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ture, in all its scientific and practical details. Enterprises of this 

 kind need no commendation; the good and happy influences 

 which they must exert in a thousand ways can never be told or 

 reckoned up. 



The subject of agricultural schools is carried far into the part 

 third; indeed, it may be considered as occupying the whole ground. 

 For details in regard to the working of the numerous schools, 

 their objects, plans, &c., we must refer our readers to the work 

 itself We must not, however, pass by the plan of an agricultu- 

 ral institution for the United States, which 3tlr. Coleman recom- 

 mends to the consideration of its citizens. We give Mr. C.'s 

 views upon this subject in his own language. 



" First, then, in every system of agricultural education, there 

 should be an institution for the thorough indoctrination of the 

 pupil in natural science, and in mechanical physiology, so far as 

 it can be made to bear upon agriculture. I have already treated 

 fully of what, on this topic, should be taught in an institution of 

 this nature. 



" Secondly, there should be a model farm, vrhich sliould be ac- 

 cessible to the pupils, and where they might see an example of 

 the best management, and the best practices in husbandry. It is 

 obvious, however, that a single farm can present, excepting on a 

 small scale, only a single kind of farming; and that it w^ould be 

 hardly possible to find a single locality presenting any considera- 

 ble, or very instructive specimen of the different kinds of farming, 

 such as arable, grazing, stock-breeding, stall-feeding, sheep- 

 raising and dairying. But the particular and careful observation 

 even of one kind of well-conducted farming would qualify a 

 pupil for understanding and receiving information on every other, 

 whenever it came in his w^ay, or wherever it might be attainable. 

 Stall-feeding is intimately connected and often associated vrith 

 arable farming, and dairying wnth grazing. The management of 

 live stock, whether for work, for fatting, or for dairying, might, 

 in a small degree, be exemplified on every well-managed fariu. 

 Such an appendage as this to a school of practical instruction, 

 where the pupils might see and have explained to them, the very 

 best modes of husbandry, must be of the highest benefit. To 

 these should be added an experimental farm. This need not be 

 extensive, and it might be connected with the model farm; in- 

 deed, the model farm might itself be, to a degree, an experiment- 

 al farm. It may be said that the premiums offered by agricul- 

 tural societies, for various experiments in husbandry, are sufficient 

 to meet the public wants in this case. I admit that they have in 



