84 Agriculture and Its Needs 



should be carried in all directions. The 

 applications should be especially adapted 

 to every section, and the fullest attention 

 should be given to the less favored rather 

 than to the most favored counties of the 

 State. 



I hesitate not a moment in saying that 

 the State might well send a commission 

 of practical farmers and trained scientists, 

 or, perhaps better, a commissioner who is 

 experienced in farming, informed in eco- 

 nomics, and trained scientifically, to any 

 country in the world that seems able to 

 send us anything in the way of farm pro- 

 ducts or domestic animals that will be of 

 advantage to us, with authority to buy, 

 and directions to learn whatever would be 

 of advantage to our agriculture. I noticed 

 in the New York papers of this morning 

 that New Jersey has just imported fourteen 

 Percheron and Clydesdale horses to extend 



