THE CULTIVATOR. 
the breed of sheep, than for all the physiological know¬ 
ledge of his most respected friend, Professor Playfair, 
Who, being a most respectable bachelor, had probably 
never engaged in breeding at all.” 
In concluding his speech. Mr. Colman spoke of the 
kindness and hospitality he had received in England, 
which, he said he should long remember. He spoke 
also in happy terms of the relations existing between 
England and the United States. The two countries, 
he said, “ were separated by a wide ocean—wide 
they once called it, but every day brought it nearer to 
them, and he believed that in six months, they would 
be within six days’[?] distance from each other. Why, 
then, should they not come home? Why should they 
not be drawn together? The same language was 
common to both—the same blood: their free insti¬ 
tutions were from the free inspirations of liberty 
which first heaved in British hearts, and God grant 
that the two great nations of the earth might soon learn 
to scorn those miserable and irritating leuds which 
were calculated to stir up and increase the bad blood 
which had so long existed in the hearts of nations 
towards each other. He hoped the time was fast com¬ 
ing when the words of the noble Lord who had just re¬ 
tired from the Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs, might 
be indellibly stamped on every heart, when war should 
be considered as unchristian, and under all circumstances 
a. crime.” 
NEW-YORK STATE AG. SOCIETY. 
Report of the Committee on Stock owned out of the State, 
exhibited at the Jluburn Meeting. 
The Committee on stock owned out of the state, 
would respectfully report:— 
Horses and sheep were the only foreign stock exhibi¬ 
ted. 
“ Gifford Morgan,” a dark chestnut stallion, fourteen 
hands and three inches high, aged twenty years, was 
exhibited by Mr. F. A. Wier, of Walpole, N. H. It is 
claimed on the part of his owner, that this horse pos¬ 
sesses the celebrated “ Morgan ” blood in greater puri¬ 
ty than any other now living. 
“ General Gifford,” 6 years old, got by the above 
named horse, was exhibited by Mr. C. Blodgett, of 
Chelsea, Vt. In his size, figure, action, and color, 
he closely resembles his sire. Both are exceedingly 
compact horses, deep chested, strong backed, with fore 
legs set wide apart, and carrying their heads (which 
are small, with fine, well set eyes,) high and gracefully, 
without a bearing rein. Their action attracted the 
marked admiration of all. This breed are reputed to 
possess great bottom and hardiness, and everything about 
the two presented goes to prove that their reputation in 
this particular, is well founded. For light carriage or 
buggy horses, it would be difficult to equal them, and if 
by crossing with prime large mares of any breed, size 
could be obtained in the progeny, without losing the 
fire and action of the Morgan, the result of the cross 
would be a carriage horse of very superior quality. 
Your committee are not aware of the extent or result 
of such crosses, in the region where the Morgans origi¬ 
nated. Unless experience has already demonstrated 
their inutility, we would recommend to our horse 
breeders, some well considered experiments, limited at 
first, to test the feasibility of engrafting the Morgan 
characteristics on a larger horse. 
Of Sheep, four lots, all claiming to be thorough bred 
Merinos, were exhibited, as follows:— 
De Witt C. Doane, of-, Vt., twelve rams; 
Messrs. Rockwell and Sand ford, of Cornwall, Vt., 
forty-four rams; 
Messrs* Bingham and Jones, of Cornwall, Vt., fifty 
rams; 
Mr. R. V. Horton, of Hubbardton, Vt., thirty rams. 
Your committee will not attempt to enter upon any 
detailed description of each of the several lots above 
enumerated. Shades of difference were observable in 
the quality of the lots, and between individuals of the 
same lot,—but all belong to the same general family, 
and bore the same general stamp. The fleeces of many 
of them were heavy, with wool of a medium quality. 
On most of them however, the fleece was uneven, giv¬ 
ing coarse wool, and on the coarsest individuals, jar or 
hair, on the thighs, dewlap, and wrinkles. Your com¬ 
mittee belive this a very serious objection to sheep bred 
for wool-growing purposes. They would recommend 
to the owners of the several flocks from which these 
were drawn, a careful effort to improve the quality and 
evenness of their wool, without materially diminishing 
the weight of fleece,—an object which observation has 
satisfied your committee is attainable with little diffi¬ 
culty. 
A pen of ten Saxon ewes were presented by Mr. 
Samuel D. Colt, of Pittsfield, Mass. Their fleeces were 
even, heavy for this vsriety of sheep, of good fair quali¬ 
ty, and the form and style of the sheep excellent. They 
possessed too, that similarity, that family resemblance, 
which constitutes one of the first proofs of good breed¬ 
ing. 
Your Committee, on behalf of the Society, would ten¬ 
der thanks to the spirited breeders of stock from other 
states, who have exhibited their animals on this occa¬ 
sion. Henry S. Randall, Ch’n., 
James M. Ellis, 
Otto F. Marshall. 
A PLEA FOR FRUIT. 
Mr. Tucker —Every true patriot and philanthropist, 
must see, in the increase of rural culture and rural em¬ 
bellishment, something more substantial than the mere 
pocketing of dollars and cents. Every means of ren¬ 
dering a man’s home attractive, also tends to promote 
domestic enjoyment and social virtue. The cultivation 
of a garden, for the useful and delicious, as well as for 
the beautiful, has an almost irresistible tendency to 
draw the mind from those grosser associations, which 
so often lead to dissipation and ruin. In short, there is 
perhaps nothing in the whole visible creation, that has 
a stronger tendency to check the wild and roving dis¬ 
position which characterizes semi-barbarians, than re¬ 
fined horticultural pursuits. “ When nations grow to 
civility and elegance,” said Lord Bacon, “men come 
to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gar¬ 
dening were the greater perfection,”—a perfection on 
the prevalence of which, even our republican edifice in 
a great measure must owe its stability; for what founda¬ 
tion can endure on a moving mass of sand? What 
government can remain settled among a wandering 
people who have no attractions for home? 
Downing says that “fine fruit is the most perfect 
union of the useful and beautiful that the earth knows.” 
These facts being admitted, it must of course be obvi¬ 
ous that every attempt to thwart the cultivator in the 
attainment of his wishes—in the enjoyment of the fruit 
of his labor, is gross vandalism. The man who would 
discourage the honest and industrious cultivator by turn¬ 
ing unrestrained upon him the pilferei*—whether that 
pilferer be the truant school-boy, or the overgrown 
loafer, the candidate for the prison—whether that 
pilferer be in the shape of the insect, which in whole 
crowds assails his fruit—or whether in the shape of 
birds, who remorselessly attack or defile whatever 
is valuable and the result of years of labor,—the man 
who would turn loose these marauders, and cry down 
every attempt to check their ravages,—has most es¬ 
sentially the spirit of the vandal, and has forgotten 
the true promptings of patriotism. 
It is true, the Curculios,—who destroy, every year, 
millions of dollars worth of fruit, only obey the prompt¬ 
ings of their nature, and hence are innocent of crime. 
They are, also, very beautiful animals, when viewed 
through a microscope; must that save them? The 
birds are equally innocent—they are also beautifulj 
must that save them? Cowper said very justly, 
“ I would not enter c n my list of friends, 
Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, 
Yet wanting sensibility, the man 
Who, needless sets his foot upon a worm. 
