CHAPTER III 



NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: 



THE ''UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY": YALE 



SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL 



In January 1853, Mr. Tucker of the Albany Culti- 

 vator published the first number of the Country Gentle- 

 man, which soon became the leading agricultural 

 journal. It exerted a progressive force as an active 

 advocate of scientific education and in its pages are 

 to be found full accounts of efforts to establish the 

 "University of Albany," whose promoters hoped to 

 attract to Albany leaders in every branch of science 

 in this country — as well as many from Europe — and 

 to found a great university which should include 

 schools of pure and applied science, of agricul- 

 ture and of the mechanic arts, as well as the ordi- 

 nary departments of graduate study. These plans 

 were urged towards fulfilment in the columns of the 

 Country Gentleman, and Mr. Tucker, treasurer of the 

 New York State Agricultural Society and personally 

 active in work for scientific agriculture, did much in 

 other ways to disseminate a sound knowledge of agri- 

 cultural science. Mr. Johnson's name is signed to an 

 article in the third number of the Country Gentleman 

 and appears afterwards with frequency, the last time 

 being just forty years from the date of his first contri- 

 bution in 1847 to the Cultivator. During the winter 

 and spring of 1853, a series of articles from his pen 

 appeared in the Country Gentleman under the general 



