Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-08-21
.Agra0ulIL lEl7ralo
NN~NNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
ADVANTAGES OF AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETIES.

] 4tDf 4A4t a AVIS W. ktNaAANfA ~ AA<tsA
SOCIETIES.
Antther and very important means o
improvement, says Jujge Buel, is .Hg
ricuiiural Societies or Associations. Al
though these have been OF long stand
ing in Europe, and have contributed
/ largely TO agricultural improvement there
more new ones have been formed in
the United States, in the last FIVE OF
ten yesrs than ever existed with us be.
iore. They afford a strong indication
that the important business Of husband
ry is commanding, us it ought, the par
ticular attention Of the American peo-
pie and that the benefits resulting from
these associations have become palpable
and important. agricultural societies
tend TO bring under the eye, or to the
understanding, OF each member, and in a
great degree to the public at large, the
best household and farm products, and the
best agricultural practices, ofthe country
or district in which they are established,
and thus enable each Individual TO appro-
pirate 10 his own use, the experience and
the Improvements of his neighbors. The
example of every good farmer produces
beneficial influence upon those around
him; who seeing his approved modes OF
management, and the advantages result
ing from them, will not fail ultimately to
adopt them. Hence the more good far
mers there are, the greater will be the
ratio OF general improvement, and conse-
quen,ly Of public beneft--for it is the
earnings and products of agricultural "a.
Dor, that mainly contributes to the pros
perity of the other classes of society, and
to augment the aggregation Of the national
wealth. When the harvest is short, eve
~ department of business feels the cleo
trio shock. When it is abundant, new
and happy impulse is gwen 10 every sort
of business. These considerations Shop,
that ii as the interest alike Of ALL TO pat
ronize and encourage epery effort that is
made 10 increase the products of the soil.
One Of the oldest societies in our country
is that OF Berkshire, in Massachusetts. -
! have occasionally attended their exhib.
tons, traversed the country, and marked
It's improvements in husbandry, during the
last twenty years and feel perfec.
conviction in my mind, that the country
has been benefited twenty dollars for
every dollar expended in premiums, in a
pecuniary point Of view.
The rapid improvement OF Scotch hus
banery, under the invigoratng influence
Of the Highland Agricultural Society, is
operating as powerful stimulus to the
formation of a similar society in England
The Editor of the (London) Farmers
Magazine, speaks thus of the matter -
Attention is at length aroused" says
the editor, "to the remarkable progress
which agriculture has made in Scotland
and to The high rents cheerfully paid by
the tenants there, although la5oring under
the disadvantage Of more inhospi.ablt
climate. That the Scotch are better far.
mers than the English generally, tha
| they pay higher rents, and that theil
system OF farming is improving daily, are
facts at last unequivocaly, though reluc
family admitted; and the question is very
naturally asked, how has this been effect
ed? How is il that our northern breth.
rea, laboring under acknowledge dissd
vantages, have beaten US in the race p
The answer is, by reducing the practice
of, and Improvements effected by, tht
NEST talented and skiiful agriculturists
to writing, thereby establishing agricul
ture as science, and again d1usng sucl
Information speedily and widely amongs
the farmers. The effective at;anmen
of both objects may be mainly, il not al
together, ascrbed to the exertions of tn,
highland Agricultural Society. We hav,
been always so deeply impressed witt
the high value OF this society, that W,
have never failed to hold it up as a mode
to all other agricultural societies. A Ink,
opinion of its utility is rapidly spreading
as well as desire to become better &C
quainted with the system of management
adopted by the Scotch agrtcuLWalists."
Tbs members Of an Agricultural Soci
ETY., says Judge Buel IN very able ad
dress delivered at Princeton, New Jersey
may do a public good in either or all o
the following ways:-
/. BY the stimuli Of personal example,