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.Our school and farm will be fixed most firmly on that principal of 

 strict economy so vital, to all great success. The steward of the 

 school will be a man of the right stamp, under the eye of an unpaid 

 and independent President. The young men will furnish their own 

 bedding, and in the whole concern 7iot a dollar shall he expended 

 for show. 



The charge for tuition will be very moderate, and still for a rev- 

 enue sufficient. We have numerous applications from parents to 

 know when we can receive their sons. There will be a multitude 

 of applicants, more than the first establishment could receive. 



Among other matters in the School and Farm, there will be work- 

 shops for making and mending all sorts of Agricultural iraplercents 

 and machines, that the scholars may become practically taught in 

 this branch. 



McCulloch states that in reference to ploughs, that the improved 

 plough has over the old one, the great superiority of one-third less 

 draft. What a saving of labor to a nation! That the best new 

 threshing machines have the capacity to save five per cent, over old 

 modes, thus saving to England over 16 millions ol bushels of graiu 

 per annum. 



Mowing machines and cultivators. What immense labor do they 

 not save. Compare the old work of hoeing with the rapid work of 

 the modern cultivator. As to new inventions, all of which appear at 

 the Annual Fairs of the American Institute, the scholars will have 

 the fullest opportunity to examine them all. 



I wish to add from McCulloch, his remark on the ploughs, now or 

 very lately used within five miles of London, viz: that it takes five 

 horses to pull one of them instead of two. 



Dr. Underbill had noticed an advertisement in a newspaper, of one 

 Isaac Buchanan, who offers to prune grape vines on my plan, which 

 he says is from 19th Jan. to March. Now I have repeatedly stated 

 my practice, which is to prune my vines, Isabella and Catawba, in 

 March and April. That their bleeding so far from being injurious, 

 seems to insure a good crop of grapes. Pruning in February often 

 kills the vines, the cold is too severe, it enters the sap and kills in 

 part. 



Oliver Smith cut off a bush from a tree in December, and the 

 wound will never heal, probably it will rot away. But do the sam.e 

 thino- in March and the wound will surely heal. 



