O. MISCELLANEOUS. G09 



of thoroughbred stock is kept on the farm, and has served to 

 improve the stock of the neighborhood. A bone-mill has 

 been erected, driven by the water-power furnished by a 

 small stream running through the farm, and is believed to be 

 the first ever built in North Carolina. The superintendent 

 finds the soil, when properly fertilized with leaves and other 

 handy material, to be as well adapted to fruit-growing as it 

 is to ffrazinsr. 



In 1872 the association reported that their agricultural 

 enterprise had continued to be favored with growing success. 

 A Superintendent of Education had been added, as a compan- 

 ion to the Superintendent of Agriculture, and he is frequent- 

 ly invited to deliver public addresses in every portion of the 

 state. The educational enterprise has resulted in the estab- 

 lishment of general and permanent schools in eleven adjacent 

 counties ; 6000 children have received instruction since 1866. 

 The influence of the operations of the association can be seen 

 for fifty miles around, and 15,000 acres are reported sown 

 with clover. The effect of these efforts in staying the tide 

 of emigration to the West is very apparent, and has already 

 saved to North Carolina hundreds of her best citizens. Rep. 

 Ag. Dept. ,207. 



quetelet's tables of mortality. 



In a recent memoir on Mortality Tables, by Quetelet, after 

 reviewing all the earlier tables of mortality compiled since 

 the days of Halley, for various countries of Europe, he pro- 

 ceeds to the study of the modern tables, in constructing 

 which, as is well known, he has himself taken a prominent 

 part. His object is to obtain a view, not of the individual 

 in particular, but of humanity in its generality. Men act as 

 individuals, and two men equally strong vie with each other 

 with equal chances of success; but if we have a hundred 

 thousand men, equally strong, and battling with the same 

 chances of success against a hundred thousand men of anoth- 

 er nation, and if the former be sustained by a sort of unity 

 which makes them act as a single individual, and if the sec- 

 ond have not such a sentiment of affinity, we shall immedi- 

 ately see the difference in a very marked manner. The tables 

 of mortality represent many different nations, each nation 

 divided according to the ages and sexes of the individuals, 



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