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of our State. The progress which has been made in the Fruit 

 department, is also most gratifying. In every section of our State 

 fruits recommended by our Horticultural and Agricultural asso- 

 ciations, are superseding the worthless fruits formerly cultivated, 

 and the portion of the farm devoted to fruit culture is now be- 

 coming as remunerating as any, in favorable seasons. Men of 

 science and of study have aided the farmer in his work, and 

 although all has not been accomplished which the too ardent 

 friends of science at one period expected would have been realized; 

 still the farmer has been beneiited. The great work is to be 

 wrought out upon the farm, is to be done by the practical man, 

 but science must and will aid him, lighten his toil, brighten his 

 prospects, and prepare him for a more prosperous future. 



We have at last secured the establishment of an institution for 

 the education and improvement of the farmers' sons. It is hoj^ed 

 that bef jre another year closes, its first class will be received and 

 commence their course of study. It cannot be expected that 

 immediate results are to follow; education and improvement are 

 the work of time, and we must wait for the full development of 

 tlie ?>enefits of the institution, until it shall have sent forth 

 thoroughly educated young men, prepared upon the farm to apply 

 what they have learned during their period of study and inves- 

 tia:ation. To make tliis institution what it should l>e, it must 

 receive the cordial support of the farmers of the State. It is 

 more immediately established for their benefit. Sustain it then! 

 Contribute to its funds until it shall be fully endowed, and edu- 

 cation is ])rought within the reach of the son of the farmer or 

 mechanic of the most limited means. See to it, that this institu- 

 t'um so long desired, does not languish from the want of tliat 

 encouragement so all important to its permanent establishment 

 and success. 



It is important that the man of science and the practical work- 

 insinian sliould be brouc^lit together. Tliat this maybe done, can 

 scarcely admit of a doubt. In our country, where education is 

 so widely ditlused among all classes, the same objections do not 

 exist as in European governments. The American mind, ever 

 active, can be ])ronght into useful channels, if we can secure the 

 co-operation of scientific men. Let the scientilic associations have 

 in their sections one for the i)ur]>ose specially of extending the re- 



