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editors’ table. 
(Kbitors’ liable. 
CONTINUATION OF OUR AGRICULTURAL PAPER.-We 
wish all our friends, and the public to be fully assured 
that our agricultural paper does not propose dying with 
the next number. It is simply uudergoing a change— 
being for the present merged in the Plow, which com¬ 
mences the first of January next at FIFTY CENTS a 
year, of the same size and number of pages as the Ag¬ 
riculturist. We only wait the development of public 
opinion, to commence a higher and more advanced 
work, of 64 or more pages monthly, at a price that will 
pay the expenses of publication, when we shall hope to 
give the American public the fullest intelligence of the 
improvements in agriculture. At the present moment, 
opinion seems to demand the cheapest possible form of 
publication. 
Transactions of the New-York State Agricultu¬ 
ral Society, Yol. X, for 1850.—We are at last favor¬ 
ed with this long expected work; and the first question 
we have to ask is, why has it not made its appearance 
before ? Has the State printer taken the liberty of 
making a public job of it, and got it out as best suited 
his own convenience and profit ? Or has the copy been 
kept back from him by a snail-paced preparation 1 ? If 
the former, we beg to say, that if it be intended in Al¬ 
bany to make fat jobs out of the State Agricultural 
Society, in any way or form, we stand ready to hold 
up all participants in them to the indignation of every 
honest farmer; if the latter, then the Executive Com¬ 
mittee should appoint capable assistants, with liberal 
pay, to prepare the copy sooner. It is too much to 
ask this of the Corresponding Secretary ; his duties are 
already onerous enough without it; besides, he has 
been absent by State appointment, some months the 
past season, in England, doing good service at the 
World’s Fair. Such delay in the Transactions,- is a little 
too much like that of the last Patent Office Report, at 
Washington ; which, if we remember right, finally ap¬ 
peared about eighteen months or two years behind time. 
Verily, we thought the report had gone to the tomb 
of the Capulets, not to the Congressional printing of¬ 
fice. But it is thus they do such things at Washing¬ 
ton ; yet let us be careful how we copy them in Alba¬ 
ny, unless it be intended hereafter to hand over the 
State Society to corrupt politicians. 
The material of this volume is generally superior to 
its predecessors; but why should it be marred with 
such inferior paper as we find in our copy from pages 
31 to 49, 161 to 189, 241 to 256, 369 to 401, 609 to 
625, 657 to 673, and 721 to the end of the volume. We 
respectfully ask, would any reputable publishing house 
in this State, thus issue on its own account, any work 
from its press ? Why could not the paper be uniform 
throughout the volume, and equal in its texture to that 
of the first 32 pages, and many of the others? We 
can distinguish the difference in quality by merely look¬ 
ing at the edges of the volume before us. We do not 
l know who is to blame in this matter, but it is so paltry, 
! that we can scarcely refrain from expressing our indig¬ 
nation at what looks like an attempt from some quar¬ 
ter to shave. 
Mr Dean’s address as well as Professor Norton’s, on 
agricultural education, are excellent. We hope the 
farmers will peruse these attentively, and no longer 
consent to occupy the humble position many of them 
are now obliged to, for want of a better education; and 
in this we mean, a proper agricultural education, not 
that of the lawyer, doctor, divine, or writer on belles 
lettres. If farmer’s schools, the past half century, had 
been one tenth part as well endowed as colleges* the 
benefit to the rural population of this state would have 
been incalculable. 
The trial of plows is an elaborate report, and so 
far as we can judge, was conducted with great patience, 
and with a strictly consciencious desire on the part of 
the committee to arrive at right conclusions ; but we 
differ with them entirely in their observations upon 
“ Centre Draft,” or that any one manufacturer has so 
great, or indeed any superiority in the application of 
this principle. It is merely fanciful; and had there 
been other plows present, which we need not mention, 
we are persuaded the committee would have so seen 
it. We can only regret with them that more of our 
best manufacturers had not sent their plows forward for 
a trial. 
Reports of some of the farms and particular crops, 
are good, and show forcibly how greatly the acreable 
products of the state could be increased, if due efforts 
—which a higher education would command—were 
made in this desirable way. We intend if possible, to 
give a few of them in our next number. 
The Jersey cow, by Col. Le Couteur is capital; and 
right glad are we to see the “ thirty-six points of per¬ 
fection ” laid down with illustrations. Here is a chart to 
go by, which we hope will do American breeders some 
good; and that they will now turn to the forty points 
which we got up for them on shorthorn cattle, in the 
fourth volume of the Agriculturist, and which Mr. L. 
F. Allen copied into his American Herd Book. And 
now if they will see that these, or some others—as 
much better as they may please to make them—are 
given by the Executive Committee as a guiding rule to 
the judges on stock, at the future cattle shows of the 
State Society, there will not be quite so much disap¬ 
pointment and grumbling at their decisions in future; nor 
will so many conceited men be ambitious to set them¬ 
selves up as umpires of what they are too often so deplo¬ 
rably ignorant. By the way, that “ old Jersey cow” is a 
beauty —that is a fact—and we intend to petition the 
obliging corresponding secretary, to allow her in contrast 
with the other “ Beauty,” to adorn the columns of our 
next number. So, gentle reader, please look out then 
, for something marvellous to admire. 
The various analyses of Dr. Salisbury, scattered 
. throughout the volume, we shall have to put on our 
; chemical spectacles and examine hereafter, when we 
