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by her thousand ships and roads, concentrate the first college and 

 trial farm for all vegetable productions. 



We ask not for private advantages. The State can provide the 

 ground, and that will not fail to increase in value. The State can 

 watch the progress of the experiment and arrest it if it should fail 

 to answer the desired end. Having given by charter to the Ameri- 

 can Institute agriculture .is one of its purposes, and looking at the 

 course of the Institute during the last eighteen years in executing the 

 purposes of its incorporation, we respectfully submit the reasonable- 

 ness of the expectation that the Institute would carry out, satisfac- 

 torily, the agricultural college and farm, if it was entrusted with the 

 trial by your honorable body. It is firmly believed by us that the 

 college and farm can be put into operation by the grant of land and 

 suitable accommodations; and that it can be made to flourish and in- 

 crease without other limits than those of the State of New-York. 



We must teach our young men as much of learning as will place 

 them on a fooling with the educated man of old Europe, and at the 

 same time fix in them a perfect knowledge of farming, and by their 

 daily labor on the college farm, that habit of body, strength and 

 health, without which all the book-learning in the world is but of 

 light value. 



To an enlightened and patriotic legislature, it is needless for us to 

 urge any further reasons; those reasons reach the very deepest foun- 

 dations of our republic, and we well know that the legislature is im- 

 bued with them all. 



Resolved, The commercial relations of the city of New-York, with 

 the whole world and all parts of our own country, recommend its 

 neighborhood as a proper location, and the city and State of New- 

 York, the proper source of public endowmenL. 



All which your committee respectfully submit. 



T. B. WAKEMAN, 

 J. DARRACH. 



On motion, the report was accepted. 



Mr. Van Epps, from the committee on the culture of silk, then 

 read the following report: 



In reporting to this convehtinn on the subject of silk, your corn- 

 mitten have been at a loss to decide in v;hat aspect to present it, in 

 order to secure for it the greatest advantage from the action of this 

 body. 



