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1863. 



THE ILLINOIS FAKMEE. 



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was poor, but in the .centre and North part of the 

 State the crop was better. 



The meeting then adjourned until to-morrow 

 night. 



WEDNESDAY EVESING. 



President in the Chair. 



Committee on resolutions in relation to the death 

 of Dr. Kennicott, reported the following: 

 Your Committee report — 



1. Death has taken from among us Dr. John A. 

 Kennicott, one of the truest friends of Agriculture, 

 and the pioneer of Horticulture in the West. His 

 death is a personal bereavement, to each of us, a 

 great public loss, and makes a grievous and irre- 

 parable vacancy in our membership. 



2. It is fitting, therefore, while we give expres- 

 sion to our sorrow, because of our loss, and assur- 

 ances of sorrowful sympathy to his bereaved fam- 

 ily, that we pay a more formal tribute to his life 

 and character, to his worth and usefulness, to his 

 general and upright influence as a man, a friend, 

 and a co-worker in all that elevates rural pursuits, 

 and ennobles those engaged in them. 



3. We accordingly recommend that the Society 

 select one or more of its members to prepare a 

 biography of our lamented friend, for publication 

 in our next volume of transactions, and to pro- 

 nounce an appropriate eulogy at our next annual 

 meeting. 



Adopted unanimously. 



The committee appointed to report on an Agri- 

 cultural College grant, made their report, which, 

 after discussion was unanimously adopted. 



Your committee appointed to present the views 

 of the Soci'^ty in relation to the Congressional Ag- 

 ricultural Gollcge grant, submit the following re- 

 port: 



Whereas, The Congress of the United States 

 has made a munificent grant of land to the State 

 of Illinois, for the purpose of establishing an Ag- 

 ricultural and Mechanical Institution ; and 



Whereas, Endeavors have been made to divide 

 the proceeds of said grant of land among already 

 existing institutions of learning; therefore. 



Resolved, That the industrial interests of our 

 State are one and indivisible. 



Resolved, The one institution should be estab- 

 lished by the fund independent of all existing in- 

 stitutions of learning. 



Resolved, That in the unanimous judgment of 

 this Society, that it is the interest of the industrial 

 classes of our State that one independent institu- 

 tion of learning be established to carry out the 

 full purpose and intent of congress in said grant ; 

 and that we will use all honorable means in our 

 power to carry out the spirit of these institutions. 



Resolved, That this Society recommend that a 

 course of lectures on the elements of Agriculture, 

 be given in some city of Illinois during the coming 

 winter ; said lectures to be under the auspices of 

 the State Agricultural and Horticultural Societies 

 of Illinois. 



Resolved, That a committed be appointed to con- 

 fer with the State Agricultural Society, for the pur- 

 pose of making all necessary arrangements for 

 said course of lectures. 



After a free discussion of those relating espec- 

 ially to the land grant, the resolutions were adopted. 



The following committee's were then appointed : 



On Correspondence — Periam, Galusha and Over- 

 man. 



On Lectures under Resolutions — Minier, C. B. 

 Bragdon and Prof Turner. 



On Final Resolutions — Dr. Kennicott, Mr. Flagg 

 and Dr. Warder. 



Dr. Claggott and John H. Tice, of St. Louis, L 

 D. G. Nelson and De Groff Nelson, of Indiana, 

 and J. Knox, of Pittsburg, were elected honorary 

 members of the Society. 



On motion, also, it was voted as a rule of the 

 Society that no further honorary memberships be 

 bestowed upon citizens of this State. 



The following resolution was referred to the 

 committee on Lectures for action. 



Resolved, That a committee be appointed to pro- 

 vide for the offering of a liberal premium by this 

 Society, for the best and most comprehensive essay 

 upon the proper season for cutting forest trees, 

 and preparing timber for various economical pur- 

 poses. The essay to be based upon pr?.ctical ob- 

 servations and experiments ; also, to embrace sci- 

 entific investigations as to the ravages of insects, 

 and as to the chemical elements of the woody fibre, 

 at different seasons, and to be correct in the botan- 

 ical nomenclature of the trees mentioned in the 

 essay. 



The subject of the propagation of the grape was 

 then taken up for discussion. Our space will not 

 permit an abstract of the discussion, which we 

 may, however, give hereafter. It was very inter-, 

 esting. Mr. Knox, of Pittsburg, Mr. Kimball, of 

 Iowa, and Dr. Shroeder, Mr. Phoenix, Mr. Rosen-. 

 steel, and Dr. Kennicott, of this State, taking pari; 

 therein. 



THURSDAY EVENING, 



Moved that the time and place of holding the 

 next winter meeting be now fixed. 



The President stated that all that was expected . 

 was a good hall and free entertainment of bona 

 fide members. 



Mr. Overman, of Bloomington, invited the ses- 

 sion at that place, at any time the executive com- 

 mittee should select. Mr. Fell, of the same place, 

 extended a similar invitation. Dr. Kennicott and 

 Mr. Bragdon, of Chicago, invited the session at ■ 

 that city. Mr. Flagg proposed the city of Alton. 



After considerable discussion, Alton was selected i 

 as the place by a nearly unanimous vote. 



On motion, the time was left to be fixed by the 

 executive committee, sufficient notice to be given 

 thereof to advise all the members of the Society. 



Dr. Warder, of Cincinnati, was then introduced 

 to the meeting, who proceeded to deliver a very 

 practical and earnest address upon Food Plants. 

 He stated in the outset that he knew he was de- 

 pariiug somewhat from his usual line of talk upon 

 Pomology. He gave a very interesting analysis of 

 various plants forming food for man, showing an 

 intimate acquaintance with the vegetable kingdom 

 as also with its chemistry. Our space does not 

 permit this week to give even a synopsis of his ad- 

 mirable address, and from its nature anything short 

 of a pretty full report, would fail to do him any 

 sort of justice. The lecture abounded in valuable 

 information and practical facts in regard to the 

 wheat plant, rye, barley, oats, maiie or Indian 

 corn, rice, the sugar cane of the tropics, sorghmn 

 of the nortb or Chinese sugar cane, etc., etc. He 

 also gave a very fall statement in regard to fiogar 



