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motion. Immediate and decided action of a few of the 

 active friends of agricultural improvement, who must 

 assume the responsibility to act as engineers as well as 

 pioneers for the whole Union ; and having once given the 

 society an existence, it will flourish and increase in 

 strength just as our political Union has done. 



The following plan of organizing the society is sug- 

 gested to your consideration : 



Let as many of the friends of the project as can be 

 induced to do so, meet at the city of Washington, on some 

 day of the autumn of 1841, (the particular day to be 

 hereafter fixed,) and there form a constitution for the 

 society, and elect officers, to wit: a president, a vice 

 president for each state, a recording secretary, a general 

 corresponding secretary, and a corresponding secretary 

 for each state, county, city and principal town in the 

 United States, a treasurer, and probably a publisher of 

 a national paper, to be called the Journal of the American 

 Society of Agriculture. 



The first officers will hold their offices until the next 

 annual meeting, which should be held at the capital of 

 that state which had furnished the greatest number of 

 members at the time when the president of the society 

 should issue his proclamation to convene the second meet- 

 ing. 



The place of each annual meeting should be fixed at 

 the preceding one, in some state other than the one 

 where it was then held, so as to give the members in 

 each state an easier opportunity of attending. 



As in the formation of all such associations it is neces- 

 sary to have some cash funds, are you willing to donate 

 "a mite" to accomplish this great national object? 



If so, an opportunity will hereafter be offered you to 

 do so. Upon some of you I hope to make a personal call 

 for that purpose, should it be thought advisable, after 

 due reflection, to proceed in the organization; therefore, 

 I pray you to give this subject your serious consideration. 



If you should aid in the formation of this society, will 

 not your children "rise up and bless you?" For one of 



