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every subject to which the raiud can find time to turn its attention, the prayer of well consti- 

 tuted mind will be for light — more light. Oh that we could witness one-tenth as much zeal 

 on the subject of AgricuUural Education as is everywhere displayed for and against protecl> 

 ive duties ! We doubt pot we have said enough and even more than wa.s necessaiy, to make 

 ourselves understood. \Ve presume not to shut our pages against discussion so limited and 

 well managed as tiiat with which they have been lionored on this occasion ; but every con- 

 siderate reader knows how hard it is to set limits, wlien they are once opened, and how in- 

 vidious to criticise tlie language into wliich the most liljera! minds may be honestly betrayed 

 in the warmth of controversial discussion. 



NEWCASTLE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY— Its Lvflue.vce, Offickrs, 

 &c. — Few Societies for the promotion of Agriculture have been conducted with so nmch 

 zeal, judgment and perseverance; nor has any made its influence more visible in the im- 

 proved aspect, productiveness and value of the countiy over wliich it has operated. 



We very much doubt whether, in any part of Pennsylvania or New-York, the progi-ess of 

 improvement has been so marked — the cultivation .so neat and thorough — the principles of 

 improvement better, if .so well, understood — or the aj)preciation so steady and decided in 

 tlie selling price of the lands. Nor is there any section of country where agi-icultural melio- 

 ration may be \run-e distinctly tracetl to the effects of association for these puqioses. Out of 

 that association have grown discussion, comparison of opinion and e.x:perience, the exJiibi- 

 tion of the results of experiments conducted with intelligence, and the pati-onage and peru- 

 sal of agricultural journals, &c. Among these last it would be unjust, in this connection, not 

 to refer particularly to the Far.mer's Cabinet, published clo.se at hand, and conducted witli 

 singular judgment and discretion, by Mr. Tatum. We may frankly add that we should need 

 no better proof of a culpable insensibility to the value and the plea.sures of knowledge, in his 

 own calling, on tlie part of any landhf)Ider in Delaware or I'ennsylvania, than to know that 

 he was not a patron of the Farmer's Cabinet. It might be deemed invidious to refer, es- 

 pecially too, to the .active and untiring zeal of Dr. Thompson, of Wilmington, for the benefi- 

 cent results of which we have spoken, if it was not on all hands matter of notoriety and of 

 applause. Some time since, the Doctor succeeded in his wish to retire from the Presidency, 

 but, not weary of doing good, we are glad to perceive, by an account of the proceeduigs of 

 the last meeting, that he consents to continue his valuable services in the no less useful sta- 

 tion of Corresponding Secretary. At their late meeting, an evidence of their good judgment 

 was evinced in changing and alternating the places of exliibition, and in separating the Hor- 

 ticultural Department fiom the Agricultural Society. Either branch is enough to ta.x as 

 much judgment and attention as can be commanded for either, and both are worthy of much 

 more than can generally be gotten for them. 



James Canby having declined reelection as President of tlie Newcastle Agiicultural Soci 

 ety, at the Eleventh Annual Meeting in October last, the following officers were elected . 



President. — John C. Clark. 



Viu Presidents -ioM'^h Carr, John II. Price, Jas. 

 J. Brindlcy, M. U. Ocholtree, Rathmell Wilson, 

 Giles Lambson, Philip Reybold, William Rothwcll, 

 John Jones, George Tybout. 



Cor. Secretary— Dr. J. W. Thomson. 



Rec. Secretary — Bryan Jackson. 



Treasurer — James Canby. 



Counselor — Edward W. Gilpin. 



Directors— Authimy Higgins, Samuel Canby, Z. B. 

 Glazier, John W. Andrews, Dr. R. M'Cabe, Richard 

 Jackson, William Robinson, Henry Latimer, James 

 N. Cleland, Henry Du Pont, J. S. H. Boies, Jesse 

 Gregg, Philip R(>yl)old, Jr., Wm. Tatnall, William S. 

 Bouldin, John lliggins, Francis Sawdon, Edward T. 

 Bellah. 



Kiln-dried Corn Meal. — A new commodity has been inti-oduced into Buffalo 

 market, in the shape of kiln-dried com meal, which bids fair to become an important article 

 in trade. It is manufactured, at Toledo, where is erected an ajiparatus capal^le of turning 

 out "2,400 busliels per day, and it is })ut up in very neat packages shnilai- to fiuui-. 



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