LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



GARDEN 



NOTICE. 



The Twelfth Volume of the Transactions of the State Agricul- 

 tural Society is submitted to the farmers of the State, with a hope 

 that, like its predecessors, it will be found interesting and valua- 

 ble. Many of the papers contained in this volume will be 

 of permanent value, and calculated to improve the farming in- 

 terest of our State and Country. The increased demand for the 

 reports of the Society, as they annually appear, evinces the posi 

 tiou they hold in the minds of intelligent men, not in our own 

 country only, but in all parts of Europe. This should stimulate 

 us to greater efforts to make each succeeding volume more valua- 

 ble than any that has preceded it. 



In this volume will be found the last address of the lamented 

 Prof. Norton, whose labors in tlia cause of Agriculture had been 

 so successful, and who had contributed by his communications 

 in former years to increase the value of our Transactions. 



In the preparation of the volume, the subscriber has received 

 important aid from many gentlemen whose contributions are 

 given — and it is hoped that this volume will accomplish what it 

 is designed to do — the elevation and advancement of the great 

 interest of American Agriculture. 



B. P. JOHNSON, , 



Agricultural Roomsy Marchj 1853. Secretary. 



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