New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-27
a FRENCH AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL.

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TIE TRlBuss rtproduces from Cosmos the follow
s account of she exhibition Of the Normal Agricultu-
raj Institute Of Beauvais made at the late National
Gosocurs & Agriculture in France
The Agricultural Instate Of Besuvais was founded
h 1858 by the aid of the Government and under the pa
srousge of the Project the Bishop the Deputies OF .ne
Department, and the PREF dents o. It's Agricultural 90
ie,ies. 1ts objects are FIRST TO give theoreu0a "nN
prscta instruction TO boys of ID or lees VINO WISH "
devote themselves TO agriculture; and, seo0huy'
prepare young men, from Is to ~ years oi aeo' '0
rieuhursl professorships in lyceums conegee' so"u
;as ,,roerv normal schools and wherever 1t may be
,,,ssySl. 40 establish a course Of agriculture. The
.k.,osl ,orton of the course comprises agriculture
ayAorieuture aud sylvcnure, rural engineering, lin
aa design and rural architecture, rural law, zootech
M and the msDagt Of cattle agricultural enomoo-
y, physics and chemistry applied agriculture, natural
History botany and geology and agricultural economy
generally The practical instruction comprises the
care and use Of TOOLS instruments AID agricultural ma
sbines the principal operations of culture gsrdenngthe
conduct Of trees sc. The school has answered TO
need universally f,lt the excellence of the instruction
and of the education received i'll the new Institute has
been tested by the most competent judges, and now
there ave arriving at Bsauvais from marty all the
provinces of France, haI6-working young men, aui-
mated by the mcst earn' 1T spirit
TIE exhibition # the School was unanimously pro-
nurced TO be one Of the most instructive and brilliant
Of The Coacouys. Itcomprised first specimens OF va-
Gus crops raised On the farm de Ia FoDdere in the De-
psrsment Of the Meuse under the direction OF NJ Coz
sin; secondly. coleet of experimental results
msde by M. Marie from 1865 10 1862 and thirdly, an
chronological collection applied TO agriculture, by NJ
Mlhau.
M. Marie's experiments were exceedingly interest
inc In wheat. he commenced with 225 varieties,
bcb he reduced TO 40 sI then to 80 and 20 90 end
which will probably reduce hereafter to the 10 fol-
lovpp. Blue White Eseex or Scotch, Zealsnd, Ne -
Holland s.. Laud, MesDil ST. Firmin, Hague, Hen
sersland. HcklDg and Ely Giant. OF the 20 Va'ls-
tee exhibited he had specimens 10 the milk in grain,
hailed snd in -four and slsO separated aod casssd se-
eor6ing 10 the yield III grain, starch and gluten.
OF Indian corn he exhibited 26 varieties II only Of
which are worth culivatiug in the latitude OF Paris
These are in the order of their yield, White Corn OF
Saluees. Giant Carsgua Red, Early of Saucs1, EaHy
Tutcsrors, HybriGized Quarantine, Dogtoothed, fel-
Iow,ipped Dwarf Saluces Redtipped, HorSet ID,
and Quarantine 3 list wherein EDgl.h ma mes are
slightly travested. Toe yield per acre was lO6
Bushels TIE New-HOllsnd corn grew TO the hlghto
from ten 10 fifteen feet in particular land BY soaking
the ssedeOTn Tor twenty Tour hours III soiuIioh VI
iodine in alcohol or In alcohol alone its termination is
Mastered 50 that instead Of requiting ten or fifteen
days TO come up dry seed does it will come Up IN
tbTes or four days.
OF potatoes there were Ga Varieties. Only the late
varieties now offer any chance Of sioce the very
general potato rot Of2l varieties of beets the neaa
yield was twenty.ihee tuus per acre. while that OF
the beet variety rose forty The most pEodu'-
tive variety Of carros of which - varieties ex-
hbited yielded sixteen to the OF % varie-
ties Of turneps cultivated, the best gave twenty-five
tuns per acre.
OF barley oats beans aud sOryhOs, there were slso
large number Of varieties The sugsr-sorgho is com
plstey acc mated at Besuvas where it ipene ct the
end of September or in the first week in Otober Il
grows ten feet high and the yiea varies from twenty
Eve TO thirty tuns per Cut green about tie iaa
of July it gives from ten TO twelve tuDs Of the bes
fodder. The exhaustion from good crop is equal Il
that from three crops of wheat.
TIE se6mOire accompanying this exhibition contains
considerable number Of analyses Of coils and of pro
duets and still more is promised in new edition.
The chronological collection Of N. Mlhau is ne yer,
more original aud rot less interesting. In number
of small pictures be has arranged the insect, injurious
TO agriculture beside the rains which they Ac-
eompanyiDg is large collection Of the eggs Of birds
which destroy these insects and which it is the interest
of farmers to protect.