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and the lady's, after due deliberation, I verily sus- 

 pect, would be a half-articulate amen. I pretend 

 not to the spirit of prophecy, yet I venture to pre- 

 dict that many who now hear me will live to see 

 professional schools of agriculture established m 

 our land, to see their utility extolled, and to be in- 

 duced to consider them the best nurseries for repub- 

 lican virtues, and the surest guarantee for the per- 

 petuity of 01 r liberties. They should be establish- 

 ed ; they will be established ; and, the sooner they 

 are established, the better for our country. 



To those who have passed to manhood, and who 

 have made up their minds, from necessity or from 

 choice, to till the ground, the means of improve- 

 ment, of studying the rrin:iples of their business, 

 and of becoming acquah ted with the most approved 

 modern practices in husl andry, the opportunities of 

 acquiring useful knowledge are abundant and cheap. 

 One of these means, and a valuable one, is proffered 

 him through the exhibitions and publications of these 

 societies. Another is the perusal of books upon ag- 

 riculture and rural economy, which should form a 

 part of social and rural libraries. And another fa- 

 cility of acquiring this useful knowledge is afforded 

 by the agricultural periodicals of our country, which, 

 besides containing a great deal that is instructive in 

 the philosophy of farming, are a record of the best 

 modes of practice, tind of much that is new and im- 

 portant in the various departments of rural and 

 household labour. A volume of the Cultivator, of 

 which I can speak with accuracy, contains about as 

 much matter as five or six volumes of the popular 

 novels of the day, and twice as much as four num- 

 bers of our literary quarterly journals. The price 

 of the Cultivator is one dollar per annum. I verily 

 think, that if the farmer would divide his patronage 

 between political and agricultural journals, he would 

 be a manifest gainer in his fortune and in his fami- 

 ly ; would be more happy in his business, and more 



