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A botanical garden of 3 acres should contain all indigenous 

 plants, which might be probably useful, and introduced in 

 agriculture ; also, the imported plants and seeds from, for- 

 eign countries, by our navy officers, consuls, &c.; the medi- 

 cal plants for husbandry, &c. 



A BEET-SUGAR MANUFACTORY. 



The recent improvement in extracting sugar from the 

 beet-root has so much simplified the process, that it will 

 undoubtedly become a general business, so that every farmer 

 will produce his own sugar, or, at least, raise and dry the 

 beet for market. The object of this institution should be 

 to diffuse the knowledge of so important a discovery, and. 

 therefore, it should have a manufactory for extracting the 

 sugar from the root, raised for that purpose by the institu- 

 tion and neighborhood. 



A MILL. 



A large institution, of this description, should grind its 

 own flour and corn-meal ; consequently, it becomes neces- 

 sary to erect a mill, with two pairs of stones, which will 

 also serve to show the pupils the management and construc- 

 tion of mills. 



WORKSHOPS. 



To give the pupils a knowledge of the manner of con- 

 structing agricultural implements, as well as to enable them 

 to estimate the costs of machines, buildings, &c., and to 

 apply the acquired theoretical principles of mechanics 

 practically, there should be five workshops, viz : 



Machine shop, 



Wagon-maker's shop, 



Blacksmith's shop, 



Cooper's shop, arid 



Carpenter's shop. 



Each of these shops should be conducted by a skilful me- 

 chanic, who could attend to the work required by the estab- 

 lishment, as well as teach the pupils the use of tools. 



The pupils should learn how to forge, to shoe a horse, to 

 make a wheel, or wagon, to stock a plough, and to build 

 out-houses. It is not intended to make them masters of 

 these trades, but to enable them, in case of necessity, to 

 construct anything belonging to a farm. 



STEAM ENGINE. 



The mill, the apparatus of the sugar-beet manufactory, 

 the straw-cutter, the threshing machine, the machinery of 

 the workshops, and the pump which supplies, through a 



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