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The Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society have 

 awarded me a vote of thanks for the foregoing essay, and requested me 

 to allow them to publish it in their Transactions. I will state that I 

 esteem it a high honor to obtain the approbation of such men as the 

 members of the committee. I feel pleasure in complying with their 

 request, and trust that for the benefit of agriculture they will compare 

 the opinions and facts stated in this essay with their own observations, 

 and lay the result of their investigations before the public. . 



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