574 Premium for Experience. — Grain in Gt. Britain. [December, 



arities ; so tliat a careful breeder, by always breeding from animals 

 tbat lie knows to be of good constitution, will ultimately succeed in 

 strengtbening bis stock." 



A Premium for Experience. — Tbe following passage from Prof. 

 North's Address before tbe Oneida Co. Agricultural Society, is 

 wortby of consideration : 



" It is to be boped tbe day is not distant, wben our Agricultural 

 Societies will be so reformed, tbat premiums sball be paid for imper- 

 ishable ideas, as well as for perishable crops. A good yield of corn 

 is less wortby of a prize, tban a good treatise on tbe best way to 

 raise corn. Pay twenty dollars for a premium on tbe best orchard 

 in the country, and only one man is encouraged by it. Pay twenty 

 dollars for a treatise on the best method of managing apple trees, 

 and the whole world of fruit-growers gets a benefit. There is a 

 precious volume of agricultural knowledge hived away in the mem- 

 ories of farmers that never comes before the public, simply because 

 it is never invited. Many a successful cultivator of the soil has died, 

 making no sign, who might have bequeathed to society a legacy of 

 valuable information. In place of offering the farmer five dollars 

 for driving his pet Durham cow to the Fair, ofier him double the 

 money if he will bring also his budget of experience in the dairy 

 business. Society will be thereby a gainer, and the dignity of rural 

 pursuits will be fittingly vindicated.' 



G RAIN IN Great Britain. — The imports of grain into great Brit- 

 ain, for tbe calendar year of 1853, was equivalent to 85,619,532 

 bushels of wheat; in 1854 it was 63,267,240 bushels, and in 1855, 

 50,227,608 bushels. The estimate for the next year is that 40,000,- 

 000 bushels will be wanted , of which Russia, it is supposed, will 

 supply 10,000,000 bushels, Prussia 10,000,000, and other European 

 countries 5,000,000, leaving 15,000,000 bushels to be furnished by 

 the United States. 



