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and expense of organization and mainte- 

 nance, will believe that there will be any 

 considerable number of such schools estab- 

 lished and efficiently sustained in this State. 

 Such as are set up apart from an institution 

 of higher learning will not be efficient. Nor 

 if established, will they be largely attended 

 by pupils of high school age who have to go 

 far from home. And all around the village 

 high schools there is already "practical" 

 agriculture in abundance. It is fully up to 

 the high school plane. Unless there is 

 extreme care at the point where the ways 

 are liable to part, there is great danger of 

 projecting roads which will lead from, 

 rather than to, the greatest good, not only 

 to New York agriculture, but to New York 

 education as well. 



An Agricultural College 



No educational system capable of ade- 

 qutely supporting the agriculture of a State 



