Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-11-13

and modes of culture they are prompted to
vigorous action.
The invitation by your excellent Chair
man of the Executive Committee to the
farmers, mechanics and ladies, to bring some
thing, was quite appropriate, and it has been
responded to in a manner highly gratifying,
giving an earnest,hatyou have devoted your
selves to the work. There are specimens
of needle work and of hosiery, of family
manufactures. that cannot be surpassed
The names Of the ladies who have excelled
will be recorded on the books of the asso-
citation, to be transmitted to posterity, and
their work commended as worthy Of imita-
u0n.
We next offer the views of the Hon. J.
A. PEARcE, as found in his address deliver
ed before our State Society, in 1S49 He
says:
The multiplication Of agricultural books,
treatises, encyclopedias and periodicals, is
quite feature of the times, and to these the
institution Of agricultural societies has, am
very sure, been powerful auxiliary.
To the two may be ascribed the awaken
ed spirit of enquiry and emulation which
are now producing such happy results in
our State. Wi.hin the last few years have
seen many sterile fields (my own among
the number) exchange the pale livery of the
poverty grass for the rich and fragran. bloom
Of the clover.
the State Agricultural Society, you were not
merely preparing agreeable associations for
y yourselves, and furnishing an inducement
for the improvement Of your own systems
Of farming, and so Of furhering your indl-
vidual interests, but you were engaged in
patriotic duty, which ! do not doub. will
yield fruit honorable and profitable to the
country as well as TO yourselves. You will
collect and dIffuse much valuable nforma-
,ion-you will make the experience of each
available for the benefit Of ell, by making
and communicating the results of expert
ments to test the value of any alleged dis
covery, invention, or improvement-by CIV
ing and receiving suggestions as to the pre-
paration Of the land for seed, the m amer of
sowing, harvesting, and securing after har-
ves.-lhe use Of new and improved imple-
ments-lhe choice Of seeds-he breeding
and care Of stock, and above all, the Prepa-
ration, preservation, and application of home
made manures-a subjec'7 in itself, Of the
greatest consequence, as we'll as of much
variety; to which may add, as only second
in importance, the purchase, adaptation and
application of foreig ign manures and amelio-
rators. If besides these we consider the
business of the dairy, the products Of the
kitchen garden, vineyard, orchard, and flow
er garden, any one may see how large a
field there is for the investigation the ag-
ricu!urist, furnishing him with materials for
observation, reflection, study and expert
ment, enough to engage all his energies ;
and in connection with the sciences cogna.e
to agriculture, TO supply all the intellectual
exercise and qualification that the mind of
man can desire. The intelligent farmer who
directs his energies towards these subjects
with the zeal and spirit which begin to
characterize his class-who looks at his
profession with pride and pleasure, and con-
siders agriculture en- art to be associated
with, end assisted by scientific enquiry, is
far superior to the silken dandy, who may
think him a clod-hopper, as one class of
beings can be to another. The one is the
prop of the Sta.e-.,he other triflng excres-
cence upon it. To the intelligent farmer
nature unfolds her beauties as we'll as her
bounties. His is the honest heart, the liber-
al soul, the ardent mind, the fresh imag ina
ton. He makes the best of parents and
citizens, the most disn,erested Of patriots.
Between the we'll systematized labours Of
his life are intervals of leisure for general
reading and improvement, enough TO give
him all the information necessary for indi-
vidual culture, and social en- oyment That
the labours Of your society may tend to form
such class of men, to improve your own
condition and benef. your country general
ly, earnestly hope and believe.
Here is wha. the Committee on Patents,
in their Report to Congress, say ::
Thanks to agricultural journals and socie-
ties, the people will soon discover tina. labor
and capital devoted to tiIlage and husbandry
are as worthy of legislative consideration as
labor and capital employed in mining, COM
MERGE, and manufactures.
[Dr. DARLINGTON, of Pennsylvania, in an
agricultural discourse, thus argues
Man is by nature gregarious animal, and
evidently intended for the performance of
mutual good offices. Even in his rudest
condition, he soon learns the importance Of
cooperation with his fellows in producing
desired results and as he advances in civli-
cation and refinement, he discovers that The
benefits 10 be derived from combined skill
and energy are in a direct ratio with his
progress in improvement. The develope-
men,s of science not only excite a sslutary
emulation among individuals, but they also
show how much more may be accomplish
ed by concentration of ehort-by skill
full union and concert Of individual talent
and energy. Hence the resort TO societies,