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They enter for a term of two years, and pay for board and tui- 

 tion $60.00 per year. 



The pupils of the third class are admitted at the office to practice 

 book-keeping, and are charged with the management and superin- 

 tendence of the various branches of the estate. 



They pay the same as the pupils of the second class. 



Religious instruction is given every Saturday evening, and all at- 

 t-end their church on the Sabbath. 



So much has that nation done for the mainspring of its prosperity, 

 and I hope that you, gentlemen, will succeed in establishing a per- 

 fect agricultural school j that you will find encouragement and assis- 

 tance from the farmers and Legislature of this great State to carry 

 out your plans. 



It will be the first agricultural school in this country, round which 

 will gradually spring up others. And I trust in the superior intelli- 

 gence and activity of the farmers of thtse United States, to imitate 

 your praiseworthy undertaking, and will establish in every State, and 

 by degrees in every county, institutions of that description, wherein 

 their sons will become impressed with the beauty of the study of ag- 

 riculture, and its importance to the welfare of nations, and especially 

 to this Republic, where the farmers are the main pillar of that lofty 

 and glorious temple of liberty. 



Mr. "Wakeman rose to express his warm acknowledgments of the 

 high interest and value of Mr. Fleischman's very excellent commu- 

 nication, which, he said, would be carefully laid before the public 

 without delay. 



Letter read from C. S. Guilliard of Rondouf, Ulster County. 



Rondout, Aug. 10, 1847. 

 Henry Meigs, Esq. Secretary of the Farmers' Club. 



Dear Sir — Seeing by the accounts of the late excursion of the 

 American Institute over part of Long Island, that much attention 

 is just now paid to that important portion of the State; and suppos- 

 ing that in the meetings and conversations of so many competent 

 men, brought together on the occasions, many suggestions have been 

 made for improving the natural soil of the island; permit me to 

 trouble you with Ihe following inquiries, to wit: 



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