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to as great a number as the demands of the people require, and 

 if all the agricultural class choose to enjoy the advantages of 

 such institutions, they can provide themselves accordingly. 

 The additional profit which they would soon be the means of 

 conferring on tillage, would afford the amplest means to erect 

 and sustain them in sufficient numbers to meet all the wants 

 of the community. 



But it is not to be expected, for the present at least, that any 

 more than a portion of the agriculturists will feel an inclination 

 to participate in the superior benefits of such establishments. 

 Nevertheless the whole mass of the people will be as really 

 profited by comparatively few schools, as though they were 

 multiplied to a sufficient number to include every individual 

 within their limits. Every part of the country will be repre- 

 sented by those who resort to them, and when they have com- 

 pleted their course of preparation, and retire to their respective 

 homes to enter upon the pursuits which they have chosen, 

 they will exhibit an example of correct and successful tillage 

 which will excite curiosity, attract imitation, and raise the 

 standard of agriculture in all their vicinities. Their new meth- 

 ods of cultivation, their communications with those around 

 them, will stimulate inquiry, gradually diffuse correct and use- 

 ful ideas, and extend the influence of the school in every part 

 of the community. 



It is probable, also, that a multitude of useful publications 

 will issue from the pens of those who are devoted to teaching 

 agricultural science, which, popular in their form, will have ex- 

 tensive circulation ; and thus, in one form or another, there will 

 emanate from these institutions, an influence which shall pene- 

 trate among the masses, and beneficially reach thousands who 

 have never placed themselves within the sphere of their imme- 

 diate operation. They will be so many lights which will shed 

 their rays not only upon those who are brought into immedi- 

 ate contact, but diffuse their beams abroad, illuminating remote 

 places, finding their way into obscure recesses, and in a thou- 

 sand forms of direct emanation, reflection and refraction, pour- 

 ing out their splendor to the utmost limits of the horizon. 



2. Another advantage is, that they will give new attraction 



