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how they take effect upon thera, how they leach and become ex- 

 hausted, and under what circumstances and conditions they should be 

 applied; also, chemistry, botany, mineralogy, geology, grafting, 

 budding, mensuration, surveying, zoology, and all other sciences 

 having any connection with agriculture and their application thereto. 

 Also the use of all new inventions, improvements and machinery, 

 also a knowledge of all kinds of stock, their breeding, uses, diseases, 

 and the remedies therefor, and the best modes of keeping them in 

 good health, also a knowledge of all insects, their uses and injuries, 

 and the best means of preventing the latter. 



JSPinth — Because the institution proposed is a new enterprise, and 

 every new thing requires the most favorable circumstances, at first, 

 to show fairly what it really is, and can do, and to secure for it the 

 confidence and favor of the people; and because this Institution is 

 intended as a pioneer enterprise, to show the importance and benefit 

 of such instruction, and to finally produce other institutions like it 

 in different parts of the State and country, and it ought therefore to 

 be where most will see its works. 



Tenth — Because the vicinity of the city of New-York is a more 

 favorable location for the first institution of this kind, and would 

 combine more advantages to assure its success, than any other place 

 in the State. There, suitable land, in every variety, can be obtained 

 as cheap, considering its contiguity to the great markets of the me- 

 tropolis, as in any other part of the State; there the farm and school 

 would be visited by more people than anywhere else, and for that 

 reason among others, the number of students and the amount of do- 

 nations obtained would be much greater there than in any other 

 place; there it could have the voluntary aid and services of many 

 experienced professors of science, connected with the colleges and 

 other institutions of the city; there could be obtained the use of ex- 

 tensive libraries and all kinds of apparatus, and particularly those of 

 the American Institute; there, with the greatest possible facility, it 

 could be furnished with all kinds of plants, seeds and specimens 

 from all parts of the world, and with equal facility distribute them 

 among the farmers of this State; there it could be conveniently sup- 

 plied with materials and all varieties cf manures for making experi- 

 ments; there it would be accessible to the multitudes who visit the 

 Great Fairs of the American Institute from all parts of the country, 

 and there greater publicity through the numerous public journals of 

 the city, would be given to the experiments and operations of the 

 institution than could be secured in any other place. 



