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the farmer's use. We also recommend most earnestly to 

 all our common as well as high schools to adopt, as an 

 unvarying branch of education, subjects calculated to im- 

 press upon the minds of the young the necessity of ap- 

 plying science to the cultivation of the earth; and that 

 it is the original and most honorable as well as the most 

 happy and healthy of all employments. We also recom- 

 mend that an earnest appeal be made to Congress to 

 adopt the recommendation of our father, (Washington,) 

 and establish a "Home Department" for the encourage- 

 ment and support of the agricultural interests of our 

 country. In aid of these views we offer the following 

 resolutions : 



Resolved, That the American Institute, by whose co- 

 operation this Convention was called, be requested to 

 continue their noble efforts in the cause of agricultural 

 improvement, by adopting measures to have this matter 

 brought before the next meeting of Congress. 



Resolved, That the members of this Convention will 

 look upon it as an act of great respect to this body if 

 the American Institute will again take it upon them- 

 selves to publish to the world the proceedings and views 

 of the Convention. 



Resolved, That the alarming situation of a great part 

 of the world at this time, in consequence of the disease 

 called the rot in potatoes, requires the most active, 

 prompt, and untiring exertions of all the producers of 

 this most important production, to subdue if possible 

 the frightful ravages of this disease, and to prove, by 

 successful experiment, that the country which originally 

 produced this invaluable root, one of the most sustaining 

 sources of subsistence to the population of Europe as 

 well as our own country, can provide a remedy to prevent 

 its extinction. 



Solon Robinson, 1 



Henry Meigs, I Committee. 



C. C. Havens, 



