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colleges for tlie education of professors of the highest grade in all 

 the sciences pertaining to the treatment of diseases in animals and 

 improvement of stock, &c. She spends on three veterinary institu- 

 tions annually the sum of 754,200 francs. On other institutions, for 

 instruction in agriculture, 2,731,468 francs, and for the encouragement 

 af agriculture in various other ways nearly 2,000,000 francs, (over a 

 million of dollars). 



In Belgium there are lOO establishments of varicnis kinds for the 

 encouragement of agriculturral education ; and the prractical science 

 of agriculture is the most fashionable in the kingdom. 



In Saxony tliere are live agricultural institutions; in Bavaria 

 thirty-five: in Wurtemburg seven ; in Austria thirty-three; in Prus- 

 sia thirty-two; in Italy two ; in Scotland two ; Ireland sixty-three; 

 and several in England. 



Many of the above are devoted to tliorougli, experimental prac- 

 tical knowledge, adapted doubtless to the institutions and govern- 

 ments peculiar to those countries. 



In connection with the establishment of an experimental farm 

 must necessarily be found all the chemical and philosophical appara- 

 tus requisite for developing facts. Thus rendering it the best j;/'«6'- 

 tical school for the student. And the management may be aided 

 most appropriately and profitably, by a limited corps of educatable 

 laborers as students, and at the same time diffuse annually and con- 

 tinually, that exact knowledge now so deficient among the opei'ative 

 agricultural population. 



It is in this particular feature that the system herewith presented 

 differs from all or any other yet tiied in this country, and which I 

 regard as furnishing all that agriculture, as a distinct pursuit, claims 

 or requires from public aid, beyond that of a common benefit with 

 others, from tlie Literature and School Fund of the State. 



I ask for this subject the deliberate and candi<l consideration of 

 every one directly interested, at least, interested in agriculture, and 

 particularly the ofKcers of agricultural societies and all institutions 

 designed foi* the advancement of this great fundamental intei'est. If 

 Mr. Cornell is right, and can supply this great, crying want^, extend 

 to him that cordial support to which he is entitled for his generosity. 

 But if not, then let us at once seek the ways and means of sujiplying 

 this great need to the mother of arts by other and elHcient means. 

 For we cannot and must not, as we love owy interests and regard our 

 inoral obligations in the eyes of the world, allow it to languish. 



