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plod on the same dull pace, and follow the same dull routine — 

 year after year — year after year, without one holiday, — without 

 one meeting of general festivity and thanksgiving. No wonder 

 things are at so low an ebb. No wonder that those children of 

 our farmers, who have sprightliness and ambition, should be anx- 

 ious to leave this monotonous employment, and engage in business 

 which presents a better theatre lor enterprise and activity. But 

 we hope and trust, that this will not always be. We are aware, 

 that there are those among us, of high and honorable standing, who 

 assert, that " these societies and cattle fairs are of no use, that they 

 present more shozo than substance.'''' But, with all due deference, 

 we as stoutly and decidedly assert, that we know better. There 

 was once a State Agricultural Society in Maine. They had one 

 Cattle Show, and although several years have elapsed since, the 

 good effects of it are visible to this day. Why it was suffered to 

 decline, or go down, we know not ; but, we hope, that another, 

 and a stronger, will, ere long, rise in its stead. 



Correct answers, to Prof. C's. questions, will give us a just view 

 of the present state of Agriculture among us, show where the 

 weakest points are, and in what things improvement is the most 

 needed. — The pages of the Journal are open to receive answers, 

 and remarks, should it be more convenient to insert them there, 

 than to send them to Prof. G. himself? 



" Sir, — The Agricultural interests of Maine are peculiarly im- 

 portant to its citizens. The great capital of our State is land, 

 which must be made productive by the skill and industry of the 

 Farmer. Independent of the importance of our crops, the in- 

 crease and quality of the most useful domestic animals greatly de- 

 pend on the vegetiible food, which the soil can be made to yield. 



" The true principles of Agriculture can be established only by 

 numerous experiments, carefully conducted and accuniteiy ob- 

 served. It must therefore be important to collect and compare 

 the experiments and observations, which have been made by dif- 

 ferent individuals. 



" Some of the improvements, recently made in Agriculture, have 

 arisen from a judicious application of the principles of Chcniistiy ; 

 and a further increase of Agricultural knowledge will undoubtedly 

 result from the application of similar principles by the practical 

 Fai'mer. 



" One important step preparatorv to further improvement, is 

 to ascertain the present slate of Agriculture in all Us branches, in 

 Maine. 



" With this view the following questions are proposed. Most 

 of theai relate to such land, as has been for some considerable 



