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| tural advantages they enjoy for acquiring more.
And what are these advantages First, farm ~
far better place for acquiring really useful kno"-
edge, and for acquiring i, more thoroughly, than
any hall OF science which is, or can be- construct
| ed and furnished by the hands OF men. 1t ls a
CABINET OF NATURE more richly furnished
with specimens, and laboratory where chelnicai
and philosophical experiments are going on upon q
larrer scale than can be found III any high school,
academy, or college.


| Second, the business of the farmer, II he guides
! it bv the hand OF science, and by careful observa-
ton, furnishes means of instruction which can DC
found in no other profession The laws OF ant
NAL and vegetable physiology, of ofchemcal science,
of mechanical philosophy, hydrossalics, and OF
natural science generally, can be intimately and
daily developed by experiments which furnish MS
bread and his success III business, not only with
ont cost but with great satisfaction and pecunlary
! profit. .


Third, the winter evenings Of farmers, if pro-
perly occupied by reading, experimenting ana
comparing the statcGnents oi books win ther
own experiments aud observations, would idrhlsii
ample time and opportunities for storing the miAo


with principles, the general laws Of science 10
direct their summer operations. These evenings


are spent far more profitably If aided by SOCIAL
LvcEums" or weekly Or scmi-weekiy meetings


ut some ten or dozen, or even i've or SIX nelgh-


boring farmers, for the purpose Of conversations
experiments, aid reading on subjects previously
Iselected for the purpose.
! Fourth, as school of morals the farmer Ger
tai2'ly has the best. The best proof Of this IS It's
results. Whethcv colleges, academies. and llal
schools may or may not with prcpriety be con-
sde-cA schools of morals, industry, health. and OF
useful knowledge, farms ere certainly schools pccu-
! liarly favorable for the whole.


have here given 4 few brief hints on a great and
Interesting subject connected with the highest
prosperity and the liberties Of our country. On
Some future occasion, if time and circumstances
shoad permit, I may enlarge upon the subject and
shah remain, in the time, with high esteem,
your friend, J. HoLBRooK.