No. 4.] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 353 



duced into the primary schools, if any children wish to study 

 it. It might be well for the State to furnish the books gratis. 



13. One object of these schools of a lower grade should 

 be to prepare pupils to enter the central institution, in advanced 

 standing, if fitted for it. 



15. Let the State appoint a Board and Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, who shall sustain the same relations to that interest and 

 the schools connected with it, as the Board and Secretary of 

 Education do to primary schools. 



Methods by which the State cak put the precedikg 

 Plak into Operation". 



1. The first method would be for the State to assume at 

 once the whole expense and responsibility of the entire system. 

 For the first year the expenses would be nearly as follows: 

 (Total, 170,000.) . . . 



2. Let the agricultural institute be located so near some exist- 

 ing literary institution, that the pupils could attend its scien- 

 tific lectiires and study its collections in natural history. . . . 



Third Plan for an Agricultural Institution. 

 I. Let a Board of Agriculture, as in the first plan, be 

 appointed by the Legislature, with the following, among other 

 powers : — • 



1. To appoint a secretary, one of whose duties for the 

 present should be, to aid in the establisliment of agricultural 

 schools, and he should also be expected to give a course of lec- 

 tures in the central school, should such a one be established 

 and his services required. 



2. To appoint a president of such central school or college, 

 with a salary of 11,200, who should be also a professor of some 

 department in the same ; also, to appoint a professor of agri- 

 culture in the same, with a salary of $1,000. Also, a superin- 

 tendent of the farm, with a salary from $800 to $1,000. 



3. These four officers, the president, secretary, professor of 

 agriculture, and superintendent, should have power, with the 

 board, to select a site for such college, and purchase a farm, 

 containing from 100 to 200 acres, . . . 



4. The Board should have power to procure for the school, 

 annual courses of lectures, upon subjects not provided for by 

 the instruction of the president, secretary, professor of agri- 



