There should be connected with such an institution, in this state, a sufficient quantity of land, of variable soil and aspect, for all its needful annual experiments and processes in the great interests of agriculture and horticulture.

Buildings of appropriate size and construction for all its ordinary and special uses; a complete philosophical, chemical, anatomical, and industrial apparatus; a general cabinet, embracing everything that relates to, illustrates or facilitates any one of the industrial arts; especially all sorts of animals, birds, reptiles, insects, trees,shrubs and plants found in this state, and the adjacent states.

Instruction should be constantly given in the anatomy and physiology, the nature, instincts, and habits of all animals, insects, trees, and plants; their laws of propagation, primogeniture, growth and decay, disease and health, life and death; on the nature, composition, adaptation and regeneration of soils; on the nature, strength, durability, preservation, perfection, composition, cost, use and manufacture of all materials of art and trade; on political, financial, domestic, and manual economy, (or tbe sating of labor of the hand,) in all industrial processes; on the true principles of national, constitutional, and civil law; and the true theory and art of governing and controlling, or directing the labor of men in the state, the family, shop and farm; on the laws of vicinage, of the laws of courtesy and comity between neighbors as such, and on the principles of health and disease in the human subject, so far, at least, as is needful for household safety; on the laws of trade and commerce, ethical, conventional and practical; on book-keeping and accounts; and, in short, in all those studies and sciences, of whatever sort, which tend to throw light upon any art or employment, which any student may desire to master; or upon any duty he may be called to perform; or which may tend to secure his moral, civil, social, and industrial perfection, as a man.

No species of knowledge should be excluded, practical or theoretical; unless, indeed, those specimens of " organized ignorance" found in the creed of party politicians and sectarian ecclesiastics, should be mistaken by some for a species of knowledge.

Whether a distinct classical department should be added, or not, would depend on expediency. It might be deemed best to leave that department to existing colleges, as their more appropriate work, and to form some practical and economical connection with them for that purpose: or it might be best to attach a classical department in due time, to the institution itself.

To facilitate the increase and practical application and diffusion of knowledge, the professors should conduct, each in his own department, a continued series of annual experiments.

For example, let twenty or more acres of each variety of grain, (each accurately measured,) be annually sown, with some practical variation on each acre, as regards the quality and preparation of the soil; the kind and quantity of seed; the time and mode of sowing or planting; the time, and modes, and processes of cultivation and harvesting, and an accurate account kept of all costs, labor, Ac, and of the final results. Let analogous experiments be tried on all the varied products of the farm, the fruit-yard, the nursery, and the garden; on all modes of crossing, rearing, and fattening domestic animals, under various degrees of warmth and of light, with and without shelter; on green, dry, raw, ground, and cooked food, cold and warm; on the nature, causes, and cure, of their various diseases, both of those on the premises, and of those brought in from abroad, and advice given, and annual reports made on those and all similar topics. Let the professors of physiology and entomology be ever abroad at the proper seasons, with the needful apparatus for seeing all things visible and invisible, and scrutinizing the latent causes of all those blights, blasts, rots, rusts and mildews which so often destroy the choicest products of industry, and thereby impair the health, wealth, and comfort of millions of our fellow men.

Let the professor of chemistry carefully analyze the various soils and products of the state, retain specimens, give instruction, and report on their various qualities, adaptations, and deficiencies.

Lee similar experiments be made in all other interests of agriculture, and mechanic or chemical art, mining, merchandize, and transportation by water and by land, and daily practical and experimental instruction given to each student in attendance, in his own chosen sphere of research, or labor in life. Especially let the comparative merits of all labor-saving tools, instruments, machines, engines, and processes, be thoroughly and practically tested and explained, so that their benefits might be at once enjoyed, or the expense of their cost avoided by the unskilful and unwary.

It is believed by many intelligent men, that from one-third to one-half the annual products of this state are annually lost from ignorance on the above topics. And it can scarcely be doubted, that in a few years the entire cost of the whole Institution would be annually saved to the state, in the above interests alone, aside from all its other benefits, intellectual, moral, social and pecuniary.

The Apparatus required for such a work is obvious. There should be grounds devoted to a botanical and common garden; to orchards and fruit-yards; to appropriate lawns and promenades, in which the beautiful art of landscape gardening could be appropriately applied and illustrated; to all varieties of pasture, meadow, and tillage needful for tbe successful prosecution of the needful annual experiments. And on these grounds should be collected and exhibited a sample of every variety of domestic animal, and of every tree, plant, and vegetable that can minister to the health, wealth, or taste and comfort of the people of the state; their nature, habits, merits, production, improvement, culture, diseases, and accidents, thoroughly scrutinized, tested, and made known to the students, and to the people of the state.