Under the acricultural head,

If the advantages to be derived from it are as great as Mr. Cornstock promises, we are sure the Legislature will no longer withhold from him the paltry sum of $150,000." - Pough. EagL, Dec. 21, 1850.

"Benefits obtainable from the Discovery in Vegetation. Experimented upon fourteen years.

General Outlines relative to the discovered Natural Principle advantageous to Agriculture. See Bill No. 395, which was refer-red to a committee of five, who unanimously reported complete, April 6, and passed the Assembly yesterday. See As-sembly Document No. 23, of 16 pares. 1st. That the discovery is a Law of Vegetation.

2d. That it will introduce the sweet potato and almost all other crops, into higher latitudes.

3d. That it forms a rule by which to cultivate.

4th. That plants cultivated according to it, will have a more robust constitution, will endure greater excess of drouth and rains; will be more uniformly productive; will be less liable to be preyed upon by insects.

5th. That it will introduce the best modes of cultivation, and perpetuate them.

6th. That by the discovery the common modes of cultivation can be demonstrated to be erroneous.

7th. That by it the comparative value of manures will be better tested and known.

8th. That by it the annual potato rot will be prevented. [ The recent occasional excessive rot is referred to in the appendix.]

9th. That when known it will be a national honor.

10th. That it being an idea or knowledge of a certain law in nature, and the practice not altogether new, although the objects to be obtained by the practice are new, it cannot be patented.

11th. That the copy-right laws cannot protect it. They protect words only.

12th. That the admitted best judge of Boston said, "It is one of the prettiest things in the world, because any one could use it and nobody know it."

13. That the discovered principle has 3 practical bearings on the cultivation of plants; and when comprehended commends the practice instantaneously.

N. B. That the laws of all civilised society are intended to protect their discoverers. Three comrades, after knowing the secret, have recommended it to public patronage. Russell Comstock. Albany, April 10, 1850.