The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-04-27
Judge carey on, Agriculture.

Judge Carey Om Agriculture.
The following Is the prehmblo and res
olution, presented in the House by Dir.
Carey, from the Committee on Aerical-
turc, and 10 which allusion was made lasi
week:
Mr. CAREY. I ask the attention Of
'the House for a very few moments 70
what ] consider a very important subject
10 the country, and pecially TO tho
House nt this time. The Committee on
Agriculture have instructed me to report
20 the House q preamble and resolution,
asking for instruction, a. the paper will
show. ask for the reading oftho pa
per.
The Clerk read, as follows:
/ Whereas history teaches that there can
I be no civilization without skill In aQrio-
ulture, that death is the award Of improv-
idonce % nations MS we'll ne individuals,
and that the extinction Of vitality is the
consequence Of abuse In this fundamcn-
cal art: that we have the example Of the
solicitude felt BY all the civilized nations
Of the world for the advancement Of nk-
riculturo: that tits beyond a doubt that
much Of our public domain is not capa-
bic Of supporting life, and much Of the
land once considered 10 be inexhaust-
bic has ceased to be cultivated, and the
process Of exhaustion is on the increase.
that the main subsistence--crops Of the
I United States--is yearly growing less,
from causes which would appear 20 be in
oreasing In their action, and which have
not been appreciated or properly studied,
and there exists conviction In the minds
Of scientific and learned authorities, and
IL Ia proved BY our short experience that
the possibility Of continuing b produce
our great staples, cotton, wheat, tobucco
and corn, under the system Of culture
practiced, is most questionable, and must
eventuate in poverty, wretchedness, and
a disappearance Of populations that the
causes aud consequences thereof, with |
their remedies, are susceptible Of incon- |
testable proof; that our population is /
subject 20 periodical returns of Calamities |
and fatal diseases In great measure de-
pendent upon our bad agricultural prac-
tices: that the richest portion of our in
horitance remains not only uncultivOted,
but living cause Of disease and death
aud that within comparatively few years,
science has revealed a knowledge Of the
conPtituton Of the onrth connected with
vitality, ofthe deepest interest TO our
racC--a knowledge not possessed by our
fathers, and for u want of which they are
In no wise responsible: that the means
OF greatly lossening the uncertainties
that attend upon the methods now in use
Of increasing articles Of necessity and
Injuries, Of removing the causes Of dis
ease, aud lengthoEing the average dura-
tion Of life, Of improving the yield Of our
lands, is within our reach: that oil these
great results are perfectly feasible and
proctcablei and that they are instantly
required ia shown by manifestations en-
anating lfom divers sources, and by the
repeat dly expressed desire of this COM
munity that there should be an indtpend-
nnt bureau established by this Govern
ment; Therefore,
BE % resolved, That the Committee on
agriculture be instructed to report to
his House bill for the promotion ofth
interests of agriculture, for the organi-
.ation Of he agricultural division of the
Department Of the Interior, now in de-
eotiye condition, and demanding an i'm
mediate remedy.
Mr. BRANCH, Is that a private res
,lutionl
The SPEAKER. Is there any objec-
ion to itl
Mr. CAREY. It is report from the
committee on Agriculture.
Mr., BRANCH. l object to il.
The resolution was not received.