The New Hampshire Gazette

Miscellany.
From the PALLADIUM.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
IN every town, or at least in every
county, a society might be formed
for agricultural enquiries. No politics
should be allowed. For every man of
sound mind must hate all political
clubs. Such societies might ascertain
a vast number of facts and principles
of very great importance to agriculture
which nobody knows much about.
Useful experiments would be reported
to them, and thus the treasury of the
best kind of knowledge would be con-
tinually growing richer. A meeting
on new-year's day would be enough
for a year. For frequent meetings
would be neglected. Committees
might then be appointed to pursue
certain specific enquiries and to re-
port at the next meeting. The
results, if important, might be sent to
the Massachusetts Agricultural Socie-
ty, and the most valuable might be
printed in their next publication. Thus
the whole state would be an agricul-
tural academy, nothing precious would
be lost, and the spirit of agricultural
improvement would become as much
more active than it is, as might be ex-
pected from the difference between
cherished and neglected branches of
science. Agriculture would gain new
patrons, and new lights and guides;
it needs them. It is therefore earnet-
ly recommended to the members of
the General Court, to begin in such a
patriotic course. At present one coun-
ty scarcely knows the course of hu-
bandry in another, and therefore, the
spirit of imitation, so much the impro-
ver of all other arts is scarcely visible
in this.