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tablished. The rich rely upon their paternal wealth, 

 and have not often the ambition to become useful, aJ 

 least by the habits of manual labour, which would 

 be rigidly required in such schools. These schools 

 would be filled with the youth from all classes of so- 

 ciety, who aspire to fortune and independence by a 

 manly exercise of their mental and physical .powers. 

 Young men of this description, even from the poorer 

 classes, do obtain admission into literary institutions, 

 :>!! they would into agricultural ones with still 

 greater facility, since the terms of admission here 

 would be more reasonable, and with an equal pros- 

 pect of distinction and usefulness in after life. But, 

 whether these schools were filled from the rich or 

 the poorer classes, or, as we have supposed, from all 

 classes indiscriminately, a certain and great public 

 good would result from their establishment : the pu- 

 pils would go to swell the producing classes of soci 

 ety with habits of application and usefulness, minds 

 imbued with scientific knowledge, bodies hale and 

 robust, and hands practised in all the manual opera- 

 tions of the farm. 



[NOTE. The foregoing just and forcible remarks 

 on the necessity of improving our husbandry, are 

 from a paper read by Judge Buel before the State 

 Agricultural Society in 1838. A few remarks re- 

 lating to the agricultural periodical, the Cultivator, 

 are omitted, as not precisely in place in this volume, 

 however just in themselves. It is to be regretted 

 that we have no correct or authentic means of deter- 

 mining the amoqfl| of any given article of produce 

 at different periods of time ; still there can be little 

 question that the opinion above expressed, that there 

 is a decided falling off in the quantity of grain pro- 

 duced per acre in the older settled parts of our COUD 



