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((') c-alf Hta))le, (d) hoypital stable, (c) cowhouse, (/) dairy, root, and steaming house, 

 io) piggeries and poultry house, (h) sheep shed, (;') barn and stack yard, (k) gran- 

 ary and cart shed, {I) shed for the gristnaill, straw cutter, and threshing machine, 

 (in) workshops, («) beet-sugar manufactory, (o) engine with reservoir and pump, 

 (p) bee house and cocoonery. 



LIVE STOCK. 



Working cattle. — Should the two given rotations of crops be adopted for 640 acres 

 of land under cultivation, 14 horses and 24 oxen would be required to perform the 

 necessary work. 



For procuring the necessary manure for the two systems already mentioned, and 

 to show the breeding, rearing, and fattening of live stock, extensively, there should 

 be 2 stud horses (for light and heavy breeds), 16 breeding mares (exclusive of the 

 working horses), 160 neat cattle, 1,200 sheei>, 50 swine. 



The live stock should consist of the most choice foreign and native breeds. 



IMPLEMENTS. 



A collection of the most important and approved implements should be at hand, 

 viz: swing and wheel ploughs, cultivators, horse hoes, sowing machine, harrows, 

 rollers, horse rakes, reaping and mowing machine, carts and wagons, straw cutter, 

 threshing machine, corn sheller, root chopper, harnesses, &c. 



PERSONS REQUISITE TO MANAGE THIS INSTITUTION. 



A director, who should have the entire control over the whole establishment. 



A -treasurer and two clerks, to keep the accounts and attend to all the transactions 

 of the institution. 



For the tuition of the pupils, there should be five professors, and a teacher for the 

 lower branches, exclusive of the director, who should lecture on the higher branches 

 of agriculture. 



The practical manipulations are illustrated by — 



A superintendent of the farm. 



A superintendent of the stables, who also teaches riding and breaking horses. 



A superintendent of the sugar-beet manufactory. 



A machinist. 



A gardener. 



A shepherd. 



The domestic affairs of the institution should be attended to by a steward. 



The prosperity of such an mstitution depends entirely on the director, who must 

 have received a theoretical and practical education at an agricultural school, and must 

 have enriched his knowledge by extensive practice and by traveling. He should be 

 acquainted with the principal living languages, to inform himself and his pupils of 

 the progress of agriculture in other countries. 



The professors should be well versed in their sciences, and acquainted witli agricul- 

 ture; as the tuition of a science, with regard to the practical applications, demands 

 not only an entire knowledge of the sciences, but also of the object to which it is 

 applied. 



The superintendents of the different branches should be practical men, and free 

 from the prejudice of book-farming. 



Every individual connected with the establishment should possess the best moral 

 character. 



CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION. 



Every applicant for admission should present a certificate of his moral character, 

 and be examined, possessing an ordinary English education, and capable of compre- 

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