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which it is hoped will meet with the favorable consideration of 

 the Legislature. 



Prof. John Pitkin Norton, 



We can'iot in justice to ourselves, forbear to notice the decease 

 of this distinguished friend of agricultural science — and at the 

 time of his death, an honorary member of this Society ; one 

 who was most deeply interested in its progress, and whose 

 last 'public address was delivered at our annual meeting in 

 1852. In the midst of his usefulness, and in the very vigor of 

 early manhood, he was arrested and cutdown,and taken from us. 

 The executive committee, on learning of his death, adopted 

 appropriate resolutions, and communicated them to the friends of 

 the deceased. Prof. Norton, at the time of his death was only 

 thirty years of age, yet in that brief period he had accomplished 

 more for the cause of science and agriculture, than most men who 

 live to an advanced age. ^ 



Andrew J. Downing^ 



Also intimately connected with the great objects of our Associa- 

 tion was, in the midst of his usefulness, in a sudden and painful 

 manner taken from us during the past year. 



Winter Exhibition. 



The exhibition of fat stock and seeds, surpassed the anticipa- 

 tions which had been had in relation to it, and the promise for 

 the present year is most encouraging. The time of the annual 

 meeting having been changed, to make this exhibition more con- 

 •venient for exhibitors, it will doubtless become one of the great 

 exhibitions of our country, and will lead to that perfection in 

 breeding and feeding of stock, wMch is so desirable, and which 

 the Society have labored to accomplish. 



At the last annual meeting, it was the general expression of 

 those in attendance, that the premium list of the Society should 

 be increased, and that the receipts of the Society should be ex- 

 pended in this direction. A large number of letters were received 

 from various parts of the State, urging this upon the Board, and 

 also recommending that a portion of the expenses larger than had 



