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"~T ' 7~ -A ^T Kv an iR-ili as either will answer. I choose that 



IT h'eal Ts'mos^co'n emem' ^^^t a'pplieat.on to hen,p, can cure it or sea- 

 son U and Jive it as ?reat a duralniity asSicat or water,^ apphed to any other 



''?ou wouid'i^oTexpt't'tofind a good ferment in your yeast after havin. sub- 



S b'e w'ih hem?: it lemg governed by the same laws that govern every varx- 



'VoL m"y'.nier"}-rom the above remarks that I do not consider Billings's rha- 

 c^JS^^s process, for the preparation of hemp, as likely to he genera ly 



adopted. Yours, veo- respectfully, JAMKS ANUbll.^ jn. 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE NEAR PHILADELPHIA. 



.v„ ;,, .!>.» rJovmintown (Pa 1 Tcletjrapb. that .Tames Gowci) has recently 

 "We leani by a notice in ^^/f. p„':'"^f"^""";„7'^'a^^ his beautiful farm and residence 



purchased the old c"Hej?e bmUhngs and p,„„n^ ^ if sutlicienl encourage- 



at Mt, Airy, -'ih tlje Je^.^n "^.^^^fj^^''^^; q,--- intelligence, energy and skill, and h,» 

 ment is oHered. i rom Yj"' '^„? f. niiin- to"ether with the admirable adaptedness ot hm 

 ihoroudi practical knowledge ot '•^''"">;T ,'Xot 1 esitaie to avow our opinion that he is just 

 grounds and buil-iingB for the P-P-;;^-^^,,'^"-^^^?:.. institution ot^his kind. Let the 

 the person, an.l ^^'-^^^ '^X .he fr ends of agricultural improvement, lend their aid and tcst.- 

 Lty i.rbeh^rifX S an Mar undcrtaHn.s, nVen ..Ucl, com.nenced, and Ikcre can 



'':^ii t'S.^name -ntioned in the Je^gr^as^^^^^^ 

 ^^S^:iJi:^T^^ :^t^^:^^^:^^^^^ . .Lo. or his advanced 

 ''^tIp above, from the Ohio Cultivator, ia the first notice whicb we have seen (17th of 

 Au^st) of the tnatter to which it refers. We agree as to the location and the pubho sptn^ 

 of Mr G and his high appreciation of the great benefit to be denved to the whde counhy 

 by measures which shall result in aMghtcning, as the best means of improving tk. pracHce. 

 of Agriculture. As to Mr. Colm.n's willingness to " assume the respottsibdity of the 

 Presidency, we do not know ; but we do not agree with our respected colleague of the Cul- 

 tivator that it would be inexpedient on account of the reason named, or atxy other of whK=h 

 we are aware. On the co.Urary, we s!.ouUl judge Mr. C. to be eminently fitletl for such a 

 trust with suitable assistants in the various departments, and hinxself placed nt a posittou 

 perfectly independent and above the control of inferior nmids. In one thing fnend Bate- 

 ^^ wUl a^re! with us-that if he were to underU.ke it, judging by all we have seen from 

 his pen he would enter upon the duties with an elevated view of their nnportance, a^,mn^ 

 to do <r^ood, and leaving fame to follou; uninfluenced by gross mercenary' motives, and scorn 

 ing thlt sort of popularity wltich is caught by setting traps to amu.se or to bamboozle the 



^"xhe number of agricultural institutions which are being established in various parts o| 

 the country, aftbrd a most gratifying proof that the sentiment has taken root, that Agricul- 

 ture has its science and literature and is a fit subject for the oeeupafion of the rrnnd It is 

 by planting and disseminating that sentiment that American Agriculture ,. now to be per- 

 manently Ld essentially benefited and elevated-more than by oifering a fevv ,£.««« for 

 L ho^. or lar.e crops on small lots. We should like to receive and publish a complete 

 list of au'the agricultural schools, their tenns, course of instmction, &c. &«. 



An ARi-icultural School has, as we have casually seen, been opened on the farm of Gen. 

 H.uMos, in the western part of New-York ; one by Mr. .John Wilkinson in Dutchess Coun- 

 ty New-York, and a "Scientific and Practical Agi-icultui-al InstiUite ' near \\ aide.., n. 

 Orange Cou.ity of the same State. These may be considered among the first fruit, ot 



Bi'mh" 18 it possible, then, that Russia hemp can undergo the process of fernientauon ? 

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