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One, two, four, or the whole course of lectures may be 

 attended, as suits the inclination or convenience of the farmer. 

 It is seen at a glance how many interesting and important 

 topics are presented in a single week, appealing to the under- 

 standing through the eye, as well as the ear. Extend them 

 through another week, or over three more, during both terms 

 and changing the topics so as to cover a complete course in 

 scientific husbandry, and consider what a vast amount of 

 accurate practical information is afforded by this school, in 

 the year, comprising only four weeks' instruction. 



The instructors, four or six in number, are selected with 

 special reference to their fitness for the different positions to 

 be occupied. There are men of good common sense, having 

 an aptness for popular instruction, and a competent fund of 

 positive scientific knowledge, and also ingenious in illustrative 

 experiments and in the use of apparatus. As regards funds 

 for the support of such schools, they should be furnished by 

 the State, and it could well afford to do so. Can any one 

 doubt the influence of such schools upon real agricultural 

 progress ? The solid prosperity of the farming interests must 

 be promoted by this higher education, and I believe they would 

 be well patronized by working farmers, the class now so much 

 neglected. 



One body of teachers would supply the wants of the State, 

 if schools were established in eight or ten different localities, 

 as they could move from one to the other, having school terms 

 in different months of the year. These schools would be for 

 the benefit of the youth as well as for middle-aged men ; the 

 farmer and his sons would attend them in winter, and doubt- 

 less in summer, for the attractions and advantages would be 



