*24b EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 



hundred thousand dollars, and might be said to have been 

 crushed by its own weight. 



Let us suppose that it were proposed to establish such an 

 institution in the western part of New York. Certainly no 

 location could, in respect to the external circumstances of soil, 

 climate, access, society, and markets, be more favorable. A 

 farm of five hundred acres might be taken, on favorable terms, on 

 a long lease. I would under no circumstances suffer the 

 number of pupils to exceed one hundred, and perhaps it might 

 be expedient to restrict the number much more. Some good- 

 sized hall or building would be requisite for public meetings, 

 lectures, or recitation-rooms, and for a museum, library, and 

 chemical laboratory ; but I would erect no college building for 

 the residence of the pupils. They should either lodge in the 

 neighborhood, with such farmers as would be willing to receive 

 them, or other persons who might be disposed to provide for 

 them ; or otherwise, I would erect several farm-houses on the 

 place, sufficient to supply the needful accommodations ; but in 

 no case should more than fifteen or twenty be lodged in one 

 place ; and, whether on the farm or not, the lodging-houses for 

 the pupils should be under the constant inspection or regulation 

 of the governors or instructors of the institution. One or two 

 instructors should be employed constantly for teaching the main 

 branches of education, and a competent farmer should be em 

 ployed to manage the agricultural department, and to give the 

 necessary practical instruction. Beyond this, no resident instruct 

 ors would be required, but regular and full courses of lectures 

 and experiments in geology, mineralogy, botany, comparative 

 anatomy, the veterinary art, and chemistry, by competent pro 

 fessors of these sciences, who might be employed for these 

 objects annually, without the necessity and expense of constant 

 residence, as is now frequently done at our medical schools. 

 In this way, the best talents in the community might be com 

 manded, and at a reasonable expense. 



I would require, in the next place, that the pupils should be 

 placed in a condition of perfect equality, and that a certain 

 amount of labor should be made compulsory on all, at such a 

 rate of wages as should be deemed just, according to the ability 

 of the pupil, and the nature of the work done. An account 



