New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-04
Netp9lprk DAILY Gibn,le
THE YALE AGRlCUL TURAL LECTURES.
From Our Special Reporter.

From Our Special Reporter
NEw-HavEH, Feb. /, 1860
While the friends of an iwproSsd agriculture have
been for any years anvocalsg this that reform,
ard 10 this cay doefay wait over the torpid State OF
fam sc enee, and pray that something might be done
10 populArize it, Proiesso Porter of Yale College, With
aomuube bOldness, has conceived and commenced this
fret course Of agricultural Lectures at Yale College.
He very wisely thought that the man of knowledge
should be brought in direct contact with the nen who
peed It, the skilled come face TO face with tue
unsk,lled, and that by choosing number Of men
emmett IN the several branches If agriul ure, 10
eeed each other in a cOurse of IL nres our farmers
sops by sIarp g q fortnight or month in Winter, and
coung 10 one central point, would get more inorna-
pcr Of value TO themselves than IT they pored over
bnoks for whole year. He plainly siw that ii we
we're 10 wat for such Governmental aid and comfort
10 Agricultural Colleges as ID gwen 10 Europe, no sad
We ell might grow gray and die before our hopes We're
hhlf reulztd; and 10 more feasible plan sting
-.If be bethoUght himself, ~ Use bic own language
Of Tie ell ut Of practical men VITO are 40. prt
" feset nil teuchen IN The work OF INSPIRATION, Auo
" their ,iDaon in snc6 Dum 7ers that suAu con-
" tributOD Of time and labor from each shall MAKE
"suficrut aggregate to meet the object IN vie ""
you will understand tbeu that u4iDiy TO Professor
Porter and not Yale College, the honor OF orisntt
rg the yuu is due. Yale has done something fIf
scjeutfc agriculture sic, about the year 1913, when
u
Prot. john PnhiI Norton, who had lab1red some time
with Jobprop III England Norton died in 1852, mnch
regretted, Bfier having done rs mnch rs be could TO
un,Ae his pa,t nsefnI and popular, aud was u
III, dateiy succeeded by Prof. j. A. Porter, who
called from Bro vn Univerrty. Porters incnmbency
lasted five years when he accepted the Guar Of Or
gshic CheDntry, r-s'gnlos MS own place 70 rising
,ouIg u,np Samuel w. Johnson Mr. JOhneon had
,tud,d two years the Scientific School here. ani
ib.D ent 10 Germany, where he worked in Leipsic
year, ~ Erdwarns lsoors ory sDd IN eqnai tune with
the yea Lebig, ut Munioh beside making v'siis 10
ysr us laboratories and SCHOOLS 10 Germany England,
AID elsewhere. S.Dce be took his Chair at ale, he
bss bd the office of Chen TO the State Agr ;utdra
S.c.iy al d made notable analyses of muck and
ph,spbaies, the latter Of which have occsoned much
controversy aid peespaper sparrng. He is dlln Of
decid, TALENT aud promise, aud bile II SAID ny ns
tina. bis chem cal deductions have not alw Us been
fsul)ess yet be has done much real 90 I'd before hs
thueih Year that quay fairly Anticipate the renown
which he should achieve in hts fitch.
lie opeped The this morning with an ele-
mepaIy lectnJe agriculture, the organic elements
OF the plant, and explaining their nature and proper
tes b, the uslBl experiments. lie TALKED III pleas
apt, conversations way, without rUdvmontade
sllted er, but he s evidently less accustomed %
the lOstrum tlhn the crucble, IeiOrt, aud bo@ppe.
] Eil hot .spas- upon Your soace with sketch OF
the lecture for pie Ill OF our readers who care
any hing fOr the snhec have either copy of Ge)rge
Naring " Element, /" or other equally good book.
Thte lectures are 10 he gwen daly IeScepi Si'dr-
d.! and Mondays, eheD there will be but two, un,il
the 25ta of ths month The morning lecture is at III
the afternoon AT 3 bud the evening one at o'clock.
The o'clocB lecture to-day wac by Mr. Dlu,.l e.
Eaton, amAieur DOtans OF this city, who has, au
rolo, very exiensiye herbatum, and has given m,uy
Year, Of study hs specially. His lecture to-day,
treated OF the vegetable cellts form, size structure
contents, origin, a., d mode of growth. Tue vegetable
cell be rays u eored vessel like egg and
posed of MI outer roll membrane VIII eh cont ans q
hnd AID matter floating IN the Bud or attached 10 the
sdes II this body, which IA termed utrlce remains
elOsed lbrous bout It's lite, IT IS calet ga ce; II the
sd. OF several adjoining cells disappear, aud the
lie arranged into tube, u becomes - veseeL' Ceus
the Oh all vegetation. The red sno g-plaut
and the carl liant, single oells. The ptau
gret ideally d.scrbed oy K4ne, and other Arcti
eSplotre-is one cell, with liiJe particles Il iDg
within. These particles become celia themselves,
time, and the outer coat bursting, lets them
escape ~ commehce Hn individual existence
,brnseives Cells vary 10 fern, m different plants,
and even 10 the same pl ant, they, By ovecrowdlng
here and 10, seDirg there, get dsiorted 10 shape. In
the water-ly, the cells star-shaped while IN n
tte-trubR they aIe long Al ppe-like Toe ii4meter
OF cells Averages from L. >Oth OF inch up 10 l2jto
bnt the puff oall OF our pastures, which, Ghen
broken, epiris eut foe brown Sowje-, IN particle
ri nb Cd cell space of ionlte1mal diane er.
The membrane covering cells is OF different toH haess.
In the weed, IT very soft oso hickory, ADD
mahogany very bard; ubd in vegetable ivory, haeder
stul. Cell membrane lever dissOlves IN wa'er, but
swes. is celed 'cellulose," and Ii composed of
OK, gep, b. dr'gen, and nnrgeu chemically wrdtsu
ihus: &. 10; 10; n. 10. The spGces between the
cells Of plant, are dleo varioarly Sometimes with
arr III the common led ceddr, with mudte grains OF
red aromatic rosip; in eumac, with Oh cS muky sap,
md IL other plants with gums. The conten's also OF
cells vary Toe growing cells OF rome plants as "a.
paragus more nutrtoua because they contsh 80 e
Iipog,h, which goes toward making muscle IN
tie animal body. A gronnler matter, yisc'd Ia o.
6p 10 hich is almort Watsr but contains sugar some
t'nts), mud The gro. leafcoor known ~ cblopPhy'
are also cont. md in the cell. Starch, too is sono
timer there al each grain OF /; 10 organizeu sni
ouaIned SUI eeners for each plant thst the P.S5ay
o. sny specimen Of starsh from kipg',oru D go
err factories can easily be pronvunoed ey mt raoa
atier connuliation with his microscope s'te
10 starch 10 .noruous QUANTITIES. ioe 'nv u'o % WIG
,eNt ,eal's seed ball. but we, thieves ina 90 are,
any IN store.houfo e1nonts aau nd oi our oN u use.
IN cells there nFc acids romeun,si ullo y uads oy
e,s S,aIch il ineolublo in water, and csuuot there
Tore circulate through the plant; but sugar osu, and
Sxirine xvhieh il between sugar and etsFch IN much
,o to,ne relation 10 either the aulatto bears 20
MAJ and Sambo. Il tanisfs divide plants into two
cIssses ms gt pcral thngvh; l. cc'luIar solely. ans
. cellular and elongated together. There ore so
rand divsons IN tho plant world-the 10 ~eriny aud
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