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state, under the patronage of the state legislature, and encourage- 

 ment given to schools in all the farming districts. One central col- 

 lege, with an experimental farm, should be located with as little de- 

 lay as possible, in, or near the city of New-York, accessible at the 

 cost of a few cents, to that great population and the many hundreds 

 of thousands w^ho visit it. An establishment so located could nrt 

 fail of success. There are in the city many opulent merchants, who, 

 strongly impressed with the disasters of trade, would gladly avail 

 themselves of such an institution to prepare their sons for a farmer's 

 life, and secure to them and their families, competence and indepen- 

 dence. It is believed two hundred students might be obtained from 

 the city alone. 



The opportunities and the facilities for obtaining information, for 

 procuring seeds, plants, &c., all kinds of choice live stock, and dis- 

 tributing them by land and water, over the country, far exceed those 

 of any other locality on the western continent. For the purpose of 

 making such an establishment, the American Institute have prefer- 

 red their petition to the Legislature now in session asking for an ap- 

 propriation to purchase suitable grounds, and erect buildings thereon. 

 Also to enable the conductors to carry out this and other important 

 measures, they have preferred another petition asking to be admitted 

 to a participation in the literature fund of this state. The petition, 

 with the reasons at length, has been referred to the literature com- 

 mittee of the Senate, which we believe will be found on examina- 

 tion, conclusive. To carry out these important objects, we respect- 

 fully solicit the co-operation, and influence of the State Agricultural 

 Society, satisfied that they will, on due consideration, agree with the 

 Institute that it is time to establish one such college and experimen- 

 tal farm in the state ; and to insure its success, that the proposed lo- 

 cation is the proper one. 



Under the superintendence of the American Institute, with its ex- 

 tensive library, its repository of "machines and implements, learned 

 professors and men of science with their laboratories and chemical 

 apparatus, the practical agriculturists among its members, and those 

 that personally communicate with it, and daily rally round, and with 

 its extensive correspondence, such an establishment cannot fail of 

 success. The trustees are strongly impressed with the importance of 

 the success of the first undertaking. Other states will then readily 

 loUow the example. Accomplished teachers will come forth from 



