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A plow from Tuscany appeared to be the highest draught. It 

 required some six strong oxen to drag it through stiffish soils, or 

 even those of medium tenacity. 



A subsoil plow from the south of France, had circular teeth in 

 an axle dug into the subsoil. It left blanks in its work as large 

 as bricks, forming hollows to hold waterj injurious. 



What excited most surprise at this trial of implements was the 

 almost total absence of proprietors, farmers and sightseers gene- 

 rally. At no time were there in the field more than two hun- 

 dred persons, part of these were laborers. 



GENERAL AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY, 1855. 



Cheering advices as to our potato crop ; scarcely any traces of 

 disease are to be met with; fewer losses are likely than ever 

 known before. 



180U. — " The necessity of promoting Agriculture, Manufactures 

 and the Useful Arts." By Logan : Philadelphia. 2d Edition. 



We invite the attention of the club to a few extracts from this 

 pamphlet : 



"The local and physical advantages enjoyed by the United 

 States afford to her citizens the means of being supplied within 

 themselves^ with most articles useful in life or necessary. This 

 being an unde7ii able fact, it becomes criminal in her citizens not 

 to derive all tlie advantages in their power from these circum- 

 stances. 



" It is computed that mechanics and manufacturers, &c., com- 

 prehend one twentieth and that eighteen twentieths are engaged 

 in agriculture. 



" The farmer should give every encouragement to the mechan- 

 ics and manufacturers, by which they may procure a certain and 

 steady market at their own doors, which never could be inter- 

 rupted by foreign nations or their measures." 



The above was extracted by Logan from an address delivered 

 before the Tammany Society, at their anniversary. May 12th, 1798. 



Logan finishes with urging the establishment of patriotic so- 

 cieties for these objects, in every district, however small. 



" The breast of every Republican will glow with the import- 

 ance of the cause in which he is engaged. No man deserves con- 

 fidence who is shaken by every wind or wlio can endure no ad- 

 versity in the cause. 



"Upon the emancipation of our country from the political 

 yoke of Great Britain, we deemed and called ourselves a free and 



