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their noses and eyes, as to the smell of odors, and the look of 

 hands and faces. Under such circumstances the manure heap 

 and the laboratory will become to the scientific and literary stu- 

 dent, what the dissecting-room is to the student in medicine, 

 and nothing inconsistent with the elegancies and refinements of 

 general literature, but a necessary part of a tliorough literary 

 and scientific education, to be ignorant of which would be a. 

 shame and disgrace. 



3. It lays the foundation and opens the way for the intro- 

 duction of agricultural science into schools of a lower grade,, 

 as an elementary study. 



One of the first effects of the connection of agricultural sci- 

 ence with our higher seminaries of learning, will be the univer- 

 sal diffusion of agricultural knowledge among our educated 

 men, by making it a part of a collegiate course of study. Thus, 

 in the event of a demand for agricultural instruction in the 

 higher class of our elementary schools, the teachers will be pre- 

 pared to give instruction in the elements of this science, which* 

 is not now tlie case, nor will it ever be so, with teachers generallj^ 

 unless such a connection is established. So that, by such a con- 

 nection, we not only now secure all we can attain from scrence, 

 provide for all we can expect in the future, rescue it from the 

 repulsivcness and vulgarity of the manure heap, and put it on a 

 level with science and literature in general, but we provide the 

 means for as wide and general an introduction of the study of 

 elementary agriculture into our schools, afs circumstances may 

 ever warrant. Thus, by such an arrangement, provision is made 

 for all the present wants of agriculture in a scientific point of 

 view, and equally for all its wants ia this respect, that may 

 arise in the future. 



Beside, in this arrangement, the opportunity is afforded to all 

 who may enter for study under the Professorship of Chemistry- 

 only in these institutions, to acquire general information through' 

 the agency of the lectures on various suljjects, the library, and 

 their school associations. They will there have not only a bet- 

 ter opportunity for reading than elsewhere, but to learn how to 

 use a library, — that the best and most efficient use of books is 

 not to read them through in course, from end to end, — a thing 

 few farmers know, but o-f tSe greatest importance tO' a man whoj 

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