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secretary of said State society to make atd transmit a report 

 of the transactions of said society, including copies of papers 

 read at its meetings, reports of exhibitions held, and of facts 

 collected by correspondence or otherwise, at the end of the 

 month of December of each year; said report of transactions 

 to be printed in similar form and number of copies as the 

 reports and transactions of the State Board of Agriculture 

 and State Agricultural Society, under the direction of the 

 Secretary of State. 



Sec. 7. District or county, town, city, or village associations 

 organized under this act, are hereby required to report through 

 their secretary, during the month of November in each year, 

 to the Secretary of the State association, tiie proceedings of 

 said society during the year, giving a statement of the facts 

 elicited, and of the experience gained during the preceding 

 year. Such reports from district, county, town, city, or village 

 societies to be used as correspondence in compiling the report 

 of the State association, provided for in section six. 



Sec. 8. Associations incorporated under this act shall, on 

 compliance with the requirements thereof, be entitled to all 

 the immunities, emoluments and privileges accorded by law to 

 the Agricultural societies of the State. 



The report of the committee was accepted and adopted, and 

 the committee was instructed to send the above draft to the 

 Legislature, and respectfully ask its consideration by that 

 honorable body. 



DISCUSSION UPON" GRAPE CULTURE. 



Mr. Bradfield occupied about two hours in reading a most 

 exhaustive and valuable paper upon grape culture, an abstract 

 of which will be found in another column. 



Mr. Mason L, Shafer of Paris, said : 



"Mr. President — The interest which is now manifested in 

 the cultivation of the grape ought not to be allowed to flag 

 through the non-success of our people in planting varieties 

 unsuited to ordinary outdoor cultivation. Your society can 



