Agricultural Societies—Rural Architecture. 
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pecially serve the cause of rural and practical educa¬ 
tion, which is now exciting great interest throughout 
the United States. The general plan of the survey will 
conform jo Mr. Colman’s Survey of the Agriculture of 
Massachusetts. 
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delivery of the first number; one on the delivery of the 
second number; one on the delivery of the fifth num¬ 
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work be extended to ten numbers. 
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and respectable persons abroad. 
Henry Colman. 
Rochester , January 2, 1843. 
Agricultural Societies. 
Annual Fair of the Planter’s Club at Hancock. —We 
observe, from the Georgia Journal, that this spirited 
society held its annual meeting at Sparta, on the 4th 
of Nov. The first articles exhibited for premiums 
were by the ladies, more than twenty of whom we find 
among the competitors. Mr. Thomas Neal took the 
first premium on horses, and Col. John Bonner receiv¬ 
ed those on swine, and a Durham bull. The first prize 
boar was Rip Vanwinkle, bred by Mr. C. N. Bement, 
of Albany, and the same that took the first premium at 
our own State show at Syracuse, Sept., 1841. The 
first prize for sows was divided between Nonsuch, bred 
by Mr. Bement, and the Flower of Orange, bred by 
Messrs. A. & G. Brentnall, of Orange co., this State. 
Mr. Grimes took the first premium on Durham cows, 
and Capt. R. S. Hardwick on South Down sheep. 
These were purchased of Mr. Bement. The address 
was by Judge Garnett Andrews, and is one of the best 
we have read this season. We make two extracts, 
one upon the utility of “ book farming,” and another 
on the advantages of agricultural associations. 
“ For my own part, I have accidentally picked up 
some scraps of book farming, which have been as use¬ 
ful as any other knowledge acquired from the same 
source, with so little trouble. By this means I learned 
that the sap ascended in the wood, became elaborated in 
the leaves and descended in the bark of the tree. This 
knowledge enabled me to correct some very fatal errors 
in budding fruit trees. It explains to us why corn is 
so seriously injured by topping before entirely ripe. 
Until I received the knowledge from books, I had lost 
one half the good effect of my manure by keeping it off 
the field until after it had fermented or rotted , accord¬ 
ing to the advice of old 'practical farmers who held in 
contempt all book farming. 
“ I think our club is taking one step towards this 
consummation, so devoutly to be wished. Its tenden¬ 
cy is to give our citizens some other excitement, some 
other pleasure, more substantial, rational, and patri¬ 
otic, than have ever been accorded to political ambi¬ 
tion. The time is coming, nay, now is, when the 
names of such men as Sir John Sinclair, Sprengel, Ar¬ 
thur Young, Chaptal, Leibeg, Buel, and Garnett, shall 
stand above those of warriors and statesmen. Thou¬ 
sands yet unborn shall rise up and call them blessed. 
We look, and well may we look, to our husbandmen 
for the cultivation of a high moral sense, whose fruits 
shall redound to the honor and glory of our country. 
We are, perhaps, nine-tenths of the population, and 
what we icill Ave can do. How vast then the responsi¬ 
bility that we will correctly!” 
Geological Survey. —We see that the lower House 
in Arkansas, has passed a bill authorizing a geological 
survey of the State. We trust that it will become a 
law, for nothing can be more beneficial to our country 
than such surveys; and they have never failed, we be¬ 
lieve, in discovering treasures before unknown or 
scarcely dreamed of. 
Superior Seedling Grape. —The Worcester Spy 
says, that a gentleman in the vicinity has raised a 
new seedling grape, probably a hybrid between the 
Sweet-water and Isabella. Its qualities resemble the 
Sweet-water, being tender, sweet, and juicy, without 
any hard pulp about the seeds. It is a good bearer, and 
stands the climate of Massachusetts Avell. Its fruit ri¬ 
pened six weeks earlier than the Isabella, and continued 
on the vines till November. We should be obliged to the 
editor of the Spy if he could procure us some cuttings. 
RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
We are rejoiced to see in the vicinity of 
this city, and especially upon the banks of 
the Hudson river, that a new style of archi¬ 
tecture within the past few years has been 
gradually coming into vogue. Our citizens 
and farmers are just beginning to learn, that 
shingle palaces, and Greek temples in wood, 
with pillars like a crane’s legs, supporting a 
portico something like the head of a huge 
catipult, are neither comfortable nor in good 
taste ; and now they are looking about a lit¬ 
tle, to ascertain what they can substitute for 
them. For our own part, we know nothing 
equal to Eenglish cottages, in the Gothic, 
Tudor, and Orne styles. There is something 
so quiet and home-like—so rural and varied 
—so picturesque and truly comfortable in 
them, that it has been a perfect wonder, con¬ 
sidering our English origin, that they have 
not taken precedence in American architect¬ 
ure, from the first settlement of the country. 
Yet instead of this, they have been almost 
entirely rejected, and the smart Jonathan, 
when he became of age and set up for him- 
