Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-12-29

by public opinion, brought TO bear. lliro'
our fraternity of interest and associations, in
a manner TO make itself fel, and respected.
The great feature Of the age-,he las,
phase and tableau Of rural life--you may
say Of social lIfe-is these Agricultural Ex-
hibitons. They represent in the numbers
they congregate, almost The population Of
the nation. What occasion within the pas.
year has assembled the people like the State
Fairs a. Saratoga, Pittsburgh, Dayton,
Springfield, Illinois, Lexington, Baltimore,
Richmond, Augusta and The National Fair
at Springfield, Mass? Then The County
Societies throughout alnos, the width and
breadth of the land, have had their Fairs, as
sembling every where the people,
The friend of Agriculture must not only
be grariied with these results, bu. the friend
will see in the devotion Of manly, vrtu-
Gus yeomanry to the grea. agricultural in
,eres, of the country, which they so adopt
end press forward, scoining all political in
trigue, and all meaner things-lhe best evil
dence that liberty and the institutions Of our
country are safe with them, while corrup-
ton and venali,y will no, 90 unwhipped Of
Justice at their hands. "The hands that
planted The tree of liberty can protect i.
while il shades them
(earlessly pronounce, tha, no man who
fails to visit these Exhibitions, can conduct
his farming operations with the lights Of
the age, or ntelIigen'ly. Here is seen in a
few hours all the differen, breeds Of cattle,
D,>pit.v al tho dic-
ferent kinds Of Grain, Grasses Fruits; the
different description of Implements, with the
latest improvements here he meets others,
and the talk is of these things-ol their me-
riis and demeri,s-of the crops and the
markets, and he goes home well posted up
as TO the Stale and condition of Agriculture
in 1853 or for that year.
All honor to the public spirited men who
have been foremos. in The organization of
these Societies. regard Them as benefac-
tors-public benefsctoIs. Contrast these
grounds to day with the first Exhibition
we held Who can doubt the increased
wealth of Maryland, through the improve
ment of her live stock !? The personal en-
ergy Of one man has had much TO do with
our success. This man is on these grounds
] in the morning before most OF us are out
I Of our beds, and never leaves them until the
gates are closed for the night. once saw
him doing even more yeoman service. IL
was the year Of our first Exhibition on the
new grounds west Of the city. There was
no hay for the stock-a negro approaching
with load got stalled, and some Of us hunt
ing for the President, found him with his
shoulder braced to the negroes wagon
wheez, endeavosing by the exertion OF all
his personal strength 10 help the baulky
horses out with their load. The relation
of Charles 3. Calvert, as the able executive
head of this Society, we trust will not soon
be terminated; but, happen when i. may, ho
will probably never be allowed 10 leave il
without taking with him some token or me-
mortal of high estimation in which his SER
vices are held by its members. II it be in
the form ofa picture, by all means let II
represent the worthy Presiden, al the Ne.
gros Wagon wheel, helping forward the hay
for stock, his scarf aud badges of office
areH besmeared avi!h mud, or it would not
be "life-llke." .-
There are oIher early and staunch friends
of The Society that we cannot cease 10 re-
member, among ,hem the late Judge Glenn.
His professional brethren could hardly more
regret his loss than the members of this
Society, to whom he was endeareo by the
Interest which he took in their cause, and
the services he rendered it.
, There is grea, national object in con-
neclon with Agriculture that claims our al
ten,ion. Oar interest has no. such foot
ing in the Government as it deserves, and
2 lie eutuIed to agriculture is, in effect, dis
> franchised there is hardly a record kept OF
) il. Commerce has its agents and represen-
| ,a,ives both al home and abroad. We want
, Department, or a Bureau; we want the
= foreign information we could obtain tho,
5 it; we want statistics; we require spe-
| caI negotiation in reference 10 Guano, and
+, other subjects connected with our pursuits.
: Such DEPARTMENT should have change Of
the Public Lands. As to the expense to The
government, the advantage and gain 10 q
f single good agricultural county would de-
. fray il; it is not 10 be thought Of. f.
Such Department. would guard agroinss
The encroachmen,s of other interests f; it
would add to the dignity of this great na-
liona interest, and il is boon il deserves by
the success it has ensured, and by the
wealth and numbers that now represen, it,.
There is another matter of paramount
impor lance taken in connection with this.
We want a N ational Agricultural College.
Both these subjects were aglla,ed at the or
gsnizalion of the United States Agricultural
Society in June, 1852. We had then every
reason. to believe that success could be se-
cured 10 both, and have now.
! The lavorite plan for an Agricultural Col
, lege aud model farm seems 10 be TO connect
it with the SmIthson Institute. The de-
sire of The benevolent iestalor was 10 'dif
, luse knowledge among men," and To n
class is il more necessary than 10 our Youth