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which can only-be accomplished by. personal union of science. and 

 practical skill. And whereas, agricultural science is in its infancy, 

 and many of its leading principles just now evolving, and further, is 

 as yet unembodied — therefore 



Resolved, Agriculture requires an institution with all necessary 

 appliances, for the cultivation and diffusion of its science, and its ap- 

 plication to all branches of rural industry. 



Resolved, The American Institute be and hereby is requested and 

 urged to prosecute with zeal and perseverance the establishment of 

 such an institution, the reasons for which are contained in the follow- 

 ing memorial, addressed to the State Legislature at its last session, to 

 which the committee beg leave to refer: 



To THD HONORAHLE LEGISLATURE OF THE StaTE OF NeW-YoUK; 



The Farmers^ Club of the Jlmerican Ins'ilute respectfully petition 

 your Honorable body for the establishvxent near the city of JVeii>- 

 York, of an Agricultural College and Experimental Farm. 



This application is caused by the growth of a new sentiment 

 among men. They have been habituated forages to see a very small 

 class of the community selected for education in colleges, acquiring 

 literature and science — thence filling the learned professions and influ- 

 encing legislation. This has been deemed a great good because it 

 secured the existence of learning at least if it did not render it suf- 

 ficiently general among men. But a new sentiment exists and grows 

 among all civilized men. That sentiment is, that the useful arts, 

 especially above all things, agriculture, must be elevated to their high- 

 est possible rank. That all our learning must be now connected 

 closely with these useful arts. That all the sciences of the colleges 

 — the powers of commerce collecting from the whole world, must 

 be brought to bear on the glorious fields of our country. That these 

 great resources should be all united in the production of fertility 

 where it is not, in the perfect culture of the staples which we already 

 posscs3, and the introduction of all those for which our country is 

 adapted; and what one is there of all the climates of our globe which 

 may not find a fit location in this empire union, embracing a,ll the 

 best latitudes for vegetation? 



We respectfully ask that an experiment may now be tried in this 

 great State, of all those staples which can be found suitable to our 

 own location; so that New- York city, the emporium of. commerce, may, 



