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fill instruction, Jind hiy a linn Inundation lor 

 whatever subsequent additions the pupils nii^ht 

 accpiire to erect thereon. It would he a pleasing 

 and instructive^ ohject to have country schools 

 provided with ^^ardens tor experimental and illus- 

 trative ])urpos(!s. Such adjuncts would torni 

 valuable auxiliaries of teachinii:, and also tend to 

 refine the tasto and enlarge the minds of the 

 pupils. A school house, instead of being, as is 

 even yet too much the case in old and wx'althy 

 districts, bald and uninviting in appearance, if 

 not positively repulsive, sh(mld be expressive 

 and in harmony with its primary objects, both in 

 its exterior and interior features, and a little or- 

 namental planting and fencing would, as in the 

 cases of churches and other buildings, public and 

 private, very much improve the landscape of the 

 country and add a new charm to rural life. 



Agricultural Colleges have, of late years, at- 

 tracted no inconsiderable amount of attention, 

 ; both in Europe and America, and a number of 



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\ experiments have been made with very varying 

 degrees of success. The immense grants of the 

 public lands made a few years ago by the Federal 

 ; government for the establishment of agricultural 

 I colleges, and the prompt action taken by many 

 ^ of the State Legislatures to reduce the noble pro- 



