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may know both how to make a new one, and, what is of great 

 advantage, how to repair and make permanent those of many 

 years standing.* 



4. The head farmer will deliver evening lectures to the pupils 

 on the theory and practice of agriculture, explaining his reasons 

 for adopting any crop, or any particular rotation of crops, as well 

 as the most suitable soil and the most approved modes of cultiva 

 ting for each ; the proper management and treatment of working, 

 feeding, and dairy stock ; the most approved breeds, and their 

 adaptation to different soils. He will point out the best method 

 of reclaiming, draining, and improving land ; and will direct 

 attention to the most recent inventions in agricultural imple 

 ments, detailing the respective merits of each. 



5. After the boys have been taught to look at stock on a farm 

 with a farmer s eye, the committee propose that they should in 

 rotation attend the head farmer to fairs and markets, in order to 

 learn how to buy and sell stock. At the same time, the com 

 mittee expect the head farmer will make his visits to fairs as 

 few as possible, as his attention to the pupils of the establish 

 ment is always required, and he should therefore be as seldom as 

 possible absent from Templemoyle. 



An annual examination of the school is held before the com 

 mittee and subscribers, and conducted by examiners totally 

 independent of the school. The examination is attended by the 

 leading gentlemen in the neighborhood, and many of these take 

 a part in the examination, by either asking or suggesting ques 

 tions a practice which is deserving of recommendation, as 

 adapted to give additional value and dignity to the exam 

 ination. 



Such are some of the principal regulations of the school, 

 which I have copied, that its management might be fully 

 understood. 



Pupils, in order to be admitted, must be nominated by an 

 annual subscriber, paying two pounds for the first pupil, and one 



* This, of course, applies principally to live fences, or hedges. It could at 

 present have little pertinency to the United States, where certainly there is very 

 little mystery in making the fences, and as little labor expended in keeping them 

 in repair. 



