46 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



American Stock Journal, New York ; Ohio Cultivator, Columbus, Ohio ; 

 North AVestern Farmer, Dubuque, Iowa ; Wisconsin Farmer, Madison, 

 Wisconsin ; Southern Rural Magazine, Montgomery, Alabama ; Southern 

 Planter, Richmond, Virginia ; South Countryman, Marietta, Georgia ; 

 Planter and Mechanic, Jackson, Mississippi ; Ohio Valley Farmer, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio ; Pioneer Farmer, Des Moines, Iowa ; Rural American, Utica, 

 New York ; Prairie Farmer, Chicago, Illinois ; North Western Prairie 

 Farmer, Chicago, Illinois ; Working Farmer, New York ; Genesee Far- 

 mer, Rochester, New York ; American Farmers' Magazine, New York ; 

 North Carolina Planter, Releigh, North Carolina ; Michigan Farmer, 

 Detroit, Michigan ; Scientific Artisan, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Circulars have been also recently transmitted to the agricultural socie- 

 ties of every State in the Union, soliciting copies of their published jour- 

 nals and reports, and a number of societies have already responded, and 

 requested the Transactions of the Institute in return. 



There are upwards of five hundred (500) volumes of duplicates of works 

 in the library, which are still undisposed of. The committee have endea- 

 vored to sell or exchange them, but they have succeeded in disposing of 

 but few. Owing to the unusually low prices at which books have been 

 selling at public sale, the committee have not felt warranted in disposing 

 of them in that manner. It is proposed, however, to have them sold at 

 auction as soon as they would be likely to bring fair prices. 



In 1851, the Institute provided for the increase of the library by making 

 an annual appropriation of five hundred dollars (8500) for five years, for 

 the purchase of books. Of this appropriation, amounting to $2,500, there 

 has been expended as follows : 



In 1851-52, $498 68 



1852-53, 350 00 



1853-54, 304 16 



1854-55, 225 57 



1855-56, 106 78 



1856-57, 91 61 



1857-58, , 307 79 



1858-59, 96 46 



$1,982 05 



There still remains therefore, unexpended, the sum of five hundred and 

 seventeen dollars and ninety-five cents ($517.95) at the disposal of the 

 committee for additional purchases. 



In 1850, the total number of volumes then in the library was four thou- 

 sand five hundred and eighty (4,580.) There have since been added three 

 thousand four hundred and sixty-eight (3,468) volumes. 



The library, therefore, has been nearly doubled in number of volumes 

 during the past nine years, and from the character of the works which 



