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These young men will soon spread the knowleclge acquired 

 by four years of study, under excellent teachers, through the 

 community, enabling any who desire information to obtain 

 the best in the country. Much has been done for the college, 

 but much remains to be done to give it the position in the 

 country enjoyed by the other educational institutions of the 

 State. From my experience, I am led to believe that the 

 legislature will ffive it such assistance as the agricultural 

 societies deem necessary for its full development. Technical 

 schools can be established in our large manufacturing cities 

 and towns, adapted to the wants of the locality. 



The farmer needs instruction in his business as well as 

 others, but his occupation prevents that concentration of per- 

 sons and property necessary to sustain such a school. 



The State, therefore, must supply the need, and furnish 

 the instruction demanded by hira, by sustaining the college 

 with no parsimonious hand, mitil private munificence shall 

 come to its aid, and make it, like other colleges in the State, 

 self-supporting. 



"While the facilities of communication compel our farmers 

 in a great degree to abandon the crops cultivated by their 

 fathers, and adopt others better suited to the present demand, 

 and thus for a time burdening them with expense, still, in 

 some respects, they are greatly relieved from the embarrass- 

 ments of their predecessors. 



The cheap and rapid transportation by railroads, which 

 now reach almost every village of the Commonwealth, takes 

 away any special advantages enjoyed by one agricultural 

 community over another, and distributes widely not only em- 

 ployment but products. Formerly the former was obliged 

 to make long and tedious journeys to find markets for his 

 surplus products ; now he can find sale for them in his own 

 village, saving, thereby, both time and exhausting labor. 



Formerly the articles in demand were few, and the compe- 

 tition amongst sellers very great, thus reducing the price, 

 oftentimes to almost the cost of transportation. Now the 

 demand is so various that almost everything that can be culti- 

 vated is readily sold, especially such things as need careful 

 culture and attention. The crops most profitable to raise 

 near our manufacturing villages require usually but a small 



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