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and thus the pupil may be taught the art of farming, but those eco- 

 nomical details which make the business profitable as well as plea- 

 sant, must afterwards be learned by the expensive teacher' — experi" 

 ence." 



Our plan, on the contrary, places the pupil in the hands of good 

 practical farmers, whose living and happiness are at stake in the 

 successful prosecution of their business. 



With them, economy and methodical arrangement are necessary 

 and important elements of success. Consequently this branch of the 

 business will be taught precisely in the same manner in which it 

 will have subsequently to be performed by the pupils themselves, if 

 they should follow the business. While we dwell with confidence 

 upon the peculiar advantages of these considerations, we offer equal 

 inducements in regard to scientific instrucHon. 



His course of instruction, while it is mainly directed in its appli- 

 cation to agriculture, will embrace most of the academic studies, so 

 that a thorough English education may be proceeding at the same 

 time. 



Among the branches which will receive particular attention may 

 be enumerated the elements of the natural sciences, and the applica- 

 tion to agriculture, vegetable and animal physiology, mathematics, 

 natural and moral philosophy. 



So far as the experience of six months will enable us to judge, the 

 only remaining obstacles to complete success, independent of those 

 arising from want of proper endowments, are such as are common to 

 any plan to accomplish such education. These are the antagonisms 

 between the farmer and science, erroneous notions of its nature, and 

 the opinion that the experience and practice of one district was of 

 no use in another where a different kind of crop was grown. 



A purely professional education of the farmer, consisting not only 

 in practical skill and all the elements of science, but also in the ap- 

 plication of its developments to the great phenomena of life, re- 

 quire the same preparative studies as medicine or any other profes- 

 sion. 



Its own acquirements are of a high character; a knowledge of the 

 laws and accounts of trade, of the mechanical principles and skilful 

 use of machinery and implements, the study of vegetable and animal 



