mentioned, together with well approved Agricultural books, should 

 form a portion of the annual additions to these libraries; and if such 

 works cannot be found, the necessary authority should be created for 

 their compilation. Thus you provide the means of self instruction 

 in a great degree, to the humblest and most obscure inquirer, and that 

 without cost. 



In these last suggestions, I am gratified to remark, that we have 

 the testimony of such high authority as the late Governor Wright, in 

 the address he had prepared, and which was read after his lamented 

 death, before your Society, at Saratoga. It was a subject to which 

 he had, unquestionably, given much of his strong and vigorous thought, 

 and may be well received by us as worthy of profound considera- 

 tion. 



Let us then commence the work, and proceed until we effect this 

 momentous object. Let it become the duty of a committee of your 

 body, to take the subject in charge, and wait upon the Legislature, 

 with all the resources they may command, to aid them in enacting a 

 law, and to carry out its provisions. This once effected, your future 

 success is certain. The time is auspicious. I believe the public 

 mind is prepared to receive it, and that it will be hailed with heartfelt 

 gratification by all classes of our community. 



Among the benefits arising from well directed Agricultural educa- 

 tion, aside from spreading the requisite learning and intelligence ap- 

 plicable to the chief pursuit of our people, deep and broad among 

 them, the retention of that portion of active capital, acquired by the 

 industry of our Agricultural population, among themselves, would be. 

 one important consequence. In place of the prevailing and mistaken 

 notion that monied capital invested in agriculture is either unproduc- 

 tive, or less so than in other pursuits, our farmers would be taught 

 that, coupled with >he knowledge to direct it, no branch of our national 



