AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION, ETC. 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ASS DOTATION. 
The Annual Meeting of this Society for the 
election of Officers for the ensuing year, was held 
at the Historical Society’s rooms, on. the 2d of 
February, 1846. The chair was taken by Hon. 
Luther Bradish. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and 
approved. 
Mr. Pell made the report of the Committee for 
the introduction of the Peruvian Alpaca into this 
country. 
A letter from Mr. John Rhey, of Pittsburgh, 
Penn., addressed to A. B. Allen, upon the same 
subject, asking for information, &c., was read. 
Mr. A. Edwards communicated some valuable 
information relating to the Alpaca. 
The Society then proceeded to the election of 
officers. The lollowing gentlemen were elected by 
ballot. 
For Presi&nt, Hon. Luther Bradish; for Vice Presi¬ 
dents , Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, James Lenox, 
James Bccjtnan, A. H. Stevens, M.D., T. A. Emmet, 
H. Maxwell, S. Whitney, S. Knapp, Vice Chancellor 
McCoim, Cyrus Mason, D.D., W. A. Seeley, J. S. 
Livingston; for Treasurer , A. P. Halsey ; for Recording 
$hcre»c.ry, R. Ogden Doremus ; for Corresponding Secre- 
A. H. Green; for Executive Committee , R. L. Pell, 
V/. Draper, M.D., Archibald Russell, Col. Edward 
Clark, D. P. Gardner, M. D., R. K. Delafield, Shepard 
Knapp. 
Chittenden County, Vermont, Ag. Society. 
—The Directors of this Society have just had their 
first meeting the present year, and have offered to 
the public a list of three hundred and twenty-jive 
premiums, appropriating between $700 and $800 to 
various objects. We were the first, probably, to 
adopt the plan of giving an agricultural paper to 
every member of the Society who desired it; and 
we find this plan meets with universal favor. W e 
employed an agent to go into every town in the 
County, and deliver two lectures on Agriculture, and 
take up subscriptions. Our number of members is 
more than doubled by this plan, and our prospects 
were never so encouraging. The whole mass of 
our community are deeply interested in the working 
out of this new experiment; and we anticipate from 
it the best results. W e wish that other County So¬ 
cieties would try the same measure, and tell the 
world whether it is good or bad; whether the inter¬ 
ests of the farmer are promoted by it or not. We 
wish to hear from other organizations on the sub¬ 
ject, and hope they will open a correspondence with 
us, detailing their success. L. G. Bingham, 
President C. C. Ag. Society. 
Williston , Vt., Feb. 14, 1846. 
THE EAGLE PLOW. 
The plow of which we give the 
annexed cut, is manufactured by 
Messrs. Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, 
of W orcester, Mass.; and the only 
place to find the genuine article in 
this city, is at our warehouse, No. 
187 Water Street. We consider 
it the most perfect plow in the 
United States for general work. It 
will turn a furrow from 6 to 12 
inches deep, and from 10 to 18 
inches wide, according to the size 
used, and the requirements of the plowman. Four! 
different sizes are already constructed, and others 
can be manufactured on the same principles if de¬ 
sired. The cutter can be raised and lowered at plea¬ 
sure, or be taken out of the beam entirely: the 
same may be done with the wheel; but being gene¬ 
rally fastened on the outside, this is unnecessary, as 
it can be raised so high as to admit the plow into 
the earth if wished, nearly up to the beam. In¬ 
stead of a clevis, it has a draught-rod attached, to 
pull by, when preferred, thus making it a perfect 
centre-draught plow. 
The latest improvement in the Eagle plow is a 
neat and simple dial apparatus (recently patented by 
Ruggles, Nourse & Mason) attached to the end of 
the beam, by which the plowman can easily and 
quickly place the end of the rod in a position that 
will cause the share to take any required width or 
depth of furrow. Considering the work it does, 
the plow moves with great ease. A single pair of 
horses or oxen, in ordinary soils, will take a cut 
irom 6 to 7 inches deep, and 10 to 12 inches wide, 
with the No. 1 Eagle, and do the work in admirable 
style, laying the furrows fiat over or lapped , as re¬ 
quired, and according to the set of the wheel and 
cutter. 
The Eagle Plow.—Fig. 
Cheap, worthless imitations of this admirable 
plow have been recently got up in New York and 
elsewhere. We caution the public not to be im¬ 
posed upon by them. To prevent this, their only 
safety is to address their orders directly to us, or to 
Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, at Boston, or Worcester, 
Massachusetts. 
Reduction of the British Tariff. —It will be 
seen by reference to our Foreign News, that Sir 
Robert Peel proposes very important reductions in 
the duties on agricultural products, admitting bacon, 
beef, hay, hides, meat, and pork, free; and others, 
such as buckwheat, Indian corn, and tallow, nomi¬ 
nally free. This is to be followed by a gradual re¬ 
duction of duties to the same scale, on wheat, flour, 
and some other things, which will open a very ex¬ 
tensive market hereafter to American products, into 
Great Britain and Ireland. We hope that these con¬ 
cessions will be met with a corresponding spirit on 
the part of Congress, and that this war of high 
tariffs may hereafter cease. One nation may be so 
situated that it can produce certain articles cheaper 
and better than another nation; why then shculd it 
force other products by high tariffs, rathe than 
make a beneficial exchange with its neighbors l 
