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tables we are used lo cultivate for our own consumption, or 

 that of our domestic animals ; their habits, their j:} roper ties, 

 their seasons of attaining perfection. He watches the 

 progress of Nature with attention, and combines his gene- 

 ral observations with those he has made on the particula- 

 rities of each separate vegetable, and then speculates 

 on the modes of culture best suited to them, and 

 the soils best adapted to them, and likely to make them 

 bring forward their produce in the greatest abundance, 

 and highest perfection. 



Are the suggestions of the theorist to be immediately 

 adopted, and carried into practice I By no means — they 

 must undergo the test of experiment; — here the second 

 department of the Agricultural School, as arranged by me, 

 opens, and a new personage is introduced. 



The EXPERIMENTALIST should be careful, patient, and 

 diligent, without prejudices, or even opinions on the 

 subjects before him ; he is to make his experiments on the 

 very smallest scale, so that he can diversify them without 

 expence, and without having any interest in their success : 

 — failure is to him exactly the same thing, as information 

 is his sole object. 



This personage adopts the ideas, and if you please the 

 whims of the theorist, which he is not to presume to call 

 Utopian: —he gives them a fair and patient trial under dif- 

 ferent circumstances, and on a small scale ; should he discover 

 any thing in the slightest degree promising, he repeats, and 

 varies his experiments until he satisfies himself, either that 

 the measure is a vain one, or that it deserves attention ; in. 

 this latter case, the experimentalist makes his report to the 

 agriculturists, recommends to them to try the measure on 

 a larger scale, and in actual practice. 



Even expence, ultimately so important, is not in an early 

 stage to stop proceedings i for the object immediately 



