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There are two collateral interests attached to this measure, which I deem very 

 important. 



In the first place, it will enable the pupils in the Normal Department of thg 

 University, to carry the elements of agricultural science into the district schools 

 and township academies, rendering our whole educational system more directly 

 and efficiently subsidiary to the industrial interests of the State, than it could 

 otherwise be. 



In the second place, it will secure, without a burdensome public expenditure, 

 a geological survey of the State, as rapidly as the settlement of the vacant lands, 

 and the interests of agriculture will require. 



The extension of the University system to Normal and Agricultural instruc- 

 tion, iivolves this important advantage, that the pupils of these Departments 

 will be able to avail themselves, during their period of professional study, of the 

 instructions of the other Departments of the University. 



In fonclusion, allow me to say, that I regard this as an Agricultural rather 

 than J strictly educational measure. It is for the industrial interests to decide, 

 what lervice they wnll require, and enable the University to perform, for their 

 benefit The University, therefore, waits the action of the Agricultural Society 

 in this behalf, with the tender of its hearty co-operation in their efforts for the 

 difi'usbn of agricultural science, and the general elevation of the industrial 

 intereits of the State. 



I have the honor to be, 



Very respectfully, your obedient Servant, 



JOHN H. LATHROP. 

 To AiBERT C. Ingham, Esq. 



&C: of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



EXTEkCT FROM THE THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF 

 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. 



flhe Board have an additional reason for looking beyond the present endow- 

 ment of the University. The applications of science to the useful arts, including 

 e'^ry industrial occupation which ministers to the well-being of society, have 

 bCome too numerous and too important to be neglected, in any wisely con- 

 stucted system of public instruction. 



("It needs no argument to satisfy the most casual observer, that the position 

 ■yhich nations and communities are destined to take in the scale of modern civili- 

 ^tion, must depend, in a very great degree on the extent to which science 

 ruides the hand of production, and regulates the processes of trade. 



