Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02
From tho Country Gentleman.
Agricultural Department Of the PAT.
ent office, and state Expcrimcn N !.
tai Farm.


From tho Country Gentleman.
Agricultural Department 81 the Pat
ent office, and state Expcrimcn
tai Farm.
have to day been reading the Patent OF
fee Report on Agriculture, for 1856. By
this report it appears that our grvernmen
appropriated $75, 900 for the benefit of agri
lcu!tnre, in the rurcha G and distribution o
SEEDS, plants, &C.. and the publishing OF this
most useful and elegant volume. Too rnucl
credit cannot be given to onr worthy citizeI
Of Iowa, Hon. CHAs. MASON, Commissioner
of Patents, for the able manner he la.
conducted this department., and the excellent
improvements he has made. We ought also
to express our gratitude to our Government
for the great benefit we have derived from
this b"anch-trom this appropriation which
is about one dollar out of one thousand Of
the expense of the government. hope our
Representatives will duly consider the bene
fits derived as we'll as dollars expended
81 IN 81, 90 for Agriculture 81 in $40 for
Commerce, anl ST. in 50 for War!
Several of the States have an Agricultu-
raj College and Experimental Farm, and 9TH
ers are about to establish such institutions.
Now it occurs to me that al Experimen>
tai Farm in very State should be the prop
er agent to c"-nperate with the Genera
Government in this most profitable and
pgaiseworthy "lject. In the report, Mr.
Mason says ut hAs sometimes been ascer
tanned that persons who have been furnished
with the means of raising some choice gar
den vegetables, finding them excellent, have
consumed the whole without a thought for
the future, in regard to their neighbors or
even themselves' How can the States con-
sistently do less than to have piece of
ground Oh which to cultivate in the proper
manner, the seeds and plants thus furnished
And when the General Government shall
give up this most profitable branch Of their
business, and attend Exclusively to ,0ar, it
would be very appropriate for the State
Farm to take care and enlarge this branch,
for the benefit of the greatest interest of the
nation and of the States This is but one
small it,In of the benefits of the Agrcultu-
raj School and Farm.
There is scarcely a State in the Union,
had they an Experimental Farm in success
ful ope rattan, AMI had they tried the Chinese
Sugar Cane two years ago, and recommend
cd its cultivation, which would be from an
authentic source, upon which we could put
full confidence, and have distribu'e cd the
seed among the farmers, but what could
this year h I'VE manufactured all the syrup
and molasses, and probably the sugar, for
the consumption Of the whole country
From this single plant there could have been
saved Il sum sufficient to purchase farm in
every State, erect llege buildings, and
make liberal endowment for profe>sorships.
iowa will probably pass bill this winter
to oIl Sh >uc1, ap
Nuscdtine, Iovu. SuEL FOSTER
In this connection we make the following
extract from the editorial columns of the
Country Gentleman:
New York STATE AGRICULTURAL CoLLEee.
AT u meeting of the Trustees, held in this
city last week, we learn that the plan and
specifications for The College Buildings, pre-.
were chosen, and $3.50 awarded him for the
made to ii. NJ Wilcox, architect, Buffalo,
aud Rev. II. b. Taylor Of the Fort Edward
Institute, for plans, &c, submitted by them.
I'll. Exeeutixs Committee were instructed
to Contract for the materials and erection of
the buildings. The President rendered re.
port of the farm management and opera
ont very satisfactory to the Trustees. The
course of studies to be pursued, was reports
ed on by a committee having the subject in
charge, but final action deferred until the
next meeting, Feb. 9, 1858.
The President and Secretary were direct
ed t. prepare q memorial to be presented tn
Congress, asking Tor an appropriation to
each State IF the Union. OF So much of the
,nI, ] .,,.iS
aud put in operation an Agricultural College
i'll each State in the Union.
WAR ON TIE WILD CATs' The Chi
cago Tribune has fired another volley into
the nest of " Wild CATS" and censures in no
sparins terms yet with justice and proprie-
tn the venders of this species of rag curren-
cy. We extract:
ss A few days ago one of those honora-
bic, liberal gentlemen made a visit to this
city, and offered to lend prominent bank
er $50 900 Of the issue of his cat without
interest, and give him halft the depreciation,
besides. Another of these accommoda-
ting Nebraska bankers was in Chicago last
week and tried hard to coax responsible
banker to take $40, 900 of the cat he ped
died on similar conditions. The banker de.
INJURED. Why, SIR said the shark, you
can pass it off at pr, and afterwards re-
deem it at less than fifty cents of the dollar
You may have half that is made by the op-
GRAFTON for the use of your influence, in get.
ting the bills in'o circulation But the
fatterng offer was respectfully declined -
No Nebraska money is redeemed in Chicago.
The highest price paid for it by brokers is
25 cents on the dollar. 1t is meeting with
similar treatment elsewhere.
/" Let people wherever the stuff is in Cir
culation, call upon the accommodating
gentlemen who are circulating it. and de-
mand of them to redeem it in Illinois cur
rency. If they refuse to do this, it is prima
ftcie evidence of design to swindle the
holders of it.'
The Tribune recommends, as the most eff
fectual guard against imposition upon the
people by these irresponsible issues the pas
sage of a law by Congress leving tax on
all bank notes Of less denomination than
$40 circulating as money. A correspondent
of that paper urges upon the wholesale mer-
chants of Chicago the propriety of refusing
to sell goods on credit to merchants who
come from regions whefe such trash circu-
lates.
Sell. YOUR Hoes AND Produce. The fol-
lowing advice in numerical paper OF Ohio
is seasonable in all ATTITUDES:
Our advice to farmers, iHs sell your hogs
and produce at present teaoes. We heard
one man =ay sllort time - that he would
rather let his taxes go unpaid than sclt his
wheat and corn at present prices. That
man is poor tinlncier. The penalty for
non.pay,nent of taxes is thirty per cent
He had better sell his wheat at fifty cents
and his corn at twenty cents bushel,