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Greenville, Ill Nov 22, 1855

My greatly respected & dear Sir,

I hope you may be at Springfield during
the approaching legislative session, when the State
Agl Socy re-organizes.

I have no very especial concern relative to the
appointment of officers, presuming all will be
right in that respect, but it has occured to me
that some action might be taken by the State So-
ciety favorable to improvement in Age. by de-
vising some means of teaching us not only to be
good farmers, but good mechanics. A very
large proportion of the benefit which might be de-
rived from labor saving machines is lost from
the want of a little practical knowledge on the
part of our farmers in the construction and man-
agement of such machines.

Ship loads of mischief and folly are im-
ported from the eastern continent in the shape of
printed volumes, if a good idea may be had
from the same quarter let us profit by it, if we
can. Lord Brougham and others, several