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recommendations have been made from observations or 

 knowledge elicited from practical experience. We have en- 

 deavored to be brief, and in so doing feel that we have not 

 done justice to any subjects considered; but to explain at 

 length, the cultivation and use of grains; the propagation and 

 treatment offru.it trees, or the best methods of breeding and 

 improving farm stock, would be the labor of weeks and re- 

 quire the space of a large volume to give it publication. 



Hoping that in the manner presented it contains the in- 

 formation desired, we respectfully submit it to the considera- 

 ation of the Board. 



JOHN LEVERING, 

 Cor. Sec. of Tippecanoe Co. Ag. Society, 



COMMUNICATION FROM MR. J. J. BINGHAM, 



Lafayette, January 7, 1852. 



John B. Dillon, Esq., 



Secretary Indiana State Board of Agriculture : 



Dear Sir: — In compliance with the rules of the Board, 

 annexed I forward you copies of the proceedings of the Tip- 

 pecanoe County Agricultural Society since its organization. 

 You will observe that as yet but little has been accomplished; 

 the main object to the present period having been to awaken 

 an interest in the society and progress in agriculture on the 

 part of the farmers of the county. Those who take the most 

 interest in the matter, propose that we shall hold a Horticul- 

 tural and small Fruit exhibition next spring, and a general 

 fair in the fall following. We have had no public addresses 



