A Text Book on Agriculture (Classic Reprint)

It is now universally conceded that no branch of business is susceptible of receiving greater benefit from science, than Agriculture ;and that such benefits may be actually received, it is equally apparent that the subject must be introduced as a regular study in all our common schools and academies ;for although special agricultural schools and model farms may be established here and there, and be productive of much good, yet the common or district schools and the local academical institutions must ever constitute the main reliance of the great mass of the youth of this country for the sum total of their education. Hence we think a legislative committee never uttered a truer sentiment than the following, taken from the report of the Committee on Agricultural Schools in theL egislature of 1847.
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