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granaries and cellars. On (he one hand, as the appropriate speci- 

 mens of the vegetable kingdom for lectures; on the other, for sale. 

 A work shop with great propriety may be attached to the school, in 

 •which the industrious student may have an ample opportunity to be 

 relaxed from his intellectual toils, and develop his physical constitu- 

 tion to the highest perfection in the fabrication of rural implements, 

 whereby much of the evil may be avoided that grows out of a seden- 

 tary life; every part of the body may become invigorated, its health 

 promoted, and prompt and vigorous for every service. What can be 

 of a more priceless value to the young agriculturist than a strong arm 

 and manly form; nerved to grapple with the labors of the field; a 

 gymnasium incomparably more available to his person and state than 

 all the boasted games of antiquity. 



Economy and convenience will require a division of the farm into 

 arable land, meadows, pastures, fields selected for experiments, wood 

 land, orchards, vineyards and nurseries. The plow land should be 

 cultivated according to the best systems of rotation and succession, 

 that the students may have specimens of the varieties of the sys- 

 tem. A stock of cattle of different kinds, domestic and foreign, to- 

 gether with the varieties of other animals found useful for man, must 

 have their appropriate space in the arrangement of the farm. 



For the illustration of lectures in terraculture, a variety of soils 

 should be found in the cabinet, their analysis and specimens of the 

 means of their amelioration in different cases. The woods arrang^ed 

 in the forms of a library, and collections of natural history would be 

 extremely -useful to the institution. 



Your committee invite the attention of all the industrial classes to 

 this momentous suoject, aware of the vast importance of a grand sys- 

 tem of national education in the scientific practice of agriculture, 

 which will double the value of estates, and place by its results the 

 whole country in a position, which, under a beneficent Providence, 

 would defy contingencies. 



It is no visionary scheme. The example of civilized Europe is be- 

 fore us; the agricultural school of Moeglin, on the Oder, formerly 

 under the direction of the immortal Von Thaer, and patronized by 

 the King of Prussia, shows how a pattern farm, when embellished 

 ■with a school devoted to agriculture, may improve, and by its salu- 

 tary example, convert a barren district, a country of heath into fer- 

 tility and plenteousness. 



