Address Delivered At The Annual Show Of The N.y.s. Agricultural Society At Buffalo, September 6, 1848
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Address Delivered At The Annual Show Of The N.Y.S. Agricultural Society At Buffalo, September 6, 1848; Issue 35579 Of Goldsmiths'-Kress Library Of Economic Literature
John Pitkin Norton
s.n., 1848
Agriculture; Soils
Elements of Scientific Agriculture: Or the Connection Between Science (Classic Reprint)
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This little treatise is an attempt to supply a great and growing want in our country; a want of some elementary work, that shall clearly and distinctly ex plain the great principles that are involved in the applications of science to agriculture. The necessity for such a work has become apparent to all who have engaged in the dissemination of knowledge upon this subject; to all who have endeavored to arouse the farming community, by bringing forward incitements to the study of this new science.
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John Pitkin Norton was an American educator and agricultural chemist. He was one of the few scientists recognized in the United States Capitol in Washington D. C.
Background
John Pitkin Norton was born on July 19, 1822 in Albany, New York, United States. His father, John Treadwell Norton, was a successful farmer and his mother, Mary Hubbard (Pitkin), was the daughter of Timothy Pitkin, lawyer, statesman, and historian. John Treadwell, governor of Connecticut in 1809-11, was his great-grandfather. Of his own choice young Norton decided to become a farmer, to which plan his father agreed, but on the unusual condition that he should be broadly and thoroughly educated for that pursuit. The boy spent his summers at work upon his father's farm.
Education
Norton studied in Albany, New York City, New Haven, and Boston, with some of the best masters of that day. He had little liking for the ordinary courses of study, particularly Latin and Greek, but manifested an absorbing interest in natural science which appears to have been first aroused by his study of mineralogy. He studied chemistry with the elder Silliman at Yale and in 1844 he went abroad, spending two years with Professor James F. W. Johnston at Edinburgh, and nine months with Professor Gerardus J. Mulder at Utrecht. While yet a student his ability as an analyst and his resourcefulness as an investigator attracted the favorable attention of his teachers.
Career
In 1846 Norton was appointed professor of agricultural chemistry at Yale and, in association with the younger Benjamin Silliman who had at the same time been appointed professor of practical chemistry, he initiated that department of scientific education at Yale which was later to become the Sheffield Scientific School. The labors of the first years of this new school were severely taxing, particularly to Norton, who shortly assumed entire responsibility for the new enterprise because of the withdrawal of his colleague to accept a post of duty in another institution.
In addition to numerous articles of a popular character upon agricultural topics contributed to the agricultural press, he was the author of a number of scientific papers, among which may be cited his comprehensive prize study, "On the Analysis of the Oat, " made in 1845 while he was a student at Edinburgh and published in the Transactions of the Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland, July 1846, and later in the American Journal of Science and Arts, May 1847; "The Potato Disease"; "Account of Some Researches on the Protein Bodies of Peas and Almonds, and a Body of Somewhat Similar Nature Existing in Oats"; and another prize essay written in 1850, submitted to the New York State Agricultural Society and afterwards published under the title Elements of Scientific Agriculture (1850) as a textbook for schools.
With a future brilliant with promise of a highly useful career, he was stricken by illness which his overtaxed strength could not resist and died in Farmington, Connecticut, on September 5, 1852.
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Religion
Norton was deeply religious and Christian motives controlled his life.
Personality
Norton was an indefatigable worker, compelled not only by an intense devotion to his chosen subject but also by a sense of duty to the public welfare. He always maintained an intelligent and sympathetic interest in the practical problems of the farmer, and his influence as an educator extended far beyond the walls of his classroom and laboratory. He was possessed of an engaging personality into which entered the charm of cheerfulness, modesty, and quiet humor, blended with the dignity of culture.
Connections
On December 15, 1847 Norton married Elizabeth P. Marvin of Albany, New York. They had two sons, one of whom died in infancy.