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tion of a better. To secure this, we need only farmers who will 

 feel a just pride in having the finest orchards and gardens who 

 will surround, not merely their own dwellings, but those of their 

 tenants and helpers also, with choice trees ; and who will plant 

 and keep planting until good fruit shall be so abundant that it can 

 be no longer an object to steal it. 



But I detain you too long, though many suggestions crowd 

 upon me which I would gladly develop, did time permit. I would 

 like to illustrate that inspiring theme, THE HARMONY OF IXTKK- 

 ESTS between Farmer and Manufacturer, \\liich renders each new 

 factory or workshop established in an agricultural county or dis- 

 trict a positive accession of wealth to every farmer who lives 

 within the radius of its influence. You may readily perceive the 

 addition of value given to each farm in Indiana by any canal or 

 railroad which cheapens the cost of sending that farm's surplus 

 produce to market that is, to producers of the wares you re- 

 quire or the fabrics you consume; and how much greater must 

 be the saving, the benefit, to Indiana, of bringing to her soil or 

 near it, instead of tin- fabrics, their manufacturers, so as to render 

 them perpetual and more extensive consumers of her produce, I 

 need not surely insist on. 



But I pass over this and kindred topics, not as out of place but 

 out of time, to dwell for a moment on the necessity that every 

 where exists for increased facilities to Practical Education. 



I have been exhorting your young farmers to study and master 

 the vocation to which their lives are to be devoted and that is 

 right but what if they were to turn on me with the inquiry 

 " Where shall we study ?" How shall I answer them if they ask, 

 " How and where are we to learn how to analyze soils and make 

 ourselves familiar with all the Science which lies at the base of 

 Agriculture as well as Mechanics ]" I can only say to them, 

 " We in New-York are determined, as soon as may be, to have a 

 PEOPLE'S COLLEGE to teach these important, vital truths to all 

 who seek them, and to enable them to pay their way by their 

 labor while learning ; and we trust you in Indiana will speedily 



