New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-09

ENcles Law. and Tor Its extension To Newl ofk TX
ceent p The House were an hour in Committee upon
Judicial Districts Mr. Chandler moved substitute hs
he minority report for Mr Hadeys lthe majority re-
port. Lost-i2 TO % Both have appeared IN The In'
bune.
There are some hard things In Sir Lunsn shcrmans
Auburn Prison Report | send H. JoHS KNOX.
Agriculture In France-A state Agricultural
school In Newly ork, dc.
lReported for The Tribune
ANERIcAS lNsTITUTE-FG Formers Cia5. FEB. = loi7.
Judge LIVINGSTON in the Chair.
HENRY Mics, Secretary.
Mr.. MEics read the following translation by him
OF a discourse by Lamartine
Recus Horticole Nov lsi6.-At tbs exhibition Of
flowers, fruits and vegetables by the Horticultural
Society of the Rhone, on the 18th goth and nth Of
September 1916, the celebrated LaRlaTtfRc pro
nOunced DISCOURSE from which We take pleasure
in making the following beautiful extracts:
Exhibitions 10 Agriculture what Museums are 10
Painting and Scupture-it is publicity 1t is example
Emulation Light and sometimes IL Is Glory To ere
Exhibitions OF Horticulture IS TO give 10 that useful
and graceful science the benefit and the great principle
of mutually and association. Ii is 10 open 10 cOun-
try new road to propess-to enjoyment 4 Congress
Of Flopos is Arrays pacifo Horticulture, already
precious material point OF view. IS not less profitable
to the philosopher and 10 the piOus contemplation OF Ma
ture II develops that religious sentiment by which
recognise the Creator In the perfection OF his works
Can the artists Themselves cultivate the soil can they
mean termination OF plants can they direct regenerate
and discipline plants Of which almost iatelit
rent without trembling with admiration and gratitude
before the power OF God Stupidity alone can remain
cold in the face Of such spectacle The Anciens well
conprehended this profound sentiment-so that each
flower each fruit had hidden in sort Of Divinity
They called them Flors, Vertumnus, Pomona. Ceresi
More fortunate better inspired the MOderns have ex
pressed the whole idea by the grand word fToU,denoe
which bears with it every idea OF beneisction
The Horticultural Exhibitions have also another adj.
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and OF end The ancient and modern poets in order
paint the idea Of pure cty took HecT N paint
upon throne on IN paLace They took wise old man
who dis0bNscd OF all the vain splendors OF the
world-they placed him In modest garden surrounded
with hedges and watered by riyulet Thus Homer
represented Alcinous y
Mr. WAKEnAs presented the following extract
from letter from Roswell L. Colt of Paterson, n.
J. viz:
January %, lsf7.-From recent experiments or
rather should say from repeated experiments made OF
Fall planting of Potatoes in England which the accounts
of recently came TO my knowledge, ! am determined
Fall to plant half acre OF Potatoes about the
middle of October 1t is said those thus planted were
productive and of better size and free from Pota
rot II this is so 1t will be important to test 1t with
US"
! Mr.. MICS read the following translation
ANHAIEs DE LA SocIETE ROYAL,
DHoRTIoULTURR, PARIS, Oct lc46.
Extract from letter addressed to the President
| by Doctor ID Heran on the Potato malady.
"Ihave lately Travelled through the Northern depart
ments and found all the Potato crops injured by the
lady except that the enyirons OF Beramont the
forest of Maur- Mall field planted with pots-
toes whose tubers and stalks had suffered no alteration
it the only field which the malady had respected
for great distance around it, And learned the follow
ing facts from the cutivator of that held,-a poor
wood chopper. He said that he had permission from
the charcoal burners in the neghborhood TO take
much of the charcoal dust be peasedand that last
year he put upon his csbbages potatoes and turnps
and remarked that they grew larger and earlier than
usual What particularly struck me, was that the pc
tatoes were very good with those OF my neighbors
diseased attributed this result to the charcoal
and this year when ! planted my potatoes ] put a
handful OF the charcoal dust in each hl-snd in April
covered each hill than half deep with charcoal
dust
Mr. MEIGs read the following translation by him
ANNALEs DE Ia SocIErE RoYALE
D'HORTIcULTURE PARIS Oct. 1876
FEoUNDITY PLANTs-Pliny speaks of $40 stems of
Wheat growing from grain being sent TO the Empe
ror Nero | have obtained (iiiy years ago. much
greater number from one grain. admit that Nature did
not do all. but that Art aided in the operation.
An accidental grain Of wheat in of my flower beds
came up let It grow In October it formed a thick
tuit then took up separated carefully the different
stalks and set them all out In corner of my garden
They grew vigorously and in the following March sep
arsed each ,uft before, and set them out and the
crop very far exceeded Plnys. Roe after YsateHdL has
reported the number of seeds produced by single plants
Maize 1900 seeds lnuls 5000 Hclisnthus, 1000 Pop
py $1,000; Ipha 10000; Tobacco Plant 100000.
Mr.. WAKEMAN-The Institute has renewed its
petition the Legislature, at the present session,
for the establishment this City, under the
of the Institute OF an Agricultural School and Ex
perimenta arm. 1t has been said that the present
is not proper time for such an application But
when this great people bss just made Constitution
of Government with the view to do justice TO all the
great interests of the Stateand when it's legislators
are this celebrating upon the great points of
legislation under the rule now surely 10 the very
best time TO call their attention to the new system OF
educst proposed by the American Institute. BY
charter Agriculture is fret and foremost in the list OF
objects for which that charter was granted And
the more the members of the Institute have considered
this matter the profound is their conviction that
the education of future generations should combine
sound general instruction with thorough practical
knowledge OF all the business OF the farm And this
conviction is also that Agriculture is the highest object
of our care and of temporal legislation. The APP
preparations for various objects are now being made
Now the time present the claims OF Agriculture to
public aid and patronage.
Gen. TALLMADGE asked what proportion OF the
state school Fund was appropriated for the Teachers
DR. CLOVES stated that the distribution was
made in proportion to the number OF pupils
| Gen. TALLNADGE-But | desire to know how
| much Of that fund is paid to Teachers
DR.. CLowEs-The trustees receive their pro-
portions of the funds, and they pay the teachers.
MIR. WAKENAN-An that was recently said in
the state Agricultural Society against our application
for the great practical school, seems 10 have been that
instead of public patronage the whole should be left to
private munhcence and private enterprise. sir-this
has been already tried for thirty years past and has ut
terly failed. They were specuAtions like the Columbia
County Schools advance private ends In 1912 the
distinguished citizen SIMEON De WrTr. warmly urged
the founding of Agricultural Schools by the State TIE
American Institute asks for power and has already good
reasons TO ask. IL has excellent Library Of many
thousand volumes-many thousand members consist
ing of men many of whom would distins uish the halls
of the Capitol II has been rsdy exact in its admins
son and carry out to full success an Agricultural
school and the wsest OF our wealihiest men, well
the middle aged poorer class wish for it that their
may become great farmers they wish the school to
be here that their boys may work and study under their
own eyes They wish to their sons able to execute
every work on farm and to be able also, mechanics
TO make and mend all the implements OF farm. and
above all learn habits OF healthul industry for their
physical good and habits of economy BY feeling rha, TIE
raine Of labor really IS.
DR. CLowEs-ln relation TO the question put TO
me as to our Common School System. say that of the
United States Deposit being granted to each
Dstrict happens of course tina, some Districts have
many pupils and some very few so that in there
will be portion OF two dollars for pupil, while in
other there will be twelve dollars per pupil and
beside in some the Trustees OF the Districts have
given the Of the fund entirely into the hands
OF the teachers who do not fail 10 benefit themselves