has been, that they were divided on the subject. Some desired one school, some three, and some eight, and some, one in every county, and in this way, they had accomplished nothing. He would counsel them to be united, and they would be successful. A bill making an appropriation of $15,000 for this purpose, which he presented in the Legislature, received 100 out of 108 votes in the lower house. In 1844, the next year, it again passed the house, but was lost in the Senate, by one vote; it receiving 21, and 22 votes being necessary for the appropriation. Now, agreeably to the recommendation of Gov. Fish, the Legislature has appointed a committee of eight, one from each judicial district, who after a careful investigation for months, have come to a general conclusion, and are prepared to report, through the Governor, to the Legislature, on the subject. They recommended, and as he thought, wisely, the establishment of a single school and farm, to test the experiment. If it was to be a successful one, the Legislature would establish as many more, as the farmers should demand. As regarded a single professor, they might as well have a single professor in a medical college, and require him to teach all the branches of the healing art, as to expect one man to teach every branch of Agriculture. At least six professors were required. These were the views he had adopted, after years of reflection and careful investigation. You must have in this State, a pattern institution, which will be adopted in every State. And it will be, because the Empire State is looked to in that light. He appeared here from Georgia, and he would tell them, they were acting not for themselves alone, but for the 4,000,000 of farmers in the Union, looking to this State, and its Agriculture, for a worthy example. Set it to them. He hoped, therefore, the resolutions would be adopted.

The CHAIRMAN invited Professor HIGGINS, Agricultural chemist, of Maryland, to give to the meeting the benefit of his experience as to what was doing in the cause of Agriculture there.

Professor HIGGINS, in response to this invitation, desired to correct the impression that in the South Agriculture was looked upon as disrespectful, and that in order to get rid of the obnoxious word farmer, that of planter was used. It was an error, and he wished to correct it. The difference of terms arose, not from any sense of degradation attached to either, but because they were applied to different occupations. A farmer was the same as the like class here, while the term planter was applied to those who largely cultivated tobacco, cotton, and corn. This was the only difference; and the farmer held the same position there as he did all over the country. In his own State, Maryland, some

of the most distinguished men were engaged in the profession. As regarded his experience in his own State, he would briefly give them its results. Many lands had become utterly worn out; but some of them, by the proper application of manures, had been rendered fertile again. This led to the inquiry how it was done; and the Legislature was solicited, for several years, to diffuse a knowledge of the different soils throughout the State. A law was passed, creating a Professorship of Agriculture, whose duty it should be to examine the different soils, and give lectures in every section of the State for the benefit of all. Thus every one would become instructed as to the composition of his soil, and the manures best adapted for it. An agricultural school would be a great benefit; but while knowledge was being acquired there, the present generation was suffering from the want of it. This want it was the duty of the State to supply, through lectures or publications. The profession of Agriculture, to be successfully prosecuted, required as much learning as any other; and much as scientific research and examination had developed, there was still much left undone. It was well said that New-York was looked to as the leader-as the pioneer in this great work, and that it was her duty to set an example which her sister States would be glad to follow. (Applause.)

Professor MAPES explained that he intended to be understood, in his reference to the terms planter and farmer, to say, that the invidious distinction between the two was made in the Northern, and not in the Southern States.

Mr. DELAFIELD, (the Chairman,) said that the distinction between planter and farmer had given rise to one explanation, and he would add another. He could tell an anecdote, which he thought was about the bottom of this whole matter. In one of our large cities there were some amateur farmers, who got together to discuss agriculture and the sciences connected therewith; and the result of some part of their discussion, he thought, would fully explain all this difficulty. The question was asked, and seriously discussed, whether any gentleman present could tell the age of a cow by her upper teeth. (Laughter.) He apprehended that was the solution of many of those difficulties to be found in our large cities, where this misunderstanding occurs.

The question was then taken on Mr. Allen's resolutions, and they were adopted.

The meeting then adjourned.

New-York State Agricultural Society.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, 1849.

CATTLE.

Class I. SHORT HORNS. 77 Entries.

Judges.-Charles B. Calvert, Riversdale, Maryland; Henry Parsons, Guelph, C. W.; E. P. Prentice, Mount Hope.

The first premium, of $25, for best aged bull, is awarded to J. M. Sherwood, Auburn, for his imported bull, "3d Duke of Cambridge ;"* the second premium, of $15, to Thomas Bell, Morrissania, for his bull, "Damon ;" and the third premium to S. P. Chapman, Clockville, for his bull, "Buena Vista."

The first premium, of $20, for the best two year old bull, is awarded to Wm. Fuller, Skaneateles, for his two year old bull, ; the second premium, of $10, to A. G. Percy, Arcadia; and the third premium, of $5, to J. B. Burnet, Syracuse.

The first premium, of $15, for the best one year old bull, is awarded to Lewis G. Morris, Fordham, for his bull, "Lamartine;" the second premium, of $10, to S. P. Chapman, Clockville, for his bull, "Fortune."

The first premium, of $10, for the best bull calf, is awarded to Lewis G. Morris, Fordham, for his bull calf, "Logan;" the second premium, of Transactions and $3, to J. M. Sherwood, Auburn, for his bull calf, "Lactometer."

The first premium, of $25, for the best aged cow, is awarded to S. P. Chapman, Clockville, for his cow, "Charlotte;" the second, of $15, to Lewis G. Morris, Fordham, for his cow, "Pottawattamie;" the third, of $5, to John M. Sherwood, Auburn, for his cow, "Lilly."

The first premium, of $20, for best two year old heifer, is awarded to Francis Rotch, Butternuts, for his heifer, "Artless;" the second premium, of $10, to Lewis F. Allen, Black Rock, for his white heifer; the third, of $5, to J. M. Sherwood, Auburn, for his heifer, "Phantom."

• Pedigree.-3d Duke of Cambridge was got by Duke of Northumberland, (1940;) dam, Waterloo 2d, by Belvidere; grandam, Waterloo 1st, by Waterloo, (2816;) great grand dam, Lady Antrim by Waterloo; Anna by Lawnsleeves, (365;) Angelina by Phenomenon, (491;) Duke of Northumberland, bred by the late Thomas Bates, got by Belvidere, (1706;) dam, Duchess 34th, by Belvidere, (1706;) grand dam, Duchess 29th by second Hubback, (1423.)

Winner of the 1st prize for Cows in aged class

Bred by E. P. Prentice, Mount Hope. The property of S. P. Chapman, Clockville. of Short Horns, at Syracuse, 1819 AYRSHIRE COW, AYR The property of E. P. Prentice, Mount Hope.