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this way rendered immense benefits to the public; but there are 

 still wanted various trials and tests of soils, manures, grasses, 

 plants, implements, modes of cultivation, modes of feeding, breed- 

 ing, dairying, — and on the effects of temperature, moisture, heat, 

 frost, light and electricity, — which common farmers can scarcely 

 be expected to undertake, or, if undertaken, to follow out with 

 that exactness which is most desirable, in ortler to render the re- 

 sults of such experiments worthy of confidence, and lessons for 

 general application. 



" Connected with the whole should be most extensive gardens — 

 first, for purposes of botanical instruction, giving the pupils an 

 opportunity of becoming acquainted with all the principal plants, 

 grasses, forest-trees, fruit-trees and weeds, which enter into their 

 cultivation, to the advantage or injury of the farmer; and next, 

 for making them thoroughly acquainted (a knowledge highly 

 important to them) with the cultivation of all the varieties of 

 vegetables and fruits which may be required for use, profit or 

 luxury." 



" Let us suppose that it were proposed to establish such an in- 

 stitution in the western part of New York. Certainly no location 

 could, in respect to the external circumstance of soil, climate, 

 access, society and markets, be more favorable. A farm of five 

 hundred acres might be taken, on favorable terms, on a long 

 lease. I would under no circumstances suffer the number of pu- 

 pils to exceed one hundred, and perhaps it might be expedient to 

 restrict the number much more. Some good-sized hall or build- 

 ing would be requisite for public meetings, lectures or recitation- 

 rooms, and for a museum, library and chemical-laboratory; but I 

 would erect no college building for the residence of the pupils. 

 They should either lodge in the neighborhood, w^ith such farmers 

 as would be willing to receive them, or other persons who might 

 be disposed to provide for them; or otherwise, I W'ould erect 

 small farm-houses on the place, sufficient to supply the needful 

 accommodations; but in no case should more than fifteen or twenty 

 be lodged in one place; and, w^iether on the farm or not, the 

 lodging-houses for the pupils should be under the constant in- 

 spection or regulation of the governors or instructors of the insti- 

 tution. One or two instructors should be employed constantly 

 for teaching the main branches of education, and a competent 

 farmer should be employed to manage the agricultural depart- 

 ment, and to give the necessary practical instruction. Beyond 

 this, no resident instructors w^ill be required, — but regular and full 

 courses of lectures, and experiments in geology, mineralogy, bo- 

 tany, comparative anatomy, the veterinaiy art and chemistry, by 

 competent professors of these sciences, who might be employed 

 for these objects annually, without the necessity and expense of 



