Opis: Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, Vol. 2 - Author Unknown

Excerpt from Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, Vol. 2: Together With an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural Societies, for the Year 1842

The Committee do not deem it necessary to encumber their report with the voluminous details of the premium list.

The following analysis of this appropriation, will, it is hoped, satisfactorily indicate that the Society has not overlooked any of the more important branches of agricultural labor, and that it has judiciously and fairly distributed the funds which it derives from the public treasury, as well as the contributions of individual liberality:

The premiums upon farm stock, including horses, cattle,sheep, and swine, amounted to,... $S27
Farm implements,... 173
Agricultural products, including butter, cheese, maple sugar, field crops, &c... 315
Silk and domestic manufactures,... 143
Flowers, fruits, vegetables and horticultural implements,... 118
Premiums for essays - to artists for portraits of animals - plans of farm houses, &c. about... 200

The Committee held out inducements which drew to the exhibition many articles not enumerated in the premium list, connected with agricultural pursuits, well worthy the notice of the Society, and upon which a considerable fund was expended in discretionary premiums. A large number of diplomas, and several gold and silver medals, were likewise distributed.

There is no branch of this subject to which the Committee look with greater confidence for results, beneficial, extensive and enduring, than to the essays upon agricultural subjects, solicited rather than remunerated, by the premiums of the Society. In designating the subjects of these essays, the Committee directed their first attention to those points in which the numerous publications, scientific and agricultural, now before the public, seemed mainly deficient. It is not a little surprising that the first pursuit of man, that occupation to which he was destined by one of the earliest, and an irrevocable law of his Maker, should have been the last to receive the illuminations of science. Of the many causes which have conduced to this result, it is not necessary that we should here speak, but we may be allowed to express our gratification that the light which has so long shed its lustre over those pursuits of industry, falsely deemed more elevated in their tendencies, has at length reached us, and rendered intelligible the complicated and wonderful laws by which a Beneficent Creator has ordained that he who sows the seed shall reap the harvest.

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Szczegóły: Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, Vol. 2 - Author Unknown

Nazwa: Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, Vol. 2 Together With an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural Societies, for the Year 1842 (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Author Unknown
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330311271
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 426
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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