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[Assembly 



Is it not high time that this subject had more attention, and 

 will not the husbandmen of Oswego county, bestir themselves to 

 ;show a widely different condition of things during the ensuing 

 decade. Will they not through their influence upon their repre- 



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sentatives, whether in our general or State government, do what 

 they can to secure the patronage of both, in some eflScient, con- 

 tinuous mode. 



I would suggest as one of the best means of accomplishing our 

 object, the call of a State Agricultural Convention^ to consider the 

 ways and means to secure the establishment of an agricultural 

 institution, on some basis, and at least make the experiment, if 

 experiment it can be called, and if found inefficient, after a 

 thorough trial, it can but be abandoned. 



