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ployees, as well as the people on its whole route. Go to a city where a steam¬ 
boat is advertised to depart at a certain hour, and constantly fails to fulfill 
its promises, and the people will follow, in a measure, its bad example. So of 
every enterprise and institution in the land—they all educate the people. 
“We have some things to learn from the old world, and when -we can obtain 
lessons which will improve, they should be applied and practiced. The speak¬ 
er had seen upon the public roads in Germany, miles of fruit trees, entirely 
unprotected even by fences, owned by hundreds of different persons, and yet 
none were taken except by the owners. In Berlin the parks are adorned with 
flowers and rare plants—they are traversed everywhere with the utmost free¬ 
dom by the people, their children wandering about at will, but all remains 
untouched, not a blossom is plucked. We have much to learn in this respect 
of reverence to government and its laws. Something is wrong in our educa¬ 
tion, when we find such few examples here. Obedience to law should be 
taught. There is no freedom without law. This must be effected by family 
government here where we have no despotism to enforce obedience. 
“Education promotes loyalty. Where the people are intelligent they are 
patriotic. Just in proportion as the blessings of a sound education are sjpread 
in a community, you will find loyalty and hatred of treason. I am not an ad¬ 
vocate of college and boarding school education, but am in favor of free 
schools, w^here all the knowledge that the people shall need may be obtained. 
The influence of home should constantly surround our children. The speaker 
desired to see his children surround his table three times a day that he might 
watch over them and protect their morals. It is at the fireside whore moral- 
ality and justice, order and obedience, are successfully taught. Nothing can 
take its place. No other institution can do the work of family government. 
“ What is the object of your fairs ? It is not so much the premium award¬ 
ed which gratifies the recipient as the laudable pride that is excited. It is 
this that incites to further progress towards excellence. 
“ While in Europe, I visited the Government model farm near Paris, where 
one young man is received yearly from each of the seventy-two districts of 
the empire, and a practical agricultural education is given them. They learn 
by practice to do everything upon the farm. Agricultural ^chemistry is taught. 
I saw a dead horse there which the Professor informed me was worth five dol¬ 
lars for manure. Here it would be considered valueless—a nuisance. We 
overlook these things—we consider them of no use, which is a great mistake. 
At this school they have ascertained, by twenty-five years experiments, that 
the Swiss cow is superior to all others for milk and butter. There is an es¬ 
tablishment near Paris where night manure is manufactured into a powder. 
It is estimated that farm products are increased by this establishment sufll- 
cient in amount to feed 200,000 people. We should in this country practice 
upon these hints and save every species of manure which will increase pro¬ 
duction. 
“ Another institution, thirty miles from London, was devoted to questions 
relating to manures, and their effect upon different crops. An acre of land 
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