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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



765 



S'tts for ;iiving a bouiily to her citizens for the pioiiuc- 

 tioii of wheat. 



A bill is in discussion in the le£:i?iature of Ken- 

 tiicky to establish a board of agricuUure, and state and 

 county societies. 



A bill is before the legislature of Maryland, to 

 establish and patronize agricultural schools, Stc. 



The same is under consideration in the young and 

 enterprising state of Michigan, for ih i establishmeni of 

 state and couiity agricultural societies, with appro- 

 priations from the st;ite funds for their support. 



.\ud even VViscon-iin, that wild, tiiough fertile and 

 rapidly increasing territory of the great west, is engag- 

 ed in the same laudable work. 



Nor do we lack a useful lesson of instruction at home. 

 The law passed in IS19, 'to improve the agriculture of 

 this state," did do what its title purported; it did im- 

 prove the agriculture of this state. It improved our 

 farm stock, our farm implements, our farm crops, and 

 modes of culture; and it gave a new impulse to useful 

 enterprise and improvement. And althougli the man- 

 ner of its execution was in many cases faulty, as all 

 new experiments are liable to be in the outset; yet it 

 effected a great public good. That law involved a 

 public expenditure of twenty-five or thirty thousand 

 dollars, and no like sum, your committef^ are induced 

 to believe, has been expended from the state treasury 

 with greater public advantage. Its benefits are now 

 palpable, and are acknowledged by all iutelligenl men. 

 Indeed, it has been stated, upon no slight grounds, 

 thitthe expenditure has been more than thrice return- 

 ed to the treasury, in t!ie form of canal tolls upon the 

 extra products of the soil, which it virtually created 



There is another subject to which the committee 

 deem it proper to call the attention of the legislature. 

 The insect denominated the grain worm, has, lor seve- 

 ral years, been greatly destructive to tlie wheat crop 

 in the northern and north-eastern counties of the state. 

 It is progressing south and west, and threatens to cut 

 olf, or at least seriously to diminish, the great staple o( 

 our soil, and the source of much of our wealth. If the 

 attention of naturalists, and the critical observation of 

 practical farmers, were directed to the character and 

 habits of this insect, by offers of a liberal bounty for 

 the discovery of an efficient preventive of its depreda- 

 tions, it is believed that great public benefit might re- 

 sult from the measure, while it seems certain that no 

 injury could ensue from it. 



Your committee believe, that in all the arts of produc- 

 tive labor, and particularly in agriculture, it is higidy 

 important, to the attainment of excellence, to commence 

 instruction in the primary schools And as we now 

 have published, in our state, agricultural journals of as 

 high and useful character as are published in the world, 

 and at a price less than one-fourth the cost of an equal 

 quantity of matter in a book form, they consider their 

 introduction into our common schools as occasional 

 class-books for our youth, a cheap and efficient means 

 of improving both the mind and the soil. 



From the best consideration which the committee 

 have been able to give to the important matters which 

 come within the purview of their duties, they have 

 come to the unanimous conclusion, that the time has 

 arrived, when the public interest, and the popular will, 

 alike require the exercise of legislative wisdom, and 

 legislative bounty, to improve the condition of our ag- 

 riculture; the business, as has been already remarked, 

 ,„u,~!, -jues employment to the mass of our popula 



which 



tion, and which is the main source of prosperity to all 

 the other classes of society. The committee, there- 

 fore, recommend that, with a view of promoting the 

 desired improvement, a law be enacted to organize a 

 state board of agriculture, and to establish agricultu- 

 ral societies in the several counties of this state; and 

 that an annual expenditure of 25,000 dollars be autho- 

 rized, for five years, with suitable provisions and un- 

 der proper restrictions, to improve the agriculture of 

 this state. The committee have prepared a bill in ac- 



cordance with their views upon this subject, and have 

 directed their chairman to ask leave to present the 

 same. 



AN ACT 



TO IftlPROVK TlII^ AGRICULTURE OF THIS 



STATK. 



7Vjc pcnpJe of the state of New York, represent- 

 ed in Seintic and ^/ssembly, do enact asjblloios : 



^ 1. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars per 

 annum shall be, and hereby is appropriated, for the 

 term of live years, for the promotion of agriculture 

 and household manufactures in the several counlies of 

 this slate, intlie niannei-foliovving, to wit: To the coun- 

 ty of Albany five hundred and tvveniy-one dollars ; to 

 tiie county of Allegany, three hundred and forty-eight 

 dollars; to the county of Broome, one huiidred and 

 seventy-four dollars; to the county of Cattaraugus, 

 tiirt;e hundred and forty-eight dollars; to the county of 

 Cayuga, five hundred and twenty-one dollars; to the 

 county of Chautauque, five hundred and twenty-one 

 dollars; to the county of Chemung, on hundred and 

 seventy-four dollars; to the county of Chenango, five 

 hundred and twenty-one dollars; to the county of Clin- 

 tiii, one hundred and seventy-lour dollars; to the county 

 of Columbia, five hundr'^d and twenty-one dollars; to 

 the county of Cortland, three hundred and forty eight 

 doila.s; to the county of Delaware, three hundred and 

 foity-eight dollars; to the cotinty of Dutchess, five 

 hundred and twenty-one dollars; to the county of Erie, 

 five hundred and twenty-one dollars ; to the county 

 01 E.'isex, one hundred and seventy-four dollars; to the 

 county of Franklin, one hundred and seventy-four dolj 

 lars; to the county of Genesee, six hundred and nine 

 ty-five dollars; to the county of Greene, three hun- 

 dred and toity-eight dollars; to the county of Herki- 

 mer, three hundred and forty-eight dollars;'to the coun- 

 ty of Jefferson, five hundred and twenty-one dollars; 

 to the county of Kings, three hundred and forty-eight 

 dollars; to {Uc. county of Lewis, one hundred and sev- 

 enty-four dollars; to the county of Livingston, three 

 hundred and forty -eight dollars; to the county of Mad- 

 ison, five hundred and twenty-one dollars, to the coun- 

 ty of Monroe, five hundred and twenty-one dollars: to 

 the county of Montgomery, five hundred and twenty- 

 one dollars; to the county of Niagara, three hundred 

 and forty-eight dollars; to the county of Oneida, six 

 hundred and ninety-five dollars; to the county of 

 Onondaga, six hundred and ninety-five dollars; to the 

 to the county of Ontario, five hundred and twenty-one 

 dollars; to the county of Orange, five hundred and 

 twenty-one dollars; to the counly of Orleans, one hun- 

 dred and sevent3'-four dollars; to the county of Oswe- 

 go, three hundred and forty-eight dollars; to the county 

 of Otsego, five hundred and twenty-one dollars; to the 

 county of Putnam, one hundred and seventy-four dol- 

 lars; to the county of Queens, one hundred and sev- 

 enty-four dollars; to;the county of Rensselaer, five hun- 

 dred and twenty-one dollars; to the county of Rich- 

 mond, one hundred and seventy-four dollars; to the 

 county of Rockland, one hundred and seventy-four 

 dollars; to the county of St. Lawrence, three hundred 

 and forty-eight dollars ; to the county of Saratoga, 

 three hundred and torty eight dollars; to the county of 

 Schenectady, one hundred and seventy-four dollars; to 

 the county of Schoharie, three hundred and forty- 

 eight dollars; to the county of Seneca, one hundred 

 and seventy four dollars; to the county of Steuben, 

 five hundred and twenty-one dollars; to the county of 

 Sud'olk, three hundred and tbrty-eight dollars; to the 

 county of Sullivan, one hundred s.'vent)'-four dollars; 

 to the county of Tioga, one hundred and seventy-four 

 dollars; to the county of Tompkins, three hundred 

 and forty-eight dollars; to the county of Ulster, three 

 hundred and fifty dollars; to the county of Warren, 

 one hundred and seventy-five dollars; to the county of 

 Washington, three hundred and fifty dollars; to the 



