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the memory of the student? Will a mechanic or farmer ever for- 

 get a chemical fact connected with his pursuit? and will not the 

 college student who studies chemistry unapplied^ forget almost his 

 whole course by middle life ? Indeed, it is undoubtedly true, 

 that a small amount of chemical or any other knowledge acquired 

 in youth in a practical or applied manner, will be remembered 

 through life, while a more general course will be forgotten. 



Dr. Waterbury wished Prof. Mapes to speak upon the subject 

 of animal fat. 



The Professor said he had heretofore said pretty much all he 

 knew on that subject — that he referred to those opinions — was not 

 recovered from illness, and had already exerted himself too 

 much. 



Mr. Robinson — As to our subject, " the advantages of agricul- 

 tural education," it appears to me the subject may as well now go 

 to the jury. Oil to cattle? Feed a horse with pork! Can a 

 cow get milk out of it ? We have never heard so many facts as 

 from Prof. Mapes. His instructions can go to children. The ox 

 shall eat grass and grain, and grind them and convert them into 

 fat and meat. The British once tried (in the West Indies) to feed 

 their horses with sugar; the creatures did very well on it with 

 one exception only — they all died I 



What a comment we have to-day on the question of agricul- 

 tural education. Here we have a stripling (Mr. Waring) pupil 

 of Prof. Mapes, with his manual of practical and scientific agri- 

 culture — a little pocket volume that any one can read and under- 

 stand — combining libraries with the practice. Abetter book than 

 has ever before been written on that great subject. 



Judge Van Wyck made several observations on the subject of 

 agricultural colleges, expressing doubts of any utility equal to 

 the experiment of such system. 



Prof. Mapes was satisfied that such colleges were failures in the 

 great purpose of turning out the right sort of scholars. Expe- 

 rience them. He would glory in the universal adoption of a truly 



