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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
AIDS TO AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT. 
We have received a copy of the proceed¬ 
ings at the first annual meeting of the Union 
Agricultural Society of Mason and Bracken 
Counties, Ky., including the annual address 
by Horace B. Stevenson, Esq. The society 
has started under favorable auspices, and 
promises to be an efficient agency in pro¬ 
moting the agricultural advancement of the 
West. The address is one of marked ability 
—conveys much sound advice—goes into a 
detail of the objects to be aimed at by those 
who would elevate and promote the true 
progress of the farming profession. We 
have only room for the following extract: 
When we compare the present condition 
of agriculture, not only in our own country, 
but elsewhere, with what it was in times 
past, we are justified in anticipating illimit¬ 
able future improvements as the reward of 
intelligent and persistent efforts. Let us 
glance at some of the improvements which 
modern systems have introduced ; for indis¬ 
putably they embrace principles and prac¬ 
tices unknown, or imperfectly known, to the 
ancients. 
A more accurate knowledge of the proper¬ 
ties, action, and effect, and proper time and 
mode of applying all manures, animal, vege¬ 
table and mineral. 
Thorough drainage and subsoil plowing. 
The introduction of root crops in field 
culture, by which potatoes, turnips, beets, 
&c., &c., are made to perform an important 
part in economical husbandry; as, on a 
given surface more food for cattle may thus 
be produced than by the expensive culture 
of grain. 
The systems of rotations in crops by 
which even poor lands may be made fertile, 
and all lands kept continually productive, 
without diminishing their fertility, of which 
laying down lands in grass is a striking fea¬ 
ture, recently introduced. 
As a consequence of the established utility 
of rotation, the substitution of fallow crops, 
requiring tillage during their growth, for 
naked fallows, by which it is meant turning 
out land to rest and recover its fertility by 
the decayed vegetable matters from a new 
growth of native trees and plants. 
The improvement of various breeds of 
domestic animals, upon true physiological 
principles, by which desired results are ob¬ 
tained with more certainty, in less time, 
with less labor, and with less consumption 
of food. 
The application of science,in multifarious 
forms, to the construction of implements 
and machinery, to the preparation of food 
for animals, &c., by which labor is rendered 
less toilsome, and more effective, and econ¬ 
omy in the production, use, and disposal of 
crops, promoted. 
Discoveries in the phylosophy of vegeta¬ 
tion and the principles of vegetable physiol¬ 
ogy and structure, enabling the intelligent 
and skillful cultivator to avail of many fa¬ 
vorable circumstances, otherwise unavail¬ 
able, in raising all vegetable products. 
The Seven Wonders oe the World. —Ev¬ 
ery one hears of them—few know what they 
really are, or rather were. They were : 
1. The Colossus of Rhodes. 
3. The Sepulchre of Mausolus, King of 
Caria. 
3. The Palace of Cyrus. 
4. The Pyramids of Egypt. 
5. The Statue of Jupiter at Olympia. 
C. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus. 
7. The Walls and hanging Gardens of Bab¬ 
ylon. 
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Thus a letter directed, 
Mr. A. B. Allen, 
Editor of American Agriculturist, 
No. 189 Water-street, 
New-York. 
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Private. 
Mr. Orange Judd, 
Editor of American Agriculturist, 
No. 189 Water-street, 
New-York. 
We also append here a convenient form 
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Agriculturist: 
New-Bjughton, Ohio, Dec. 22, 1854. 
Messrs. Allen & Co., 
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Repectfully yours, JOHN GREENAULT. 
One year to John Geenault, commencing with No. 69, 
at New-Brighton, Chillicothe Co., Ohio. 
One year to James L. Johnston, commencing with No. 69, 
at New-Brighton, Chillicothe Co., Ohio. 
One year to Richard Peterson, commencing with No. 69, 
at New-Brighton, Chillicothe Co., Ohio. 
Whenever we find our temper ruffled to¬ 
wards a parent, a wife, a sister or brother, 
we should pause and think that in a few 
months or years they will be in the spirit- 
land, watching over us, or perchance we will 
be there watching over them. 
Milk sold in Newburyport on Wednesday 
morning as high as sixty cents a gallon. In 
the afternoon it was down to twenty cents. 
It rained hard all day, 
