42 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



MGantime similar observations are needed for the benefit of 

 agriculture all over the country, and it is hoped that efforts vi^ill 

 be made to establish a general system, from which might be 

 expected the most valuable results. A plan for such observa- 

 tions was proposed by Lieut. Maury, of the National Observa- 

 tory, in the August number of the American Farmer ; and to 

 give some encouragement to this project, the Board of Agricul- 

 ture passed the following Resolution : — 



Rcsoh-ed, That this Board cordially approves of the plan proposed 

 by Lieut. Maury, in the August number of the American Farmer, for 

 extending to the land, for the benefit of Agriculture, the system of 

 meteorological observations which has done so much for the improve- 

 ment of navigation and commerce. 



That we commend the plan to the fovorable consideration of our 

 brother farmers in other States, and request the members of con- 

 gress from our own State to procure that degree of encouragement 

 for agricultural and sanitary meteorology which has been so wisely 

 and beneficially extended to the meteorology of the seas ; and that 

 the Secretary of this Board be, and he is hereby requested to forward a 

 copy of this Resolution to each n\ember of the congressional delega- 

 tion from this State. 



The plan proposed would secure a series of uniform observa- 

 tions all over the country, and there can be no doubt it would 

 lead to the most valuable results. The association of a large 

 number of observers could not fail to throw light on the climatic 

 influences peculiar to every district, and thus many of the 

 modifying circumstances attending experiments would be 

 known from the highest and best authorities, while the mass of 

 facts, transmitted to head-quarters, would be so generalized 

 and distributed as to make the information on this subject 

 accessible to all interested in it. 



It has already been intimated that the experiments made 

 at one place, and under the direction of one mind, may be of 

 great value in themselves and for that particular locality ; 

 and yet, owing to difl'erence in soils and meteorological in- 

 fluences, they may not be of equal value in other localities. 

 In order to create some interest in the subject, and to elicit 

 a general cooperation, so far as praticable, it was resolved, 

 That the Secretary address a circular letter to the select- 



