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describing the insect, its destructive habits, and the best 

 remedies for combatting it, was prepared and sent to every 

 tax-payer in the infested district and the adjacent towns. 

 All these bulletins are sent free to each newspaper in the 

 state, and to such residents engaged in farming as may 

 request the same. The College for many years prior to the 

 establishment of these stations had been carrying on ex- 

 periments in a limited way, and the investigations of 

 Goessmann, Stockbridge, Maynard, and Clark have been 

 of immense value to the farmers of the state, and are re- 

 cognized throughout the country. 



We are told that "agriculture is not a patchwork of 

 all the natural sciences, but is itself a vast subject upon 

 which the various natural sciences shed their rays of 

 light," and that the teacher of agriculture can do little 

 more than indicate the points of contact between his 

 own great subject and the sciences which surround it, 

 leaving the explanations to those into whose domains they 

 properly fall. With this broad definition of agriculture, — 

 itself a science, complete in itself, yet touching all sciences 

 and all branches of knowledge, — and taking as our guide 

 the law that the teacher of agriculture can but indicate 

 these points of contact and leave to others their explana- 

 tion, we have endeavored to rear our superstructure of 

 agricultural education: agriculture, our foundation; bot- 

 any, chemistry, veterinary, and mathematics, our four 

 corner-stones; while the walls arebuilt high with horti- 

 culture, market-gardening, and forestry on the one side, 

 physiology, etymology, and the comparative anatomy of 

 the domestic animals on the second, mechanics, physics, 

 and meteorology on the third, and a study of the English 



