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After the receipt of your plan for an Ag. School, in Nov. 

 I wrote you on the subject, but my letter must have failed to 

 reach you, as you call my attention to it in your present letter. 

 Without going into the detail of what I then said, I will state 

 the conclusion at which I arrived, which was that your ac- 

 quirements were too valuable to be expended in building up 

 what could hardly fail to prove a mere local institution, and 

 that I hoped a way might be opened in which you could be 

 more satisfactorily employed, both to yourself and the 

 public. ... 



My plan is to have you employed as Ag. Chemist to the 

 State or the State Ag. Soc, and this I am growing more 

 and more confident can be effected by another winter; and 

 it might be done now had we a laboratory where you could 

 work. A law has been passed for rebuilding the old State 

 Hall, which will be done the ensuing summer. The rooms 

 for the State Society are to be greatly enlarged, and, as I 

 understand it, a laboratory is to be fitted up for their use. 

 Here it strikes me is the proper place for you, and here I 

 hope ere long to see you permanently established, with a 

 comfortable salary, and with nothing to prevent you from 

 devoting your talents and acquirements to the advance- 

 ment of the science of agriculture. I should be glad to hear 

 from you on this subject and have your views as to how 

 you could in such a situation best advantage the farming 

 interest of the State. This plan, for the reason I have named, 

 cannot be carried into effect until another year. In the mean- 

 time, the Academy at Ovid would be glad to get you to take 

 the place of Mr. Brewer, who leaves them in May to go to 

 Europe. . . . Efforts are being made to unite with this 

 Academy, Mr. Delafield's Ag. College; and if they suc- 

 ceed in this, you are just the man they would want 

 permanently. . . . 



Neither my desire to promote the true science of agricul- 

 ture, nor my appreciation of your merits, will permit me to 

 lose sight of any opportunity by which I think the joint inter- 



