30 MR. gray's address. 



place agriculture, the noblest as well as the foundation 

 of all other arts, upon a scientific basis — that the lights 

 of science may be brought to its aid — that it may be- 

 come more profitable and more reputable ? But how 

 can this be done, unless schools be established for the 

 study of it; how, unless the fai'ming community are wil- 

 ling to educate their sons into the profession ? Could 

 this be effected, could all our farmers be taught those el- 

 ementary principles, which would enable them to under- 

 stand the character of the soils, and the mode of increas- 

 ing their fertility, which should instruct them in the right 

 modes of culture, I have the fullest conviction that in a 

 few years the productions of their farms would be doub- 

 led with the same amount of labor, thus furnishing the 

 means of increasing individual and national wealth, and 

 a m^re liberal supply of all the necessaries and luxuries 

 of life. Thus furnishing time and facilities for a more 

 extended system of intellectual anJ. moral culture, and 

 for improvement in every art, in every branch of human 

 industry, in every department of human knowledge, 

 thus tending directly to elevate the popular mind, and 

 prepare men to sustain, to enjoy the institutions of a 

 free government, of liberty, of order, of law and of re- 

 ligion. 



