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ing averages shall testify to our improvement. It must be done. 

 It can be done — and if farmers will call upon the intelligence of the 

 head to aid the labor of the hands, it v?ill be done. We have a no- 

 ble State, a fertile soil, a salubrious climate and industrious people. 

 All we want is to throw our mental and bodily energies into the ful- 

 filment oi the task, and a quadruple product will in a few years com- 

 pensate you for the toil. When we look at this great State, and cast 

 an eye to what it may become, we are lost in the contemplation of her 

 future wealth and greatness, and the Agricultural Society will not do 

 itself justice nor attain the ends of its creation, if, through her efficient 

 committees in their several departments, they do not give an effect- 

 ive impulse to improvement and foster a taste for the pursuit of hus- 

 bandry among the citizens, and let me mention this for their encou- 

 ragement, that retiring statesmen of every age and nation have 

 chosen this employment as best fitted to give to life its sweetest 

 charm and to the restless mind the greatest repose. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 

 In behalf of the Committee, 



J, P, BEEKMAN* 

 Albany J March I ^IS4Q^ 



