The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-12

THE AaRIcuLTuRAL BoARp.

ports.
Resolutions of various kinds were offered among Others
one to be appended to the report OF the special commit
Toe adopted yesterday giving il the opinion that
committee that the printing of the agricultural reports
should be exclusively under the control OF the Depart
ment Of the Interior which unanimously agreed to-
Mr. BYINcToN, Of Iowa offered the following resolution
which adopted
ResoIred That the practical efficiency Of the agrcu-
tural division OF the Patent Office would ia some degree
be promoted first, by condng to It the distribution
greater relative proportion of its annual volume of
ports TO its agricultural correspondents second by the
general circulation of specific directions as TO the
manner OF planting and cultiyating plants which
tirey or partially new 10 our husbandry and third by
incorporating into this publication synoptical sketches
the most important essays and experiments emanating
from the State, district and county agricultural schools
and associations throughout the Union.
Quite extended discussion took place ia regard to
the culture of the grape in this country in which Messrs
TnoasoS of Delaware, CASE of Illinois WILDER OF Massa
chusetts, and Others participated
At l2t O'Clock the Board waited upon the Secretary of
the Interior
The President of the Board addressed the honorable
Secretary follows
Mr. SECRETARY: l have the honor to inform you that
the Advisory Board of Agriculture of the Patent Office
which convened under your sanction are about TO
close their deliberations and that could not think of
leaving the department without rendering you person
ally sincere thanks und grateful
for your hospitality courtesy and attention to while
we have been residing in this city We have passed upon
quite variety OF questions the record of which will be
Deposited with the Commissioner of Patents to whose
office we shall proceed from here.
And now before we leave, beg TO take you by the
hand, and wish you long life, health, and happiness
To which the Hon SECRETARY responded as follows
Before parting with YOU Mr. President and gentlemen
have to express my thanks for your compliance with
our invitation. What have done is an experiment
Our object has been to gather together all the infoma
ton possible which may throw light upon the great sub
jcct of agriculture We believed that You could aid us
by the contribution of facts When you shall have given
us these propose 10 collae and digest them aud
present the results TO the country For your coope
ton thus far thank you and know the country will
thank you for that much good will result
from your deliberations.
trust, gentlemen, that in returning to your homes
you may find your families you left Them in the ell
joyment of health and happiness.
now bid you good bye, hoping to have the pleasure
of meeting you again at some future day.
After individually taking leave of the honorable Sec
rotary the Board then proceeded to the of the Com
missioner OF Patents.
The PREspESr of the Board addressed the honorable
Commissioner follows
Mr.. Commissioner in behalf of the body of agricuI-
tursts who have been convened by your kind invitation
it becomes my duty to inform you that their present
session about to be closed and the Board to be dis
solved. The missionary committees have examined ia
detail the schedule of nerrogatores submitted them
from time to time They have anayzed the various
questions, and have made alterations and additions such
AS in their judgment would be likely to aid in the oh.
jects for which have been called together We have
passed upon than fifteen hundred nterrogatores
report OF which, together with copy OF tho proceed
ngs Of the Board and synopsis It's action and dis
cussions will be submitted to you your consideration
And now, Mr. Commissioner, with expressions of sim
cee desire for your welfare, We must respectfully bid you
nlieu.
To wi he nde1
Mr. President and Gentlemen The statement which
has just been made in regard to the abors which yon
have been engaged have heard with the greatest salts
faction 4 that you will all receive. what you
have well deserved the thanks of the whole country
you certainly have mine for the promptuie with
which you responded to the invitation from this office
aud for the earnostness and zeal with which you have
entered upon the duties assigned to you cannot how
ever too deeply impress upon your minds our conviction
that in point of fact your abors but began and our
trust that upon returning to your respective homes you
will still pursue them and give the result the earliest
moment practicable 1t is confident expectation that
these results will tell upon the pages of the Forthcoming
agricultural report of this Office in such as to
challenge the respect if not the admiration of the pub
ic and silence the clamors of those who have so ruth
lessly assaied what they have little understood.
1t has been Of unfegned regret me that the
pressure of official duties has denied me that pleasure
and instruction which i would certainly have de-
rived from an attendance upon your deliberations.
may be permitted to add that apparently the time has
ut length arrived for the agroultursts this republic
to themselves to of their condition
and to just estimate of the devoted mission with which
they are charged. pursuit which has given to the
world Cincinnattus, TELL and Washington may well
stand unabashed in every earthly presence Uncouned
millions gentlemen, have been expended in building up
and maintaining gigantic system of manufacture in
largng the area OF our commerce. and in guarding it
alike from the pers of the deep aud the pcris of the
foreign foe. And yet do all know that commerce and
manufactures in their very best estate but outpour
ing streams from the great fountain of agriculture
fountain which is the nursery, too, of all those virtues
upon which this republic rests its only sure founda-
tion and without which, it may be safely affirmed it
could not exist single day single hour-a fountain
without whose vivifying and ferzng influences every
away and become waste and arid the deserts OF 81
hara and yet strange to tell this noble pursuit. which
had Its origin in the bowers of Paradise and which
in all ages and in all lands has commandments so
richly dcservedthe profound homage of mankind ia in
our own favored country far contessedy far behind
those other great pursuits which engage the and
solcitudes of the public toll.
The reason il that tread too ndoently too ala
vshy, in the paths In which fathers walked The
Poughman has permitted the steamer to career along the
rivers and the locomotive to dash across his fields
without catching that rrepressibe spirit progress OF
which they are at the tokens and the triumphs
Hence IL is that the sovenly reckless mpoverishine and
wasting system OF tilage which belonged the olden
times still anentaby prevails And hence that the
farmers OF our country unlike those beyond the Atlantic
continue still rather to abuse than mother Garth
approaching her BOSOM not gently kindly caressingly
but like some rough unsul surgeon cutting and slash
ing with their instruments and extracting from that
bosom thus manged rather the blood the loss of which
wastes life, than the milk that nurtures and sstns it.
The manifest remedy for all this Is in the collection
and the rapid and broad diffusion of practical accurate