New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-28
Agricultural College and Experimental Farm.


Agricultural College and Experimental Farm.
IT. The Editor Of The Tribune
The utility of College with an Experimental
Farm for the purpose of testing seeds and plants
sent to our City which for want of care, skill or
proper soils, perish has been frequently spoken Of,
since your late remarks appeared. A large proper
ton of the vegetables that administer to our susie
nance our health and comfort are of modern dis
covery The best furnished tables in Athens or
even Rome were destitute of nearly all our choice
vegetables to us they would have appeared mis-
erably defectve-little better than is provided by
savsges If civilization progresses, there IS no
doubt those who follow will look back on us with
similar feelings The vast magazine OF Nature is
full OF blessings, but they must be industrously
sought after. Science and art must be put in re
QUESTION, and vegetables imbued with the most
deadly poison may be changed and converted into
healthy nutriment. | hope the Legislature will
not withhold another year. Why delay the good
that attends such an establishment Every man
of ordinary intelligence knows it would repay ten
fold. 1t should be done, say some, by individuals
Colleges and Academies should have been erected
by individuals, but they were not Knowing they
u
them When three lourths Of our population are
employed in Agriculture, and knowledge is requir
ed for mems success, as much as in any profession
shall We remain year after year destitute OF sin
gle one
Mr. Wilkinson the intelligent Superintendent OF
the Dutchess County Agricultural School, stated at
the last Farmers Club, that there was not one in
the State Hundreds OF students are applying. Ii
would be most benevolent act to divert those
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and afford them certain comfortable living, which
our rich lands will always do with moderate indus
try and such practical knowledge as may, Tor
small sum, be acquired at the proposed Institution
Let il be organized with the same economy as the
American Institute has prastced and 1t will not
fail 10 succeed. We have citizens OF wealth and
Intelligence who would be proud to contribute their
services without salary. Our learned professors,
10 doubt would volunteer portion OF their services
Three hundred students, paying moderate tuition
would sustain adequate professorships. a lew
acres might be proitaby devoted to the rtlsing OF
choice and rare seeds as well as those improved
for common use. The certainty that they would
be salable would insure demand for them at remu
nerating prices They would be sought tor lar and
wide There are few who have lot suffered by de-
fective seeds. Whole fields and gardens nave
often required preparing planting the second time,
and perhaps then so late SIS sacrifice most OF the
crop Continual complaints are heard, for many
are tempted TO mix their old seeds with the new
Let il be once known that only the best of seeds
would be sold here raised and put up by careful,
honest scotsman. and orders would come from all
Darts of the country. From these two sources
tuition and SAFE of seeds-a large income might
every wear be realized, to be applied In sustaining
and extending the concern.
would suggest quarterly examinations OF the
students in this City. where all our Professors
should be invited. What emulation would be ex-
cited No doubt yourg men would come forward
| the admiration of our country. The questions and
answers would be published and talked Of and the
subjects familarzed to those who otherwise would
have taken no interest This would all tend to give
popularity and dignity to this noble occupation
Again: at the Great Fair would have every stu
dent attend with the teachers. They would there
find more Agricultural machines aud implements
than they would find by six months travel, and
iii together side BY side, for comparison. What
an onnortunity TO learn their merits and dement's
Nncb of the profits of the farm depend ON the IN
struments used in cultivation no" HnPo''an'
this know ledge 70 the student VINO goes INTO 'nc
country 20 know and be able TO select the pest
On the Experimental Farm, trias couid DC 'nsue
| and machines tested by proper instruments sucn
as the draft Of plOvs and moving power OF dnereh'
machines hope this Legislature Will not adjourn
without providing for at least one Institution io'
Agricultural Education and any one who VIII care
| fully examine will be satisfied that such an lnsu.
tuition can be sustained near Newfork tor one-hah
what il would cost in any other part of the state
The patronage of the American Institute, its he
pos,ory of Machines, its Literary Professors. its
great Annual Fairs its thousands Of visters, the
yariety of msnures the cheapness OF land and the
diversity O. soils all favor this location Success
an extended scale will be insured in this locstio
If fostered BY the Legislature In the outset WI lie
in any other its success VIII be doaotial AShiootA
Tax LATE HORACE WELLs-The death OF this