Proceedings of the Farmers' Club. 



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AGRICULTURE IN ENGLAND. 



The Chairman announced that, pursuant to the resolution of 

 the session of three weeks ago, the Professor of Agriculture in Rut- 

 gers College and the State Geologist of New Jersey, Geo. H. Cook, 

 would address the Club on " The Lessons of English Agriculture." 



Prof. Geo. H. Cook — Gentlemen of the Club : Your chairman 

 has referred, in the remarks with which he has so kindly introduced 

 me, to the fact that I have been connected with the geological survey 

 of my State. While this is true, I come before you not as a geologist 

 but as a farmer, to talk in a way entirely practical, I hope, and per- 

 tinent about what I saw in Europe that gave me important ideas and 

 lessons of value. There isn't a farmer anywhere that cannot learn 

 something by looking up from his plow and seeing how his neigh- 

 bor is managing his estate. So, in a larger way, England can show 

 us the path to a better and truer and more profitable tillage than any 

 European country ; and though I saw the continent, the most of 

 what I may say this afternoon relates to the methods and the skill of 

 English and Scotch husbandmen. In going ourselves, as in the sum- 

 mer of last year, I had three main lines of observation before me. 

 1. I wished to study farm methods. I knew that English practices 



