550 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



culture ? Has the Government ever offered one dollar to reward any applica- 

 tion of that mighty power to agricultural or peaceful productive purposes ? No, 

 not one .' And what are the lazy drones about, who compose our Agricultural 

 Committees in Congress, and in all our States, that they do not, or dare not be- 

 gin to inquire into what might be done, and what the farmer and planter have 

 a right to demand should be done in this direction ? For Col. Emory's or Col. 

 Fremont's or any other military survey, there is no difficulty in getting thousands 

 on thousands voted by those in Congress, who are sent there by farmers and 

 planters. They have no scruple in giving $100,000 of their constituents' money, 

 to have an examination made even of the " Dead Sea," but not a dollar for an 

 agricultural survey. 



For the maintenance of a single seventy-four afloat, the Nation pays as much 

 ($200,000 annually) as would maintain a Normal School in every State in this 

 Union, for qualifying teachers for our Common Schools, to give instruction in the 

 application of Geology, Botany, Chemistry, and Mechanics, as applicable to the 

 practice of Agriculture ; and yet our Agricultural Committees and Societies look 

 on passively upon such infamous prostitution of the powers and ends of Govern- 

 ment, without the energy or courage to lift one voice against it. Can any people 

 who submit to such imposture and abuse, claim to have emerged from a state ot 

 barbarism ? and yet we boast of the blessings of free and of self-government ! ! 

 paying for warlike establishments 80 per cent, of all our expenses ! ! ! 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 



The Committee on Agricultural Implements regret that farmers and mechan- 

 ists have been so remiss in not bringing out valuable implements, known to have 

 been put in successful operation, within a few years, in different parts of this 

 country and this State — among which are, 



1st. Hussey^s Reafing-Machine, upward of thirty of which are owned in this 

 County. Twenty of these were introduced the last harvest, varying in price 

 from $100 to $175 each. The work done by them has been eminently satisfac- 

 tory the past season. Mr. Bryan Jackson and Col. J. W. Andrew^ report that 

 they cut — with one of the largest size — 24 acres of heavy wheat in one day. Mr. 

 Wm. Bowman reports that he cut 14 acres in half a day. These are extra days' 

 work, and can only be accomplished with good horses and at good speed. From 

 15 to 20 acres may be deemed a fair day's work. 



2d. Hussey^s Mowing-Machme, with cutters on the same principle as those of 

 the Reaper, has been successfully tried in this County, and if done at the same 

 speed, will cut from 10 to 15 acres per day. 



3d. Pennock's Drill. — This implement has been in use 5 or 6 years, with great 

 success. W. J. C. Clark, the President of the Newcastle County Agricultural 

 Society, stated before the Society that he sowed a part of his field with this drill 

 last year, at the rate of one and one-fourth bushels of wheat to the acre, and that 

 the yield of the drilled was more than double that of the part of the same field 

 upon which two and a half bushels of wheat had been sown to the acre broadcast. 



4th. Mr. J. Carr, of Brandywine Hundred, has recently imported a drill from 

 England, at a cost of nearly three hundred dollars. This machine has the man- 

 agement box, and is constructed so as to sow the concentrated manures, pou- 

 drette, guano, ashes, &c., at the same time of sowing the wheat. 



The thanks of this Society and the farmers of the County are due to Mr. Carr 

 for his public spirit in sending to England (his fatherland) an order to purchase 

 the best and most improved implement of the kind in the Kingdom, regardless 

 of cost, (in which he was most fortunate, as he got the identical implement 

 which took the first premium at the Royal Agricultural Exhibition) — particularly 

 when it is known that he (Mr. Carr) has invited all farmers and machinists to 



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