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perhaps, can he, so closely and so profitably as he ought, either the 
theoretical or the practical portion of the youngster’s education. 
We have described the proceedings out of doors. Another por- 
tion of the day is devoted to other pursuits. Under the care of 
other masters, the pupil is taught writing, arithmetic, grammar, 
book-keeping, as applicable not only to agricultural but to commer- 
cial pursuits. To these succeed geometry, algebra, trigonometry, 
as applicable to land-surveying, and that may be usefully employed 
hereafter on his own farm. He is taught to plan and to map the 
different portions of the farm. They are instructed in the system of 
rotation on the farm of the College, and on other farms with a dif- 
ferent super or substratum, and with different species of manure at 
hand. This will branch out into a regular course of instruction on 
the theory and practice of agriculture, and the reason for adopting any 
particular crop or rotation of crops, with the most suitable soil, and 
the most approved mode of cultivation for each. The proper treat- 
ment and management of working, feeding, and dairy stock will 
be here resumed, and more systematically considered — the princi- 
ples of breeding, and the adaptation of the different breeds to dif- 
ferent situations and soils. To this will follow, the best means 
of draining and improving land — the most recent inventions as it 
regards the various agricultural improvements, and the respective 
merits of each. 
To these were added, at Templemoyle, the occasional attendance 
of a veterinary surgeon, who gave a course of lectures on the food 
and the treatment of the horse under the different uses to which 
he was applied, and the most approved method of shoeing. 
Establishments of this kind cannot fail of being in the highest 
degree useful, and we have no doubt will, at no great distance 
of time, be established in various parts of the united kingdom. 
One of them is now locating in Kent, under the able assistance 
of Mr. Duppa, and supported by the principal agriculturists 
of that county. We wish it the success that it deserves. Mr. 
Duppa is very sanguine with regard to it. If the instruction 
which is imparted bears directly on the future business of the 
pupil — if the point to which it is carried is determined by the degree 
in which it can be rendered practically useful, and, with this bear- 
