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culiar to the establishment as such—The uses of all these will appear as we proceed to consider second What such a professor should do— 1. He should take pains to collect all the best fruit and the best stock in the U. S. and should make needful experiments in cultivating the one and crossing and recrossing the other. 2. To the end he should keep up an active correspondence with all the most noted amateur cultivators in the U. S. and secure specimens from them by donations or exchange— 3. He should also correspond with all proprietors & inventors of Agricultural and horticultural patents and procure a working model of each of their machines on deposite to be put into the depository for trial—so that every agricultural and horticultural machine instrument or tool that is of any practical use would at last be found in the depository and be practically tested and worked at the proper time on the farm. It would soon happen if the thing was well managed that all inventors vendors and proprietors of fine stock—seeds plants shrubs fruits machines etc would send on their several wares and inventions gratuitously for the purpose of bringing them into notice—Especially would this be true if one or two general public fairs—(farmers fairs) were held annually for exhibition sale, etc. In short the above farm should soon be able to show practically every sort of tree, shrub, fruit, root, flower, machine, tool, building, or animal that can be of any sort of use to any fanner in the country—And the professor should be able to work it with his own hands and tell all about it 4 The professor should try experiments such as either he himself or the professor of chemistry might deem expedient in regard to rotation of crops—recruiting and exhausting lands application of manures, fertilisers etc and feeding animals and different modes of housing same etc 5 He should put into the Botanical garden and cultivate such plants as the professor of Botany or any other person interested might wish to see grow there—and in the forest grounds should conduct similar operations on the fruit trees— It may easily be seen how the professor of Chemistry