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has, in a wonderful degree, simplified their manipulations, 

 abridged their labour, and rendered their results more certain. 

 From what has already been done, we are not permitted to 

 hesitate or doubt but science will prove equally beneficial to 

 agriculture. There is no business which embraces a wider 

 range in natural science than this. 



&quot; The laws which govern organic and inorganic matter, 

 which influence the economy of the animal and vegetable 

 kingdoms, it cannot be denied, have a controlling influence in 

 the operations of the soil, and in the business of raising ani 

 mals and plants. Education (practical education) is nowhere 

 calculated to diffuse a more benign influence in society, than 

 when bestowed on the farmer. He neither claims nor can 

 exercise a monopoly. His improvements and his knowledge 

 diffuse light around him, and are beneficial to all within the 

 sphere of their influence. 



&quot; Your committee feel assured, that if put into operation, 

 this school will become, not only popular, but highly useful. 

 To the pupil it will afford the most important advantages, 

 besides instruction in the principles and practice of rural labour, 

 which, of itself, confers the power of creating \vealth. It will 

 afford him the advantages of a literary school, qualify him for 

 the higher duties of civil life, and give him withalj w r hat is 

 seldom acquired but in youth, habits of labour and application 

 to business ; calculated alike to promote his individual happi 

 ness, and the good of the State. 



&quot; With such an education, combining personal labour for a 

 practical knowledge of all the instruments of husbandry, and 

 the mode and manner in which it is to be prosecuted, those 

 scientific pursuits will be prosecuted with a certainty that the 

 foot of labour is guided by the unerring results of experience, 

 founded in and regulated by the laws of nature. 



&quot; This school is intended to be purely agricultural. But 

 in saying this, it will be necessary to open a course of instruc 

 tion, combined with labour, which your committee venture to 

 say, will be as interesting, and to the State, as valuable, as 

 that which may be acquired in any other seminary. The 

 different qualities of soil, as fitted for the various products of 

 ^he earth ; the use of compost and manures, as applicable to 



