New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-21
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS CLUB.

TUESDAY Jan. l9.-Presdent PILL in the chsir
Secretary MICS Iead several papers from the French
journals, among which the following subjects were
noted:
Aprieot,-A French fruit grower says that tree.
growing from the pit roots of the apricot tree are
hardy in the open air. The pits should be carefully
selected and then in proper SOIL with proper cult
yaon the best OF fruit and large crops can be OBJ
tanned
To Color Fruit-Remoye the leaves first upon one
side and then the other, atd aitergard reddI sreaks
can be made by pencilng with water every morning
on the sunny SIDE repeating through the day. The
natural steaks Of fruit owing to the dew running
down the sides OF the fruit
Ferns are naturally prOpagated from little bro IN
bodies growing upon the underside OF the leaf contain
ing buds of microscopic fneness. The way to gather
this fine seed is by applying moist earth to the lea,
which afterwards Vegetables, and grows as freely as
mSstsrd.
TIE Charter Oak which fell 10 Hartford had its pro-
totype in a tree that fell in Rome $50 years after 1t
sheltered RoInulus and Remus with their wolf nurse.
Report from he Meeting u NE Na,o"% AST'eHI'
tara! S0ciety, al Warrington.
Mr. OLCoTT gave interesting statement OF the
transactions of the Society a. It's late meeting, and OF
the awakened interest among the political rulers oil Tue
country All seemed to concur in tbs opinion that ihe
time has cOme to organize Agricultural Is lresu as
branch of the Federal Government In tuture all
awards for agricultural implements are to be made upon
actual trial. and the Committee are fully auth .rzed 10
make such trial. a committee IL also 10 distribute
seed of the Chinese Sugar Cane and report upon the
value of all lie products AID Its adaptabty to dter'
eit parts If tie country MI Flint OF Massachusetts
stated OF the me tng that for several years kiud OF
bromus seed had been sold at hve or rG dollars
bu,he as valuable grass, conditioned that II was 10
be cut before the seed IpeDed which had at last been
proved 10 be roihng else than conmon chess.
GEO. L. WARING, IT,, said that he was hghiy 10
favor Of lettOnipg Congress to establsh an Agrcui-
tural Bureau but that the project Is coupled with de
fire TO purchase Mount Vernon for a model farm and
school snd thin be utterly opposed because be De-
eyed that such school would be OF any benefit to
be people Hedep Gated the action Of the SOc3ty upon
hi, subject and heught that the study Of elementary
agricultural science in all our common schools would
be of far .reater benefit 10 the country.
Judge Mixes stated that AGRICULTURAL scnOos III
Europe had failed to accomplish any great good. Tue
instruction must be given 70 the mass and not 10
few individuals, or the farmers at large VIII never oo
tain agricultural education of any value to the mss
Prof IOUsASs said that he had lately listened 10
dY lssion upon the value OF collegiate education In
TVS country in which il shOwn that nearly all the
c,eges have boz established for tns benefit OF that
profession that of lawyers, and not Tor The e1aca
ton OF farmers. Our medical nen al have colleges OF
their own but nowhere Is the farmer educated tor MS
profession either in college or academy or comm IN
schoOl. What the country wanted wasa greater degree
of adsptHbity OF our common schools TO sort OF c)n
mon sense view OF what the m s Of the people want
what they are gosg 10 labor at and whether they can
better perform iguor ant or as
y educated intellectual beings. We nust begin at the
beginning II education Is 70 do any good " mast
not only teach the elements Of agricultural chemistry
10 children but we must teach them what Is necessary
for thu IN TO learn.
A discussion here .prlng up on the subject OF eiucs
ton for farmers all present coinciding N tue opinion
that agricultural books should DC lnuocuce1 u'o Vui
common schools. -
HTnter IIo,k aud Preparation for SPriHy.-Mr
Oleott asked Mr. QUISS, superintendent OF Prof.
Mapess fam, 20 state what he was doing a. 7" inter
voIk He said that one kind Of work was turning
very .srse compost heap, made OF spoiled salt hsh and
pss bme well mixed and covered with much charcoal
The heap of fish and lime was about eight teet high
and very odeI sive, but kept perfectly sweet oy Gov
eripg Of eight inCkes OF swamp muck ana chsrcos
dnst He Srefers levin down drains In the Fall, aud
also 10 ridge land in the Fail for Spring crops. lie
say the only secret be has II keeping me liIn 20
clear of weeds ID 10 allow weed 70 see1. ID!
usinp improved implements he is ALE 10 cultivate
seve1t, I've acres in garden crops with seven mea,
when II formerly took eighteen men 10 tnry 1--WE acIe
He often goes six or seven times through The crop "itu
Knoxs korse-hoe and root eleaDers. one mule
traI cd 70 walk between rows siIiee1 iacnes apart
This training vas accomplished by gre It kndness
One OF our kinds of Winter work 10 keep the TOOL
house In oder and TO get sl neg ones tha, may De ~
CURED so to DO delayed single e,y sief ae
Spring opens SEEDS. too should alss.s De 90, ready
in Winter and should be kept in bags, hung up 10 open
air and never packed In boxes or barrels. Ssd corn
nav be hung up BY tying the shucks tosetheL'
Ipevsr allow & man TO ploS WIN me surlsS P'os
ers than ten inches and follow with subso ploF, %
a. 10 mellow the soil twenty or twenty-five lnsnes
deep. But the work done with the rotary digger s
done cheaper and better an possible 10 90 TWIN
pows. II dSintegrates Tie tol pefecuy
Deep. There Is no tool equal 10 for pr pasng ssnd
fer q carrot crop. -,
Nj OLcoTr said II ct With improved tools ne culh-
waited carrot crop almost as cheaply 90 be coqd
corn cIop And it Il very pleasant kind u NIa'ef
work 10 Ped horses upo1 carrots.
NJ. PEIL sid that be found the most pion8oie
Winter work 10 hsul GU, and spread msnuie upon
LAND previously plowei, which does not iniure ~
much a. it does in the bsrn-yard
Gardes Soeds blue glass viii hasten the ge-nlns-
ton of seeds lie raises bis own, and careful in 50
cting !hem the stalk. He finds that not ever two
| thirds Of the seeds cold win ssrminsse.
| solos Roprsso. sisted that large proportion o
be sesds srppoeed 10 be rSised By ths Shskss, sa<