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To sustain our future millions, we must multiply the products of the 

 land we already have. This is a result we cannot bring about too soon. 

 Agriculture should be taught as a science, and a knowledge of all its 

 details be universally diffused. It should not be an anomalj- to find a 

 "■learned farmer^ We should know, and must know, how to make 

 land produce the most — how- to alternate the crops, how to manure so as 

 to supply just what every field may need to adapt it to the proposed crop ; 

 how to economise, fodder, and fatten animals at the least expense ; how to 

 reclaim worn out soils and subdue waste land. Discoveries in re- 

 lation to every subject to which we have alluded are making every year, 

 and they should be known. Wake up, then, every one of you, and 

 prepare yourself with every help to agricultural improvement and pro- 

 gress. "A little farm well tilled," is better than broad unproductive 

 acres. There is an intimate connection between knowledge and pro- 

 ductive labor, and yet it took nearly eighteen hundred years to find 

 the application of this truth to agriculture. It has been said that those 

 who labor with their hands are, as it were, the strong pillars that sup- 

 port the living world ; yet the hands are not entitled to all honor. 

 "The hand cannot say to the eye, I have no need of thee.*' An aid 

 more essential than all else, is an intellect guided by science. Practical 

 education, just the kind to which we have alluded, is what farmers, and 

 all, need. Success in the fiature will gi-eatly depend upon it. 



Education generally diffused is the grand idea of the age. A well 

 stored mind is more important than a well-filled pocket. Considering 

 the intelligence required of an American citizen, it should be the pleas- 

 ure, as it is the duty, of every one to educate himself and his children. 

 We speak now of practical education. Give children every advantage 

 that the district school affords, and upon than school spare no expense. 

 There is no economy more fatal to the well-being of society than a poor 

 school because it is cheap. Every family should be abundantly sup- 

 plied with useful books and papers : they will be the best of schoolmas- 

 ters, and the winter fire-side will be a school of incalculable benefit to 

 all, from the prattling child to the grey-headed father. If means admit, 

 send the more advanced to some higher school Absence from home, 

 even, has its valuable teachings. 



Our Normal school at Ypsilanti will be found a most useful auxiliary 

 to the cause of education, especially to those who expect to make agri- 



