The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-10-15


sE,0rA reEgir0HIaL AGg'CrLrURAL SOCIETY,
Ar rneia THIRD A~srAL FAN, nrLD ~ sr.
PArL, Or. TrH, srH, Asb 1rn, ie,7, NJ Iios.
H. u. aIfLrY, ~ D,k0r. C0rSTr, PtfsfDgsT
% rng aociITY.
Member. ~ the Agricultural Society, Ladie.
and teBilerisu -
We have once more been permitted by a
kind Providence 10 assemble at the annual
meeting Of the Territorial Agricultural 30
cicty Of Minnesota. Death has not thinn"d
the ranks of oar officers Of members, and
We met this day - c.chaLgc congra,ula.
tons, not only because We hHy, had Sca-
son Of upcXamplod health among NJ, bat
because the earth hu yielded its fruits Tar
more abundautly than IN ordinary seasons.
through the broad extent OF our common
heritage. From al parts ii The Union we
have the cheering intelligence Of good crops.
and although the financial condition 81 the
country has been derang'd by panlr gu"h
has come upon It daring period 81 great
commercial prosperity, prosirating banking
institutions like whirIwind, aud occasion
inga general siagna,ion OF buslncj~. YET
while our barns and our granari's nro hlled
10 0sfpItbNiflg WIN INV h'F'Fohl ' ~ ''''
sufficient moi only To feed our own people,
but TO minister Ia the wants OF hail %! The
nations OF tbri.iendom we need not feel
much apprehension ol long continuance OF
40 uninvorabIe a state 81 things. OFcr.ifa
ding. over Specializing. especially IN stocks,
and general cttrayagancc oG hsing, haY"
wrought uui their natural results ~ III"
Eastern States, aud we heel the effects OF
ihr disspirrs Which have hc,ii entnT'd upon
them, but the gfca, source and substra,uin
Of wealth, the agricultural productions oi
the country remain, AID " IA IN due time
serve 10 rescue rs from ouF present pc,unla
~ cmbarfa~mepts. II Is perhaps not IN.
profitable that the p'opc Of the ni,cd
State should occasionally b1 brought 10 APP
preciatc their dependence upon tbat branch
Of labor which occupies 80 large proper
ton Of their number \ failure Of crops
throughout the hand will ,neyilabiy prodncc
distress, affect nmuuIacturts, md arrest the
Operations 81 commerce. 50, th the other
hand when our fields y,eId houu'conhy our
general prosperity can only receive . 'r'np"
rary check from other ca,ucs.
Agriculture has been held in yrtJ differ
ttll tNtitiiNt ftH Ut uiiH w IL ii''' ~ W.
world. purmg the palmy day OF The 10
man Emruc The husbadman VAS held III
honor. ,iueinuatls wgs taken from the
plougl, iu head tie homan Regions When they
were IN great danger OF defeat by the Ac.
quiuns. HE .Agol the army. defeated the
cnem,. aud after having held the dictator
ship oljy .jXio.u days, BE- returned 10 his
farm. At lonsth tia I;cpablic gave place
to monafch!eal Institutions, and ilc virtue
aud intelligence ol the people declined r"''
pds,u with tho power oi the l.uprc the
cul,,a,ors Of The soil he'll into jsrepuic, and
those alone were hed IN esteem Who very
skilled In ,hc military art.
When it IA considered how small WAS Tie
comparative amount ol illnao o' the rarih
performed during the iirst lew centuries
which succeeded the Christian dlNp hsalloh,
ia those parts OF the world then known, Tue
question arises, how were the ncccssar'ts ct
life procur,blc by the masses Of the people
They must have subsistcd principally on an
imal toc,l. or they were far from bong M
numerous ~ has been represented. Even
~ late ~ the eleventh century VI are told
by historian OF celebrity, that the oondl
tlnn Of agriculture in England was exceed
ipciy low. lie says Though almos, all
England had been partially cultivated and
We lind nurly the same manors, except ia
the north. which exist AT present yet The
value and cAtcnt of cultivated ground was
,pcuncei,ably small" The culture of ara
bio land was very imperfect tl',a ~
marks. in the reign OF Edward First or sec
ond. that unless Nh acre yielded more than
si> bushels OF corn the farmer would he "A
loser, und the Iie.d yield no rent. And S'r
John Cslum from very minute accounts
has calculated that nine or ten bushels were
full average crop an an acre 81 wheat
"ENcn the common horticultural art Tor cuI'
mary purposes, though not entirely neglect
~. siHcc ;isr prrdr,~ tsat'i.'ns - sometimes
mentioned IN ancl,nt deeds, hal not been
cultivated with much attention. The ,s'u
len, vegetables now most IN use, wtrr 'n'r"
ducel N tia reign f Elizabeth, nnd some
sorts u great deal later
hax, ,n,,o,lu,,,i the foregoing Icniar A.
10 show. thai IN proportion 1 TIE human
r,c, advances IN civilization, IA the saint
relation Is the science OF hushandry account
,J ho,o,,bl, indeed fit most honorable that
cap ,pv,y, the attention al manNiud' Ia
,nr avn ronn,r,. three toarths or more ol
our ponnIatinn are employed III aSti,u''"'e
nuJ they ,onpri.c full siare oi The 'dn'a
ton. intelligence. ability. and moral worm
of the com,uuni,, n, hrgc, The principle.
upop which agriculture is baS'd, are oNp'rr
mental in their character ~ncc u" "'''"'
atty q. mu, nal consultation on the part ut
farmers. and hence the bsu,i, afiSluS Rom
associa,ious such ~ ours. hay.ug luN,c" Ihc
d,s..mina,ion al results rs thcS are made
known by actual observation ''"'"'
theories may be cuuucla''d' h"' '"y mus
be submitted To the test oil ,Alefih''h' l"
demonstrate their correctness "r inca i"''"'
They cannot be wrnush, 81" 'N' " ""''''
emstical problem
have lsn 81 much occupied during Tue