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desire,) to bestow on a rising generation ; and they deem it 

 their duty, most earnestly, to press it on the consideration of 

 the Legislature, as called for by every consideration due to 

 the public welfare, to the true and lasting interests of the 

 State ; and as the last, but most substantial pillar in the varied 

 edifice of her public institutions. 



&quot; Impressed with this belief, and that the school recom 

 mended will, in many ways, prove highly beneficial to the com 

 munity, and persuaded that the State will ultimately be fully 

 indemnified for her advances, your committee have prepared 

 a bill in conformity with the prayer of the petitioners, which 

 they have directed their chairman to ask leave to present.&quot; 



&quot;Report of the State Agricultural Society, Albany, 

 February 14th, 1833. 



u The committee appointed at the first meeting of the So 

 ciety, to report a plan for an Agricultural School, with an 

 estimate of the expense necessary to establish and pat the 

 same into operation ; together with their views of such an 

 establishment, beg leave to submit the following report : 



&quot; The main objects of the proposed school are, to impart 

 to agriculture the efficient aid of the sciences, and to furnish 

 it with the best models of practice ; to teach, simultaneously, 

 in the period of youth devoted to academic studies, the prac 

 tical operations of husbandry, and such branches of useful 

 knowledge as may tend to elevate its character and increase 

 its products. The plan, therefore, should embrace, 



&quot; 1. A Farm, of sufficient extent to afford room for the di 

 versified operations of tillage, cattle and sheep husbandry, and 

 of orcharding and gardening on a scale that will admit a fair 

 comparison being made of crops, of breeds of cattle and sheep, 

 and of the varieties of hardy fruits ; and sufficiently diversified 

 in soil and surface as to admit of satisfactory experiments : 



&quot;2. A Farm House and Farm Buildings, which may serve 

 as models of convenience, taste and economy, and accommo 

 date the head farmer and his assistants : 



&quot; 3. A School Building, for the accommodation of teach 

 ers and scholars : 



