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teachings of science. The son simply learns from 

 the father, and as the latter knows quite as much as 

 his father and grandfather before him, he pur- 

 sues exactly the same system of husbandry as 

 any other peasant in any other part of the 

 Empire ; it is a matter of perfect indifference where 

 the young agriculturist learns his business. The 

 young pupil in husbandry will always be able to 

 master a certain amount of information which 

 the experience of ages has shown to be true, so 

 that it may be looked upon as positive knowledge 

 and a sort of hereditary heirloom. 

 I must confess, says Dr. Moran, that I experien- 

 ced a feeling of deep humiliation on many occasions, 

 when in the face of this simple knowledge, and 

 the safe and uncontested practical application of 

 it in husbandry before my eyes, I thought of home. 

 We boast that we are a civilized nation ; in our 

 land, men of the highest intellectual attainments 

 devote their best energies to the improvement of 

 agriculture ; we have everywhere agricultural 

 institutions and agricultural societies, chemical 

 laboratories and model-farms, to increase and diffuse 

 the knowledge of husbandry. And yet how strange 

 that, despite all this, we still go on disputing, 

 often so vehemently and acrimoniously, about the 

 first and most simple scientific principles of agri- 

 culture ; and that those who earnestly search after 

 truth are forced to admit the infinite smallness of 



