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sible for injury caused to articles by the elements while on exhibition at 

 their Fairs. 



Adopted. 



Adjourned to 2 o'clock P. M. 



At 2 o'clock P. M. the committee met. 



Mr. Butterfield, from the committee on Treasurer's account, made a 

 verbal report, not having had time to make out a full written statement,, 

 and asked for an extension of time, in order to make out a full report 

 Granted. 



On motion of Mr. Bartlett, it was 



Resolved^ That Cassius M. Clay be invited to deliver the annual 

 address before the Society at its fair in 1855. 



The committee on Premium List presented their report, which, after 

 some discussion and amendment, was adopted. 



Mr. Gage, from the committee to report a memorial to be presented 

 to the Legislature on the subject of an Agricultural School, reported a 

 memorial praying that body to appropriate a sum of money sufficient 

 to purchase a body of land for an experimental farm, and for the erec- 

 tion of suitable buildings thereon for an Agricultural School, placing it 

 upon a basis of its own, separate from any other institution of learning, 

 and for the endowment of the same in such manner as shall place it 

 upon an equality with the best Colleges of the State. 



The memorial was accepted and adopted. 



A communication was read from Mr. Aaron Palmer, of Brockport, 

 N. Y., a manufacturer of reaping machines, to the effect that he would 

 furnish a reaping machine to be owned and controlled by the Society, 

 (if a respectable number of other manufacturers would do the same,) 

 provided that the Society appoint a committee of twelve practical far- 

 mers to take the machines and operate them through the entire wheat 

 harvest, and report under oath which is the best, which the second best, 

 and so on. That a full report of the trial be published by the commit- 

 tee in all the agricultural papers in the Union. That the reapers, at 

 the end of the trial, be sold to pay the expenses attending the trial, and 

 the balance of the money, if any, to go to the treasury of the Society. 



Mr. Metz offered the following: 



Resolved, That the offer of Mr. Palmer be accepted, and that the 

 Secretary be instructed to correspond with manufacturers of reaping 



