EXPERIMENTAL FARM. IX 



An agricultural school should be made liberal and enlarged in its 

 course of instruction, and not inferior in point of intellectual requi- 

 sition and celebrity to the boasted seats of classical and mathemati- 

 cal literature. It should be conducted by well qualified professors, 

 who can fill the chairs with ability to enlighten their pupils in what- 

 ever is necessary to the man that would become a practical and scien- 

 tific agriculturist 



Your committee believe the whole business should be placed under 

 the management of competent and responsible persons, and in a 

 position that would ensure its success. A professional chair should 

 be devoted to lectures and lessons in the French, Spanish, and Ger- 

 man languages combined, with elocution and composition. 



Another department should be occupied in chemistry, geology, bo- 

 tany, and the accessary branches to agriculture, including the natu- 

 ral history of animals beneficial or noxious to plants or trees, but 

 prominently, general chemistry in its immediate application to agri- 

 culture, physiology and meteorology. 



A professor should be appointed for the mathematical and physi- 

 cal sciences, such as arithmetic, elements of algebra, geonaetry, trig- 

 onometry, practical surveying, civil engineering, natural philosophy, 

 astronomy and general physics. 



Animal pathology and veterinary medicine are subsidiary to agri- 

 culture, and the amount of capital invested in the breeding, rearing 

 and maintaining the various domestic animals, is great in this 

 country. 



This science may be regarded as a valuable auxiliary and elucidator 

 of the facts of human medicine. A veterinary, with all the accom- 

 paniments of lecture rooms, museum, hospital, laboratories and 

 forges, should be open to the students. 



In the agricultural department proper, the general principles of 

 farming and horticulture, including the cultivation of the vine, the 

 breeding of cattle, the growing of wool, the raising of horses, the 

 production of silkworms, the tillage of all cereal, culinary, coloring, 

 and esculent plants that vegetate in the northern latitude, the ar- 

 rangement and superintendence of farms, their situation, and book 

 keeping, should have their appropriate place in the general plan of 

 education. 



