32 PROPOSALS FOR

work-of instruction, and, at the same time, gaining some knowledge of the art of delivering public lectures.

To give unity to the institution, and efficiency to its several branches, a super- intendent will be requisite: one who has a competent knowledge of the general subject: one who is familiarly acquaint- ed with the practice of agriculture: not in any particular district, only; but in every department of the kingdom; and, this, without partiality to any one: having his mind free for unbiassed choice; and being thereby enabled to se- lect, from the several practices at present established, those which are best, and fit- test to be emplanted in the minds of the pupils, and students, who shall ap- ply for instructions.

The superintendent should likewise be enured to experimental agriculture, and should have a competent knowledge of the several sciences that are requisite to its assistance. He should, moreover, have