pursuits of the State.

The principle upon which it is founded is the education of our industry, whether engaged in the production of food, or in those other kindred arts which enable us to command the vast resources of nature for our convenience and enjoyment.

This important office the bill devolves upon the faculty of this College, thus procuring an exceedingly valuable service at moderate expense.

The value of institutions of this class is no

longer a question, and certainly here needs no argument; yet, suffer me to direct attention for a moment to the remarkable manner in which the rapid increase of their number and the liberal endowments made for their support have in many enlightened countries indicated the growing appreciation of their advantages.

In 1840 there were but nine Agricultural Colleges in all Europe. There are now more than five hundred. Russia alone has sixtyeight. Seven of the States of this Union have established them, and bills are now pending for the incorporation of such colleges before the Legislatures of nearly all the other Free States. One such institution in Europe has received the sum of five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, besides seventy-five thousand dollars for its annual support.

In our own country, Maryland has appropriated fifty thousand dollars-an equal sum being raised by subscription—and six thousand dollars to defray its annual expenses. Pennsylvania has appropriated fifty thousand dollars twice-in addition to a farm and fifty Wherever thousand donated by the people. they exist they have been found valuable auxilliaries to industrial and social progress.

There is one view of this bill, Sir, which appeals very powerfully to my own sympathies and approval.

In founding this institution, the State or-number. It is the disposition to accept a low ganizes, as it were, a department of Agricul- standard of education and refinement as the ture, and recognizes the claims on its atten- measure of the farmer's wants and capacity, tion of its most important branch of industry It is this spirit which has surrounded many -recognizes, in fact, the rights of labor to European cities with bcors and peasants, and special legislation for its elevation and im- has kept them so. If heeded, it will close our provement. At a moment when passing events seminaries of learning, just as even now it are so triumphantly vindicating the great ad- seeks in many districts to close our common vantages of free labor, I conceive that this schools. State is eminently fortunate in having the opportunity to signalize its confidence in its own system, by the establishment of an instition so well calculated to augment its power and to add to its culture and ornament.

This was not the early American doctrine, and never can become such, but to our detriment as a nation. The age that witnesses the degradation of this class in its relation to the other classes of society, will mark the decay of our social system and national character. And, Sir, I fear, unless the advantages shall be afforded this class which are extended to almost every other-the means be given of informing them more thoroughly in the principles of their profession-unless we multiply influences which in these days of progress will enable the farmers to keep pace with the other classes of society in all that can instruct and refine, that age is rapidly approaching. I am in hopes, Mr. President, that the bill will pass without further amendment, as I be

It is an argument, Sir, frequently employed against this measure, and from its general acceptance worthy of notice here, that "all former investments of this character on the part of the State have proved entire failures, and that further advances in this direction are but a waste of the public money." The history of the institutions of this State is more familiar to many here than myself. Yet, when I recall the fact that most of the now flourishing colleges of our country have passed through a similar period of struggle and unproductiveness-which seems indeed an inseparable con-lieve that in its present form it will best acdition of their infancy-much as our success in this regard may have fallen below our anticipation and the early promise, I cannot but entertain the hope that the future of these even will prove far less gloomy than their present condition may lead us to apprehend.

complish its object. I shall vote for it because the conditions of the grant seem to impose the necessity of immediate preparation; because the honor and faith of the State are in a manner already pledged by its acceptance; because the financial interests of the State for But, Sir, whatever may be their history, or many years to come may not be more favoradestiny, I am unwilling to interpret the les-ble to the enterprise, and the State cannot sons of experience as counseling, because of afford to wait for its benefits; and because it past errors, a hopeless and fruitless inactivity. is my hope that this young and richly endowFormer mistakes, as I comprehend their use, ed State of Wisconsin shall possess, and that should serve as guides in our future action, speedily, all the advantages and educational but not discourage further exertion and en-influences which any other enlightened counterprise.

try or sister State may have found instrumental in the cause of social progress and civilization.

It is also said that "farmers do not desire the establishment of this college-that they do not need it." There is a spirit abroad in [The bill was also ably supported by Senaour land in respect to farmers, which I think tors Chandler, M. K. Young, and others. Oris much to be deprecated, and which oftendered to a third reading by 19 ayes to 9 noes; leads us to listen too readily to the suggestion rules suspended, and put upon its passage by of the less enlightened and liberal of their same vote; passed by same vote.-ED.]