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refinement. It is not suited to maintain the alabastcrian color, 

 or the feminine delicacy of their hands and faces, or the elegant 

 taper of their fingers, so indispensable to their ideas of a gen- 

 tleman. The sprouts of " Young America " have very delicate 

 olfactories, and are greatly disposed to turn up their noses in 

 pious horror, at the very thought of the fertilizing odors of the 

 manure heap ; and their stomachs are so nicely sensitive that 

 the very idea of a well-filled and well-fed stall of animals, 

 especially the rear of it, so nauseates them that the poor souls 

 have to lie in bed until the " old man," or the hired man, has 

 done the peculiar work there demanded. such work is very 

 unseemly, very, to gentlemen in embryo, and not to be endured 

 by rose-watered, cologned and musked sprigs of science and 

 literature, reposing in the arms and basking in the sunshine of 

 the countenance of " Alma Mater.'' And we are sorry to say 

 that this sort of feeling is cultivated in our young men by too 

 many mothers, as well as sisters and candidates for Hymen's 

 altar. They, in too many instances, have a holy horror of 

 garments scented with ammoniacal odors, and of hard and 

 brawny hands, and will have none of this near their exquisite 

 persons, of which folly they often have a plenty of time and 

 good reason to repent. 



Now it seems to us, that to separate the agencies of agricul- 

 tural education from our higher seminaries of learning, and es- 

 tablish schools for this purpose alone, will have the effect to 

 foster this feeling, and to make our young men look on agricul- 

 tural science as a matter belonging to plebeians, but beneath 

 the attention, and unworthy the notice of scientific and literary 

 gentlemen ; whereas, connecting it, as wc propose, with our 

 higher seminaries of learning, it puts it on a level with all other 

 science, and with general literature in position, and makes it at 

 once a part of a thorough course of college instruction. Planted 

 here, a manure heap will not emit half as disagj-eeable odors a.«i 

 if in a stable or a farm-yard, if it does not soon come to have all 

 the fragrance of the lily and the rose to their delicate olfacto- 

 ries. 



Depend upon it, such a connection will have a most marvelous 

 effect on the ideas of "Young America," as to the character of 

 agricultural pursuits, and wonderfully change the testimony of 



