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quote the following extract from a report of a committee of the New York 

 Legislature as early as 1822, upon this matter. In alluding to the advan- 

 tages which arc likely to grow out of the establishment of an agricultural 

 school, they refer to the benefit which agriculture itself is to derive, and 

 say :— 



"This school will collect the best systems, and most recent improvements 

 in husbandry, from Europe and America, — adapt them to our climate, our 

 soils, our productions, our wants ; — demonstrate their utility in practice, 

 and disseminate a knowledge of them in every part of the state. The 

 Ilofroyl farm (at that time the celebrated school of M. de Fellenberg, in 

 Switzerland) will serve to illustrate the extent of these advantages. Mr. 

 Brougham visited this in 1816, and enquired minutely into its details. Two 

 vears afterwards, he spoke in high commendation of it in a report which he 

 made to the British parliament on the subject of education. The whole es- 

 tablishment," he says, "comprises but 214 acres ; and the average annual 

 profit of the pattern farm alone, for a period of four years, he found to be 

 836 pounds sterling, or about $4000, exclusive of the cattle concern which 

 was kept separate. We have numerous statements demonstrating the su- 

 periority of the new over the old system of husbandry ; two or three of 

 which shall be noticed in the abstract. The first comparison is made on a 

 mixed, or grazing, breeding, and tillage farm of 314 acres in York. Under 

 the old system the net profits amounted to £3 18. 10s, and under the new 

 system the same yielded a net profit of £595, making a difference of £2*18 ; 

 or 100 per cent in favor of the new system of husbandry. The second one 

 is that of a tillage farm of 139 acres in Lincolnshire. Under the old sys- 

 tem, the profits were £130 — under the new £452 — difference in favor of 

 the latter £322, or 250 per cent. A third statement exhibits the profits 

 of an acre of land, being a medium of several hundred acres in Yorkshire, 

 for six years. Under the old system the profit was £1.9s 3d. Under the 

 new £17. 6s 9d, an increased gain of more than 1100 per cent in favor of 

 the latter. The medium profit of an acre in tillage, in England, is stated 

 at from $21 to $35 per annum. 



We need not resort to Europe for evidence of the disparity which exists 

 between the old and the new systems of husbandry. Ever day's observa- 

 tion affords proofs in our own practice. Why does the county of Dutchess 

 outstrip her neighbors in fertility and wealth ? Not because nature has been 

 more bountiful to her soil ; but because her farmers are better instructed. 

 Why, in passing through our country in every direction, do we see one 

 farm twice or thrice as productive as another, with equal natural advan- 



