^^£KICAN HERD-BOOlC 



DEVOTED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry. — Liebiq. 



Vol. XI.— No. 6.] 



1st mo. (January) 15th, 1847. 



[Whole No. 144. 



POBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY JOSIAH TATUM, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year.— Forconditions see last page. 



Memorial from Agriculturists. 



We find the following in the Twelfth month number 

 of the Farmers'' Library ^'^v.hich states that it is in 

 course of circulation through the country. Our friend 

 Skinner is disposed to leave no stone unturned in his 

 indefatigable efforts to serve the interests of the agri- 

 cultural community. And it were well to bear in 

 mind, that when those interests are served, all others 

 partake of the benefit; for " perfect agriculture is the 

 true foundation of all trade and industry."— Ed. 



Memorial from the Agriculturists of the 

 United States to their respective State 

 Legislatures. 



The undersigned, on behalf of the agri- 

 cultural interest, to which they belong, beg 

 leave to request your attention to what they 

 feel to be their just, but too long neglected 

 claim on the General Government. 



Not wishing to deal in vague generalities, 

 the meisure we solicit, is tiiat you would 

 urge our Representatives and Senators in 

 Congress, to use their influence to procure 



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an appropriation from the proceeds of the 

 \puhlic lands, or from the general treasure, 

 for the use of each State, in proportion to 

 its representation in Congress, to be applied, 

 in each State, expressly to the establishment 

 of a Normal School, for the instruction 

 and preparation of teachers in agricultural 

 chemistry, mineralogy, vegetable and ani- 

 mal physiology, civil engineering, rural 

 architecture, and practical surveying — in 

 such arts and sciences, in a word, as will 

 enlighten practical agriculture, and render 

 more efficient and profitable the capital and 

 labour employed in it. Teachers thus pre- 

 pared, would be ready to take charge of 

 minor agricultural schools, in each county in 

 every State of the Union; and thus would 

 the foundation be laid for spreading among 

 the mass of the people a knowledge of those 

 sciences, on the application of which, accord- 

 ing to the opinion of the ablest writers of 

 the age, "Agriculture must hereafter depend 

 for all material improvements." 



In the name of justice to the landed inte- 

 rest, and in anticipation of objections as to 

 want of means or power, the undersigned 

 would refer to the very large expenditures 

 under all administrations, not only for the 

 establishment of naval and military acade- 

 mies and schools, and the publication of sur- 

 veys, maps, and journals, without number, 

 of military officers, exploring sea and land, 

 but to the boundless acquisition of foreign 

 territory, by acts of Congress. We may 

 also refer to large and repeated appropria- 



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