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and provided for at the farmer s table, and every operation on 

 the farm is witnessed by him. and explained to him by the 

 farmer. In such cases, labor with the pupil is wholly optional. 

 Where the farmer is well-skilled and communicative, and the 

 pupil capable and interested in the pursuit, few arrangements 

 are to be preferred this upon the supposition, however, that 

 in other respects, and previously to his commencing his appren 

 ticeship, he is well grounded in practical science. 



The three things of which I have spoken ought to be viewed 

 separately ; but I fear, from the manner in which I have treated 

 them, they may appear somewhat confused to my readers 

 mind. 



XXXV. PLAN OF AN AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTION. 



First, then, in every system of agricultural education, there 

 should be an institution for the thorough indoctrination of the 

 pupil in natural science, and in mechanical philosophy, so far 

 as it can be made to bear upon agriculture. I have already 

 treated fully of what, on this topic, should be taught in an insti 

 tution of this nature. 



Secondly, there should be a model farm, which should be 

 accessible to the pupils, and where they might see an example 

 of the best management, and the best practices in husbandry. 

 It is obvious, however, that a single farm can present, excepting 

 on a small scale, only a single kind of farming ; and that it 

 would be hardly possible to find a single locality presenting any 

 considerable, or very instructive specimen of the different kinds 

 of farming, such as arable, grazing, stock-breeding, stall-feeding, 

 sheep-raising, and dairying. But the particular and careful 

 observation even of one kind of well-conducted farming would 

 qualify a pupil for understanding and receiving information on 

 every other, whenever it came in his way, or wherever it might 

 be attainable. Stall-feeding is intimately connected and often 

 associated with arable farming, and dairying with grazing. The 

 management of live stock, whether for work, for fatting, or for 

 dairying, might, in a small degree, be exemplified on every well- 



