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tion — it will be worthy of the Agricultural Society and of the 
Veterinary School. While no existing interests will be compro- 
mised — but far the contrary — those preliminary steps will, doubt- 
less, be taken which will secure the full accomplishment of the 
noble objects so important to both parties. 
There, surely, will be no objection, — there can be no well-founded 
one — to the completion of the original but too long neglected pur- 
poses of the veterinary school, and which would be so welcome 
and advantageous to every one connected with the agriculture of 
the country. We anticipate but one opponent; and the ground of 
his opposition, whether arising from misconception or prejudice, 
or dislike or fear, we never could understand. Neither his lec- 
tures, nor the honorarium which accompanies them, is in the slight- 
est degree interfered with or at hazard; while his colleagues have 
expressed their approbation of the proposed extension of veterinary 
instruction, and the demonstrator, highly to his honour, is already 
working on the plan. No opposition will now be of avail; and by 
far the most prudent measure would be to make a merit of grant- 
ing that which can no longer be refused. 
A subject not a little connected with our art, and promising to be 
of incalculable advantage to agricultural men, is now beginning 
to excite considerable attention — we mean the establishment of 
agricultural colleges or schools for the sons of farmers, and, we will 
add, for the sons of veterinary surgeons too ; for, at such institu- 
tions, properly conducted, they would obtain the education which 
would best prepare them for the successful study of their profes- 
sion at the College, and for their well-doing in future life. 
One of these schools has been established nearly twenty years at 
Templemoyle, in Ireland. The farm attached to it consists of 169 
statute acres. It was founded in the year 1827, in connexion with, 
and strongly supported by, the North-West of Ireland Society — the 
plan of M. Fellenberg, at Hofwyl, in Switzerland, being taken, in 
some degree, as a model. The grand object of the school is, to make 
the boys good practical farmers. They are divided into two sec- 
tions, each of which is alternately employed in manual labour on 
the farm. They plough, they sow, they reap, and manure, and 
