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Agricultural Premiums. — Editorial Notices. Vol. VII. 



FOR CROPS. 



For the best three acres of wheat, 88. 



For the second-best three acres of wheat, 

 Colman's Agricultural Tour. 



For the best three acres of rye, $8. 



For the second-best three acres of rye, Col- 

 man's Agricultural Tour. 



For the best three acres of oats, $8. 



For the second-best three acres of oats, 

 Column's Agricultural Tour. 



For the best five acres of Indian corn, $8. 



For the second-best five acres of Indian 

 corn, Column's Agricultural Tour. 



For the best one acre of sugar-beets, $8. 



For the second-best one acre of sugar- 

 beets, Colman's Agricultural Tour. 



For the best acre of ruta-baga, or other 

 turnips, $8. 



For the second-best acre of ruta-baga, or 

 other turnips, Colman's Agricultural Tour. 



For the best acre of potatoes, $8. 



For the second-best acre of potatoes, Col- 

 man's Agricultural Tour. 



For the best \ acre of carrots, .$8. 



For the second-best £ acre of carrots, Col- 

 man's Agricultural Tour. 



For the best \ acre of parsnips, $8. 



For the second-best \ acre of parsnips, 

 Colman's Agricultural Tour. 



In judging the foregoing crops, particular 

 regard will be had to the mode and economy 

 of cultivation, and also to the cleanliness 

 and condition of the ground. 



Committee on Crops. — Samuel C. Ford, 

 Henry Chorley, Samuel Ritchie. 



Aaron Clement, Sec'ry. 



March 6th, 1843. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



■ATSERZCAJST HERD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Third Month, 1843. 



The second Annual Report made to the Board of 

 Managers, by Dr. Kirkbride, in relation to the " Penn- 

 sylvania Hospital for the Insane," has, through ths 

 kindness of some friend, been placed upon our table. 



Of all the improvements which the broad philan- 

 thropy of the present day has introduced, perhaps no 

 happier illustration of (heir efficiency can he given, 

 than the change which has taken place in the treat- 

 ment of the Insane. Any of us who have lived so 

 long, and will revert to cases of insanity— that most 

 fearful of maladies, to which we are exposed— that 

 came under our particular observation, or with the 

 history of which, we became acquainted, fifty years 

 ago, either in our own, or other countries, and will 

 again r,Tiir to the treatment of similar cases, at this 

 time, cannot fail to be forcibly struck with the great 

 degree of success which has obviously crowned the 



general effort to mitigate and remove this deep afflic- 

 tion. Instead of the horrors, which it is not our inten- 

 tion now, even to name— of what were at one time, 

 most appropriately termed mad houses, we find the 

 sentiment has taken deep and thorough hold of the 

 public mind, that the unhappy subjects of insanity, 

 should ever be regarded as those for whom we feel a 

 deep and rational solicitude, and to whom we are ac- 

 countable for every act which has relation to their wel- 

 fare, as we are to every other diseased individual. 

 Any one who will look carefully into the statements 

 annually made, of the condition of our well conducted 

 hospitals for the insane, will at once perceive the effi- 

 cacy of this improved mode of treatment, and will feel 

 his very spirit cheered by the numerous manifestations 

 of the triumph of mind— of moral suasion, over a go- 

 vernment of force. Religion and philosophy have pro- 

 videntially penetrated with a ray of light, the darkest 

 part of that path, which all are liable to travel, show- 

 ing, that even there, the characteristics and the privi- 

 leges, and the requisitions of humanity, are still to be 

 acknowledged. 



On taking up the report alluded to, we found our 

 attention so arrested, that we were unwilling to lay 

 it down, till its perusal was completed; and we are 

 much in error, as regards the feelings of our readers, 

 if this reference to the subject, shall prove unaccept- 

 able to them. 



The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, is situ- 

 ated about "two miles west of Philadelphia, between 

 the West Chester and Haverford roads, and is on a 

 farm of 111 acres, of fertile and undulating land, upon 

 which are groves of fine forest trees, and streams ol 

 running water. Its buildings, with the pleasure 

 grounds, garden and deer park, comprising 41 acres, 

 are surrounded by a substantial stonewall, more than 

 a mile long, and 10i feet high." The wall is so judi. 

 ciously arranged, as scarcely to be seen from the Hos- 

 pital, and is therefore, not continually presenting to 

 the patients that evidence of confinement, which is 

 apt to be so unpleasant to a diseased mind. Neither 

 does it interfere with a view of the fine scenery be- 

 yond it. This noble and imposing structure contains. 

 iiOl chambers for patients and their attendants, with 

 all the other appendages of an establishment of thin 

 character, and upon so large a scale. A fund specially 

 devoted to this purpose, by the Pennsylvania Hospital, 

 has been used for the purchase of the land, erection ol 

 the buildings, and complete organization of the con- 

 cern. 



The greatest number in the Hospital at one time, 

 was 127; and this occurred towards the close of last 

 year. Of the 299 patients who have been admitted 

 during the two years of 1841 and J^4'2, that it has been 

 in operation, more than one-third have been dis 

 charged cured, or much improved. But among tins' 

 admissions, were 81 from the Hospital in the city i 

 who were considered decidedly incurable, and nol 

 offering the slightest chance for restoration. Deduct] 

 ing these, we find that more than 48j per cent , of tin- 

 original admissions into the new Hospital, have beer 

 cured, or much improved. A truly encouraging result 



Dr. Kirkbride forcibly inculcutes— and it can si. in H< 

 be too frequently brought to view— the vast importance 

 of early treatment in diseases of the mind. The friend' 



