1847.] Agricultural College. 107 



2. We recognize also one of our great divisions of the New 

 York system, the Champlain division, after which we pass into 

 the Ontario division, in which we find that remarkable Ibssil the 

 pentamerus oblongus. 



We doubt not the general correctness of the general divisions 

 of what we should here call the lower part of the New York 

 system, inasmuch as these divisions are recognized in the main 

 by the geologists of both countries. We may therefore have 

 confidence in geological conclusions, when they so far agree, es- 

 pecially as they have already been worked out in detail by in- 

 dependent observers. — Ed. 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



At the late annual meeting of the State Agricultural Society, 

 the following resolutions were offered by Gen. Veile, recommend- 

 ing the establishment of an Agricultural College through the aid 

 of the funds of the State. The following is a copy of the reso- 

 lutions ; they express the object and design of the mover. 



Resolved, That in the opinion of this Society, the profession of 

 practical agriculture cannot fail to be vastly improved by a gen- 

 ial diffusion of scientific knowledge applicable thereto. 



Resolved, That by uniting scientific knowledge with practical 

 skill, the profession of agriculture will obtain the elevated station 

 that belongs to it, and we regard it as a sure method of improv- 

 ing the moral condition of the people. 



Resolved, That this Society respectfully recommend to the con- 

 sideration of the Legislature, now in session, the propriety of 

 adopting measures calculated to promote this object, by making 

 reasonable appropriations for the establishment of agricultural 

 schools or colleges connected with experimental farms. 



Gen. Veile sustained the resolutions on the ground that agricul- 

 ture is the great source of wealth, and that by agriculture the 

 great mass of men live. He remarked that strange as it may ap- 

 pear, all our great schools have been created and endowed for the 

 direct purpose of educating in the general sciences, and what is 

 exceedingly important to bear in mind is, that those endowed in- 

 stitutions have a tendency to lead young men from industrious 

 pursuits than to them; to professions which are always so full that 

 they are really bubbling or boiling over rather than to those which 

 lead to a life of industry and frugality. Distinctions are sought 

 in the professions which often result in pauperism: to the want of 

 institutions of the kind which the resolutions contemplate, is to be 

 attributed the ruin of hundreds of the young men of our city. 

 Mr. Allen of Erie, and Mr. Chandler of New York, also sustained 



