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in regard to practices of the utility of which he is not 

 assured. He can make the experiments at first on a 

 small scale, if he wish, so that the loss will not be great 

 or disastrous, in case of failure. 



More scientific and practical knowledge would enhance 

 both the pleasure and profits of agriculture, were the 

 large mass of farmers better informed in regard to Botany, 

 Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, and the Physiology of 

 Animal and Vegetable Life, it would be greatly to their 

 advantage, by enabling them to make their farm opera- 

 tions both more effective and productive. For this rea- 

 son practical agriculture should be taught as a regular 

 study, by competent teachers, in all of our district and 

 academic schools. 



Large numbers of the children, especially in the rural 

 schools, are to grow up practical farmers, and they 

 should be armed and qualified as thoroughly as possible, 

 with such education and knowledge as will prove of ad- 

 vantage to them in their special avocation, and render 

 them as useful and intelligent citizens and farmers as 

 they are capable of becoming ; and they should receive 

 the rudiments and first principles of such education 

 when young and in the primary schools. 



Dr. Blake> the distinguished scientist and educator, 

 once said in an address, that " Lecturers, in all parts of 

 the country, should be sent out and maintained by the 

 Government, and the farmers should hear them every 

 month on topics interesting to them as cultivators and 

 stock breeders lecturers of ability and learning." 



