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is desirable. Some therefore have thought, and perhaps not 

 without reason, that lectures, with portable apparatus should be 

 made a prominent means of communicating and diffusing know- 

 ledge on this subject; that an agricultural college should consist 

 rather of living, acting men, than in huge piles of brick and 

 mortar; that while the best possible facilities should be afforded 

 at the seat of the college for all who can resort to it, a portion of 

 the professors, or perhaps all of them for a portion of the year, 

 should travel the State, and deliver their lectures within reach of 

 such young men as cannot well leave their homes, and where 

 their fathers and brothers, their mothers and sisters, might par- 

 ticipate with them, giving the whole family, and not merely a 

 favored son or two, " a finger in the pie." Whether anything of 

 this kind is likely to be undertaken, and whether it will succeed 

 others must judge. 



One thing is certain — from science in its applications to the field 

 and the farm yard, to the kitchen, the pantry and the dairy, to 

 the shop, to the life w^ork of the people, to the developing, 

 strengthening, elevating of the popular mind, a bright future 

 awaits all the industrial classes; and American agriculture will 

 look up more and more. 



