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est perfection in the fabrication of rural implements, whereby much 

 of the evil may be avoided that grows out of a sedentary life; every 

 part of the body may become invigorated, and its health promoted. 

 What can be of a more priceless value to the young agriculturist 

 than a strong arm and manly form, nerved to grapple with the labors 

 of the field, a gymnasium incomparably more available to his person 

 and condition than all the boasted games of antiquity? 



Economy and convenience will require a division of the farm into 

 arable land, meadows, pastures, fields selected for experiments, wood 

 land, orchards, vineyards and nurseries. The plow land should be 

 cultivated according to the best systems of rotation and succession, so 

 that the students may have specimens of the varieties of the system. 

 A stock of cattle of different kinds, domestic and foreign, together 

 with the varieties of other animals found useful for man, must have 

 their appropriate space in the airangement of the farm. 



For the illustration of lectures in terraculture, a variety of soils 

 should be found in the cabinet; their analysis and specimens of the 

 means of their amelioration should appear in different cases. The 

 woods, arranged in the forms of a library, and collections of natural 

 history would be extremely useful to the institution. 



Such is a general outline of the New- York Agricultural School 

 and Experimental Farm. Is there a farmer in the Empire State 

 who would not be proud of that school and farm? Is there a citi- 

 zen who would not? Do you not see at once how such an institu- 

 tion would dignify agriculture? How hundreds of young men would 

 be sent out from its portals and its fields to carry the seeds of science 

 and improvement over the whole land? How, under their teachings 

 and examples, the farms of the country would assume a new, 

 a more valuable, and a more brilliant aspect? How hundreds of 

 young men who now rush into law and medicine, (much to theif 

 own and the public's loss,) merely because law and medicine are 

 professions, would fit themselves with far more enfhusiasm for the 

 farm, when science stood in the collegiate laboratory and pointed 

 them to the broad green field, and the beautiful orchard, and the 

 fragrant garden, as arenas where they might vie in usefulness and 

 renown with the advocate, the physician, and the man of letters! 

 Let the farmers give their sons such an education as this school 

 would afford, and our rulers would come from the farm — the en- 

 lightened farm, where virtue and science walk hanl in hand — the 

 American farm, on which the shade of Washington might well look 



