No. 10 



Miss Points. — AgrxcuUural Census. 



^ MISS POINTS, 



By .^id-de-Camp. Calved in 1823, Bred by C. Champion, Esq. 



The above enarravin;: is an excellent Portrait of the highbred Durham " Miss Points." It is the intention of 

 the Proprietors of the Farmers' Cabinet, periodically to enrich its pages with portraits of other individuals of 

 the same breed, as well as those peculiar to the breedin? counties of England and Scotland ; as also the Horse, 

 in all his varieties, Sheep, Hogs, Sec. as circumstances shall permit. 



Agricultural Census. 



We congratulate the agricultural commu- 

 nity on the approaching census, and join in 

 the hope that every farmer in the country 

 will be ready and willing to assist in the 

 important work which is to give a mass of 

 information of the highest importance to all 

 classes of the community. The following 

 we copy with much pleasure from the Cul- 

 tivator : 



We are happy to perceive that this im- 

 portant subject has been taken up in the proper 

 quarter, and that we are at last to have such 

 an enumeration of the agricultural products 

 of this country, as will furnish some safe es- 

 timate of the quantity produced, and the dis- 

 tricts in which they are grown. In reply to 

 some suggestions made by us on this subject, 

 Mr, Deberry, the chairman of the commit- 

 tee of agriculture, has kindly forwarded us 

 a copy of the instructions for the use and 

 direction of the marshals and their assistants, 

 from which we find that the following series 

 of inquiries are to be propounded to every 

 farmer. Although there are some products 

 that would be perhaps desirable to render it 



complete, yet it contains all the most essen- 

 tial items, and if carried out in the spirit in 

 which it seems to have been conceived, it 

 will be a collection of vast importance and 

 value to the country. Had such a census 

 of our agriculture been taken every ten 

 years, the comparison of the tables at differ- 

 ent times, would be of the greatest interest, 

 as determining the increase in the product of 

 our friends, and the districts in which the 

 greatest fluctuations have taken place. 



We have one suggestion to make in regard 

 to this matter, which we consider of very 

 great importance. It is this : Let every 

 printer of a newsjjaper in the country, and 

 all in the cities that print journals for distri- 

 bution in the country, give a place to the 

 questions which we copy below, and which 

 will be propounded to every farmer in the 

 United States. As it is to be hoped that 

 there are few or no farmers who do not re- 

 ceive some journal agricultural or otherwise, 

 such a course would be the means of bring- 

 ing the subject to their notice, and enable 

 them to prcjiare their answers with greater 

 correctness than they might otherwise be 

 able to do. If every farmer who receives a 

 copy of these interrogatories, would at his 

 leisure sit down, and write against each one 



