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Scientific School, shall greatly promote the cause of Agriculture, and 

 elevate the farmer to his true social and intellectual position. 



Resolved, That we hereby tender our warmest thanks to the citizens 

 of New Haven, who have extended to us so many acts of kindness and 

 hospitality during our sojourn here, and we beg them to be assured that 

 the evidences of their generosity and goodness are duly appreciated and 

 will long be remembered. 



These were unanimously adopted. 



Mr. M. L. HOLBROOK, of the Ohio Farmer, then offered an 

 additional one, as follows : 



Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be tendered to the 

 lecturers, for the promptness of their response to the call, and for the 

 very able and faithful manner in which they have conveyed both scien 

 tific and practical instruction. 



Mr. LEWIS F. ALLEN said that he had had no doubts of the 

 success of this plan from the very first, and he had come 500 

 miles or more to show his disposition to aid the movement as 

 much as lay in his power. The names of the lecturers were 

 of themselves a guaranty of the value of the course, if Yale 

 College had not lent its influence toward it. In his opinion, 

 Yale College, with all her great achievements, had never done 

 anything so great or important as in establishing this Agri 

 cultural Lecture system. 



Mr. S. B. PARSONS, of Long Island, thought that an experi 

 mental farm would grow naturally from this movement, and 

 if it did, and it were properly conducted, who could prophesy 

 the national benefits which would result ? 



Mr. JUDD, of the Agriculturist, gave his unqualified approval 

 of the matter, and promised the aid of his paper to the fullest 

 extent possible. 



Prof. B. SILLIMAN, Jr., said that when he saw all this enthusi 

 asm and good feeling he could not help recalling the by-gone 

 days of 1846, '47 and '48, when the late John Pitkin Norton 

 and himself had, after much trouble, obtained the recognition 

 of an Agricultural Department from the College officials, 

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