THE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
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honourable feeling by which men in such situations should be 
guided, and it would very soon defeat its own object. 
In every essential point, then, the two schools will or ought 
to be on an equality. The public will not only be enabled 
but powerfully incited to institute a strict comparison between 
them; and no long time will pass, ere the value of each will be 
justly appreciated, and, dependent upon that, will be the ultimate 
reputation and prosperity of each. There is nothing like open 
and honourable competition in order to secure improvement and 
excellence in every art, and in every thing. 
There are doubtless advantages connected with each institu¬ 
tion ; and it would be folly to deny that there are deficiencies 
and faults in each. The time of improvement is now arrived; 
and that school which does not honestly endeavour to increase 
the one, and diminish or altogether remove the other, will rapidly 
sink in public estimation, and succumb to its rival. False and 
hollow professions—promises which never were kept or meant to 
be kept—will no longer be of avail. The exclusive privilege is done 
away—the boon, for the sake of which many an error and much 
dereliction of duty were suffered to pass unnoticed, either school 
can now confer; and the consequence in both establishments 
must necessarily be, increased diligence and increased zeal,—the 
honest discharge of duty, the sterling improvement of the pupil 
in every branch of his -professiony and the more rapid progress 
of veterinary science. 
Since the last number of this Journal appeared before our 
readers, a noble association has been formed, comprising the 
most influential men of every political party, for the improvement 
of English agriculture and the branches of science connected 
with it. It was a beautiful and heart-stirring scene, when a 
Wellington and a Peel, a Spencer and a Fitzwilliam, forgetting 
every party difference, cordially united for the promotion of such 
a purpose. The numbers and influence and power of the associ¬ 
ation have increased with a rapidity which the most zealous of its 
members did not dare to anticipate; and it will speedily include the 
whole body of agriculturists from the Tweed to the Land’s End. 
The live stock of the farmer constitutes an important division 
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