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observation, it is better for them that they should then, and 

 as soon as possible, go home. Those who shall show ability 

 as observers shall be kept at it, and while learning how to 

 observe, while taught by a corps of competent teachers, they 

 shall make such collections themselves as will enable them to 

 repeat, during the coming winter, to their classes at home, 

 what they have learned, and in that way I hope a sufficient 

 interest will be excited in the study of nature to induce the 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts to make the study of nature, 

 — the study of nature generally, in all its branches, — a part 

 of the common-school system of education. 



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Among the efforts at improvement which have been made 

 during the year, it is proper to notice the introduction of new 

 machinery for the cultivation of roots, especially the beet- 



The Germania Beet-Planter. Side View. 



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crop. These machines were imported from Germany by the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, and may be regarded as 



The Oermania Beet-Planter. Rear View. 



the latest attempts at improvement upon the modern English 

 machines. The first is 



