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analyze the various soils and pro ducts of the state, retain specimens, 

 give instruction, and report on their various qualities, adaptations, and 

 deficiencies." 



"Let similar experiments be made in all other interests of agricul- 

 ture and mechanic or chemical art." 



"It is believed by many intelligent men, that from one-third to one- 

 half the annual products of this state are annually lost from ignorance 

 on the above topics. And it can scarcely be doubted that in a few years 

 the entire cost of the whole institution would be annually saved to the 

 state in the above interests alone, aside from all its other benefits, intel- 

 lectual, moral, social, and pecuniary." 



Realizing the deficiency of available information on these subjects he 

 added: 



"I should have said, also, that a suitable industrial library should be 

 at once procured, did not all the world know such a thing to be impossi- 

 ble, and that one of the first and most important duties of the professors 

 of such institutions will be to begin to create at this late hour, a proper 

 practical literature, and series of text books for the industrial classes." 



"As regards the professors, they should, of course, not only be men 

 of the most eminent, practical ability in their several departments, but 

 their connection with the institution should be rendered so fixed and 

 stable, as to enable them, to carry through such designs as they may form 

 or all the peculiar benefits of the systems would be lost." 



That he spoke as a prophet is shown by the following quotation: 

 "As matters now are, the world h as never adopted any efficient means for' 

 the application and diffusion of even the practical knowledge which does 

 exist. True, we have fairly got the primer, the spelling book, and the 

 newspaper abroad in the world, and we think that we have done wonders; 

 and so, comparatively, we have. But if this is a wonder, there are still not 

 only wonders, but, to most minds, inconceivable miracles from new and 

 unknown worlds of light, soon to break forth upon the industrial mind 

 of the world." 



"Here then is a general, though very incomplete outline of what 

 such an institution should endeavor to become. Let the reader contem- 



