New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-19
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
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Agricultural Periodicals.

ENCK Conducted by Dr. L. EAMoss sad A. osBoRs,
Esq. Albany.
The rise and steady Advancement q Agricultural
Literature in the United States is gratifying indi
cation Of the increasing attention bestowed on the
Improvement Of that great branch Of human indus
Try which it has for its subject. Ii is 10 be hoped
that some able pen will sketch the early history Of
this literature before the materials for it become
tinc. There are iacts-there arc names-there are
memorials Of efforts and Of sacrifices connected
with its first struggles for positive and independ
ent existence, which ought not to be suffered to
sink toto oblivion. hold that it would be both
fortunate and unjust to let the names and abors Of
those pioneers in the cause John s. Skinner John
Taylor Edmund RBlin, Stephen Van Rensselaer,
Robert X. Livingston, lease Buel and host Of
equally able and equally Jealous conductors, 20 down
10 iofgetiulness. HO--that cannot be AS men who
have faithfully discharged high official TRUSTEES
statesmen, legislators, and even warriors, they
have stamped their names On their Country's hlsto
,y But as Farmers, as the improvers OF Agricu-
ture as writer's who have sought to elevate and in
struct their griculturists, they deserve
special and separate recollection at least by those
they have labored to benefit When these men com.
.
most every agricultural newspaper and other pub
LEGATION on this subject was undertaking invov
ing certain pecunary oss-or, ct best, lraught with
doubt, chcerod by no hope OF those ample gains
which have attended later ventures. But they
were perscv cred in and they prepared the way Tor
the ore sent state OF things They sOwed broadcast
the seeds which have sprung up 50 vigorously
among the men Of our generation.
Now there is scarcely, probably not one, state 10
the Union which has not its newspaper devoted ex
closivey to Agriculture. Some OF them have sew
eral all well supported. New York has as many
as seven or eight, each conducted with fair and
several with striking ability and some OF them
possessing a circulation not exceeded by our frs
class OF political newspapers. The american dg-
riculturSf, The CpiftUGt0T, Tie FdTBerS' Lt6rdrI,
the Spiru of The Ts5ies, etc. are read throughout
North America. So elaborate and extensive has
this class of Literature become that division Of la
Dor is demanded. and begins to be practiced among
the several editors and publishers. journal dc
voted 10 Horticulture commands the pen of the ac-
conplished Downing the Horse, the Tarf, &c
have for their organ the rdcy gitterIng, mifth-
provoking Spirit ~ The Tunes publication not
oxceued 10 it's class ia Europe. Who knows how
soon we shall have our Veterinarian" our " Ora
zier and Cattle Breeder our oyine canine, and
perhaps, our swinish Gazettes
AS disseminators Of the agricultural Intelligence
Of tho day. as chronclers Of discoveries invsnto.s
fair agricultural discussion (tor so great anger
does sometimes Invade celestialminds the cheap
agricultural mOnthes are invaluable. Their htera
rs tone like their price, is adapted to the wants o
all While they employ some OF the bestan most
vigorous pens OF our country, the style adopted by
ali Of these writers is that plain aud explanatory
one (which is understood, aud without an effort. by
the least erudits reader In sacrificing the concise
ness and precision OF scientific language, they make
some portion OF Science accessible 10 the most IN
lettered and Il they give up considerable oil Their
room % reschOed OpIniOns-to the records oil exper
uents which were not new even 20 the great grand
sires OF the expermenters-tO grayely announced
discoveries many OF them valoeless, II true, and
some OF them obviously emprical-iti IS because II
is equally matter OF policy ard necessity so to do
Generation succeeds generation among srI7fers as
elsewhere and each recruit that enters the he'd
must be permitted 10 lire his gun OF flesh his maid
en- sword. 10 is best 10 give him hearing, even
though YOU laugh In your sleeve, at his rerdancy.-
Good will come OF him. by and by II our agrcui-
tural mOnthlies admitted among their contributors
only deeply read or scientific men, and practiced
writers one of their best sources OF usefulness
would be thrown away. Ii is because ne can be
heard in their columns it is because men OF his
OWN tastes habits style of thinking and writing
are monthly heard there that gives one oil Their
principal charms % this class OF publications win
the Farmer. They constitute, as 1t Were farmers
f,aaiOAS on paper Each man cOnverses with his
affecting their mutual pecuniary interests and the
circle is every month widened by strangers intro
duced after little busting OF their anth0r coats
pafheps by that hatinhand ever complalsaht
gentleman usher the editor Yes the cacoefheS ScFl'
fead Is confined to no class; IL must have It's agri'
cultural as yell its political and theological safc'y.
r,tlres Folks must speak, as well as hear : And
he vino speaks through the wide heard trumpet Of
newspaper, becomes interested IN his topic land
by the by. in the paper whose discriminating con
ductor has so Justly appreciated the great caiue al
bis commune atoms His vanity has been prOpl-
tiated II has been heard. and he is bound 10 Us
ZEN After some little observation in these matters.
| have never known that farmer, who after seeing
himself in print two three times IN the agricul-
;ural newspapers. has subsequently lost keen
relish for reading them And think YOU man oil
Science that wheat of the whitest aud plumpest
berry is not often threshed Out by the tongue orpea
THUMBS of these unscholsstio takers and disPu.
tautsl II So, never were you more mistaken! Ana
/ tell YOU farther. that your own wire drawn theo'
res are not unfrequently knOckedinto an ancient
" shaped beaver - resolved back into their com
nouent rapofs-scattered 70 their native dTe0"'
land, by few Of the thamps oil these oea"ny
practical. common sense threshcrsl
have heard good many agricultural speeches
L have listened, on great State occasions oil TINS
kind 10 eminent lawyers, eminent politicians emf
neut public observation-disclosures, rather Oddly
never To an eminent Farmer. These men discourse
euphoniously about Ceres and Pomona. Greek AMI
Roman Agriculture, the dignity aad the delights o!
the Husbandmaa-an each speaker, signing like
DesdemOna,
-" Wished
That Heaven had made him such man"
All tins IS cspitsl for Buncombe. lions mus, DO
had 10 eet 10 audiences aud cen let them roar,
atter their own fashion. Each tub present at al
Agricultural Show should contain butter treacie'
or other lsbrseaiing materials instead OF tesny'
hagd please Diogenes Whist objection shoeia 'n'
Farmer have 70 be pa.ted on the head occasiohr'y
by lawyers aud politicians and have the astoand
ing fact recalled 20 him. that his occupation ]" Is
the Junior Mr.. Weller would say, very oncom
mOnably respectable And n his Pa,Tont-t HS
friends laugh any louder ia their sleeves at hum
than he does at them. on the coming oil OF such a
farce he ought " give them leave to describe
dieita windmills their noses at him all the days
Of their lives.
once attended an agricultural talk OF quite
another sort. IN the noighborlng County OF Onon
daga The meeting was called by the ecclesiss
tlcaly sounding name Of Conference Each
man Kept his seat. Finding that. by experience
better base OF intellectual operations than the