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SO also of siicli elements in organic bodies, how tliey are to be 

 created and liow best applied; teaching also their agency as they 

 pass from the soil to the plant, and from the decayed plant back 

 to the earth, or when taken by the animal from the plant, then 

 from the animal, either in his secretions or from his own decayed 

 body, back to the earth again; and to teach also the best means 

 of increasing and preserving these fertilizers as manures upon 

 the farm. Then to teach the adaptation of different crops to dif- 

 ferent soils, the best mode of preparing the ground, seeding, 

 cultivating, housing and preserving the crop : to teach also tlie 

 simplest and most accurate mode of making experiments in the 

 different modes of cultivating the same crop, such as different 

 depths of plowing, different time of seeding, different preparation 

 of the soil, application of different manures, and different manner 

 of applying the same manure; the present and future advantages 

 of putting the same quantity of manure on a greater or less 

 quantity of land; the advantages of draining and irrigation, and the 

 best mode of doing the work; the best mode of breeding, rearing 

 and fattening domestic animals, testing the merits of different 

 breeds, side by side, under the same treatment, Avhere the animal 

 shall be statedly weighed and the food he consumes also weighed, 

 and a record kept of the results; so of the cow and her milk, 

 and its products in the dairy; the diseases of animals and their 

 treatment, and especially the diseases of the horse and the inju- 

 ries to wliich he is subject; the joreservation and growth of the 

 forest; laying out of farm lots and fencing, road making, both 

 upon the highway and upon the farm, such as overcoming eleva- 

 tions, passing ravines and bridges, with draining and facing; tlie 

 grafting, l)udding, setting, cultivating and pruning of fruit trees; 

 the construction of farm buildings and their adajttation to the 

 puri)Oses re(juired; a simj)le and accurate mode of keej)iiig farm 

 accounts, witli a general system of farm management, l>y wliich 

 tlie most may be done in tlie best manner and at the least expense 

 and at the same time the farm improved; to teach the use of all 

 farm ini]i]cments, as well those by hand as those by animal 

 power, and also the use of mechanical tools so far as to repair, if 

 not make, the common farm implements, and make the lesser 

 repairs upon farm buihiings. 



