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accomplished by incorporating an Agricultural 

 Department with already existing educational 

 institutions, possessing a staff of teachers in the 

 various branches usually comprised in a Univer- 

 sity course of instruction. A farm of more or 

 less extent for experimental and illustrative pur- 

 poses would seem to be a necessary appendage, 

 where the teaching of the class room might re- 

 ceive a practical exemplification in the field or 

 the garden. And here I may observe that agri- 

 culture, or the other industrial arts, cannot be 

 thoroughly learnt in colleges or schools however 

 well adapted they may be for teacliing tlieir sci- 

 entific principles; the farm and the workshop 

 are the only places where a practical knowledge, 

 constituting an accomplished workman, can be 

 obtained. It is most desirable that youths, in- 

 tended for agriculture as a pursuit, should be 

 regularly trained to farm labor, and in all young 

 countries especially, such a condition is a neces- 

 sity. Work, both of the head and hands, consti- 

 tutes the basis of every sound sjstem of agricul- 

 tural education. And after all, perhaps, to make 

 a thorough and accomplished agriculturist, one 

 whose acquirements will enable him to extend 

 the bounds of knowledge, and enable him to adapt 

 hiujself to the varying circumstances and condi- 



