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Letter Turner to Blanchard 357 APPENDIX DOCUMENT NUMBER 1. Letter to Jonathan Blanchard, president of Knox College. No signature and no date is on the letter though a reply from Blanchard tinder date of October 19, 1848, makes it certain that it was written by Jonathan B. Turner a few weeks before. Turner manuscripts, University of Illinois. ILLINOIS COLLEGE Rev. President Blanchard Dear Brother I have never as yet taken time to suggest to you my ideas of an agricultural school: It is true they may not be worth either writing or reading but still as the thing is evidently new some one must run the hazzard of exposing his folly by making suggestions— and I know of no one who has a greater capital in that line to spare than myself. Besides we have already said so much about f he matter in general terms that it seems proper to endeavor to be more specific.— I suppose then that in such an establishment three distinct professorships should be needed. I A professor of Chemistry 2 a professor of Botany and 3 a professor of—what-the green earth? say Agriculture and Horticulture if you please—The two first professorships might be held by one and the same individual—and if the agricultural school was near a college like yours they would of course be already filled—so that in that case we should have to consult only for the prof, of Agriculture etc. proper In reference to this last Prof, there are but three questions 1. What will such a professor need ? 2. What shall he do—? 3. How shall he be supported ? These points I propose to consider in order—and 1. First such a professor would need a farm of at least 160 acres. Said farm should comprise every possible variety of soils—be well supplied either with living or with artificial water
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