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laborious researches bring to light, to illuminate the mind, lighten 
the toil, and share the labor of the laborious husbandman. 
All this is right, a mere matter of justice, and one which the 
agricultural portion of our country have a right to demand. It is 
mere payment of a claim which they have upon men of wealth 
to whom they yielded the privilege of embarking in more lucrative 
callings, while they have contentedly trudged on, amid the heat 
of summer and the cold of winter; in the burning sunshine and 
while the frowning storm beat angrily upon them; in times of 
deluge and drought, in the hardy labor of cultivating the earth. 
It is no more then they have a right to expect from our colleges 
from whom they have from their earliest existence heard the oft 
repeated cry of more funds by individual munificence or heavy 
grants by legislative enactments. To these cries the people, the 
agricultural, working people have from time to time responded, 
if not with power to satisfy, at least with effect sufficient to induce 
them to call again. 
It is asking none too much of our professors to require them to 
divide their labors among those who are to resuscitate the drooping 
energies of the earth, and cause her to bloom in the beauties of 
more lovely youth, to weave brighter garlands on her brows, and 
keep up richer and more abundant fruits upon her bosom. It is 
from the home of the farmer that many of the choicest intellectual 
gems appear to gladden them, and carry forth into all professions 
the glory of the alma mater, to whose honors their labors are so 
earnestly devoted. 
So far then, we see that a right movement is in progress in 
those colleges that have already introduced the science of agri- 
culture as one of the foster children of their care. They will un- 
doubtedly accomplish much by educating young men to become 
teachers in their turn, either by the practicable and unmistakable 
operations of the garden and the field, or by becoming founders 
of, or connected w^ith other institutions especially designed for the 
promotion of the same object. 
But some other means are necessary for the advancement of 
general agricultural education, besides those furnished or like to 
be furnished by colleges and agricultural schools. Desirable as 
they are, and as rich in the prospects of usefulness as they may 
be, their influence for a while at least must be limited, and their 
effect if felt at all, so slight as hardly to produce a sensation. 
Their immediate benefits must mainly be restricted to those who 
can and have a disposition to afford the expense attendant on the 
course they prescribe, while many a young man upon whom forr 
tune may appear to have been niggard in the bestowment of golden 
advantage, but liberal in the gift of an active and enquiring mind, 
must, for the want of the needful, sigh and turn his back upon 
