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tioiis of practical life, he must study iu more 

 than one school, and become familiar with more 

 than one system of instruction. The facts and 

 laws of science he can leani in the college, and 

 observe their application to practice on the 

 experimental grounds; but he will further re- 

 quire a wider circle of observation only to be 

 acquired by travel, and thus make himself person- 

 ally acquainted with the different systems of 

 management pursued ])y distinguished cultivators 

 and breeders in various localities or countries. 



Among the most efficient means of advancing 

 the agricultural and cognate arts, I feel no hesi- 

 tation in placing Societies, such as the one whose 

 annual exhibition many thousands will have wit- 

 nessed on tliese grounds during the present week. 

 Happily, Societies of this nature have been 

 formed in most civilized countries, and their suc- 

 cess, upon the whvde, must be considered decid- 

 edly encouraging. Numbers, no doubt, attend on 

 these occasions for mere holiday pleasure, and 

 probal)ly carry away but little information that 

 will benelit either themselves or others. It is to 

 be reart'tted that the oreat essential objects and 

 functions of these shows are not more clearly 

 and generally understood, and their teaching- 

 power more deeply and widely felt. To see and 



