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soundness of that policy which would provide the whole State 

 with adequate institutions for the instruction of our youth in 

 all those arts and sciences which are essential to improvement 

 in the business of agriculture. Let us, then, hope for a happy 

 issue for this first experiment of our Commonwealth in the ap- 

 plication of science to agriculture, and press on in the good 

 work of advocating the adoption of that policy which, while it 

 would enrich the minds of our young men with the best kind of 

 practical knowledge, would at the same time increase by many 

 fold the valuable productions of the soil, and thereby add 

 greatly to the wealth and power of the State. 



