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when you seek it outside of yourown country. Also, there is an indirect benefit— 
a smaller one—which should result from such an institution as this, Where 
indusiry is stimulated in the direction of the manufacture of goods of the best 
quality, it gives to the general public standards of excellence, educates their tastes, 
and in one way and another stimulates the whole of the producers of the country. 
This institution may be regarded as a centre in which may be focussed the 
agricultural information of the world. It is a kind of clearing-house, and 
those who attend the lectures and are resident students, will become possessors 
of knowledge obtained, not only from the experimental grounds, but from the 
experience of men in every other civilised country. One feature, which I have 
already alluded to, I think is of the utmost importance. _ It is that the students 
should haye some sort of discipline. They should learn habits of industry, and 
how wisely to distribute their hours of labour. Above all, supreme attention 
should be given to the development of their faculties of observation. These 
are all qualities absolutely essential in these days for the career of a successful 
farmer. Those who have merely a technical knowledge of the theories of 
agriculture, and go to work on plans which they have seen applied in the old 
country—those who engage in farming without practical experience—generally 
spell failure for themselves. Not that I disregard the importance of ordinary 
farm life. But in ordinary farm life, in modern times, you cannot acquire 
that scientific knowledge which is essential in these times. As regards the 
scientific instruction it is proposed to give, I do not know the list of 
subjects; but I imagine it is intended to give the students some 
acquaintance with botany, entomology, natural science, and so on. 
has become necessary, in order to produce satisfactory articles, to have @ 
groundwork of scientific knowledge to go upon. ‘This institution may be 
regarded as the generalisation of the agricultural knowledge of the world. It 
may be called a kind of reservoir in which everything that is known or ascer- 
tained in regard to a particular science may be stored. ‘Those who go out of 
it will, like rivulets from some system of irrigation, carry into their own 
localities all they have learned and gained, and afford a healthy stimulus 
to their neighbours in the development of the riches of the soil. I do not 
think our Anglo-Saxon race can be said to be very observant of detail. Wedo 
not take enormous or minute pains about anything we engage in. ‘This is more 
generally the case where the country is young, and where there is no pressing 
necessity to take advantage of every opportunity that offers itself or to care- 
fully finish every detail of the work we have in hand. That is a characteristic 
which cannot be gainsaid. Here, I am cunfident, one lesson that will be taught 
will be to pay the most minute attention to the treatment of every inch of 
ground and to see that nothing is wanted to produce to the best degree every 
plant which may be grown. It is only by careful attention to detail that one can 
command success, and perfection is only attainable after immeasurable trouble. 
Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains. Whether 
that is a correct definition I cannot say ; I only hope that from time to time 
there will issue from these buildings, and go into the larger world, batches of 
thoroughly equipped geniuses. In this country there are to be found none of 
the adverse circumstances which are encountered in plenty of places elsewhere 
_ throughout the world. I have noted that such-and-such a branch of agriculture 
cannot be pursued without extraneous aid from the Government. I do not 
believe in doles or sops from the Central Government, and trom what I see has 
been done already by the residents of Queensland—their neat homesteads, the 
satisfactory exhibitions of their productions, and their general content- 
ment with their position at the present time and with their future 
prospects—I cannot credit that, with the industry and the energy 
of the inhabitants of this colony, there is any necessity, except im 
peculiar circumstances, tu ask or inyoke Government aid. I would 
say thavif there is one defect in Queensland it is that Nature here is almost 
too prodigal. In the case of individuals, as with mankind, adversity often- 
times produces success. We have instances where countries have come to the 
