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all the eminent stock-breeders in the country, including 

 pedigrees, would it be interesting to the great majority 

 of your readers? The half-dozen lines in your August 

 No., with the addition of the importer's name, is all the 

 space that should, in justice to your paying readers, have 

 been occupied by this subject. 



Private Agricultural Schools. — Well, if you "cannot 

 agree with Reviewer," we will not quarrel.^ Your poli- 

 tics, which you proclaim in this article, are so different 

 from mine, that it will probably be useless for us to 

 attempt to "hitch our horses together." I believe the ob- 

 ject of all governments should be to foster the interests of 

 the people governed; and to collect and concentrate re- 

 sources to accomplish great works, for great good, by a 

 great combined effort of the whole people, through the 

 agency of the rulers acting as managers for all the indi- 

 viduals, that no one individual can do. And I do not con- 

 sider myself a bad citizen, though you do, because I advo- 

 cate this "plain political axiom." But while you depre- 

 cate all governmental endowments of schools, why do you 

 advocate "an annual appropriation for the collecting of 

 materials and sending forth substantial public documents, 

 containing real information to the agricultural commu- 

 nity in regard to their business." The late bundle of 

 trash from the Patent Office, I suppose you consider a 

 substantial document of the class you wish to patronize. 

 Verily, friend, thou art inconsistent, and I fear somewhat 



1807-1835, when he retired and devoted his time to stock raising. 

 Vice-president of the New York State Agricultural Society, 1854; 

 president, 1856. Restricted his cattle to pure Shorthorns. Exhib- 

 ited at Rensselaer County Agricultural Show, October, 1843, and 

 at the State Agricultural Show at Albany, 1850. Contributor to 

 the Cultivator, American Agriculturist, and The Plough, the Loom, 

 and the Anvil. Anderson, George B., Landmarks of Rensselaer 

 County New York, 232, 256, 258, 318, 351 (Syracuse, 1897). 



' A.R.D. of Hackett's Town, New Jersey, advocated private enter- 

 prise in agricultural schools, fearing the entrance of office seekers 

 and political speculators if the government took over their adminis- 

 tration. American Agriculturist, 5:284-85. 



