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can be hurried, and the apparatus will grow natu- 

 rally. 



A tool room, and a very large one at that, should 

 be adjacent to the shop. For the orchard we need 

 a complete set of apparatus for spraying. For the 

 garden we want a digging fork, a spade, and iron 

 trowels. A sprinkling pail should always be on 

 hand, and a scythe should hang in its corner, with 

 whetstone in a box adjacent. The farm tools need 

 not be costly, but it is poor economy to have a plow 

 or cultivator or planter of second class. Economy at 

 this point is never desirable. The shop is to see that 

 good tools are always in repair. 



So far as teachers are concerned, very little direct 

 instruction is needed, further than to get a good text 

 book in each department, and if possible secure a tu- 

 tor who will stimulate work. There is nothing more 

 exciting for young people than making collections in 

 the field. A good leader is wanted rather than a 

 teacher. 



I recommend to those who cannot create anything 

 elaborate in the way of shop or laboratory, to com- 

 bine the two in one, at least for a while. Let this 

 be the general proposition, that the young folks are 

 to study first the things that are nearest at hand 

 those under foot and most observable; second, that 

 they study the life that is in all things about them, 

 from the worms in the soil to the birds in the trees ; 

 that they inquire into the relations of things, and what 



