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of feeding and raising such animals, that we might judge cor- 

 rectly of their comparative value as a breed. If their superior 

 excellence was the result of some freak in nature, changing their 

 physical economy for the better, we want the breed. Eut if pro- 

 duced by judicious management in feeding and grooming, then 

 we need the practice. 



So in relation to cultivating grain, fruit, vegetables, and all 

 other products. Whatever practice is followed by the best suc- 

 cess, every member of the society should be made acquainted 

 with, by publishing the reports of the several committees annually 

 in the journal of the society, which in my view is justly due to 

 the unsuccessful competitor, and members who do not compete 

 for premiums, and to the whole community. 



A large proportion of those who are now standing members of 

 this society, have never competed for a premium offered, and per- 

 haps did not join the society with that view, but to aid improve- 

 ment in different vocations, by disseminating through the society 

 such information as will facilitate labor and improve our social 

 condition. These are the primary and professed objects of form- 

 ing and sustaining agiicultural societies, and the object aimed at 

 no doubt by the Legislature in appropriating funds for the use and 

 benefit of agricultural societies. 



For accompanying-the act of appropriation was a condition, 

 requiring that before any premium shall be delivered to the per- 

 son or persons to whom they are awarded, they shall deliver in 

 writing to the proper officers of the society an accurate descrip- 

 tion of the process of preparing the soil and raising the crop, or 

 of feeding the animal ; also the expense and product of the crop 

 or the increased value of the animal ; with a view of showing 

 accurately the profits of judicious cultivation of the crop, or of 

 feeding, by which it appears inteiuied that those contributions to 

 the funds of the society should be reciprocated, not in dollars and 

 cents, but in publishing such a knowledge of cause and effect as 

 may be obtained through a well organised agricultural society, as 

 a proper medium. 



The competitor, while doing nuich credit to himself, would pro- 

 mote the objects of the society and greatly facilitate the labors of 



