THE PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT 
O P 
THE RESOURCES OF SCIENCE 
In Relation to Agriculture and the Ilealth aud Habitations of the People. 
Outline of a Lecture before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, delivered in the 
Assembly Hall, September 27th, 18GO. 
BY DR. D. B. REID, LATE OF TIIE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 
Dr. Reid commenced by stating that it w T as a source of 
much gratification to him, to have the honor of addressing the 
great meeting assembled in this Hall. Every building should 
be commenced with a sound and sure foundation. In the same 
manner, if we wish to reap the full fruits of Science, w r e must 
sow the seed in the spring of life. The application of science 
to agriculture, and to the health and habitations of the people, 
involved questions of great interest. In a single lecture he 
could only touch on the more prominent topics connected with 
these subjects. But the views he advocated had been contin¬ 
uously illustrated, at least during the last twenty years, and 
he was glad to perceive in one of the late reports on Agricul¬ 
ture issued at Washington, plans of a similar nature, in some res¬ 
pects, were brought forward with all the earnestness of sincere 
conviction. 
He claimed the indulgence of the audience to an educational 
question, which, he trusted, in the course of time, w T ould unite 
the whole population in daily increasing efforts for promoting 
the progress of Agriculture. 
