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topics for discussion will multiply beyond all previous anticipation, 

 mental activity and emulation to advance in knowledge and practice 

 will be excited and maintained, and progress, such as has never yet 

 been -ffitnessed in our state, will flow therefrom. We at least know 

 of a certainty that such advance has resulted where these have been 

 established, and there is no reason to anticipate that less success may 

 attend future efforts. Legislative assistance has done much to aid 

 the interests of agriculture among us, and it may do a great deal 

 more ; but nothing, which any Legislature can do, would equal what 

 must result from a thorough appreciation by every farmer of the 

 true position which he occupies as a member of the community, of 

 the respect to which himself and his calling are entitled, of the 

 progress in the art and science of farming which he needs to attain, 

 with a resolute determination to do what he can to accomplish it. 



S. L. GOODALE, 

 Secretary of the Board of Agriculture. 

 January 6th, 1858. 



Erratum. 

 Page 186, 2d line from top, for Black Chester read Black Cluster. 



