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eountry to real greatness, bj honorable and well direc* 

 ted industry. 



To pr-omote this imporfant o]>ject, let atleast, one A^rl- 

 eulturaj School be formed uii'.'cr the patronage of each- 

 State government. Let a faini of one or two thotrsand 

 acres be procured, fui-nisS ed with implements of husban- 

 dry and well stocked!- and let there be two professors; 

 one, an active and intelli,<5ent practical farmer, — the 

 other well acqniinted vvit'ti botany, history, malhematicsy 

 philosophj", and whatever ma\ be requisite to a complete 

 English education. A youth, by entering an Institutiorii 

 qf this kind, would greatly relieve his parent from fhe 

 cxpence usually attending the common mode of educati- 

 on, and would have the best opportunity to attain to a 

 competent knowledge of a profession the most honorable 

 and useful in the world. By exercising himself at the 

 plough, the spade and the hook his body woidd become 

 hardy, active and vigorous, his mind would receive thafc 

 cultivation that would qualify him for becoming a use- 

 ful and valuable member of soi-iety. 



It is tiiis kind of education that is calculated to ren- 

 der us independent, cspeciaily in the Southern States of 

 the Union; where, unfortunately, too many of our 

 young men are devoid of a proper taste for rural em- 

 ployments, and would think themselves df^graded ia 

 being found on a farm of ordinary size, or in paying 

 that attention to it, vthich is absolutely necessary to in- 

 sure success. Thus it frequently happens, that if their 

 lanfl is rich, it soon becomes impoveiishcd by negk ct or 

 mismanagement ; il it is poor, they fail of a livelihood, not 

 knowing how to improve it ; arid in either case they must 

 leave their friends and tiie iand oi t!;eir nativity, and 

 seek a refuge in some distant country. But that I may 

 not trespass too long upon your useful pages, 1 will 

 close these miscellaneous remarks, with expressing the 

 hope that the subject of them will attract the atientioa 

 ©f some more jeady writer than 



Your Friend. 



A Fak,ivi£;r. 



