No. 0. 



AND GARDENEli'S JOURNAL. 



wasnpplicti ihan in ihe previous year, and notwiib- 

 slaiid 11!} tlie severe druuglit wniih greiitly injured 

 most "!' inir rool cro; 3, my crop on ihie piece of land 

 WIS nearly doul 1 : to tlint ot last ytar. There ie n" 

 kn')wn ciiiee 10 wliii-li 1 can aUribute this great in- 

 crea.se of tlie pniduce, l>ul t'le use of my new con- 

 6triict-d 8ub,-tiiu,e lor a snba il plouiili. Tlie aod was 

 Btirred to the depih of foil teen inche- ; by this meam- 

 tlie rooti? of the carrots were ennbleil to eirilie deep, 

 and thereby not only find more noiiriBbmeiit, but to 

 overcome, in a great meneiire. the elVeete of a very 

 pinching drought. With great respect, 



Your ob't Fcrv't. 

 Lexington, Mass. E. PHINNEY. 



Frtfm Ji'cstern Fa>mer. 



American Society of A^riculliire. 



An Address to thefiirmcrsofthc United States; to ev- 

 ery J'riind itf a^riadtunit intjiroremimt ; to erenj 

 Citizen of tilt United States who desires to see eleva- 

 ted Ihe ch/irartcr and standing of the calticators of 

 American soil. 



M)8t respected and most respectable friends and 

 brothers, give me your attention liir a few fleeting mo- 

 ments; y Mir humble brother, who now addresses yon, 

 published a suggestion iibjut three years ago, for the 

 purpose of arou-ing jour aiten i.in to the subject of 

 forininga Natimal Agricultural Sjciety: thai sugges- 

 tion was then responded to with a hearty good will 

 throughout the country. But action upon the sniijeci 

 has been overwhelmed by the political whiilwind that 

 has swept over our country. In the first lull of the 

 Biicceeding calm, ihc proposition to form such a socie- 

 ty has been renewed, and with one exception, has met 

 with a cheering " God speed the project." None 

 d)ubt the utility of the proposed society, yet doubtless 

 there are many who would like to see the object, end 

 and aim of the society more fully expla tied. To such 

 1 now ofier some of my views, and in doiitg so, invite 

 you all M give yours; for this is one object of a Nation 

 al Society to interchange our vievvs. 



Miny warm friends of the measure, who are nn.x- 

 ious to s^e the society in operation, cannot see how it 

 18 to be organiZ ;d. They s ly. " No doubt if once or- 

 ginized. It would daily increase in strength and us'- 

 fulness: but it is like a great complicated piece of ina- 

 chinerv, of threat use and value when once in motion, 

 but very difficult to start." Now, to me there is no 

 ditfijulty in the way. All that is wanted is a few ac- 

 tive engineers to put the machine in motion. Imme- 

 diate and do..;iiied action of a few of the active friends 

 of agricultural improvement, who must assume the 

 responsibility lo act as engineers as well as pioneers 

 ibr the whole Union: and having once given the socie- 

 ty an e.x sience, it will tlourifrh and increase in strength 

 jus', as our political Union has done. 



The following plan of organizng the society is sug- 

 gested to your considenil on : 



Let as many of he friends of the project as can be 

 indu 'ed to do so, meet at the city of Washington, on 

 foinediy of the au uinn iiflSll, (the particular day to 

 be hereafter fi.xed.) and there lorm a constitution for 

 the society, and elect officers, to w t: a prepident, a 

 vice president ftr each state, a recording secretary for 

 each state, c lunly, city and principal town in the Um 

 ted States, a treasurer, and probably a publisher of a 

 national piper, to be called the Journal of the Ameri- 

 can S icx'ty of .\griciiliiire. 



The first officers will hold their offices until the next 

 annual meeting, which should be held at the capital of 

 that slate which bad furnished the greatest number of 

 members at the" lime v.lien the president of the socety 

 shoni I issue his proclamation to convene the second 

 mening. 



Tue place of each annual meeting shouMbs fi.xed at 

 the ore :eding one, in s.)ine state other than the one 

 where it was then held, so as to give the members in 

 each slate an easier opportunity of attending. 



As in the f irmatlon of all such associations it is ne- 

 cessary to have some cash funds, are you willing to 

 dmate "a miiu" to accomplish this great national 

 obji'ct ? 



If so, an opportunity will hereafter be offered you 

 to do so. U.ion some of you f hope to make a person- 

 al call fjr lliit purpose, should it be thought advisable, 

 after due relleciioii, to proe- ed in the organization: 

 therefore, I pray you to give this subject your serious 

 consideration. 



If yon should aid in the format'on of this society, 

 will not your children ' rise up and bless you ?" Foi 

 on? of the lirst objects of the Naii"nal Agricultural 

 S 'Cietv s'.ioiild be to connect with it a " National Ag- 

 riciiltilra; Sjh > >l." 



N It such a '• National School" as the only one we 

 IKj-i' b%v(>. wai'.-h hti, with (00 mn«b truth, bsen eal- 



led "a nursery of aristoeiacy" — where the bumble 

 son of a farmer is rarely nduiitted, and if adiiutted, 

 what is he taught ? Not how to cultivate his moibcr 

 earth, and make her sons glad; not how to inciea-e 

 life, bui the art of destruction, the trade of blood I I 

 Such is now your only national school. 



Such will ntu be ihe only one, in a few short years, 

 if yon will lend your energies to form a National So 

 cicty, whote motto will be, " to elevate the character 

 iind standing of tlic cultivators of ihe American soil." 

 For wlun once organized, you will show a united 

 f irce of many thousands, whose voice will be heard In 

 the halls of Congress demanding our birthiight. lie 

 assured we shall be henrd. "L.nall our energies be 

 cunceniraled, and we can do any thing in the power of 

 man; but divided and scattered as we are, we spend 

 our forces, as it were, drop by drop; whereas, union 

 would make us uvald'icr than a torrent." We can, 

 shall we tay we will form siub a torrent as will over- 

 whelm onr political rulers, unices ihcy will do justice 

 to the agricultural class of the community. 



As soon as the Nationol Agriculuiral Society is form- 

 • d let us osk Congress to appropriate the " Smythso- 

 nian fund" of half a million of dollars to establish a 

 National School. If we unite as we should do, our 

 " torrent" will be too strong tor time-serving politi- 

 cians to resist. 



I look upon the National Agricultural School as the 

 greatest blessing to flow from the National Society. 



But the Journal of the Society will also prove of 

 immense advantage. It will embody a vost amount of 

 matter, useful and interesting to every cultivator in 

 the Union. The most carefully prepared tables of the 

 productions of the earth, from every section of the 

 Union will be kept constantly befoie the reader, total- 

 ly difTerent from those vehicles of deception, and often 

 fraud upon the farmer, called " prices current.'' It is 

 by the quantity produced, end the probable demand 

 therefore, that we can understand whether .t is for our 

 est interto sell our crops now, or store them up. At 

 every meeting there would be numbers from every 

 state in the Union, as ready to impart as to receive in- 

 ormation. 



" All the inducements of the business of a Nation- 

 al Society, a National Fair, and a National School," 

 and the honor of being a member of such a society, 

 would be enough, 1 think, to make na all feel that it 

 would be a gieater honor to be elected a state delegate 

 to one of the annual meetings of the National Society 

 than to be elected a member of Coni:res3. 



It cannot be expected in this short address, that I 

 should point out all the good that would flow from the 

 action of the proposed society. But if we are convin- 

 ced that the ellect would conduce to the interest and 

 happiness of the great inacs of American agricultu- 

 rists o( the Union, let us act, ond with spirit too. 



And now my liicnds, one and ail, do you approve 

 of the plan of organizntion ? S;ieak out boldly if yon 

 d ) not. And if you do not object, the leading friends 

 of tne measure will tix upon a day for the first mcet- 

 ng, and proceed in the manner proposed. 

 Tuere has been an argument raised against organizing 

 siich a society at pie^ent, "because the public mind 

 iias not been sufficiently instructed, and does not s uf- 

 liciently appreciate the advamages of such an associa- 

 tion to render it successful." ' 



Now It is on this very accou I that the friends of 

 the proposed National S icii-ty wish to see it establish- 

 ed, ihat the operations thereof may wake up an e.vcite- 

 iiient throughout our *' wide scattered population," 

 ihat shall be the moving cauce of changing the " con- 

 dition of the country." 



It is also argued that the failnrp of several state and 

 county societies is proof that a national one must fail 

 also. 



Let me ask if this is a valid argument 7 This short 

 quotation, in my mind, is Eiifficent to knock the 

 whole force of the argu:uent into nonentity: " Divi- 

 ded and scattered as we are. we spend our force as it 

 were, drop by drop: whereas union would make us 

 mightier than a torrent." 



■Tlie object of all state and county societies has been 

 of a local n'lture. Their e.xistence has been known 

 only in their own locality, and they have been too 

 weak in numbers to command legislative aid. Who 

 can tell what would have been the effects if all the 

 members of all the local societies in the Union had 

 been atlached to one National Society ? If all the ex- 

 ert-on of all these societies, collectively and individu- 

 ally, had been concentrated upon one object, would it 

 noi have formed a '* torrent" as mighty, comparative 

 ly speaking, as the thimdi-ring Niagara? If the na- 

 li n. inst nd of individuals, had received all ihe light 

 of the intelligent minds that have been devoted t) these 

 local loeietisf, would it now be nii " thai the public 



mind was not sulTicienlly Piiliglitened to appreciate the 

 advantages to be derived from a National Society?" 

 il all the money that has been devoted " drop by drop" 

 upon " model fainis" and local schools bad In en con- 

 ceiitrated, should we not now have an institution wor- 

 thy the great coiiniry we inhabit 7 



if our population is scafcred ; if " long distaners 

 intervene heiwcen the most efficient friends of (.grcul- 

 ttiral iiiiprovcmpnt," so iiiiiih the more need id lorm- 

 ing such a society as shall draw them together in " on« 

 strong bond of brotherhood." 



Is it a fact " ihat the time has not yet arrived when 

 such an association can he organ'zed with a reasona- 

 ble certainty of success ?" If such is ihe fact, 1 nin 

 disappointed in the energy and character of my coun- 

 trymen. 



Once more I call upon yon to answer mc this quel- 

 tion; am 1 so disappointed in your character ? 



Do not refuse your counieimnce to the n eafure be- 

 cause it does not originate in high places. For " if 

 ever we a-e to have a iN'ational Society of Agriculiurr, 

 it must be got up by ihe farmers themscKcs;" and as 

 one of that class 1 now oddiess you. 



II the present ottempt at organ-zntion (ail, the matter 

 may be considered as decided for the present geneia- 

 tion. 



The only question then is. shall the matter sleep un- 

 til you and I are past waking ? 



I om a devoted friend to present oreanization of a 

 National Society of Aaricultuie.nndn Nat onni Schorl, 

 Ihat will elevate the character and standing of the cul- 

 tivators of the American soil. 



And your friend and broiher. 



SOLON ROBINSON. 



Lake C. H., In., April 1, 1S41. 



For tlie ^Veic Geneaee Farm«r, 

 Letter from Wisconsin, 



Messrs. Editors — Among the interesting nrlicIeB 

 in your paper, none are esteemed more highly, or 

 looked for with more solicitude by me, than those re- 

 lating to the fiowir garden and to horticultiiial pro- 

 ducts, by your valuable assistant, D. T. He is al- 

 ways entertaining and useful; and I should like to 

 take a peep over his garden fence in a nionlh or two, 

 although our prairii sand woodlands can boast of ti.eir 

 peerless beauties in the woy of flowers, not to be ex 

 ceeded by those cultivated in easlern gaidens. I am 

 not a ecientific botanist, but can appreciate well the 

 beauties of Flora. Here many plants grow wild, that 

 are nurtured and esteemed among the florisia of the 

 east. I shall make a collection of the most of them 

 and place them in my front garden, and will some fu- 

 ture day, do mysef the pleosure of sending some of 

 the seeds, &c. to you. 



By the way, I see you ore making a collection of 

 grasses. I think you could find quite a variety in thii 

 country; for we have many varieties growing wild in 

 our marshes and low lands, many of which make very 

 good hay. We have also wild rice in abundance; for 

 you must know that this neighborhod was the rcoi- 

 dence of the Menonimee Indians, or wild rice eaters, 

 as they were crjied by iheFrench, and a few of whom 

 still linger round their ancient homes. 



I wish to iuquire what is best to apply to cure a loM 

 of the eye in neat cattle I have a favorite half blood 

 Duiham cow, which last summer had ihe misfurtuns 

 to lose her left eye, the sight having all run out. Now 

 I wish to know what to apply to heal over the wound. 

 Will you inform me ? E. B. QUINER. 



Milwaukee, II'. T., 



iiurge lloga. 



Mr. George Baker, of Edgmont, Delaware coun- 

 ty. Pa., slaughtered, on the lllih of March last, a bog 

 which weighed, when (iressed, (579 lbs.! 

 Another, 



Mr. Philip S. Bishop, of Edgmont Delaware coun- 

 ty. Pa., also slaughtered, on the 30lh of March, a hog 

 which weighed, when dressed, 9G7 Ibs.l Those two 

 hogs were about 21 years old, and of common stock; 

 both of one litter. The litter consisted of twenty, 

 three. We challenge the Betkshires to beat this. 



