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model and pattern for trusty young farmers well grounded in 

 the elements. 



(3.) Good schooling is most important at present for the 

 farmer, and must therefore not be interrupted before the age 

 of seventeen. 



(4.) After suitable schooling the learning of the practice can 

 be begun on such middling and smaller estates wliere the chief 

 design is the education of young farmers, and where only a 

 number of scholars proportioned to the circumstances of the 

 farm are taken. When the instruction is finished through 

 the assistance of schools where the languages and the applied 

 sciences are taught, and others, nothing further will remain. 



(5.) After a stay of one or two years in such a practical 

 preparatory school, it is most judicious for the young man to 

 serve some time as volunteer or under steward on a larger 

 estate. 



Now and then a change is to be recommended, though not 

 too frequently. 



(6.) Only well-trained young men should be admitted into 

 the higher institutes. 



(7.) The higher institute should have in view only the scien- 

 tific training, such as answers for the higher development of 

 the profession and science. 



(8.) The most judicious location is therefore the university, 

 in case a capable corps of instruction and requisite apparatus 

 can be furnished. 



(9.) The establishment of chairs of agriculture at the uni- 

 versities, and their adequate endowment, should be desired for 

 the agricultural interest, as well as for all others. 



(10.) The connection of scientific or otlier agricultural 

 institutes with large estates, is only useful when these are 

 carried on quite independently by themselves, and either the 

 director, or perhaps one of the professors, has the management 

 of the domain. 



(11.) The farm property so situated will most judiciously be 

 carried on as a model establishment, but in this case, without 

 regard to the institute, and to secure respect, it should issue 

 the most complete public accounts. Such an establishment 

 need not be located in immediate connection with the institute 

 of instruction, and may be from five to eight miles away. 



