14 State Board of Agriculture, &c., 



The present Secretary, coming as he did to his work at 

 the middle of a term of service, could not possibly be fully 

 conversant with the character of all the papers of which the 

 Report is largely composed ; and tlie early date of going to 

 press forbids that careful editing and arrangement which he 

 had proposed. 



HENRY M. SEELY, Secretary. 



Middiebary, July 25, 1876. 



