New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-06

previously mau6 aVaiiaoio W s"o p
the periodicals of the day. Take for fair e4-
ample the Transactions OF the New OK
State Agricultural Society for 1871" we pass
without comment the fact that the voiume
was not issued until two years or more
after date. 1t has 834 pages, broau anu ions'
IL gives at the outset the Constitution OF the
Society, which has probably been printed III
each of the 80 ANIMALS which preceded the one
in hand the list of members; and the report
of Executive Committee and minutes vi
vcarly meeting assembled for the purpose OF
electing officers. These minutes are set down
with great precision and detail, and are, we
NAV safely say, of trifling consequence save
to the few persons in whose hands the man
agement of the Society mainly rests. lhey
arc, however, printed in largo type, with very
frequent paragraphing and wide spaces, ana
with the evident purpose of making them
spread over as much surface as possible.
We come next to the report of the treasurer.
which is twelve pages in length, and taxes d
full line of space for each OF scores or such
statements as &C. Burbank, class SIX, voucher
"18S. S2r Next we have in this volume, Is
sued az will be remembered, late IN 1913, the
"award of premiums made at the Far IN 1911.
This list occupies 50 pages, and while 1t may
he of interest to the persons named, some Oh
them dozens of times, what does it concern
the tax -burdened public to be assured, for IN
stance that "the first prize for saddle horses
CAB and less than 1872" was awarded 10
Medina gentleman for "Bily. by Young Con-
"stcrnatonr and that Billy, who may have
died before the Report was issued, was brown"
and "15.13" Or what shall it profit man 10
be assured, in dOuble-leaded minIOn, that MT.
Studley, whose address is given in full, got %
for his DOminiques, or that Schindler's, not
Schneider's, dog was cOmmendedT Is there
ANYTHING elevating in the bare fact that MT.
Fursman of SchOdack received prize Tor
bale of hops, or anything significant In the
statement that Mr.. Crossman got only minor
premium for his egg-plants, or that Graves
showed peppers and All Pine pumpkins anu
Miss Schoonmaker pickles, and that the pickles
were Gin vinegar )" or that Monks wines
were "n0t up to the standard OK wines
"proper, but as cGTilais for family use
were entitled TO commentator :" or that the
cider samples were "aU cOrked," and that the
committee "award no premiums to them I
Ia it exhilarating even to Mrs. Graves to nave
it announced, in bold type and in the light OF
broad margin that her vinegar was not OIL
"passabe aualtyp What will the Bowery
girl, whose father pays his humble share Oh
the expense of tho publicity, care to know
that a Blossvale dame took the rag OIL the
bush, or. in other words, got the highest
a aSssa fnn halmc..:.i, petticOats;" or that
Miss Cork's "wOrsted picture, st. Paul
"preaching in Athens" was deemed
"worthy of special MENTION" or that there is
A clothe.-pn called Hercules" or that Bur-
bank beat all in his line of vegetables And
yet, incredible as it may seem, these and
kindred details are drawled out over S. pages
At their conclusion, that is at the foot OF page
IA, the Society's Transactions" properly end,
and yet we have turned little more than one
seventh of the leaves. But how do they fill
| the other six-sevenths, or III pagesf We
| shall see.
"The Cultivation of tho Beet for the Manu-
facture of Sugar. is a treatise 14S pages
| long Is it record of valuable researches
| and experiments conducted by the State So
| ciety and thus first presented to the world
| Not at all it is translation of Louis Walk
hoff's practical Sugar Manufacturer and Re-
finer" But why in the name OF reason
| should it be reprinted at public cost and
| palmed off as part of the Transactions of
"the New-York State Agricultural Society for
"1S71Rn Why also should 40 pages of Prof.
Voelcker be copied from a former years
Report of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England The matter Is valuable without
doubt but in what particular manner does it
80 directly concern the taxpayers of the
Empire State that they should be required to
pay for its insertion in the transactions
we criticse Again, is the recOrd-54 pages
of the doings of the American Fish Cultur-
:" lists Association" properly part and parcel
of the State Agricultural SOcetys "Trans-
"actions;" and can the Dairymen's Associa-
ton and Board of Trade-120 pages-appear
with any prOpriety under such auspices Or
why should the discussions of the Central New
York Farmers Club during 1870 and 1871 be
published late in 1873 to the extent of $50
pages in these Transactionsi" If it is proper
to give them, why not proper to give re-
ports of other local clubs The Central Club
is an organization altogether Independent of
the State Society; it has its own officers,
makes it's own laws, conducts its affairs in it's
own way, and has its own records. Why
should these be clipped from the local paper
anu years Wnio iCaPPO"h AL Wiz Ah"ho
factions of the New-YOrk State Agricultural
"Socetyi" The only explanation is that the
Society desired to make a show, to add one
more bulky volume at public cost to its pre-
vious long array, and having little material of
it's own, it went abroad, so very much abroad
indeed that at least two foreign nations are
prominently represented. If the conductors OF
the State Society are content with this show
ing for themselves, that is their affair; but it
| is matter for legitimate criticism when they