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level, in' large fielsis and trte f. om oiisiructions will be 
prepared for cultivation oy die puweiiul agency of steam. 
When this occurs, it will effect a revolution in Agricul- 
ture as thorough as that produced in travel and trans- 
portation by the same agency. If we might venture to 
criticise this carefully prepared Premium List, it would 
be to suggest a deficiency in the “Department of Agricul- 
tural Literature and Investigation.” There are a number 
of subjects as to which the thoughtful farmers of the 
country thirst for information. The annual festive as- 
semblage of our National Society might present not only 
a collection of Agricultural products, but a concentration 
of Agricultural minds. Tlius, as from a centre of light, 
the whole country might be irradiated. 
For the information of those of our readers who have 
not seen the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, we 
publish the table of contents of this number entire. We 
do this in hope that it may enlist interest in a Society 
which should be sustained by every American Farmer: 
Ho7v Agricultare. can he SustoAned, and its Permanent 
Prosperity Promoted — by Professor Francis G Carey, of 
Ohio. 
Agricultural GcAoc/s— their chances of Usefulness. By 
A. L Elwyn, M. D., of Pennsylvania. 
The Archives of Arnerico.n Agriculture . — First attempt 
to establish a national agricultural organization in 1796, 
by George Washington : establishment of Agricultural 
Fairs at the seat of government in 1804; The Society' for 
Promoting Public Economy, in 1806; A National Fair at 
Philadelphia, 1809; The Arlington Sheep Shearings; 
The Columbian Agricultural ^ Association, founded in i 
1809, with its constitution, list of members, first premium 
list, and accounts of its five first exhibitions. By the 
Editor. 
The Bread Region . — Translated from “the Earth, Man 
and Plants ” 
A Harvest by Horse Povjer in 1842. By Gen.. Tench 
Tilgham, of Maryland. 
Farming hy Steam in England. — FromaLondo-n Peri- 
odical. 
Agricultural Chemistry . — From the London Econo- 
mist. 
First Premium List, and Regulations for Exhibitors, 
at the Seventh Annual Exhibition at Chicago, arranged 
by Departments and Classes. 
The Secretary’s Table. — Editorial Acknowledg- 
ments. The National Exhibition of 1859. The Patent 
Office, Agricultural operations. 
Farming by steam. Trial of Fawkes’ Steam Plow. 
Review of New Publications. French’s Farm Drain- 
age; Watson’s American Home Garden; Sergeant’s 
edition of Downing’s Landscape Gardening; Copeland’s 
Country Life. 
Exhibitions for 1859. 
Abstract of Agricultural Information, arranged by 
States and Territories. 
Ode of Horace, translated by Ben. Jonson. 
Foreign Agricultural Information. 
Executive meeting, United States Agricultural Society, 
and New Members. 
North Alabama Times^' says : — “The South Coun- 
tryman has been merged into the Scnithern Cultivator, its 
editor. Rev. C. W. Howard, becoming associated with 
Mr. Redmond in the editorial management of the latter. 
The united efforts of these two gentlemen will, if pos- 
sible, render the Southern Cultivator more valuable than 
ever.” 
CHEROKEE BAPTIST COELEC4E, AT CASS- 
ville, Ga. 
As one of the Board of Visitors, we had recently the 
pleasure of attending the final Examination and Com- 
mencement Exercises of this promising young institution. 
The performance of the young gentlemen were creditable 
to theTnselves and their instructors. The impression 
made upon our mind is very decided, that parents in the 
region of country, the wants of which this institution ‘is 
designed to meet, are under no necessity to send their 
sons to a distance to obtain an excellent collegiate educa- 
tion. The President, the Rev. Mr. Rameaut, is a gradu- 
ate of Trinity College, Dublin, and is both an orator and 
a scholar. The other officers are accomplished in their 
departments. There are some features which are peculiar 
to this institution. Board and tuition in the College can 
be obtained at $160, the scholastic year. Young men of 
adult years, who need it, may settle by note for their 
tuition fees, payable on their success in after life. Those 
preparing for the ministry may always receive gratuitous 
instruction. A decided attention is given in this insti- 
tution to practical Science. In the department of 
Chemistry and Agriculture, it is designed to afford facili- 
tias for the acquisitiorwof a practical knowledge of Chemis- 
try, including its application to agriculture and the arts. 
After the analytical course is completed, students are al- 
lowed to make investigations in the Laboratory. Exer- 
cises in Drawing, Field work, Practical Astronomy, &c., 
are conducted by the Professor of Mathematics, who is, 
we believe, a graduate of West Point. We consider the 
course of study in this institution a decided advance. It 
is \\.s practical character which justifies this somew’hat ex- 
tended notice in an Agricultural journal. H. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Gordon County . — We have recently had the pleasure of 
attending a meeting of the Gordon County Agricultural 
Society at Calhoun. Col. Rogers is the President, and 
D. W. Neal, Secretary of this Society. Well does this 
noble county deserve the attention of an Agricultural So- 
ciety — not so much to repair damage which has been 
done to the soil, as to prevent it in the future. It is not 
generally known that the lands rate higher in Gordon 
than in any other county in Georgia, averaging fourteen 
dollars per acre in value. Unless this Society shall pre- 
vent it, it is to be feared that these valuable lands will 
share the common fate of Southern soil. We well recol-. 
lect, when Cass and Floyd counties were first settled, that 
it was thought to be impossible to wear out the lands — it 
was supposed that they would not, under any system of 
culture, be impaired by washing. Twenty years have 
elapsed and some of these fine lands are nearly exhausted 
— many of them washed and gullied to a painful extent. 
We know land in Cass county, which 20 years since 
produced fifty bushels of corn to the acre, which will not 
now produce 20 bushels. On the contrary we know 
some lands in the same county, quite broken or rolling in 
character, which will now produce more than when they 
frp«b . and which w’i' n'^w ':pll i^n times their 
