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fary, and the President, if he approves the same, 

 shall thereupon issue his draft on the Treasurer 

 ibr tlie amount. 



Article 15. The said Board shall also be in- 

 structed to MjaUe efforts to ohtain lunds for the 

 establishmetit of an Afiricultural School in the 

 "District of Columbia, and appurtenant thereto, a 

 course of public lectm-es on Agriculture, Chem- 

 istry, Botany, Mineralogy, Geolo^'V, and Entomol- 

 ogy, as appropriate sciences to the great business 

 of Agriculture, which, with the buildings and 

 improvements thereon, shall, in the language of 

 Smitlison, be set apart forever "as an establish- 

 ment lor the increase and diffusion of knowledge 

 among men." 



Article IG. The Board of Contiol shall pro- 

 cure an appropriate seal for the Society, to be 

 attached to diplomas or other documents or iu- 

 sfruments which may be issued to honorary 

 members or other persons, luider the direction 

 of the Society. They shall fill all vacancies that 

 may occur by death, resignation or otherwise, 

 either in their own body, or the list of the offi- 

 cers, to continue until the next general meeting. 



Article 17. In further aid of the purpose of 

 this society, the said board shall invite some suit- 

 able person to establish an agricultural publica- 

 tion in this city, and shall also petition Congress 

 for the incorporation of this Society. 



Article 18. The first general meeting of this 

 Society shall be in the city of Washington, on 

 the first Wednesday in May next, and thereafter 

 at such limes as the Society may direct. 



Article 19. All monies paid to the treasurer 

 either for subscriptions or as donations to the 

 Society, shall be deposited to tlie Society's credit 

 in such bank or institution as the Board of Con- 

 trol may direct, and can only be withdrawn upon 

 the requisition of the President or acting Pres- 

 ident, countersigned by the seci-etary and trea- 

 surer. 



Article 20. This constitution shall be amended 

 only by a vote of two thirds of all the members 

 present at an annual meeting of the Society — 

 lint the Board of Control may by tlie aid of the 

 President establish any needful by-laws ibr the 

 better order of tlie Society, not incompatible 

 with this constitution — which by-laws may at 

 any time be amended by a majority of the Society 

 present. 



Article 21. Elections for all officers of the 

 Society shall be held by ballot at every general 

 meeting thereof— but until an election at the 

 general meeting in May next, the following per- 

 sons shall be a coiiiinittee to appoint the officers 

 herein before mentioned, and to make publica- 

 tion of the same, in ten days from this time. 



On motion, J. S. Skinner, Est). Hon. D. H. 

 Lewis, and Hon. H. L. Ellsworth were appointed 

 a committee to wait upon the chairman, and so- 

 licit a copy of his address for publication. 



On motion of Mr. Torry, of ftlass. it was 



Resolved, That the Board of Control of the 

 Society be instructed to present a [letition to tlie 

 present Congress of the United States to set 

 apart the Smithsonian bequest lor the pur[)ose of 

 carrviuff out the objicts of the Society. 



The ilon. Levi VVoodliiirv, of New Hampshire, 

 Hon. Lewis F. Liiiu, of Missouri, Hon. William 

 C. Rive^, of Vii-iiiia, Hon. Wm. C. Johnson, of 

 Maryl.ihil, lion. D. II. Lewis, of Alabama, Hon. 

 John HasiiuiTs, of Ohio, Hon. Henry L. Ells- 

 worth, of the Di^jtrict of Columbia, John S. Skin- 

 ner, Esq. of the District of Columbia, and J. F. 

 Callan, of the District of Columbia, were appoint- 

 ed a Committee to select the Officers of the So- 

 ciety provide^! for in the Constiuuion, to serve 

 until tlie regular election in May next. 



On motion, it was 



Ordered, That subscri|itioii papers be left with 

 the Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk of the 

 House of Representatives, the Lilirarian of Con- 

 gress, and with the Secretaries of this meeting, 

 where persons desirous of becoming members 

 may enrol l\w.h- names. 



Ordered, Tliat the proceedings of this meeting 

 be publisheil in all the newspapers of the Dis- 

 trii-t. 



And the Convention adjourned. 

 J. F. Callan, ' 

 R. E. Horner. 



■ ftecretaries. 



The Committee, appointed by the Agricultural 

 Society of the United States, to select the Officers 

 of the Society to serve until the fust general 



meeting and exhibition on the 4tb day of May 

 next, have met, and do hereby recommend and 

 report the following gentlemen to till the offices 

 annexed to their respective names. The Re- 

 cording Secretary is requested to publish the 

 list, and give special information to each individ- 

 ual of his selection. 



Levi Woodbury, 

 Chairman for tlie Committee. 



President— JAMES M. GARNET'l'. 



Corresponding Secretary — John S. Skinner. 



Recording Secretary — John F. Callan. 



Treasurer — Edward Dver. 



Board of'Conlrol — Levi Woodbury, Elisha 

 Whittlesey, Alexander Hunter, John A. 

 Smith, W. J. Stone. 



Vice Presidents. 



Maine, George Evans ; New Hampshire, 

 Isaac Hill; Massachusetts, B. V. French; 

 Connecticut, Eli Ives ; Rhode Island, Gov. Fen- 

 ner; Vermont, WsL Jarvis ; New York, C. H. 

 Bement ; New Jersey, C. S. Green ; Pennsyl- 

 vania, Geo. E. Keim ; Delaware, J. VV. Thomp- 

 son ; Maryland, Thos. Emory ; Virginia, Eo- 

 MOND RuFFiN ; North Carolina, Edmund Deber- 

 ry ; South Carolina, Wade Hami-ton ; Georgia, 

 W. Lumpkin ; Alabama, Dixon H. Lewis ; Lou- 

 isiana, Alex. Mouton ; Arkansas, Archibald 

 Yell; Tennessee, F. H. Gordon; Mississippi, 

 M. W. Philips ; Kentucky, Chilton Allan ; 

 Missouri, Lewis F. Linn; Illinois, A. W. Sny- 

 der ; Indiana, Solon Robinson ; Michigan, 

 Isaac E. Crary; Ohio, John Hastings; Dis 

 trict Columbia, H. L. Ellsworth ; Florida, R. 

 VV. Williams ; Iowa, Timothy Davis ; Wiscon- 

 sin, Henry Dodge. 



The Vice Presidents of Virginia, Maryland, 

 District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Dela- 

 ware, are ex-officio members of the Board of 

 Control. 



A new and important Agricultural Invention. 



John Hernly's Patent Double Sheared 

 Corn Plough Cultivator. — This is a machine 

 tor hoeing corn and potatoes, cotton, tobacco, &c. 

 that in plain ground will save one half of the 

 labor necessary in common modes of culture. 

 It finishes each row by once going over it, and 

 the shears may be so set as to accommodate 

 themselves to any distance between the rows, 

 and give any desired form to the hills, either flat, 

 round or conical. With this instrument one man 

 will on an average in one day with one or two 

 horses, Iioe from six to eight acres of corn in the 

 most approved manner. 



The inventor of the Plough Cultivator is a 

 Gerinan tanner of Lancaster county, Pennsylva- 

 nia, living in a community of the most jirosper- 

 ousand wealthy agriculturists in the United States. 

 This gentleman, disabled from field ami farm 

 labor by an accident, at his leisure mnuii'its set 

 about tlie invention and construction of a ma- 

 chine for saving the labor of hand hoeing. 



The certificate of eighty citizen liirmers of 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio gives assurance that 

 " Hernly's Patent Corn Plough Cultivator" is 

 worthy of the highest praise ami patronage. "It 

 saves (they say) one half the labor, and performs 

 the work in the best manner possible. It pos- 

 sesses a decided advantage over coiiimon ploughs, 

 being lighter and more easily to keep in its place 

 in hilly, sideling or stumpy ground." 



The proprietors of the patent right for the 

 State of New Hampshire and the tier of towns 

 in Vermont on the west side of Connecticut river 

 are Messrs Nesiiiith, Gaorge, Hale and Shaw of 

 Franklin, N. H. They have commenced the 

 manufacture of the Plough Cultivator, and will 

 be able to vend with the right to use them at 

 about twelve dollars each. 



The way the knowledge of this instrument has 

 extended to New Hampshire was in this wise : 

 Samuel Murray, Esq. who left Franklin about 

 two years ago to seek a better fbrtime at the 

 South than he had recently found here, travel- 

 ling in the interior of Pennsylvania, saw Mr. 

 Hernly's Cultivator advertised in some public 

 place. It occurred to him if there was merit in 

 the invention that it might furnish for him n good 

 business. He saw the operation of the imple- 

 ment, and he negotiated a bargain to divide the 

 avails of the sales with Mr. Hernly, who was not 

 himself so weU adapted to traffic in the right as 

 he was to invent the instrument. Mr. Murray 

 travelled to the west and south the better jiarl 



of a year ; and in that time, as the exclusive 

 agent of the invention, he is stated to have sold 

 in rights in seven of the States to the value of 

 between $20,000 and $30,000. His success was 

 evidence of the high value of the machine. If 

 it operates as stated by those who have tried it, 

 the invention will be of immense value to cul- 

 tivators in the cotton and corn fields of the South, 

 and in the extensive prairies of the West. 



Mr. Hale, the agent for the purchasers and 

 owners of the Patent Corn Plough Cultivator in 

 this State, writes us as follows : 



Fi-ankUn, December^, 1841. 



Hon. Isaac Hill: — Dear Sir — Since I was 

 at your office with a model of "Hernly's Patent 

 Corn Plough Cultivator," we have had some of 

 the Ploughs made and had an opportunity of 

 using one .several days while the frost was out of 

 the ground, to the satisfaction of all the (iirmers 

 in the vicinity who witnessed the operation ; and 

 should you think their recommendation of the 

 article of sufficient interest to the agricultural 

 community to give it an insertion in your " Vis- 

 itor," you are at liberty to do so. 



Yours respectfullv, 



ROBERT HALE. 



We the undersigned, agriculturalists, have 

 witnessed the operation of " Hernly's Patent 

 double sheared Corn Plough Cultivator," owned 

 by George W. Neswith, Esq. and others of 

 Franklin, N. H., and cheerfully recommend it to 

 the public as an article of great utility in the 

 cultivation of corn and potatoes. We are satis- 

 fied fioiii the operation that more than one half 

 ol the labor usually laid out in the hoeing of corn 

 may be saved by this plough ; and we are fully 

 satisfied that in the cultivation of potatoes three 

 fourths of the labor, in the common mode of 

 culture, may be saved by this article, where land 

 is not too rocky or stumpy, as the potatoes may 

 be covered, and nearly all of the labor of hoeing 

 may be pertbrmed by it. 



Henry Burley, John Taylor, Isaac Hale, James 

 Bayley," Joshua Heath, p-., Natlian Plumer, Enoch 

 Holt, Amos W. Sargent, Hiram Morrill. 



For tlie Monthly Visitor. 

 Agricultural Lyceums. 



Mr. Editor, — It is well known that general 

 knowledge has been very much increased in the 

 nation within a few years past, through the 

 means of Lyceums. By lectures which have 

 been given from time to time, and by the discus- 

 sions which have been held on almost all sub- 

 jects of a debative cli;iractcr, the people have be- 

 come inforini'il Car beunid tlie limits to which the 

 kiiOMletlge of our fallicrs extended. But among 

 the classes of men who have thus been benefitted", 

 no one has received less benefit than the farmer. 

 And why.' I believe it is because lectures and 

 discussions have generally been upon subjects 

 which were rather Ibreign to the pursuits of this 

 laboring class. For two years past I have urged 

 iijion the farmers the importance of forming 

 .lirricultural Lyceums, in which questions relating 

 to larming operations iniglit be freely and profita- 

 bly discussed. It would be a very easy matter 

 for any fiirnier of reflection to sit down one even- 

 ing, and make out a list of questions enough for 

 a whole winter. Let me suggest one for an ex- 

 ample. 



When is the best time to sow Herds' Grass and 

 Red Top Seed .' hi the Fall or Spring ? 



It will be perceived at once that there are two 

 sides to the question ; the affirmative would take 

 the Fall, and the ni'-niivr ili<- r^piiiig. Other 

 questions might be slariiil di'^i similar character. 



I wish that the fbregoin-- hints (if you see fit 

 to publish them in jour next paper.) maj- gain 

 sufficient attention, as to stimulate fiirmers to or- 

 ganize associations soinethiug after the plan re- 

 commended. 



I would add, that where there is a good num- 

 ber of mechanics in the village or town, one 

 might be formed, called the ..Agriculturists'' and Me- 

 rhrinics' Lycevm, in which both interests might 

 be promoted. P. 



East C ,Dec. 13, 1841. 



How many contentions have been husiied; 

 iiow many divideil families have been united ; 

 how many characters have been reformed, by in- 

 juuctrons uttered froin the sick-couch or the pil- 

 low of death 1 



