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Such a Department, suitably endowed by the State, would offer to the young 

 men of Wisconsin, the future cultivators of the soil, without charge, a full course 

 of instruction in the theory and practice of Agriculture ; and the working of the 

 model farm would defray, in part, the expenses of residence. 



The pupils in this Department of the Philosophy of Agriculture and the 

 Useful Arts, would lia\-e free access to the library of the University, to the col- 

 ]e(.'tions of the various branches of Natural Science, and, in connexion with tlie 

 regular classes, to the lecture rooms of the Professoi's of the other Departments, 

 whether collegiate or professional. 



From such conditions of culture the young farmer will go forth to his work, 

 with juster views of the relations of the sciences to the arts, and of the arts to 

 each other — he will lind all remains of the middle wall between Agriculture 

 and the Professions removed, his social position more fairly adjusted, his indus- 

 trial agency more effective, better appreciated, and more amply rewarded. 



But this is not all. The instructors of the Academic or Union Schools, should 

 go from the University to their task, not only with the learning of the Normal 

 Department, but well versed in the 'instructions of the Department of applied 

 science. 



Such an educational system is now offered to the farmers of Wisconsin. 



Are you, then, prepared to endow in your University, for your own benefit, 

 a Department of the " Applications of Science to Agriculture and the Useful 

 Arts ?" If so, your bounty will prove to be good seed, fjilling on good ground, 

 springing up and bearing fruit, thirty, sixty, an hundred fold. 



It is a fact of world wide celebrity, that Wisconsin presents to the settler the 

 j^hysical elements of prosperity, in rich profusion, and in beautiful combination. 



With its soil and climate unsurpassed — with its capacity for rapid settlement 

 and eai-ly maturity — wath its continued alternations, in just proportion, of wood- 

 land and opening, of prairie, natural meadow, and lake — and with the command 

 of both the Eastern and Southern markets, it needs but the means of professional 

 culture, thus carried to tlie door of the farmer, through the system of Public 

 Instruction, to finish what nature has so tastefully and so bounteously begun. 



Bring, then, the educational agencies of the State into harmony with the great 

 objects of your Association ; follow up the auspicious beginnings of this day 

 with ample provision for geuei'al professional culture, and you will leave an inhe- 

 ritance to your children, transcending all that you have felt or fancied of the 

 destiny of Wisconsin. 



Education, Gentlemen, is no mendicant. It Legs nothing from your charity. 

 Its proclamation to you is, " Give, and it shall be given to you again ; good 

 measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall be returned 

 into your bosom." 



