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last three years. It will at least test the value of the principles which 

 the author proposes for the treatment of the disease. 



Again, the committee have awarded two premiums of ten dollars 

 each. 



One for an essay on irrigation, and 



One for an essay on the silk culture. 



One general remark applies equally well to both of these essays ; viz. 

 they embrace in small compass the principal facts which the farmer 

 should know upon these subjects respectively. We do not viish to con- 

 vey the impression that they contain new discoveries, or much matter 

 that is new, but the authors have posted up the facts relating to these 

 subjects, and have given them a tangible form, and hence we were 

 induced to make the awards as stated above. 



EBENEZER EMMONS, 

 ANTHONY VAN BERGEN^ 

 AMOS DEAN, 



Albany, January, 1846, 



