. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . edby the Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, 1792.—Pierre Legaux, a Frenchman, to-Kether with a number of Pliiladelphiapeople, set out a vineyard at ,Springmill, onthe Schuylkill river. 1792, April 11th.—The New York Legisla-ture appropriated a sum for the ColumbiaCollege to endow an agricultural professor-ship. 1792.—As an experiment Mr. Charles Col-ling, Shorthorn cattle breeder, used a bullwhich was half Shorthorn and half Gallo-way. This was called the alloy strainand was after
. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . edby the Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, 1792.—Pierre Legaux, a Frenchman, to-Kether with a number of Pliiladelphiapeople, set out a vineyard at ,Springmill, onthe Schuylkill river. 1792, April 11th.—The New York Legisla-ture appropriated a sum for the ColumbiaCollege to endow an agricultural professor-ship. 1792.—As an experiment Mr. Charles Col-ling, Shorthorn cattle breeder, used a bullwhich was half Shorthorn and half Gallo-way. This was called the alloy strainand was afterwards bred out. 1792.—Arthur Young, of West Suffolk, inEngland. inentions universally Polled<attle, red, hrindle or yellowish-cream color,famous for their quantity of milk; theoriginal Red Polled cattle. 1792.—British Wool Society of Englandmentions sheep of Morfe common nearBridgnorth, spotted-faced Polled breed,origin of Shropshire.^. 1793.—Vineyards planted in Jessaminecounty. Kentucky, by a colony of Swissgrape growers. Macartney rose brought toEngland from China by Ix)rd YOUNG ALICES PRINCE.—A St. LouisWorlds rair champion Shorthorn bull. 1793.—Favorite, Shorthorn bull, calvedthis year, was an inbred bull and was used10 inbreed to an extraordinary extent. Hisson by his own dam, the bull Comet, wasIhe first of the Shorthorn breed to sell at$5,000. 1793, February 27th.—By act of Congress,lireeding and useful animals were admittedinto this country free of import duty. 1793.— Eli Whitneys cotton gin invented,greatest stimulus to cotton production inthis country. 1793.—It appears that the invention oftlie cotton gin not only stimulated cottonproduction, but it also made cotton a com-petitor to flax, checking the production offlax for fiber and indirectly causing moreattention to be paid to flax seed as a com-mercial product. 1793.—National Board of Agriculture ofGreat Britain Sir John Sinclairprincipal advocate. 1793
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