New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-29
THE YALE AGRICULTURAL LECTURES.
THE COURSE CLOSED.

From Own Reporter. 49,.
NEw-HAyES, Feb. %, 1860.
After Mr.. Mason c. Welds lecture, yesterday
stated there followed an address by Professor Porter
and OF discussion upon the auccess of this plan Of
agricultural education Professor Potter has modesy
reIruined iion speech u abing from the very COM
mencemen and has stopped 10 POKE Of those tricks to
make popularity which the engineers Of less important
enterprises often employ. He deemed il incumbent
uron him II the close of his course, 10 give sketch
OF irs inception. anc show what reasons he had TO
believe ia pei manence cnIed. l give You his own
words as nsar as can recall them, pIeierring TO let
him ~ Gsk for biD,sef:
."Wly was il worth WHILE he said, :" for the gen.
temep engaged here quietly aud Pleasantly in their
gitutc pursuits 10 busy themselves with AN outside
movement Oh Agricultural Education One reason
was that they felt tbat they had the p0rersuch as s
pcs,essed 80 few other points In the country-to ac-
complish something in this direction. 1t was the name
and fame OF YALE COLLEGE, equivalent 10 q large
money capital in such an enterprise.
In view of the immeDs ty OF the Agricultural in-
terest il wss thing worth doirg, and 10 nothing
could the venerable College ~Orthily lend it's
aid Fve.sxhs CT the fixed capital of this country is
invested in agricuturul pursuits The yearly product
of her agriculture estimated at sixteen bnudre mil
lions. An addition OF single per cent would be
addition Of sixteen millions annually 70 the wealth
of The cOnitIy.
did an, enc doubt the practicabiiity Of adding,
not per cent merely but ten per cent or even fifty
per cent, if the knowledge in possession OF the few
could be made the properly of,be many
" The average lay c.opl; certainly nor one tun 70
the acre ye; two and three luas are OFTEN realZed
leo per cent increase is easily within our reach.
The average terlip crop in New-York is es8 than one
hundred bushels 10 the Mr. Gold tells Of care.
iplly measured croD in his own county which reached
2GC0 bushels. Here is 2,0tD per cent, or twenty
times multiplied product ~ resu Of rklli IN cuya-
q, H. and the " hole structure Of EDssh Agriculture
rests On The IUTnip crop.
llTa hot fiaIi AID Prof
"tte other day when Mr. Allen told that the differ
euee between the OH hr, of cattle OF the country,
and The Substitution sf improved breeds, wOnd amonot
TO $50 0t0,C00 This was altogether top modest add
moderate ON estjmae. The ruuber Of tie Deat cattle
" the county is estimated at lS 100000. Fifty
millions of diHeretee would be less than IS per head,
which every ole Brows is not friction OF the real DIFF
fel fence of value. Yet introduced tho improved
bTee cost no more 10 Keep than ne old sort Hee
is difference OF buIdreG millions again, at the least
in the item of cattle AID horses, between knowledge
and ign Orance."
After dwelling briefly on vanous agencies Of
agricultural education, giving the first ratk 70 the in
uudnciion Of elementary silence Into the common
school, Pref. Porte Iemars et on this movement
N Yale College. lie cefDed il az the Agricultural
e. uveDiiOD, combined with college SOC obstruction
in hich Aper,nced agicultur SIS meet for their
mutual enlightenment, ana ~ the time give the
beUt liz of their lectures and deliberations to young
who assemble 10 avail themselves Of the advantages
afforded them.
he Professor returned cordial and hearty thanks 10
the Agricultural Political ana Religious Press OF Con-
Dt Circuit and the whole country, for the liberal and
Tubhc.spiIed msDner in which il mad sustained this
important educational VEN, ut. lie deemed IL OF ma
tio al atber than local interest and the Of the
enterprise was be attributed maiby TO this generous
all OF the Press
PIof Potter remarked that be had been warned
against encouraging any reporting OF these lectures.
People would sit a home in their chimney rnere and
reud the reports IN TEE 1IuGUNE instead OF coming 70
tie lectures. On the contrary, lac had encou aged and
desired IL. Atty other cOuIse wonld be as II the
farmer should begrudge his seed. After return
jig thanks 10 the Convention for tho deconm
OF tie whole proceedings, and 70 the lecturers
tor their generous aid, Professor Porter an
nOunCed another Convention and course Of lectures
for February, 1861 s itatnIef 10 be follows First
\ thoroughly practical character. In he judgment OF
the lecturers though not in his own trimming Of
rails bad been Necessary in ths between Toe
probable city auditory and the possible audience OF
practical men. Now that 10 was demoDsIraied that the
tainers, young Old could be brought ont, no such
existed. TITO lectures cond ald would be
made thoroughly and exclusively prasdcal. SECONDLY
An Agricultural Museum which stall provide com
pltc illustration of uture lectures by ne collection oil
II odes troiues drawings &c SO that 1t ehAll not DO
necessary for lecturer talk of anything hereafter
without being able TO point ut the same time 20 the
thing itself ia the shape OF living animal agricultural
implement or real vegetable product or ITS tpresenta
ton IN wax or plaster or on canvas Thirdly-A
reading room containing all the agricultural Journals,
md library To which valuable agricultural works
stall vs. added ~ they appear.