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year, give assurance that tlie exertions which have been madcy 

 have not been without effect. From the statement of one of the 

 competitors, Mr. Albert G. Ford, a dairy farmer of Herkimer 

 county, which will be found in the Transactions of 1851, it will 

 be seen, that his yield of cheese per cow, has averaged, for the 

 last three years, upwards of 600 pounds per cow. Should this 

 ratio be continued throughout the State, or even to 400 pounds 

 the cow, the increase would amount to several millions of dol- 

 lars per annum ; and we see no good reason why this may not, in 

 a good degree, at least be expected. 



In a report made»to the Society in 1846, by the present Secre- 

 tary of the Society, on the cheese dairies of our State, it was 

 shown " that the yield of the whole State might be increased to 

 400 pounds per cow, without extra feed," and the experience of 

 the past five years but strengthens the opinion then expressed ; 

 and the success of Mr. Ford, and many other dairymen who 

 could be named, gives increased assurance that this will yet be 

 attained in our State. Were this the only department of Agri- 

 culture which had been advanced by our efforts, we feel assured 

 that we might appeal with confidence to the Legislature and to 

 the people of our State, that the efforts of the Society have pro- 

 duced results of far more importance to the welfare and prosper- 

 ity of our citizens, than any other organization which has been in 

 operation in this country, taking into consideration the little ex- 

 pense, comparatively, with which its operations have been car- 

 ried on. 



In connexion with the other operations of the Society, the 

 county surveys have been continued and Winslow C. Watson, 

 Esq., of the county of Essex, has completed the survey of that 

 county. When this report shall be published, it will be found 

 that a mirte of wealth, not only of a mineral character, which 

 the survey brings to light for the first time in all its fulness, of 

 the richest character, which any portion of our country or the 

 world can furnish, but also of an agricultural character, that 

 will be most gratifying, and which will show the importance of 

 opening, by cheap and ready conveyance, this portion of our State, 

 which has been shut out in a considerable degree, from a ready 



