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Tims, to teacli the agriculturist tlie connection wliicli the 

 foregoing and other sciences have with practical agriculture, and 

 their importance to an improved state of husbandry, the Society, 

 by means of premiums offered and otherwise, have been able to 

 place in the volumes of their Transactions a fund of scientific and 

 practical instruction of great value; prominent amongst wliich 

 are the Lectures, Addresses and Essays of Prof Jolmston of Eng- 

 land, and Prof Norton of this State — the death of both of whom, 

 in the full tide of their usefulness, the Society as well as the 

 cause of agriculture, both in England and America, have great 

 cause to lament. The agricultural surveys of the counties of 

 Washington by Fitch, of Seneca by Delafield, of Essex by Wat- 

 son, and Madison by Evans, are papers of great value, not only 

 to the agriculturists for their instruction, but to the general reader 

 for their historic reminiscences and romantic details. The Ento- 

 mology of the State by Fitch, so far as completed, and his Lec- 

 tures uj^on the same subject; the Analysis of our cereals and 

 plants by Emmons and Salisbury; the Meteorological Papers by 

 Hough and others, and a Complete System of Farming by Wat- 

 son, give to the farmer and general reader instruction of great 

 interest. Added co these are essays and papers upon almost every 

 subject connected with agriculture or horticulture, together wath 

 addresses from many of the distinguished men of tlie country, 

 fraught with instruction, and in many instances with glowing elo- 

 quence. For the selection of the material for these volumes, and 

 their compilation, are we largely indebted to our Secretary, Mr. 

 Johnson and his predecessor. These volumes form a library of 

 themselves upon these subjects, and it is gratifying to the members 

 of the Society to know tliat the public, botli in tliis State and 

 beyond it, have given evidence of tlieir high appreciation of their 

 value. 



Our Annual Fair has come to be one of the institutions of the 

 State, and the scores of thousands wlio anniuilly Hock to its 

 grounds from all classes and all ranks of society, give very grati- 

 fying testimony of the high estimation in wiiich it is held. With 

 these evidences of jniblic ap})robation before tliem, tlie members 

 of the Society have the satisfaction to believe that the Legislature, 

 in making appro])riation for these accommodations for the Society, 

 have not been in advance of a!i intelligent public sentiment. It 



