Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-02-19

OF Flaxseed Sc pounds
vi hempseed -...s............94 pounds.
VI Bnckwheat .--.-.....-.--..--..0 2 pounds
OF Blue Grass-seed. ..........-.-.....l u pounds.
" Castor Beans 80 pounds.
" DRIED Peaches ....-.-.........-.33 pounds.
Drled apples --.....-.........-.. rs pounds.
" " Oaons pounds
VI Salt .-...-.....-...-.... 30 pounds.
vi Mineral Coal 40 pounds.
II is to be regretted thar far no have been
devised Tor obtaining FULL statistical iuai malion Of
each county We should obtain by officers &C.
curate nual statistical d-iails Of the great asricuia-
raj mechanical and manufacturing industrial oducis
of the State. Whou this information no Representa-
i've Is prepared to discharge hrs duties faithfully those
ne represents.
We believe under perfect organization OF County
Agricultural Societies, such is contemplated by the
Board, we shall lie able to furnish considerable
amount oil Information, touching the industrial products
of the State
In this report the first under the sanction of the State
some considerable Information is furnished on this sub
ject.
1t would be interesting table to lay before the
Legislature. and through them the people the entire
surplus of Indiana the past wear. The estimates In
some of the counties very large in the county of
Laporte, amounting to four hundred Thousand dollars
and yet we doubt not, the surplus Of other counties e
coed tins amount.
The surplus of the State has been estimated bv many
the past year, from twenty to twenty-five millions
BY the census Of 1850 are able to arrive at the
Fact that nearly eghttenhs of what we purchase out
i
States And we may safely assert that more than one
half OF this amount is the product Of the labor and skill
Of other States not avoraby situa ed Cor mechanical
and manufacturing labor own In those essen.
fia combinations for successful mechanical and manu-
featuring labor such rsn, coal soul wafer power,
marble stone quarrI"s, timber &c g. Indiana has no
equal in the Union. Yet the iron. coal and minerals Of
State taken abroad and successfully used TO pro.
fit hy the la Of Others
We seem to be anxious to exhaust forests of wal
MT and cherry. that the mechanics Of ether States may
reap the reward thereon.
The bringing together the 'chanics Of our own and
other States, in county and State fairs among us with
the beat specimens OF their skill and labor Is well cal
culaed to foster and encourage the mechanical labor Of
the country. The great advantages that result from
the assembling OF farmers mechanics aud manufacture
ers, in associations, in which the productions of their
skill and labor exhibited, consists in a free inter.
change OF views and opinions You thereby stimulate
industry, bring together the most distinguished merhan.
les OF the State, with not only the work Of their brain
and hand but they together inquire into the
wants oil the country, that they may return to their
workshops to perfect the inventions that have been sug.
gesied by these The manufacturer exhibits the
result OF his invention and labor the farmer the mode
process and improvements Of the farm.
The trials, tests and experiments that thus exhb-
tied, will create split Of rivalry well calculated to de.
veop the resources Of the country well adapted TO
show the real wants of the people, and the prospects
and means of supplying those wants
In tins way every branch of industry made better
acquainted with the mutual aud dependency of
each; and IN this audabe spirit Of emulation the
ment in the true road To wealth.
very considerable of money is paid abroad by
our people for stock, implements and productions Of
other States, the most of which viii be saved in few
years by these associations.
You have in this the first report under the law Of last
session. the best evidence that be offered Of the
wisdom of these associations.
You appropriated thousand dollars the use of
the Board the last session Ouy five hundred dollars
of that sum has been expended There have been two
sessions of the Board during the past year hereafter
there will he but annually, that the expenses Of
the State Board will exceed the OF Two hundred
and fifty dollars per year.
We respectfully ask your honorable body to appro-
pirate the Of two thousand dol-rs for tie Of tho
Board this year. Ii is contemplated by the Board
hold State Fair point in the state the ensuing
fall, and TO pay out the of at least. twenty five
hundred dollars IN premiums The state would lose
nothing If part Of this expenditure refunded The
great stimulus given the various branches OF industry,
the increase of property thereby subject taxation,
will more than foui fold repay the Yetyou Board
has no hesitation in saying that by the proceeds Of the
contemplated Stale Far VIC shall be able To refund into
the State Treasury every advanced, with surplus
to commence operations for the ensuing year.
The Board herewith append their circular ISSUED at
the first meeting together with the entire proceedings
of The sessions. We respectfully ask that less
than three Thousand copies of this report b. published
desire TO furnish certain number Of these reports
to each oil the county societies in the state, that they
NAV he used as premiums at the county Fairs.
We shall exchange several hundred copies with our
sister States that may have their reports exchange
therelor, which We design TO give out as premiums at
our State Fair. In this way nope to be able to
municate the knowledge and information Of our Sister
States in the various branches of industry, every
county, and possible to each citizen of our
State.
There few in detail from county societies,
that is thought necessary in this report take up
the leading articles of the State, such corn wheat,
cattle, hogs, sheep. oats hay BE- Whenever the organ
izaiion is made general and uniform throughout the
State the Board will be able offer such suggestions
as leading articles of the country. 1t Is believed
will be useful the full developeneDt of the
of The State in agriculture mechanics and manufactures.
In comparison with Sister States this report will
compare favorable with their first efforts In Of the
adjoining States, their first report did not exceed sixty
pages. This will exceed three hundred. and we believe
equals the reports of any Of the States of the Union in
their first efforts furnish information upon their lead
ing industrial productions.
There is manifest spirit Of improvement abroad in
our State We doubt your honorable body will aid
and further on by all the within your reach this
great movement of rvary-this work Of competition
this spirit of emulation. By this means Indiana may
stand not the fourth fifth State in the Union. bat
the elements of substantial wealth the first.
JOSEPH A. WRIGHT,
President Of the Board.
February 14th, 1852.
Sullivan County.