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well calculated to do most excellent
service. In my care I think the
tendency of farm work will be to
stimulate in no small degree, a
[non?] thorough, or perhaps I [will?] express
my meaning better by [saying?] a
more [?] study of plants
and plant's life than has heretofore
been the [?] method in most
of our schools and colleges throughout
the country.

As ever truly yours
A. N. Prentiss