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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
TABLE showing the amount in bushels of the Whent Crop ia different States , in 
the years 1840 and 1850. 
Connecticut, 
1840. 
1850. 
87,000 
41,000 
157,923 
31,211 
422,124 
185,658 
848,160 
269,259 
4,569,692 
1,616,386 
4,803,162 
2,142,822 . 
1,801,830 
1,088,534 
838,052 
294,044 
If the introduction of the elements of Science in the Com¬ 
mon School be important in relation to Agriculture, it is no 
less imperative in connection with the great cause of sanitary 
improvement. The health and strength of nations, as well as of 
individuals, and the duration of human life are intimately 
linked with the right interpretation of the laws of Nature. 
How many localities are there where half the people horn are 
carried off by death under five years of age! How many are 
the death-bed scenes where a little knowledge of the pulse, of 
respiration, of the influence of a vertical or a horizontal 
position, of heat and cold, and of dry and moist air, would 
have averted a fatal termination ! Is there a house that should 
not have its Florence Nightingale? Is there an individual who 
would not steer his way more carefully through the varied 
dangers of life, were he taught systematically in early youth 
some of its most important relations to the elements with 
which we are surrounded? Tfie true aspect of this question 
cannot be contemplated from a proper point of view, unless we 
bear in mind that no edict has gone forth condemning man in 
general to die at three score and ten. The idea has arisen 
from an erroneous interpretation of the nineteenth Psalm, but 
a reference to the text, and to criticisms of the most learned 
commentators, will prove that it was composed as a lamentation 
in the wilderness by Moses, and that the complaint is that 
human life, from the sins and sufferings then, was reduced at 
that time to such a period. Further, we have evidence from 
day to day and year to year that human life, without pain or 
suffering, is often prolonged to a very considerably longer 
